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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8 d. ago The trouble with AI art isn’t just lack of originality. It’s something far bigger | Eric Reinhart

When artwork is invented by a machine, it loses its most important power: to help people connect. In an already lonely era, that is particularly dangerousThe artificial intelligence giant OpenAI recently announced that its ChatGPT platform now provides free image generation, prompting an online flood of images imitating the styles of the animator Hayao Miyazaki and other well-known artists. This has been heralded as the next step in the death of art and artists, joining the impending death – or zombification – of the writer, as AI-generated novels are slated to flood the market. But a peculiar feeling, or rather lack thereof, arises when trying to engage with AI art objects.It is not simply that AI lacks originality; after all, so too does most human art. The problem runs far deeper: the essence of art is lost in the process of its machinic invention and, with it, the very possibility of a democratic society is put under threat. Continue reading...

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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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1 week ago Brian Glanville: Tributes paid to 'the doyen of football writers' after death aged 93

Glanville was a towering, influential figure in the world of sports journalism and beyond, also writing more than 30 books

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1 week ago BBC announces new series from Death in Paradise writer with 'twists and turns'

This week the BBC revealed a new series is set to air on the broadcaster basked on a popular novel series.

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2 w. ago Grey’s Anatomy creator Shonda Rhimes reveals the ‘hardest’ death she had to write

‘It was a bloodbath,’ producer Betsy Beers recalled of the episode

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3 w. ago Israel is starving Gaza. It’s a cheap, silent and brutal way to kill | Ahmed Moor

Starvation is a slow, painful way to die. And unlike bombs and tanks, it’s easy for western leaders to ignoreI recently looked up a biography of Rudolf Höss. The Kommandant who led the Auschwitz prison camp in Poland during the second world war was fastidious in his duties. He successfully oversaw the extermination of millions of people from 1940 to 1943, and, according to accounts, seems to have been a father who cared for his five children. His home life was imagined, and captured, by the film-maker Jonathan Glazer in his 2023 movie The Zone of Interest.John Primomo recounts, in his biography, how the Nazi would randomly select groups of prisoners and sentence them to die by starvation. Höss was eventually captured by Nazi hunters and hanged for his crimes, in his case a slow death on a short gallows.Ahmed Moor is a Palestinian American writer and recipient of the Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans Continue reading...

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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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