Sparkling Cyanide [Agatha Christie]

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01Rosemary2012013021-year-old Rosemary dies at her birthday party after drinking from a glass of cyanide-laced champagne.

The small group of friends and family who were present struggle to understand - was it suicide, or could one of them possibly have murdered her?

An ex-lover, a younger sister who stood to inherit, a jealous husband?

It seems almost all the guests had a motive...

Agatha Christie's deadly mystery, first published in 1945.

Dramatised in three parts by Joy Wilkinson.

Iris ..... Naomi Frederick

Rosemary ..... Jasmine Hyde

George ..... Peter Wight

Anthony ..... Colin Tierney

Ruth ..... Amanda Drew

Stephen ..... James Lailey

Sandra ..... Tracy Wiles

Victor ..... Simon Bubb

Director: Mary Peate

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2012.

21-year-old debutante Rosemary dies after a sip of cyanide-laced birthday champagne.

Classic stories by the mistress of the whodunit.

02All Souls' Day20120206It's a year since Rosemary died horribly at her 21st birthday party after drinking from a glass of cyanide-laced champagne.

Convinced that the coroner's verdict of suicide is wrong, her widower George is hatching a plan to discover the truth...

Agatha Christie's deadly mystery.

Dramatised by Joy Wilkinson.

Iris ..... Naomi Frederick

George ..... Peter Wight

Lucilla

03Iris20120213George Barton has died in exactly the same way as his wife did a year earlier, by drinking cyanide-laced champagne.

The second death throws the first verdict of suicide into question.

Now Colonel Race steps in to investigate...

Conclusion of Agatha Christie's deadly mystery.

Dramatised by Joy Wilkinson.

Iris ..... Naomi Frederick

Lucilla