This adaptation of a classic Agatha Christie whodunit to a vintage radio drama format is absolutely delicious. Host Jo Reed and AudioFile’s Robin Whitten discuss how this totally diverting Golden Age mystery comes to life on audio, complete with sound effects and perfectly balanced music. Alfred Molina’s Poirot is punctilious and obsessive, but also warm and funny as he sorts out a blindingly baroque murder plot and keeps insisting the answer is totally obvious.
Read the full review of the audiobook on AudioFile’s website. Published by L.A. Theatre Works.
Listeners can enjoy Homer’s THE ILIAD, translated by Ian Johnston, and narrated by Anton Lesser, on AudioFile’s Audiobook Break podcast.
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Support for Behind the Mic comes from Naxos AudioBooks. Today in Literary History -September 24, 1896 – F. Scott Fitzgerald is born. Only receiving critical acclaim after his death F. Scott Fitzgerald is now widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century. Canadian actor William Hope reads Naxos AudioBooks’ first unabridged production of Fitzgerald’s classic novel of the Roaring Twenties, The Great Gatsby. Michael Adams, School Library Journal, writes, "It is a book that deserves a perfect reading, and though numerous other narrators have tried—(William) Hope may have come closest to achieving this perfection.
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