1. Departure

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A train departs, but one person aboard the Orient Express is destined never to arrive. Speeding through the snowy European landscape, a bizarre and terrible murder brings the train to an abrupt halt. The high-class carriages are packed with passengers and one of them - Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot - soon realises the challenge that awaits him... Agatha Christie's whodunnit stars John Moffatt as Hercule Poirot. From the book published in 1934. Dramatised in five parts by Michael Bakewell Hercule Poirot ...... John Moffatt Princess Dragmiroff ...... Sian Phillips Miss Debenham ...... Francesca Annis Mr Ratchett ...... Joss Ackland Pierre Michel ...... Frank Windsor Mrs Hubbard ...... Sylvia Syms Masterman ...... Desmond Llewelyn Monsieur Bouc ...... Andre Maranne Colonel Arbuthnot ...... Stephen Hodson MacQueen ...... James Telfer Miss Ohlsson ...... Kate Binchy Foscarelli ...... Frank Coda Hardman ...... John Church Count Andrenyi ...... David Thorpe Countess Andrenyi ...... Siriol Jenkins Dr Constantine ...... Peter Polycarpou The Taurus Express Guard ...... Vic Tablian The Hotel Clerk ...... Kevork Malikyan Pianist: Michael Haslam Director Enyd Williams. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 1992.