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"The Box of Delights" by John Masefield [A BBC RADIO 4 FULL-CAST DRAMATISATION]
Description: When Kay Harker meets an old Punch and Judy man on his way home for Christmas, he little realises that he is about to be plunged into the adventure of a lifetime.
An international cast of suspects, all passengers on the crowded train, are speeding through the snowy European landscape when a bizarre and terrible murder brings them to an abrupt halt.There is no lack of clues for Poirot, but which clue is real and which is a clever plant? ...
John Moffatt stars as the great Belgian detective in a BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation.
A feminist novel about an abused and uneducated black woman's struggle for empowerment. It was praised for the depth of its female characters and for its eloquent use of black English vernacular. It won a Pulitzer Prize in 1983.
In 2008 BBC Radio 4 broadcast a radio adaptation of the novel in ten 15-minute episodes as a Woman's Hour serial, with Nadine Marshall as Celie. The script was by Patricia Cumper, and in 2009 the production received the Sony Radio Academy Awards Silver Drama Award.
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An international cast of suspects, all passengers on the crowded train, are speeding through the snowy European landscape when a bizarre and terrible murder brings them to an abrupt halt.There is no lack of clues for Poirot, but which clue is real and which is a clever plant? ...
