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Nostalgic Mystery Radio

Ep.349 Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot: Dumb Witness Pt.2

Nostalgic Mystery Radio

Stevie K.

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

4.8588 Ratings

🗓️ 3 February 2023

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Agatha Christie's Dumb Witness An elderly spinster has been poisoned in her country home. Everyone blamed Emily’s accident on a rubber ball left on the stairs by her frisky terrier. But the more she thought about her fall, the more convinced she became that one of her relatives was trying to kill her. On April 17th she wrote her suspicions in a letter to Hercule Poirot. Mysteriously he didn’t receive the letter until June 28th… by which time Emily was already dead. <iframe src="//rcm-na....

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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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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 Dumb Witness, where an elderly spinster has been poisoned in her country home.

0:36.3

Everyone blamed Emily's accident on a rubber ball left on the stairs by her frisky terrier.

0:41.3

But the more she thought about her fall, the more convinced she became that one of her relatives

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was trying to kill her.

0:48.3

On April 17, she wrote her as suspicions in a letter to Hercules Perrault.

0:52.3

Mysteriously, he didn't receive the letter until June 28th,

0:56.8

by which time Emily

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was already dead.

1:00.3

So sit back

1:01.8

and relax, and I hope we

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enjoy this nostalgic mystery radio.

1:06.8

Thank you for listening.

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Emily, I Thank you for listening. Emily Arndel had tripped and fallen downstairs.

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An accident, everyone said, she must have slipped on her dog's ball, which he often left at the top of the stairs.

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But the old lady knew better, and she disinherited all her immediate family.

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She had written to me a letter which I did not receive until after her death.

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She had been suffering from a persistent liver complaint, but Poirot was convinced it was murder,

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and that one of the family must be responsible.

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Thank you. convinced it was murder and that one of the family must be responsible. John Moffat as Urquil Poirot and Simon Williams as Captain Hastings

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