{"id":426,"date":"2006-05-28T22:13:19","date_gmt":"2006-05-29T02:13:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog-test\/?p=426"},"modified":"2024-03-24T21:46:22","modified_gmt":"2024-03-25T01:46:22","slug":"christie_funeral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2006\/05\/christie_funeral\/","title":{"rendered":"Christie, Agatha: <cite>After the Funeral<\/cite> (radio play)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I started listening to <strong>Agatha Christie&#8217;s <cite>After the Funeral<\/cite><\/strong>, a Hercule Poirot story, I thought perhaps the BBC was experimenting with <em>in medias res<\/em>. Well, I was starting in the middle, but because the files had been mislabeled, not because of a clever dramatic technique. Once I realized that, things went a lot more smoothly.<\/p>\n<p>As the title suggests, the opening of this book is after a funeral: Richard Abernethie appears to have died a normal death, but at the reading of the will, his sister Cora asks, &#8220;but he was murdered, wasn&#8217;t he?&#8221; Everyone shrugs it off, but when she turns up quite unmistakably murdered, Hercule Poirot is asked to investigate.<\/p>\n<p>Listened to in the right order, this was not bad. I could see the shape of the solution before it was revealed, though the solution itself is a bit implausible. I think the portrayal was fair within the confines of the presentation, however, which has not always been the case with these adaptations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I started listening to Agatha Christie&#8217;s After the Funeral, a Hercule Poirot story, I thought perhaps the BBC was experimenting with in medias res. Well, I was starting in the middle, but because the files had been mislabeled, not because of a clever dramatic technique. Once I realized that, things went a lot more &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2006\/05\/christie_funeral\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Christie, Agatha: <cite>After the Funeral<\/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-426","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\/426","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=426"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2898,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426\/revisions\/2898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}