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Nostalgic Mystery Radio

Ep.206 Agatha Christie's Miss Marple: At Bertram's Hotel: Part 2

Nostalgic Mystery Radio

Stevie K.

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

4.8588 Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2022

⏱️ 30 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. At Bertram's Hotel: During a stay at one of London's most elegant and venerable hotels Miss Marple uncovers a sinister undercurrent of corruption and murder ...

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0:00.0

Hello, and welcome to another episode Nostologic Mystery Radio.

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I'm your host Stevie Kay, and it's my honor to bring you the radio shows of yesteryear.

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For this episode, I bring you, Agatha Christie's Miss Marple, episode titled, At Bertram's Hotel,

0:34.3

where during a stay at one of London's most elegant and venerable hotels, Miss Marple

0:39.3

uncovers a sinister undercurrent of corruption and murder. This will be a five-part series. So sit

0:47.1

back and relax, and I hope you enjoy with Nostalgia Mystery Radio. Thank you for listening.

0:56.2

I was having two weeks' holiday in town at Bertram's Hotel,

1:01.4

which did not seem to have changed since I first went there when I was a child.

1:05.5

I had met friends.

1:06.8

I had not seen for years, like Selena Hazy and dear Cannon-Pennyfather.

1:13.1

And I had discovered, quite by chance, of course, the most extraordinary things about some of the people staying there.

1:27.1

We present June Whitfield as Miss Marple in Agatha Christie's at Bertram's Hotel.

1:39.5

I had a most enjoyable morning shopping at Robinson and Cleaver's.

1:44.7

It is so difficult to find proper glass cloths nowadays.

1:49.0

You are offered things decorated with radishes or lobsters or the Eiffel Tower quite inappropriate.

1:54.8

But at Robinson and Cleaver, they had plain cloths with a simple red border, just what I'd been looking for. And from there,

2:03.7

I took a bus to the Army and Navy stores, where dear Aunt Helen used to buy her groceries,

2:09.1

and where, if I didn't fidget too much, I would be taken up to the fourth floor to be rewarded

2:15.1

with strawberries and cream. The restaurant was still there, changed almost

2:21.8

beyond recognition, and there was Best Sedgwick again, whom I hadn't seen in the flesh until the

2:27.4

day before, and now I seemed to be running into her everywhere. And she was with the strange young

2:33.9

man with the hawk-like face

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