The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (BBC Radio 4 adaptation)

When Belgian sleuth, Hercule Poirot retires to the country to grow vegetable marrows, he soon discovers that someone has planted the seeds of treachery ....and of murder.

The novel was adapted as a 1½-hour radio play for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast on December 24, 1987. John Moffatt made the first of his many performances as Poirot. The adaptation was broadcast at 7.45pm and was recorded on November 2 of the same year.


 * Adaptor: Michael Bakewell
 * Producer: Enyd Williams

Cast

 * John Moffatt as Hercule Poirot
 * John Woodvine as Dr Sheppard
 * Laurence Payne as Roger Ackroyd
 * Peter Gilmore as Raymond
 * Deryck Guyler as Parker, the butler
 * Diana Olsson as Caroline
 * Eva Stuart as Miss Russell
 * Paul Sirr as Ralph Paton
 * Zelah Clarke as Flora
 * Joan Matheson as Mrs Ackroyd
 * Peter Craze as Kent
 * David Goodland as Blunt
 * Richard Tate as Inspector Raglan
 * Simon Cuff as Inspector Davis
 * Karen Archer as Ursula
 * Alan Dudley as Hammond