Hello, and welcome to another episode of nostalgic mystery radio. I'm your host Stevie Kay,

and it's my honor to bring you the radio shows of yesteryear. For this episode, I bring you

Agatha Christie's Miss Marple and murder at the Vicarage. In St. Mary Mead, no one is despised

more than Colonel Prothrow.

Even the local vicar has said that killing him would be doing his service to the townsfolk.

So when Prothro is found murdered in the same vicar's study, and two different people confessed to the crime,

it is time for Ms. Markle to exercise her detective abilities.

This will be a five-bar series.

So sit back and relax.

And I hope you enjoy this nostalgic mystery radio.

Thank you for listening.

Until yesterday, there hadn't been a murder at St Mary Meade for 15 years. And for a man like Colonel Prothero to be actually murdered in the vicarage,

there has been nothing to compare with that in living memory.

And then, to crown it all, Lawrence Redding walks into the police station and calmly confesses to the murder.

We present June Whitfield as Miss Marple and Francis Matthews as the Reverend Leonard Clement in Agatha Christie's Murder at the Vicarage.

I may be dense in Miss Marple. Well, Erzalda often tells me that I am. Leonard.

But I cannot see why Lawrence Redding should confess to the murder if he hasn't committed it.

If you'd seen his face last night, he was like a madman. He was trembling from head to foot.

Yes, but surely, that only goes to support what I am saying.

It seems to me that if a young man had made up his mind to take a fellow creature's life,

he would not appear distraught about it afterwards.

Well, I know it is difficult to put oneself into such a position,

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