- Radio Times
- Review by:
- Alison Graham
Julia McKenzie made her very low-key 2009 Marple debut in an adaptation of A Pocket Full of Rye. She’s terrific but rarely on screen; most of the detecting duties are left to a proper policeman, Inspector Neele (Matthew Macfadyen). It’s a pretty faithful reworking of the novel, give or take a couple of sex scenes, and the cast list totters under the weight of its stars: Kenneth Cranham as the victim, Helen Baxendale as a frosty housekeeper, Ralf Little as Neele’s sidekick, Rupert Graves as a playboy. There’s even a blink-and-you-miss-it cameo from Prunella Scales as an embittered old woman.
About this programme
1/4. When a business magnate, his wife and their maid are murdered, Miss Marple is prompted by the circumstances surrounding the incidents to recall the nursery rhyme Sing a Song of Sixpence. She discovers the victims were part of a family tainted by secrets, and as she ponders the significance of the tune, a past scandal reveals itself. Murder mystery, starring Julia McKenzie, with Prunella Scales, Matthew Macfadyen, Ralf Little, Rupert Graves, Helen Baxendale and Wendy Richard.
Cast and crew
Cast
- Miss Marple
- Julia McKenzie
- Mrs MacKenzie
- Prunella Scales
- Insp Neele
- Matthew Macfadyen
- Sgt Pickford
- Ralf Little
- Mrs Crump
- Wendy Richard
- Lance Fortescue
- Rupert Graves
- Mary Dove
- Helen Baxendale
- Rex Fortescue
- Kenneth Cranham
- Gladys
- Rose Heiney
- Miss Grosvenor
- Laura Haddock
- Tilly
- Thea Collings
- Pat Fortescue
- Lucy Cohu
- Prof Bernsdorrf
- Edward Tudor Pole
- Crump
- Ken Campbell
- Adele Fortescue
- Anna Madeley
- Vivian Dubois
- Joseph Beattie
- Percival Fortescue
- Ben Miles
- Jennifer Fortescue
- Liz White
- Elaine Fortescue
- Hattie Morahan
- Billingsley
- Paul Brooke
- Gerald Wright
- Chris Larkin
- Sanatorium Sister
- Rachel Atkins
Crew
- Director
- Charles Palmer
- Executive Producer
- Michele Buck
- Executive Producer
- Damien Timmer
- Executive Producer
- Rebecca Eaton
- Executive Producer
- Phil Clymer
- Producer
- Karen Thrussell
- Writer
- Kevin Elyot
- Writer
- Agatha Christie
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