Matches in DBpedia 2015-10 for { ?s ?p "Butter in a Lordly Dish is the name of a half-hour radio play written by Agatha Christie and first performed on the BBC Radio Light Programme on Tuesday 13 January 1948 at 9.30pm in a strand entitled Mystery Playhouse presents The Detection Club. It was repeated on Friday 16 January at 4.15pm and has never been repeated since. No recording exists and the play has never been commercially published. It remains one of Christie's least-known works. The title comes from the Bible, at Judges, 5:25 – "He asked water, and she gave him milk; she brought forth butter in a lordly dish", where "he" refers to Sisera, "she" is Jael, and Jael kills Sisera by hammering a nail through his head. The same fate awaits Sir Luke Enderby in Christie's play at the hands of Julia Keene.The play was one of a series of six written by members of the Detection Club to raise funds for the organisation. The other five plays and their first broadcasts (all on Tuesdays at 9.30pm) are as follows: The Murder at Warbeck Hall by Cyril Hare, broadcast on 27 January 1948 A Nice Cup of Tea by Anthony Gilbert, broadcast on 3 February 1948 Sweet Death by Christianna Brand on 10 February 1948 Bubble, Bubble, Toil and Trouble by E. C. R. Lorac on 17 February 1948 Where Do We Go From Here? by Dorothy L Sayers on 24 February 1948The play received its first production since 1948 as part of the Agatha Christie Theatre Festival in 2001 at the Palace Theatre, Westcliff-on-Sea and has occasionally been performed since as a special event. The play was included in Murder on Air, a special production from 22 April to 3 May 2008 by the Agatha Christie Theatre Company of three of Christie's radio plays (the other two being The Yellow Iris and Personal Call) at the Theatre Royal, Windsor."@en }
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- Butter_in_a_Lordly_Dish abstract "Butter in a Lordly Dish is the name of a half-hour radio play written by Agatha Christie and first performed on the BBC Radio Light Programme on Tuesday 13 January 1948 at 9.30pm in a strand entitled Mystery Playhouse presents The Detection Club. It was repeated on Friday 16 January at 4.15pm and has never been repeated since. No recording exists and the play has never been commercially published. It remains one of Christie's least-known works. The title comes from the Bible, at Judges, 5:25 – "He asked water, and she gave him milk; she brought forth butter in a lordly dish", where "he" refers to Sisera, "she" is Jael, and Jael kills Sisera by hammering a nail through his head. The same fate awaits Sir Luke Enderby in Christie's play at the hands of Julia Keene.The play was one of a series of six written by members of the Detection Club to raise funds for the organisation. The other five plays and their first broadcasts (all on Tuesdays at 9.30pm) are as follows: The Murder at Warbeck Hall by Cyril Hare, broadcast on 27 January 1948 A Nice Cup of Tea by Anthony Gilbert, broadcast on 3 February 1948 Sweet Death by Christianna Brand on 10 February 1948 Bubble, Bubble, Toil and Trouble by E. C. R. Lorac on 17 February 1948 Where Do We Go From Here? by Dorothy L Sayers on 24 February 1948The play received its first production since 1948 as part of the Agatha Christie Theatre Festival in 2001 at the Palace Theatre, Westcliff-on-Sea and has occasionally been performed since as a special event. The play was included in Murder on Air, a special production from 22 April to 3 May 2008 by the Agatha Christie Theatre Company of three of Christie's radio plays (the other two being The Yellow Iris and Personal Call) at the Theatre Royal, Windsor.".