Intruder | Critics | Broadcast
“The programme did a thorough job: giving us a tour of Christie’s beloved Devon home, Greenway; sending Bettany Hughes to the British Museum to reference the author’s passion for archaeology; visiting the Isokon building in north London, where she lived for several years. The latter was a reminder that, however vintage her murder mysteries seem to us now, Christie was a very modern woman.” “I agreed that everyone has their favourite on-screen Hercule Poirot, which they consider the definitive performance. Mine is Peter Ustinov. Death on the Nile and Evil Under the Sun banked cosy ch...