# Did June Whitfield ("Mother" in AbFab) ever play Miss Marple?

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**Created:** [March 23, 2021, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-june-whitfield-mother-in-abfab-ever-play-miss-marple/938503 "2021-03-23T16:31:19Z")\
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Maybe in an audio book series? I keep seeing comments on YouTube about various audio book versions of Miss Marple (short stories and full length novels) on the order of “Oh, disappointed, I was hoping this would be June Whitfield.” I keep asking these commenters when she played the character (or when she read the stories) but I haven’t had an answer. There’s nothing on her IMDB page that I can find about it, but then I don’t think they document audio books. She was IN a Miss Marple TV broadcast, but not as Marple.

Has anyone here ever run across June Whitfield in the context of Miss Marple?

FWIW, I think she could have made a great Miss Marple – fluffy, seeming a little dotty but able to also appear sharp as a tack. I found Joan Hickson too vinegary, Geraldine McEwan too twinkly, and Jula McKenzie a complete character non-entity.

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**Post date:** [March 23, 2021, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-june-whitfield-mother-in-abfab-ever-play-miss-marple/938503/2 "2021-03-23T16:33:38Z")

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From the summary section of her Wikipedia article:

> From 1993 to 2001, Whitfield played [Miss Marple](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miss_Marple) in the [radio dramatisation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miss_Marple_(radio_series)) of all twelve of [Agatha Christie](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agatha_Christie)’s Miss Marple novels on [BBC Radio 4](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Radio_4).[[2]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_Whitfield#cite_note-EpiList-3)  
> [June Whitfield - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_Whitfield)

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**Post date:** [March 23, 2021, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-june-whitfield-mother-in-abfab-ever-play-miss-marple/938503/3 "2021-03-23T17:58:43Z")

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Asked and answered. It’s embarrassing, I thought I had read everything in that listing from beginning to end. Anyway, thank you.