Agatha Christie: The Lost Plays

A triple bill of archive BBC radio dramas, believed lost for over half a century and only recently rediscovered and published to mark the 125th anniversary of Agatha Christie’s birth.

Butter in a Lordly Dish, written specially for radio in 1948, features Richard Williams as Sir Luke Enderby KC, whose infidelities lead him into trouble when he goes to meet his latest flame. First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme - 11 March 1956.

Williams also stars as Hercule Poirot in Murder in the Mews, a 1955 adaptation of a short story. A young woman is found dead in her flat, the day after Guy Fawkes night. Did she die by her own hand, or someone else's? First broadcast on the BBC LIght Programme - 20 March 1955.

In Personal Call, also written specially for radio by Agatha Christie, a disturbing telephone call from a woman named Fay has consequences for both Richard Brent and his wife Pam. This production, first broadcast on the BBC Light Programme on 29 November 1960, stars Ivan Brandt and Barbara Lott.