SNT 1982-04-10 Appleby's End (Michael Innes).txt
Michael Innes - Appleby's End
BBC Radio 4: Saturday Night Theatre
Broadcast: Saturday 10th April 1982 @ 8:00 p.m.
Appleby's End was the name of the station where Detective Inspector John Appleby got off the train from Scotland Yard. But that was not the only coincidence. Everything that happened from then on related back to stories by Ranulph Raven, Victorian novelist - animals were replaced by marble effigies, someone received a tombstone telling him when he would die, and a servant was found buried up to his neck in snow, dead. Why did Ranulph Raven's mysterious descendants make such a point of inviting Appleby to spend the night at their house?
Dramatised by Michael Blakewell from Innes' 1945 novel
With John Hurt [Detective Inspector John Appleby], John Le Mesurier [Everard Raven], Christopher Benjamin [Heyhoe / Inspector Mutlow], Joyce Redman [Clarissa], Pippa Guard [Judith Raven], Lewis Stringer [Luke], Anthony Newlands [Robert], Richard Derrington [Mark], John Sharp [Rainbird], Christopher Douglas [Billy Bidewell / Mr. Hoobin], Jack May [Colonel Pike], Hugh Dickson [Sir Mulberry Farmer / Liddell], Pauline Letts [Lady Farmer / Mrs. Ulstrup / Hannah Hoobin], David Gooderson [Gregory Grope], Trevor Baxter [Mr. Smith], Stephen Garlick [Hannah Hoobin's Boy], and John Livesey [Brettingham Scurl / Scott].
Directed by Jane Morgan
Re-broadcast as the ninth and final episode in a series of nine crime dramas broadcast under the banner, 'Murder for Christmas' on Wednesday 31st December 1986:
1. "Hercules Poiroit's Christmas" by Agatha Christie
2. "The Nine Tailors" by Dorothy L. Sayers
3. "Valley of Fear" by Arthur Conan Doyle
4. "Death and the Dancing Footman" by Ngaio Marsh
5. "Unto the Grave" by John Penn
6. "Smiler with the Knife" by Nicholas Blake
7. "More Work for the Undertaker" by Margery Allingham
8. "Trent's Last Case" by E. C. Bentley
9. "Appleby's End" by Michael Innes
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About the Author
Born in Edinburgh , John Innes Mackintosh Stewart was educated at Oriel College, Oxford. After graduation he went to Vienna,
to study Freudian psychoanalysis for a year. His first book, an edition of Florio's translation of Montaigne, got him a
lectureship at the University of Leeds. In later years he taught at the universities of Adelaide, Belfast and Oxford. Under his
pseudonym, Michael Innes, he wrote a highly successful series of mystery stories. His most famous character is Inspector
John Appleby, who inspired a penchant for donnish detective fiction that lasts to this day. His other well-known character is
Honeybath, the painter and rather reluctant detective, who first appeared in 'The Mysterious Commission', in 1975. Stewart's
last novel, 'Appleby and the Ospreys', appeared in 1986.
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