2. The Blue Train
Katherine is heading to Nice by the Blue Train, but someone she meets on board won't be able to alight... Stars Maurice Denham.
Katherine Grey is heading to Nice, but when the train finally arrives, someone she meets on-board won't be alighting...
The Blue Train takes the rich and the famous to their beloved Riviera and is one of the great romantic trains in the world.
But on this particular journey it could also be the most exciting and mysterious, for on board are a set of legendary rubies ... and the legendary Hercule Poirot!
Agatha Christie's whodunnit stars Maurice Denham as the Belgian detective.
Dramatised by Michael Bakewell.
Hercule Poirot 鈥�. Maurice Denham
Katherine Grey 鈥�. Janet Maw
Rufus Van Aldin 鈥�. Robert Beatty
Ruth Kettering 鈥�. Avril Clarke
Derek Kettering 鈥�. Anthony Smee
Major Knighton 鈥�. Michael Deacon
Mason 鈥�. Pauline Letts
Chubby 鈥�. Jonathan Owen
Caux 鈥�. Adrian Egan
Pavett 鈥�. David Learner
Train Conductor 鈥�. Richard Durden
Gendarme 鈥�. Ronald Herdman
Director: David Johnston.
First broadcast on 麻豆社 Radio 4 in January 1986.
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