<P> The novel was adapted as a five - part serial for BBC Radio 4 in 1997 . John Moffatt reprised his role of Poirot . The serial was broadcast weekly from Thursday, 2 January to Thursday, 30 January at 10.00 am to 10.30 pm . All five episodes were recorded on Friday, 12 July 1996 at Broadcasting House . It was adapted by Michael Bakewell and directed by Enyd Williams . </P> <P> An adaptation for the ITV television series, Agatha Christie's Poirot, was made for the show's ninth series . It starred David Suchet as Poirot, and guest stars included Emily Blunt as Linnet, J.J. Feild as Simon Doyle, Emma Griffiths Malin as Jacqueline, James Fox as Colonel Race, Frances de la Tour as Madame Otterbourne, Zoe Telford as Rosalie Otterbourne and David Soul as Andrew Pennington . The episode was filmed in Egypt, with many of the scenes filmed on the PS Sudan . </P> <P> This version remained largely faithful to the novel, with some minor changes: </P> <Ul> <Li> The characters of Miss Bowers, Jim Fanthorp and Guido Richetti are omitted from the adaptation . </Li> <Li> Due to the omission of Richetti, Race's reason for boarding the boat was changed . In the adaptation, he meets with Poirot after having been on a diplomatic mission, and decides to journey back with him, rather than travel on a government vessel . </Li> <Li> Poirot does not encounter Jacqueline and Simon in London, but in Cairo while on holiday in Egypt, when the former taunts and torments the latter and his wife Linnet . </Li> <Li> Tim and Rosalie do not fall happily in love with each other at the end of the adaptation . Instead he gently refuses her advances, on the ambiguous implication that he is either gay, or in a relationship with his mother, which is implied to be a questionable fact by the adaptation . </Li> <Li> Louise's body is found in her wardrobe during the search of the ship, and not under her bed . </Li> <Li> The adaptation changes various elements of the scene regarding the first attempt on Linnet's life by Pennington . In the revised scene, the incident takes place at an old temple, in which a piece of the roof falls and nearly misses Linnet and Simon . Poirot confronts Pennington about this, knowing he was not in the temple but on the roof at the time, to which he reveals that he had knocked it off by accident, not in desperation or with intent to kill . Jacqueline is not on the boat when this happens, nor on the temple's roof, but near Linnet and Simon, taunting them with knowledge about an Egyptian goddess with the features of a cow . </Li> </Ul>

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