National Geographic August 2007

The doomed splendor of the Maya unfolded against the backdrop of the rain forests of southern Mexico and Central America. Here, Classic Maya civilization reached improbable heights. To chart a culture whose Preclassic roots reach back 3,000 years, we begin with new evidence suggesting that the arrival of a warlord from central Mexico ushered in an age of magnificence and masterpieces such as the death mask of Palenque's King Pakal.

  A dramatisation of an Agatha Christie novel where a murder is witnessed on a train, but there is no evidence of a corpse.

When Elspeth McGillicuddy is the only witness to a brutal murder - for which not even a body is in evidence - it takes all of Miss Marple s remarkable ingenuity to discover the key to a secret which lies buried within a decaying country house. Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation starring June Whitfield as the deceptively mild Miss Marple.