It was very intriguing how he viewed Agatha Christie dramas. I had a nice chat with Peter about his role in ‘Miss Marple’ with Joan Hickson at ‘Science of the Time Lords 2016’ in Leciester, January 2016.

He’s married to Frances Low, who I’ve seen in ‘The Brittas Empire’, as Patricia Fortescue here. In this drama, Peter plays Lance Fortescue, who is one of the sons of Rex Fortescue who went away to Africa. Peter is the Fifth Doctor in ‘Doctor Who’ and Tristan in ‘All Creatures Great and Small’. I was looking forward to seeing this ‘Miss Marple’ TV adaptation, especially as Peter Davison guest starred in it. When Miss Marple gets involved, she’s reminded of the nursery rhyme ‘Sing a Song of Sixpence’ to solve it. But soon a few more people get killed like flies. Rex happened to be a tyrant within his family. However, nobody seems to be troubled by it all. It seems that he was poisoned and had ‘a pocketful of rye’ in his pocket. In this story, a wealthy banker named Rex Fortescue collapses in his office. I don’t recall the ITV version of the story much to compare it to the BBC version, but I do recall there was a witchcraft scene in it. ‘A Pocketful of Rye’ was shown on the 7th and the 8th of March 1985. This is presented as a 2 x 50 minute episode story and based on the original 1953 novel by Agatha Christie. The fourth story in the ‘Miss Marple’ series starring Joan Hickson is ‘A Pocketful of Rye’.

Please feel free to comment on my review.Ī ‘Sing a Song of Sixpence’ Murder with Joan Hickson’s Marple

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