The Pale Horse is a BBC Radio 4 adaptation of Agatha Christie's novel of the same name. Dramatised by Joy Wilkinson and directed by Mary Peate, it was first broadcast in 3 parts from 8 Sep 2014. The program is also available on audioCD and as audio on Audible and Google Play.
Blurb[]
(from BBC website)
Episode 1[]
A dying woman confesses a terrible secret about a 'pale horse' to her priest, giving him a list of names as she does so, but the priest dies before we can find out any more. It's down to our hero, Mark Easterbrook, a young-fogey historian to get to the bottom of it. Part One.
Episode 2[]
Part Two. Despite his girlfriend's irritation, young - fogey Mark Easterbrook can't resist looking into a series of recent deaths.
Episode 3[]
Mark Easterbrook has teamed up with Ginger in order to discover who is at the bottom of the spate of recent mysterious deaths. And they think they've found the perfect plan. Part Three.
Cast[]
- Jason Hughes as Mark Easterbrook
- Eleanor Bron as Thyrza
- Georgia Groome as Ginger
- Michael Bertenshaw as Inspector Lejeune
- Phoebe Pryce as Hermia
- Ron Cook as Osborne
- Nicholas Jones as Venables
- Jane Slavin as Mrs Davis
- Clive Hayward as Gorman
- Elaine Clayton as Rhoda
- Georgie Fuller as Thomasina
- Jane Slavin as Mrs Tuckerton
- Stephen Hogan as Mr Bradley