Enyd Williams, who has died of heart failure aged 83, was a celebrated director of BBC radio dramas best known for her serialisations of classic detective fiction, bringing the works of Agatha Christie, Arthur Conan Doyle and other crime authors to life. She was also a champion of the writer Peter Tinniswood.
She and the dramatist Michael Bakewell had particular success with all 12 of Christie’s Miss Marple novels between 1993 and 2001. Her casting of June Whitfield as St Mary Mead’s elderly amateur sleuth and his faithful adaptations proved a winning combination with Radio 4 audiences.
