Agatha Christie The Lie
Agatha Christie's The Lie First broadcast: Sat 29th Aug 2020, 14:30 on BBC Radio 4 FM Trapped in an unhappy marriage and provoked by her husband's obsession with her younger sister, Nan disappears from the family home for a night – with devastating consequences. A series of dramatic revelations will lead either to divorce or reconciliation - but the outcome depends on whether Nan's sister will lie to protect her. Agatha Christie's extraordinary early play, which predates her famous stage thrillers, lay unread in her family's archives until it was discovered by theatre producer Julius Green. Seemingly written in the mid-1920s, during the breakdown of Christie's first marriage, The Lie is an intensely personal piece of writing - a hard-hitting domestic drama which bears many of the hallmarks of her later work for the theatre, and which offers a unique insight into her complex emotional response to events in her own life at the time. "In every life there comes a moment, one supreme and all-powerful moment, when we hold our fate in our hands, to decide our entire life for good or evil." Cast: Nan Gregg (the wife) - SARAH MOWAT Nell Reeves (her sister) - CHLOE NEWSOME John Gregg (the husband) - BEN NEALON Hannah Reeves (the mother) - ALISON SKILBECK Mrs Endicott (the grandmother) - TINA GRAY Jim Hayward (The suitor) - MIKE EVANS The drama was adapted for radio from Agatha Christie's stage play by Martin Lewton and Julius Green. Director - JULIUS GREEN Assistant Director - MARTIN LEWTON Producer - IAIN MACKNESS Executive Producer - ASHLEY BYRNE The music was composed by REBECCA APPLIN A Made in Manchester production for BBC Radio 4 by arrangement with The Agatha Christie Archive Trust
This recording is part of the Old Time Radio collection.
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Reviews
best tragic and love story
Shersflake
a very unexpected turn. some what awakens the inner feeling of your soul. i really love it. its complexttion is execellent. and a wonderful masterpiece. thank you so much.
Pocketwife
actors were dramatic and it doesn't have an ending but I love that this was one of her first writings and not found until 2014
Luna
wonderful! kept my attention fully. not a mystery like we know A. Christie for, but still a story of choices in life.
Carol
CAROL
Really enjoyed this reading. Really enjoyed this reading.
worth review
Mary Evans
Beautiful music. nice radio theatre. interesting plot.
There needs to be a separate category for NEW TIME RADIO
loyaltubist
What was said by the previous poster is correct. But then, this isn't even old time radio. Yes, it's from the BBC but even that is nothing like it was when it was live or seemingly live (a live transcription recording). Different countries had different timespans of what OTR was. In the United States, I'd say it was until November 1960, when all the networks stopped airing soap operas and only CBS continued radio dramas (Sundays only) until September 1962. You have a complete right to disagree with me. I don't consider the CBSRMT old time radio, even though most people here were born after it first came on the air in 1974. It was great. In fact it was better than what CBS had between 1960 and 1962. But it was a different time. Radio had a completely different meaning in 1945, 1950, 1960, and 1977.
Time is Precious…
CELR
This is pretty darn awful ! Most soap-operas would be considered works of great intellectual drama in comparison. Time can never be recuperated, best not squander yours…
Rubbis
jenny
What s load of tosh. How long can they go on snd on about nothing? Stopped it 1/4 way and deleting.