Michael Bakewell made a great contribution to radio. His magnificent dramatisations of Miss Marple and Hercule Poirot, still played on BBC Radio 4 Extra, were directed by Enyd Williams between the late 1980s and the early 2000s. Starring June Whitfield as the unassuming elderly lady in the corner who sees everything, and John Moffatt as the little man with enormous moustaches, they marked the epitome of popular audio drama.
My one regret as commissioning editor for the drama on Radio 4 is that despite all negotiations I never got the Agatha Christie estate to release rights for Michael to dramatise the final Poirot, Curtain: Poirot’s Last Case.
