Agatha Christie: The ABC Murders (1936)

Returning from South America, Arthur Hastings meets with his old friend, Hercule Poirot, at his new flat in London. Poirot shows him a mysterious letter he has received, signed "A.B.C.", that details a crime that is to be committed very soon, which he suspects will be a murder.

[@Kocsogcafat]

Omg Japp is Philip Jackson here as well. 😂

[@lesleykerl9032]

John Moffat made a good Poirot. He did most of the books for BBC Radio

[@johnthorpe8341]

Yea he was the first Poirot Some might say he created Poirot That voice perfect

[@toforgetisagem8145]

10 o clock post and midnight trains to obscure rural places! Times certainly have changed!

[@1234cheerful]

Probably same day delivery on some of the mail too!

[@SBCBears]

@@1234cheerful Morning post and evening post

[@etiennepilorget8777]

In France, there used to be post rounds twice a day, even thrice in Paris I think.

[@etiennepilorget8777]

About the trains : I was exactly thinking the same thing! One could go everywhere by train, even in the most remote places - provided one agreed to change trains multiple times and wait for hours every time, where the trip in full would take two or three hours in a car today!

[@Kerbeygrip]

Not been the same sing Beeching. NOW we wish we had a better rail network!

[@joansavage1857]

Excellent! Thank you…

[@martiegaiters4891]

Thanks

[@alexandradane3672]

Who is playing Hastings? The voice sounds vaguely familiar - Simin Williams ? ?

[@RodneyROADKNIGHT-xf1hl]

I'm pretty sure it is him.

[@Vesper.-zh6sj]

It is ..Well spotted .

[@Edvdh]

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[@DarrylRuiz-s1w]

Moffat is excellemt as Poirot

[@pamelasax4272]

John Moffat a great actor and Poirot

[@johnthorpe8341]

An age and era now gone In books n films we now glory in descriptive gore visual rape etc whatever happend to story telling and leaving the rest to imagination

[@eduardo_corrochio]

Good news--- there are decent ... even wonderful ... pieces of entertainment available to the public but you have to make an effort to find the stuff. I don't know what you've been watching or reading recently (the "visual rape" and such) but there's quality fiction in films, TV and audio if one looks beyond all the disposable crud that's constantly offered to the masses. And no gore or sexual assaults in your face. Bottom line, there is good story-telling there for the picking, content that will please the discerning viewer or listener.

[@stevebbuk9557]

Well I haven't found it yet.@@eduardo_corrochio

[@redwingblackbirdnell]

Eduardo ~ thank you for positive remarks on art and theatre.

[@alisonmcshannon1196]

Excellent listening 🎉❤

[@BrendaOsif-zk4fp]

That was a good one!🙂

[@Xenoblix]

Excellent version. I know John Moffat from The film Tom Jones (1963) where he plays mr. Square. Does anyone know the name of the music that is played at the beginning and end? I've been looking for it for a long time.

[@punkinuk1]

Selections from the Prince and the Showgirl by the BBC Concert Orchestra

[@Xenoblix]

@@punkinuk1 Thank you so much for this information! I have downloaded it already.

[@punkinuk1]

@@Xenoblix Happy to help. Enjoy the music.

[@cheshirecat7132]

A very nice change from the audiobooks. Thanks!

[@sandrasatterfield4432]

Such a great Hercule Poirot!!

[@suzie_lovescats]

I wish the Poirot in this sounded more like David Suchet’s Poirot.

[@martinholmes-ue9ko]

Excellent 😊

[@puirYorick]

Poirot was conveniently incompetent in this story by the standards of his normal mental agility. He notes important clues and temporarily dismisses them in a most out-of-character fashion. This was necessary for the third and fourth murders to succeed in the plot. This version is fairly abridged and it makes that point seem even more obvious as events are played out in closer succession. The voice portrayals were very good though.

[@warrentalbot329]

Agatha cristy hated poirot by the end . Also will no one pick up the mantle of the ambercrombie forgery? No fan fic ? Also i wonder if anyone in the congo is a poirot fan

[@renzo6490]

John Moffat

[@erikaurban3378]

😅

[@rajdesantis9918]

Excellent.

[@jodywho6696]

Wonderful✨

[@luzvaldes1030]

I love the multiple narrations… Thank you!

[@christinecole8015]

💚💚💚 29/09/2023

[@marypatten9655]

Would have been nice if the title had made note of audio book. Thank you for sharing God bless

[@Wisepati]

What else would it have been? Certainly, not a movie.

[@renzo6490]

@@Wisepati…I think this is not an audiobook. It isn’t the exact text of the Christie novel. It feels more like a dramatization…something for radio, perhaps.

[@tessaoshea5697]

Bbc radio ​@@renzo6490