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Agatha Raisin

The Complete BBC Radio Drama Collection

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Agatha Raisin

By: M. C. Beaton
Narrated by: Penelope Keith, full cast
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After a lifetime spent in public relations, one-woman dynamo Agatha Raisin struggles to adapt to life in a quiet country village – but she soon finds that there is murder and mayhem aplenty to keep her busy.

Among the cases she has to deal with are a poisoned quiche; a vet who has been ‘put to sleep’; a hanged horticulturist; a murdered rambler and a curate who meets his Maker somewhat sooner than expected. Then there’s the treasure hunt with a rather nasty prize at the end; the secretive salon owner; the husband who is quite definitely ex; the murder on the dancefloor and the fairies at the bottom of the garden.

With all this and handsome neighbour James Lacey to deal with, the ‘Columbo of the Cotswolds’ has her hands full!

This Complete Radio Drama Collection includes the following stories: The Quiche of Death, The Vicious Vet, The Potted Gardener, The Walkers of Dembley, The Curious Curate, The Buried Treasure, The Wizard of Evesham, The Murderous Marriage, The Terrible Tourist and The Fairies of Fryfam.

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Critic Reviews

"Agatha Raisin - sharp, witty, hugely intelligent, unfailingly entertaining, delightfully intolerant and oh so magnificently non-PC." (Anne Robinson)

"If there is one thing better than watching Penelope Keith, it is listening to her." (The Times)
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I just loved this. Penelope Keith is a fantastic actor and a perfect Agatha Raisin. She is caustic and crazy. This is well worth a listen.

Marvellous funny super duper

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I throughly enjoyed listening to all of them. The narration puts you there. Absolutely love Penelope as Agatha😊

Will definitely listen again

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Terrific performances by the cast. Thankyou very much. I wish I could find more like this. Dramatisations need their own Genre category please Audible ! More like this please!

Great cast ! Well done Agatha Raisin & James Lacey

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This is an enjoyable drama collection but it's hard to get away from a reminiscence of Penelope Keith's role in 'To The Manor Born' where her upper-class accent and continual 'put-downs' are more relevant. Here it becomes an annoyance and it's hard to imagine her character ever running her own PR company; she'd frighten most clients away. Agatha manages to make enemies of just about everyone and her frequent disparagement of friends and neighbours alike is tiring.

Unlike the TV version where the title character is a scatterbrain, this adaptation of the book has Agatha disregard authority continually and rudely which detracts from the enjoyment of the storyline.

Entertaining, but...

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This was really well done. Cast were great and the storylines. There was humor along with the mysteries.

Enjoyed a lot

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