Episodes
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Lord Edgware Dies (1934)
This time we're going back to the very time in which Agatha herself was busy creating Poirot's fabulous adventures. That's right, in 1934 - just a year after its publication - Lord Edgware Dies was turned into a feature film with Austin Trevor as the little Belgian. So what was the screen's take…
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Evil Under The Sun (1982)
After the darkness of recent episodes, Adam and Frankie are making a joyful (and much needed) return to the light with Peter Ustinov's glittering comedic masterpiece, Evil Under The Sun (1982). Who killed Arlena Stuart? Brace yourself for a bountiful bevy barbs, bathing suits and bouffants as we...
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The ABC Murders (2018)
We hope you're in for something "ranty" because this edition of the Labours Of Hercule podcast is completely unbridled! Adam and Frankie look at the three-part 2018 mini-series The ABC Murders, starring John Malkovich as Hercule Poirot, in which some creative diversions have DEFINITELY been taken...
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The Alphabet Murders (1965)
Brace yourself, mes amis - things are about to get a little bit groovy, baby... Join Adam and Frankie as they attempt to tackle and decode one of the most unsual Christie adaptations ever made, The Alphabet Murders (1965), starring Tony Randall as Hercule Poirot. Can Poirot stop ABC before they...
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Poirot Live In London!
Want to hear a lively discussion about Poirot, Peter Ustinov and the brilliance of Agatha Christie? For your listening pleasure, Adam and Frankie present the live podcast recording from our Picturehouse Central Double Bill screening of Death On The Nile (1978) and Evil Under The Sun (1982). HUGE...
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Murder On The Orient Express (1974)
It's time to go all aboard on the Orient Express (again), but this time in the company of a gallery of Old Hollywood's finest, and a Poirot who has proved... somewhat... divisive..? Join Adam and Frankie as they travel on the most famous railway line in the world, one where shadowy secrets are...
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Appointment With Death (1988)
We're back, mes amis! How we've missed you and oh boy, do we have some updates for you... Join Adam and Frankie as they kick off the new movie era of the podcast with Peter Ustinov as Poirot in Appointment with Death (1988). Does this more faithful version of Christie's story make for a better...
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Join Us Live This Summer!
Frankie's here with a very special announcement regarding our newest and most exciting live event yet! For tickets go to https://www.picturehouses.com/movie-details/022/HO00017996/the-labours-of-hercule-poirot-double-bill?filter=
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The Dream v2.0
Frankie and Adam cap off their redux of Series One with a second look at The Dream... Poirot is called to the offices of pie magnate Benedict Farley, who is convinced that a sinister recurring dream is about to come true. But what will happen if it does...? In other news, we announce an all-new...
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The King Of Clubs v2.0
Get ready for ranting as Adam and Frankie attempt to temper their tempers while revisiting one of the most infamous episodes of Series One - The King of Clubs. A missing card apparently provides Poirot with the clue he needs to solve the murder of a lecherous movie mogul. But is there more to…
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The Incredible Theft v2.0
Join Adam and Frankie as they steal some time to revisit (and debate) the definition of the word "incredible"! When a wealthy industrialist's plan to snare a shiny German sympathiser goes awry and top secret documents that threaten national security are stolen, can Poirot get to the heart of the...
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Problem At Sea v2.0
Join Frankie & Adam once again as they climb all aboard the The Good Ship Murder! There are foul doings a-doing on a river cruise. For starters, Hastings is in charge of a sporting tournament, and there are troublesome poems to be read in the evenings. But Poirot is more taken by the brewing…
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Triangle At Rhodes v2.0
Join Adam and Frankie as they head on a Rhodes trip with Poirot and a rather catty sidekick. Poirot's holiday takes a detour when he encounters a love triangle that he suspects may end in murder. But will he be able to solve the case amidst a sea of bad accents, questionable swimwear and a whole...
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The Third Floor Flat v2.0
Join Frankie & Adam as they crawl back up the disposal chute, and into a mystery set within the walls of Whitehaven Mansions itself. Poirot is called upon to beat his debilitating cold symptoms and investigate the mysterious murder of a neighbour. But does the truth lie closer to home than even…
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Four & Twenty Blackbirds v2.0
Join us as we rabbity-rabbit on again about Four and Twenty Blackbirds (aka the one with boobs in it). Are an eccentric painter's changeable eating habits the key to solving his subsequent murder? Can Poirot and Hastings overcome sticky wickets, oompah bands and Jim Branning and learned the...
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The Adventure Of Johnnie Waverly - v2.0
Join us for a "Damned Offensive" re-run of our most infamous episode - The Adventure Of Johnnie Waverly And who knows, maybe we'll pick up a few new catchphrases along the way...? Poirot and Hastings are off to Surrey to investigate a series of kidnapping threats being made against the son of a...
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Christmas Special 2025!
Join Adam and Frankie as they get into the figurative festive spirit with the Whitehaven Six and celebrate the end of a jam-packed year in their third annual Christmas Special! Deck the halls, nog some eggs, jingle some bells and brace yourself for an indulgent chat about Christmas presents…
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Unmasking the Villain: Adam & Frankie Meet Elliot Cowan
Frankie and Adam had the rare privilege of talking to one of the most indelible Poirot villains of all time - David Hunter from Taken At The Flood aka Elliot Cowan - in fact, over on Discord, YOU voted him as the scariest Poirot villain of all time... In the first of what we hope will be a...
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Murder In The Mews v2.0
By popular demand, Adam and Frankie have gone back to the beginning and are reworking their way through series one, now with added denouement! When a woman is found shot in her flat after Bonfire Night, but was it suicide or murder? Poirot, Hastings and Japp must navigate giantesses, boiled owls,...
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The Adventure Of The Clapham Cook - v2.0
Prepare for Round Two... By popular demand, Adam and Frankie are returning to the infamous episode that began it all, for a proper go at Poirot's first TV adventure! All new, all improved version, now also containing denouement! When a jaded Poirot is approached to find a missing domestic, he…
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Curtain: Poirot's Last Case
Mes amis, mes amis... and so we face the final curtain... As painful as it is, we cannot ignore the final chapter of the Poirot story, and we end as we began - in the company of the fabulous Monsieur Hercule Poirot and his most faithful friend, Captain Hastings, as they find themselves at the…
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Labours Of Love: The Community Episode
In honour of Curtain Eve, join Adam and Frankie as they take a moment (or a couple of hours) to read your wonderful emails, answer your probing questions, share some behind-the-scenes secrets and reflect on the true labour of love that has been making the podcast over the past three years. Also,...
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The Labours Of Hercules
As the end rapidly approaches, Adam and Frankie finally meet their namesake. Following a devastating murder on his watch, Poirot's quest to reunite two lost lovers finds him at a snowbound hotel in the Swiss Alps. But all is not as it seems at the Hotel Olympos. Can Poirot solve the plethora of...
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Dead Man's Folly
Was murder ever more drenched in sunshine? Poirot finds himself summoned to the English coast, where Ariadne has been hired to construct a murder game at a garden fete? But before long, they have uncovered a sinister plot in which the beats of a game may hide something far more deadly... Snap up...
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The Big Four
We're in the BIG FOUR final episodes with the BIG FOUR themselves this time, as the WHITEHAVEN FOUR return for their final ever outing together in the series! Upon hearing tragic news, Georges, Miss Lemon, Captain Hastings, and the newly-christened Assistant Commissioner Japp are brought back...
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Elephants Can Remember
It's time for memory games as Poirot reunites with a perplexed Ariadne Oliver who needs his help to solve a decades old mystery. But Poirot's already busy trying to discover who murdered a professor with a dark history at the Willoughby Institute. Or perhaps, these two strange cases are linked......
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The Clocks
Intrigue abounds during WW2, following the theft of a vital piece of intelligence. Poirot is approached by the son of a very familiar friend, in the hopes of being able to solve the riddle of a secret gone missing, an unexpected corpse in a living room, and why four clocks all seem to be…
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Murder On The Orient Express
All aboard the misery train, mes amis! A traumatised Poirot is forced to investigate the murder of a shady American businessman who stabbed in his compartment on the Orient Express. When the train is blocked by a snowdrift, Poirot is faced with a chilling locked-room mystery. Is the killer among...
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Halloween Party
Poirot is called in to investigate the shocking death of a child on Halloween in a sleepy English village filled to the brim with secrets. Moments before she was drowned in the apple bobbing tub, she had told the room that she'd once seen a murder take place. Could the two things be connected? Or...
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Three Act Tragedy
We're back with season 12, mes amis! When a vicar dies while attending a party held by actor Sir Charles Cartwright, Poirot initially dismisses the idea of murder. However, when Dr. Bartholomew Strange dies in seemingly the same way shortly after, Poirot must cut through the theatrics to find the...
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The Big Four - LIVE!
Join Frankie and Adam for a look behind the scenes at their recent live event for THE BIG FOUR, at which they were joined by none other than the episode's director, Peter Lydon, but also Japp Of The Yard himself, Philip Jackson! As you'll hear, there were even more surprises on the day, including…
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Appointment With Death
Adam and Frankie have an appointment with one of the most controversial episodes in the Poirot series... but why? After Lady Boynton is found dead at an archaeological dig, Poirot must not only work out how the killing was carried out in full view of the camp, but also the motive. And the answers...
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Third Girl
After Norma Restarick, a troubled young heiress with a traumatic past, tells Ariadne Oliver and Poirot that she thinks she may have killed someone, her ex-nanny is found dead from suicide. Is history repeating itself, or is there something far more sinister at play? N.B. Since recording, tickets...
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The Big Four + SPECIAL GUESTS - Available NOW
Tickets for our huge screening event are available RIGHT NOW! Join Adam and Frankie, for a very special screening of THE BIG FOUR at London's Riverside Studios on June 1st, 2025 at 14:00 BST After the screening, live on stage, they'll be joined by the episode's director Peter Lydon, as well as...
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Cat Among The Pigeons
School's out! At least for the unfortunate Meadowbank School For Girls, at which sinister events are taking place. Amid a dangerous atmosphere of revolutions, rubies, scandals, secrets, and first day jitters, Poirot finds himself drawn into a dark mystery involving royalty, espionage, blackmail…
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Mrs McGinty's Dead
It's a soft-focus start to season eleven as Poirot is asked to solve the murder of a village charwoman. With a pair of photographs as the only clues and a village full of suspects, can Poirot get cut through to the real heart of the case and save an innocent man from the gallows? Our Patreon page...
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Meet Chief Inspector Japp: Philip Jackson In Conversation with Adam & Frankie
It's been a long time coming, but FINALLY, Frankie and Adam complete the Whitehaven Four Boxset and meet Inspector Japp himself - Philip Jackson! Philip took time to chat about his favourite Poirot moments, the people and places he fell in love with during the making of TV's most iconic detective...
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Taken At The Flood
It's an explosive end to season ten as Poirot comes face to face with the pure evil in this dark and devastating family drama. But can he cut through the noise to discover the truth at the heart of this mystery? Join Adam and Frankie as they get to know the Cloade family and enter their George…
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After The Funeral
What happened after the funeral to cause dotty Aunt Cora to be murdered with a hatchet? That's the fiendish question at the heart of this edition, as Adam and Frankie follow Poirot and a couple of absolute thirst traps around the hallowed Abernethie stately home in search of answers... Strap...
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Cards On The Table
We enter another new era as Poirot is joined by his dear friend and fan favourite, Ariadne Oliver, to solve a murder at a bridge party. When suspicious guests and secrets abound, can Poirot use the psychology of his little grey cells to cut the deck and play a winning hand? BONUS: Listen to the...
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The Mystery Of The Blue Train
It's all aboard for mystery and suspense this time as Poirot investigates the savage murder of an heiress on the famous Blue Train! With a gallery of suspects including a drunk ex, a mysterious femme fatale, a family of gold diggers, and a conman, will he be able to see through the steam, and...
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The Hollow
Well hollow, mes amis! We're back to finish off season nine! Another relaxing weekend is ruined for Poirot when he stumbles upon a perplexing murder scene of a philandering doctor at the neighbouring country house. His wife stands before him holding a revolver but it can't be that simple, can it?...
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Christmas Special 2024!
Join in the festive fun with Adam and Frankie as they celebrate the holiday season with some very special guest appearances! We'll be going through your delightful emails, looking back at some of our favourite moments of the year, testing each other's wits with some special quizzing, and…
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Death On The Nile
We're setting sail with one of Agatha Christie's most famous mysterious! Poirot's holiday to Egypt is derailed when a beautiful young heiress at the centre of a devastating love triangle is murdered on board their cruise ship. With a boat-load of curious suspects swimming in secrets around him,...
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Sad Cypress
We're in full soap opera mode this time as Poirot is called in to investigate the mysterious goings on at a country house, where poison pen letters, murder, love affairs, and a very evil line in sandwich fillings, is plaguing the residents there... Our merch store is now up and open for a VERY...
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Five Little Pigs
We're kicking off season nine and a whole new era with the melancholy Christie Classic, Five Little Pigs. When Poirot is approached by the daughter of an artist who was murdered 14 years ago, he sets out to find out whether her mother was guilty of the tragic crime. As he's presented with five...
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Murder In Mesopotamia
There's sinister intrigue in an exotic locale this time, as Poirot and Hastings investigate the killing of an archaeologist's wife, who just before her death swears that she has been terrorised by a ghostly face... Can Poirot and Hastings solve the sinister crime before more people meet their…
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Evil Under The Sun
Slather on your sunblock, mes amis! We're kicking off season eight with Evil Under the Sun and it's a scorcher of a mystery. Poirot's attempt at rest and relaxation is foiled once again when a notoriously flirtatious starlet is found strangled on the beach of the health resort. But when all of…
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Lord Edgware Dies
It's intrigue time once more as Poirot, Hastings, Japp and Miss Lemon are on the mysterious trail of the killer of the original Edge Lord himself, Lord Edgware - the ultimate pain in the neck who's been found with a dagger sticking from his jugular... Could the culprit be a disgruntled theatre...
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The Murder Of Roger Ackroyd
We're onto season seven, mes amis, and times, they are a-changing for Agatha Christie's Poirot! A rather haunted Poirot is forced out of retirement when his good friend, Roger Ackroyd, is murdered. Reuniting with Japp to solve the case, can Poirot uncover the evil that lurks beneath the surface…
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