Print sources Title Radio Times, 17 October 1947 (Magazine) Linking notes listing, p. Date of transmission Tuesday 21 October 1947 Time 8.30-9.00pm Channel BBC Television Production company BBC Credits Producer Barrie Edgar Playwright Agatha Christie Cast Maxine AudleyĪdditional details Origination Live from studio Vision original Monochrome Extant status No archival copy is known to exist. Agatha Christie demonstrates her unparalleled mastery with Three Blind Mice and Other Storiesa classic compendium of mystery and suspense, crime and detection, whose title novella served as the basis for The Mousetrap, the longest running stage play in the history of the London theater. Do you know why Agatha Christie wrote this radio play Find out here. This then became a short story in 1948 and in 1952 became Christie’s long-running drama The Mousetrap. On this day in 1947, Three Blind Mice was broadcast on BBC radio for the first time.

30) writes of this version: ‘lIt is about the murder of a woman in a house in Tottenham Court Road and the clue is a small notebook dropped at the scene of the crime in it is written, 'Three Blind Mice', 74 Culver Street, Monkswell Monor.' Production history Three Blind Mice first appeared as a 30-minute radio play on the BBC Light Programme in May 1947.

Play synopsis The Mousetrap concerns the residents of a guest house, which is snowed in, who find themselves trapped with a murderer.

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