{"id":393,"date":"2006-02-26T18:24:19","date_gmt":"2006-02-26T23:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog-test\/?p=393"},"modified":"2024-04-14T17:41:56","modified_gmt":"2024-04-14T21:41:56","slug":"christie_paddington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2006\/02\/christie_paddington\/","title":{"rendered":"Christie, Agatha: <cite>4.50 From Paddington<\/cite> (radio play)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><cite>4.50 From Paddington<\/cite><\/strong> is the Agatha Christie novel in which a friend of Miss Marple&#8217;s sees a murder on a passing train, and Miss Marple gets her friend Lucy Eyelesbarrow to go undercover at a local country house to look for the body. I listened to this as a 90-minute BBC radio adaptation.<\/p>\n<p>Judging from the adaptation, at least, this is a mystery which can&#8217;t be actually solved ahead of time: one can determine who has opportunity, but not whodunnit. Miss Eyelesbarrow is a nice change of pace and her investigative efficiency is admirable, but the adaptation gives her romantic subplot such very short shrift that it would have been better left out. This is also probably a better book than radio play.<\/p>\n<p>The adaptation did give me the opportunity for some legal geekery that is very spoilery, so I shall <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rot13.com\/\">ROT13<\/a> it: V jnf nzhfrq gb jbex bhg gung, svefg, gur jvyy va dhrfgvba zhfg unir qvfgevohgrq gur rfgngr cre fgvecrf, fvapr gur qnhtugre&#8217;f puvyq jvyy funer naq fvapr erzbivat gur bgure fvoyvatf vapernfrf gur funerf gb bguref; naq frpbaq, gung gur bayl zneevrq fba zhfg abg unir nal puvyqera (vg&#8217;f abg fcrpvsvrq va gur nqncngvba gung V urneq), bgurejvfr xvyyvat uvz jbhyqa&#8217;g uryc (hayrff gur zheqrere jnf jvyyvat gb trg evq bs xvqf nf jryy).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>4.50 From Paddington is the Agatha Christie novel in which a friend of Miss Marple&#8217;s sees a murder on a passing train, and Miss Marple gets her friend Lucy Eyelesbarrow to go undercover at a local country house to look for the body. I listened to this as a 90-minute BBC radio adaptation. Judging from &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2006\/02\/christie_paddington\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Christie, Agatha: <cite>4.50 From Paddington<\/cite> (radio play)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[106,6,111],"tags":[165],"class_list":["post-393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miss-marple","category-mystery","category-radio-plays","tag-christie-agatha"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=393"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2930,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393\/revisions\/2930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}