Three Act Tragedy is a radio production first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 between 8 July and 5 August 2002.
Episodes[]
Episode descriptions are from the BBC website. The episode subtitles in brackets weren't used for the initial broadcasts, but were retroactively added for repeats on BBC Radio 4 Xtra in the early 2020s.
Episode 1 (Cornwall)[]
The famous detective Hercule Poirot is at a weekend house party when an elderly clergyman dies while drinking a dry martini. Was the vermouth/gin ratio of the cocktail so poorly mixed that it offended his delicate palate, or was there something else in the glass that shouldn't have been there?
Episode 2 (Monte Carlo)[]
Hercule Poirot and his two acquaintances have gone to Monte Carlo, where they hear the news of another tragic death. Is this coincidence?
Episode 3 (Did the Butler Do It?)[]
Hercule Poirot re-enters the investigations, to the considerable relief of everyone concerned.
Episode 4 (Sherry at the Ritz)[]
Hercule Poirot seems content to stay in the background and let his companions rush about interviewing the various suspects.
Episode 5 (J'accuse!)[]
Is Poirot going to solve the mysteries surrounding the house party in Cornwall? He is yet to find out that another murder has taken place.
Cast[]
- John Moffatt as Hercule Poirot
- Beth Chalmers as Egg Lytton Gore
- Clive Merrison as Sir Bartholomew Strange
- George Cole as Mr Satterthwaite
- Michael Cochrane as Sir Charles Cartwright
- Pauline Jameson as Lady Mary Lytton Gore
- Carl Prekopp as Oliver Manders
- Elizabeth Proud as Muriel Wills
- Jemma Churchill as Angela Sutcliffe
- Nigel Anthony as Captain Dacres
- Paula Jacobs as Cynthia Dacres
- Peter Marinker as the Rev Stephen Babbington
- Patricia Scott as Mrs Babbington
- John Baddeley as Colonel Johnson
- Martin Hyder as Superintendent Crossfield
- Kathleen Helm as Mrs Lackey
- Helen Longworth as Miss Milray
- Angela Sims as Doris the model