{"id":352,"date":"2005-09-01T21:55:00","date_gmt":"2005-09-02T01:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog-test\/?p=352"},"modified":"2005-09-01T21:55:00","modified_gmt":"2005-09-02T01:55:00","slug":"christie_death_nile_play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2005\/09\/christie_death_nile_play\/","title":{"rendered":"Christie, Agatha: Death on the Nile (radio play)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Another BBC radio play, this time directly recorded from BBC 7’s Listen Again<\/a> page a few weeks ago, was Agatha Christie’s Death on the Nile<\/cite><\/strong>. This was a bit of a gamble in terms of my time: I read boatloads of Christie novels when I was younger, and remember very few of them, so I wasn’t sure how well they would hold up. I also didn’t know if Poirot’s accent would be confusing or grating. Here, John Moffatt gives a clear and sympathetic performance as Poirot; the many other characters are generally distinguishable, though the adaptation could have done a slightly better job of putting the characters’ name early in the dialogue.<\/p>\n

Death on the Nile<\/cite> is the one where a rich woman on her honeymoon is killed during a boat tour of the Nile. There were, of course, quite a few people on the boat with reasons to kill her, as the audience well knows by the time the murder happens, about halfway through. (It seems most of the murder mysteries I read start after the murder, so it was interesting to spend quite a lot of time with the victim and suspects ahead of time.) I was thoroughly faked out by the mystery, though I don’t know if this is a testament to Christie’s cleverness or to my general ineptitude. Overall, I enjoyed this a good deal more than I expected, and it gave me a number of other BBC plays to look forward to.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Another BBC radio play, this time directly recorded from BBC 7’s Listen Again page a few weeks ago, was Agatha Christie’s Death on the Nile. This was a bit of a gamble in terms of my time: I read boatloads of Christie novels when I was younger, and remember very few of them, so I … <\/p>\n

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