![]() ![]() ![]() The radio play was first broadcast on the BBC in 1947. It was a case that shocked the nation and resulted in the changing of the laws surrounding foster care a couple of years later. The idea for the radio play came, as was often the case with Christie, from a real-life news story in 1945 about two brothers abused in foster care, one of whom died as a result. ![]() Unfortunately no recording of the original performance exists. She donated her fee of one hundred Guineas to the Southport Infirmary Children’s Toy Fund. The BBC got in touch with Christie and asked if she would like to write a short radio play for the Queen, which she happily obliged to and created Three Blind Mice. When Queen Mary was asked what she would like for her 80th birthday, she requested a new story from one of her favourite writers, Agatha Christie. ![]()
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