Murder is Easy is a 2013 BBC Radio 4 dramatization based on the Agatha Christie novel of the same name. The programme was directed by Mary Peate, with script and adaptation by Joy Wilkinson, and was first broadcast in 3 parts from 20 Feb 2013. The programme is also available on audioCD and as audio from Audible and GooglePlay. The programme also comes up occasionally for streaming from the BBC Radio 4 Extra website, the most recent instance being in Jun 2021.
Episode 1 Encounter on a Train[]
Ex-policeman Luke Fitzwilliam doesn't believe little old Miss Pinkerton when she tells him that she's off to Scotland Yard to report a serial killer on the loose in her quiet English village. But he's soon forced to reconsider.
Episode 2 Enlisting Help[]
Luke Fitzwilliam can no longer believe that so many deaths in the tiny village of Wychwood under Ashe are a coincidence, and he's determined to find out the truth. He enlists the help of Bridget, Lord Whitfield's attractive young fiancee.
Episode 3 Burden of Proof[]
Luke and Bridget are getting closer, in spite of themselves. As they discover yet another body, they think they know who the murderer is, but will they be able to prove it?
Cast[]
- Patrick Baladi as Luke
- Lydia Leonard as Bridget
- Michael Cochrane as Lord Whitfield
- Marcia Warren as Miss Waynflete
- Marlene Sidaway as Miss Pinkerton
- Patrick Brennan as Billy Bones/Rivers
- Thomas Wheatley as Reverend Wake
- Lizzy Watts as Rose
- Paul Stonehouse as Abbott
- Ben Crowe as Ellsworthy
- Will Howard as Dr Thomas
- Robert Blythe as Major Horton