Lord Peter Wimsey attends the trial of his friend, Harriet Vane, a young mystery writer accused of poisoning her former lover with arsenic. The evidence against her seems overwhelming, but the shrewd, debonair sleuth harbours doubts over her guilt.
Can the two of them discover who the murderer is?
Ian Carmichael stars as Lord Peter Wimsey with Maria Aitken as Harriet Vane; Nigel Stock as Inspector Umplety and Warren Clarke (Dalziel And Pascoe) as Haviland Martin.
Detective Lord Peter Wimsey features in a number of detective novels and short stories by English crime writer, Dorothy L Sayers. Strong Poison was first published in 1930.
Classy and sharp witted, aristocratic amateur sleuth Lord Peter Bredon Wimsey was born in 1890 and educated at Eton and Oxford before serving in the military during the First World War.
Ian Carmichael appeared as Lord Peter Wimsey for BBC Radio from 1973 to 1983, in addition to the BBC TV adaptations that were broadcast between 1972 and 1975.
Adapted for radio in six episodes by Alistair Beaton.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1981.
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