6 h. ago Dunelm's 'luxury' £41 sale chandelier looks like it's from a BBC Agatha Christie show

Shoppers can add a touch of glitz and glamour to their homes with this discounted chandelier

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6 d. ago The UK's most at risk Victorian buildings revealed: From the manor house with a controversial nuclear past to Agatha Christie's favourite pavilion

The historic Aldermaston Court in Berkshire was once home to Britain's first commercial nuclear reactor, which was opened by Prince Philip in 1959.

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9 d. ago Poirot star shares 'emotional' response to new Agatha Christie series

Sir David Suchet has opened up on his new show, Travels with Agatha Christie and Sir David Suchet, which sees him retrace the footsteps of the legendary author Agatha Christie

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9 d. ago Poirot star David Suchet opens up on 'extraordinarily emotional' Agatha Christie series

David Suchet opened up about his new series, Travels with Agatha Christie and Sir David Suchet, which will follow in the footsteps of the iconic novelist

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2 w. ago Benidorm's 'dark side' of 'knuckle dusters and dead bodies' – but not everyone agrees

EXCLUSIVE: Like all party towns, Benidorm has a seedy undercurrent running beneath the surface, but now claims of brutal bouncer beatings and even a dead body have brought 'the dark side of the strip' to the fore

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2 w. ago Man shot dead in road rage horror brought back to life by AI to address killer

US Army veteran Christopher Pelkey was fatally shot by Gabriel Paul Horcasitas in a road rage incident on his way home from a church softball game in Arizona on November 13, 2021

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3 w. ago Prince Harry to write to the Home Secretary as he refuses to give up on bid for UK security

The Duke of Sussex tonight launched a series of scathing attacks on the Royal Family, and said his father won't speak to him, in an astonishing interview with the BBC.

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3 w. ago The BBC faces backlash for using AI Agatha Christie to flog a £79 writing course

The BBC have been branded 'exploitative ghouls' for using an AI Agatha Christie to flog a £79 course for wannabe crime novelists.

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3 w. ago Agatha Christie to be resurrected by AI to teach writing course nearly 50 years after her death

Aspiring writers will be able to learn through Christie’s own words using her voice and image

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3 w. ago Moment heritage campaigner is attacked by 'developer' at a historic Agatha Christie garden in planning row over 'demolition' of cottage

David Redman, 62, says he was left with a missing tooth after the alleged confrontation with a developer outside Singleton Gardens in Torquay, Devon.

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4 w. ago BBC harnesses AI to create writing classes given by Agatha Christie

Videos will share the author’s tips on everything from story structure and plot twists to the art of suspenseAspiring crime writers now have the chance to be taught by “Agatha Christie”, thanks to a course of online video lessons by BBC Maestro. The videos “starring” the author, who died in 1976, have been made using AI-enhanced technology, licensed images and carefully restored audio recordings.Videos made using a reconstruction of Christie’s voice will share tips on everything from story structure and plot twists to the art of suspense. The writing advice has been drawn directly from her writings and archival interviews and curated by the leading Christie scholars Dr Mark Aldridge, Michelle Kazmer, Gray Robert Brown and Jamie Bernthal-Hooker. Continue reading...

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4 w. ago Agatha Christie brought 'back from the dead' in astonishing new BBC venture

The venture to create a virtual version of the world’s best-selling author is part of a 'first of its kind' deal struck between the Agatha Christie Estate and BBC Maestro

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4 w. ago ‘You have to be taken inside Poirot’s brain’: Ken Ludwig on the secret to adapting Agatha Christie

The US playwright and anglophile behind much-revived comedies has a flair for crime and is following a crowd-pleasing Murder on the Orient Express with Death on the NileIf you ever face a quiz question about the most performed theatre writers in the world, likely to have a play on somewhere every day, William Shakespeare, Andrew Lloyd Webber and Agatha Christie are all reliable answers but a fourth may surprise you: Ken Ludwig. He also has intriguing connections with the other three.The popularity that made the American wealthy enough to have donated £1m to the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust is partly due – apart from his own much-revived comedies, Lend Me a Tenor (1986) and Moon Over Buffalo (1995) – to Christie. Ludwig’s 2017 adaptation of Murder on the Orient Express has had hundreds of productions and is currently touring the UK. We meet when he is in London for a workshop on a second Hercule Poirot adaptation, Death on the Nile, which premieres in September. Continue reading...

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