Colonel Race

Lore & Background

Colonel Race is a British intelligence agent who appears in two of the 27 full-cast BBC Radio 4 adaptations adapted by Michael Bakewell and produced by Enyd Williams. He was portrayed by Donald Sinden in Death on the Nile and Cards on the Table. Sinden also played a different character in the series, Colonel Lacey in The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding, demonstrating the series' practice of having multiple actors play different roles across separate adaptations.

Reader's Guide

Colonel Race appears in two adaptations in this series: Death on the Nile and Cards on the Table, both played by Donald Sinden. He is a British intelligence agent, distinct from police figures like Inspector Japp (played by Philip Jackson, Norman Jones, or Bryan Pringle in various adaptations).

Did You Know?

• The series consists of 27 full-cast radio adaptations adapted by Michael Bakewell and broadcast on BBC Radio 4 between 1985 and 2007.
• John Moffatt played Hercule Poirot in all adaptations except the first two, which starred Maurice Denham and Peter Sallis respectively.
• The major omission from the series was the final Poirot novel Curtain: Poirot’s Last Case, for which the rights proved unattainable.