I listened to Agatha Christie's A Pocket Full of Rye as a 90-minute BBC radio play. It's a Miss Marple mystery about deaths that appear to fit a nursery rhyme's pattern. June Whitfield is a perfectly good Miss Marple, and I enjoyed listening to her discussions with the police, but ninety minutes wasn't long enough for this story. The solution to the mystery rested on character development, which just couldn't be fit into the time available. However, I'm still recording them when they appear on BBC7, since they're quick, non-demanding listens when I don't know what else I feel like hearing.
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