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At Bertram's Hotel: Starring June Whitfield as Miss Marple. A BBC Radio 4 Full-cast Dramatisation (BBC Radio Collection)
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| Bertram's hotel is the original post-modern simulacrum | |
|  | If you thought concerns for simulacra, copies that are more real than the original, were the result of almost unreadable musings of French and American post-modern intellectuals who ought to get out more, then you should read Agatha Cristie's exploration of Bertram's hotel. When Miss Marple realises what is going on she warns the reader that such places may be the most dangerous lurking in the modern world in a way that is lucid, intelligent, and far more interesting than Jamieson's classic but verging on the unreadable musing on an equally confusing Los Angeles hotel. You will never visit a themed resort without at least a slight sense of unease; not bad for a supposedly trashy 'who-done-it'. The BBC audio version almost catches the book's menace, though the Joan Hickson television Miss Marple is nearer the book's sense of dangerous confusion that is built into the very hotel.
| | superb,one of the best i've heard | |
| | june whitfield is in fine form here,probably one of her best, for me in particular i found that
the character played by Louisa Seddon was one of the great performances of recent years,she is truly a star in the making.altogether a fantastic energetic cast fulfilling every promise.
| | | I do enjoy At Bertram's Hotel, a story in which Miss Marple must get to grips with the underlying causes of the little peculiarities of her favourite London hotel, and this Radio 4 play is a splendid dramatisation of it; well scripted and well acted on the whole. I say "on the whole" because although I love the voice of June Whitfield as Miss Marple and those of many other actors here (the voices of Canon Pennyfather and Bess Sedgwick are particularly good) I find the voice of the actress playing Elvira Blake to be incredibly annoying. This does rather marr my enjoyment of the play as she is a major character... but still, this remains an excellent play with one sad fault.
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