Agatha Christie's Endless Night

[mrs_emma_peel]

The Saturday Play: Agatha Christie's Endless Night
BBC Radio 4 Extra ... Saturday 28th January 2012 ... 1.30-2.30pm

This is a BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of Agatha Christie's darkly suspenseful psychological thriller adapted for radio by Joy Wilkinson.

'Some are born to sweet delight/Some are born to endless night' - William Blake.

Agatha Christie wrote "Endless Night" in 1967, and it is one of her greatest - and most unusual - novels. Creepy, malevolent and claustrophobic, it is a story about choices, the nature of good and evil, and grim retribution. Mike Rogers had a childhood fantasy about what life would be like as an adult; he'd have a beautiful wife, they would live in a beautiful home, and this would be a peaceful and deserved reward for a turbulent early life. When he meets Ellie Gutman at a lovely, remote spot known as Gypsy's Acre, suddenly it is all within his grasp.

However, things are not as idyllic as they seem - local legend has it that the land is cursed, and several terrible accidents have occurred there. Mike and Ellie pay no attention to these tales: but when they move into their new home, the curse suddenly seems to come to life and they find themselves in grave danger...

Starring Jonathan Forbes and Lizzie Watts, this is a menacing drama that perfectly evokes the atmosphere of Agatha Christie's brooding, malevolent tale, infused with passion, hauntings and grim retribution.

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[Bernardo]

I have read the IMDb monograph & spotted that ITV have a version on the stocks for Autumn 2012 filming. That said, does anyone know if the 1972 version with Hayley Mills is worth getting as I do like to read Agatha Christie and watch a dramatised version of the book?

[Windthrop]

I have read the IMDb monograph & spotted that ITV have a version on the stocks for Autumn 2012 filming. That said, does anyone know if the 1972 version with Hayley Mills is worth getting as I do like to read Agatha Christie and watch a dramatised version of the book?

Sadly the ITV version is another of the ones where Marple has been inserted into a plot she wasn't originally in. The novel deserves a really first class adaptation which the original film wasn't IMHO. The whole thing is curiously lifeless and pretty dull.