Showing posts with label Agatha Christie. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Agatha Christie. Show all posts
Wednesday, October 21, 2026

Queen Mary did not request the Agatha Christie radio play that became The Mousetrap

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Dorian Lynskey has written for The Nerve about the current production of Agatha Christie's The Mousetrap and the play's history: Th...
Saturday, September 19, 2026

Sammy Going South, Suez and the end of the British Empire

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Written for Terence Towles Canote's 13th Annual Rule, Britannia Blogathon . We British have a habit of turning military debacles into vi...
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Sunday, July 26, 2026

The Joy of Six 1553

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Michael Savage reports that journalists are self-censoring their reporting on right-wing protests, Donald Trump's administration and tr...
Friday, May 29, 2026

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"Unlike Blair, he was deeply and passionately engaged in the current moment. He had not fossilised his world view. He was intellectuall...
Wednesday, May 20, 2026

Call for police patrols at Agatha Christie beach

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Our Headline of the Day Award goes to BBC News .  The judges tell me that a housemaid and a retired colonel have already been poisoned, and ...
Wednesday, May 13, 2026

A review of Terry O'Neill's life story in a social work journal

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Twenty years ago, every branch of Waterstones had a section called "Painful Lives" that carried memoirs of abuse in childhood. The...
Monday, December 01, 2025

Lord Bonkers' Diary: Dame Agatha Mousetrap

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And so another week at Bonkers Hall draws to a close. It looks like Keir Starmer is in the clear for a while, but I still wouldn't accep...
Friday, November 21, 2025

The murder of Charles Walton at Lower Quinton in 1945

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You can't beat the local by-election previews that Andrew Teale posts every week. Yesterday there was an election in the Lib Dem held Q...
Thursday, November 20, 2025

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Callum Miller , the party's foreign affairs spokesperson, sets out a Liberal Democrat approach to foreign policy: "Our economy is s...
Thursday, November 13, 2025

The way we talk about and portray children in care really matters

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Photo by  Phil Hearing  on  Unsplash In the report of his inquiry into the death of Dennis O'Neill in 1945, Sir Walter Monckton wrote: I...
Friday, November 07, 2025

Not so cosy: A podcast on Agatha Christie's The Mousetrap

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I came across a new podcast today – Garlic & Pearls – via a really good episode on Agatha Christie's play The Mousetrap . It's ...
Wednesday, October 29, 2025

When filmmakers trample all over real-life stories you care about

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There should be an ancient Chinese curse: May someone make a film of a real-life story you care about. I went to a couple of open days at th...
Sunday, October 26, 2025

For Central Bylines: The forgotten Shropshire tragedy that inspired The Mousetrap

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I met the editor of Central Bylines for coffee while I was on holiday in Shrewsbury. "Did you know that The Mousetrap was inspired by a...
Wednesday, September 24, 2025

Carry on Sergeant, some real crimes that inspired Agatha Christie and It's Trad, Dad!

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Embed from Getty Images Three podcasts to enjoy. Susan Calman and Mike Muncer have begun going through the Carry On films one by one. I list...
Thursday, July 24, 2025

Book Review... All the Wide Border: Wales, England and the Places Between by Mike Parker

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This review appears in the new issue of Liberator. You can download it free of charge from the magazine's website. All the Wide Border:...
Saturday, July 12, 2025

Meeting a nephew of Dennis O'Neill

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Twenty years ago, I published a chapter (“Histories of child abuse”) in the book Making and Breaking Children’s Lives . In it, I was feeling...
Tuesday, June 24, 2025

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Christine Jardine says it was a privilege to support the Assisted Dying Bill: "The debate has been for all of us MPs a harrowing exper...
Sunday, March 16, 2025

Agatha Christie on Hercule Poirot: "Would anyone go and consult him? One feels not"

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John Lanchester once wrote a good essay for the London Review of Books on Agatha Christie , emphasising that the most interesting thing abou...
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Tuesday, January 14, 2025

There's nothing unique about the tradition that you don't reveal whodunnit in The Mousetrap

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Much is made of Mousetrap omerta - the taboo against revealing the identity of the murderer in Agatha Christie's record-breaking play. B...
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Thursday, January 09, 2025

A post for Lion & Unicorn: No Room at the Inn (1948) and the death of Dennis O'Neill

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I've written a post for Lion & Unicorn about the 1948 film No Room at the Inn, which starred this blog's hero Freda Jackson. The...