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Nostalgic Mystery Radio

Ep.153 Agatha Christie's Miss Marple: The Mirror Cracked From Side To Side

Nostalgic Mystery Radio

Stevie K.

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

4.8588 Ratings

🗓️ 24 January 2022

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Summary

Miss Jane Marple doesn’t look like your average detective. Quite frankly, she doesn’t look like a detective at all. But looks can be deceiving... For a woman who has spent her life in the small village of St Mary Mead, Miss Marple is surprisingly worldly. But as she often points out she has had every opportunity to observe human nature. The Mirror Cracked From Side To Side: Miss Marple investigates the murder of Heather Badcock, who consumed a poisoned cocktail apparently meant for American...

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to another episode of Nostologic Mystery Radio.

0:21.5

I'm your host Stevie Kay.

0:23.3

That's my honor to bring you the radio shows of yesteryear.

0:26.6

For this episode, I bring you, Agatha Christie's Miss Marple.

0:30.8

Episode titled The Mirror Cracked from Side to Side, originally aired August 29, 1998,

0:40.6

where Miss Marple investigates the murder of Heather Badcock, who consumed a poisoned cocktail, apparently meant for American actress Marina

0:46.9

Gregg, Heather's Idol. So sit back and relax, and I hope you enjoy this nostalgic mystery radio.

0:55.4

Thank you for listening.

1:10.3

We present June Whitfield as Miss Marple in Agatha Christie's The Mirror Cracked from Side to Side.

1:19.6

Here we are then. I hope we've been having a nice snooze.

1:32.7

I have been knitting, and I have dropped a stitch.

1:36.2

Oh, dearie, dearie me.

1:38.4

Well, we'll soon put that right, won't we?

1:41.3

You will. My eyesight is not good enough. Oh, I'm sure we can do that in a jiffy.

1:47.4

Let's have a look at it. Why does she have to treat me as if I were a mentally retarded child?

1:53.5

I'm old and short-sighted, and I've had a bad attack of bronchitis. But I am still compass mentis,

2:00.0

thank God.

2:03.3

There we are, dear, that's done.

2:04.5

Thank you.

2:07.8

Now, I'm just going to put on my hat and coat before I go out for a little toddle.

2:10.4

It's all Dr. Haydock's fault

2:12.7

for insisting that I shouldn't go on sleeping alone in the house.

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