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Nostalgic Mystery Radio

Ep.266 Agatha Christie's Miss Marple: The Moving Finger: Pt.1

Nostalgic Mystery Radio

Stevie K.

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

4.8588 Ratings

🗓️ 8 September 2022

⏱️ 47 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 Moving Finger: Troubled war veteran Jerry Burton and his sister Joanna rent a cottage in a seemingly tranquil English village which is plagued by a spate...

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0:00.0

Hello, and welcome to another episode of Nostalgia Mystery Radio.

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I'm your host Stevie Kay.

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This is my honor to bring you the radio show's guestier.

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For this episode, I bring you Agatha Christie's Miss Marple, episode titled The Moving Finger,

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where a troubled war veteran Jerry Burton and his sister Joanna rent a cottage in a seemingly

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tranquil English village, which is plagued by a spate of poison pen letters and murder.

0:46.4

This will be a two-part series.

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So sit back and relax, and I hope you enjoy this nostalgic mystery radio.

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Thank you for listening.

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The moving.

1:08.6

The moving finger writes, and having writ moves on, nor all your piety nor wit can lure it back to cancel half a line, nor all thy tears wash out a word of it.

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Music We present June Whitfield as Miss Marple in Agatha Christie's The Moving Finger.

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Thank you. In Agatha Christie's The Moving Finger. Jane, is that you, Jane?

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Yes, Maud. Who else did you think it might be? Jane, is that you, Jane? Yes, Maud.

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Who else did you think it might be?

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Jane, I don't care what you're doing or what your plans are.

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You've got to get down here at once.

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We need someone who knows a great deal about wickedness.

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Oh.

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You're the only person who can put a stop to it.

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Many people are inclined to find Maud-Dane Calthrop, rather disconcerting at first, even to feel a little afraid of her.

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Not in the least like a vicar's wife, is the usual verdict.

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