Sunday, September 27, 2009

Radio review - CP#36 – “The Murder of Roger Ayckroyd” (1939) **

Welles clearly couldn’t make up his mind whether to plat the narrator of Poirot so he plays both. I would have thought Welles might have made a decent Poirot but he hams it up mercilessly (the detective talks even during the intro and outro and “talks” to Welles himself); he is however pretty good as the narrator. To be honest I found the story a bit confusing at times but the basic concept - told by a narrator - adapts well to radio.

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