Ep.135 Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

Nostalgic Mystery Radio

Stevie K.

Detective, Fiction, Crime, Arts, Radio Show, Mystery, Tv & Film, Performing Arts, Drama, Old Time Radio

4.8 • 588 Ratings

🗓️ 20 December 2021

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Summary

Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot: the world-renowned, moustachioed Belgian private detective, unsurpassed in his intelligence and understanding of the criminal mind, respected and admired by police forces and heads of state across the globe. Since his inception over 100 years ago, Poirot has stolen the hearts and minds of audiences from Azerbaijan to Vietnam, and his celebrated cases have been recorded across 33 original novels and over 50 short stories. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd: A woman...

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to another episode of nostalgic mystery radio.
0:21.6	I'm your host Stevie K.
0:23.4	And it's my honor to bring you the radio shows of yesteryear.
0:26.9	For this episode, I bring you Hercule Perot, episode titled The Murder of Roger Ackroyd,
0:33.5	where a woman is found dead shortly after confessing to her friend that she is being blackmail.
0:39.5	The police concluded it was suicide, but the case takes a much darker turn when the same friend is found murdered in his own study.
0:49.2	So sit back and relax, and I hope you enjoy this nostalgic mystery radio.
0:55.3	Thank you for listening.
0:56.1	We present Agatha Christie's The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, with John Moffat as Eccul Poirot, and John Woodvine as Dr. Shepherd, the storyteller.
1:27.3	Mrs. Ferris died on the night of the 16th to the 17th of September, a Thursday.
1:33.9	I was sent for at 8 o'clock on the morning of Friday the 17th.
1:38.3	There was nothing I could do.
1:40.7	She had been dead some hours.
1:43.2	It was just a few minutes after nine when I reached home once more.
1:47.6	Is that you, James? What are you doing out there?
1:50.5	Just hanging up, my overcoat.
1:52.1	Why don't you come and get your breakfast?
1:54.4	Just coming.
1:55.7	You've had an early call?
1:57.5	Yes, King's Paddock and Mrs. Ferris.
2:00.6	I know. How did you know? The milkman told me.
2:05.1	Well... Bad business. Nothing to be done. What did she die of? Heart failure?
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