At Bertram's Hotel by Agatha Christie

Spinster sleuth Jane Marple's stay in London proves more eventful than planned.

Published in 1965, Agatha Christie's whodunit stars June Whitfield.

Dramatised in five-parts by Michael Bakewell.
Director: Enyd Williams
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 1995.

CAST
Miss Marple ...... June Whitfield
Bess Sedgwick ...... Sian Phillips
Canon Pennyfather ...... Maurice Denham
Miss Gorringe ...... Jillie Meers
Michael Gorman ...... John Hartley
Mr Humfries ...... Geoffrey Whitehead
Colonel Luscombe ...... Geoffrey Bayldon
Raymond West ...... Andrew Branch
Michael Gorman ...... John Hartley
Lady Selina Hazy ...... Margaret Courtenay
Mrs Carpenter ...... Patience Tomlinson
Elvira Blake ...... Tracy Wiles
Henry ...... Garard Green
Ladislaus Malinwoski ...... Gavin Muir
Rose ...... Jane Whittenshaw
Bridget ...... Sarah Plowright
Mr Bollard ...... David Collings
Miss Mottley ...... Sandra James Young
Egerton ...... Alan Rowe
Mrs McCrea ...... Zulema Dene
Air Terminal Hostess ...... Louisa Seddon
Inspector Campbell ...... David Timson
Archdeacon Simmons ...... Preston Lockwood
Inspector Davy ...... Frederick Jaeger
Sir Ronald Graves ...... Patrick Allen
Mrs Wheeling ...... Tessa Worsley
Sergeant Waddell ...... Ross Livingstone
Miss McCrea ...... Zulema Dene
Hoffman ...... Freddie Jones

EPISODES
Episode 1
Deceptively mild amateur sleuth, Jane Marple is being treated to a short holiday in London by her niece.

Staying at the dignified, unostentatious Bertram's Hotel, tucked away in a back street of busy Mayfair - here guests can indulge in comforts of a bygone age.

But Miss Marple begins to feel uneasy. Something sinister lurks beneath the polished veneer.

Why are so many major crimes associated in some way with the hotel or somehow implicate the eminently respectable people staying there?

Episode 2
Amateur sleuth Miss Marple's old acquaintance is about to receive a nasty shock....

Episode 3
The spinster sleuth's morning paper brings some very alarming news - and a police investigation.

Episode 4
Just as one mystery is cleared up, the spinster sleuth becomes involved in another.

Episode 5
The police ask amateur sleuth, Jane Marple to take part in a little experiment.