Composer best known for creating the theme music for the popular and long-running ITV series Poirot
December 2018
TV and radio blog
Dead bunnies and depressed Poirot: a festive TV guide for Christmas-haters
Christmas is supposed to be the highlight of the TV year, but if you aren’t feeling particularly festive this season, do we have the programmes for you!
March 2017
The week in books
How Colin Dexter changed the face of crime fiction
Colin Dexter’s Inspector Morse novels began a boomtime in crime fiction on television and in bookshops – and we are still feeling its effects
July 2015
Tom Beard obituary
Deft, poised supporting actor on stage and in popular television series
February 2014
David Walliams to star as BBC bags Agatha Christie drama deal
Corporation's contract with Christie estate will bring new series and documentaries coinciding with author's 125th anniversary. By John Plunkett
December 2013
Your next box set
Poirot – box set review
Emine Saner: This exceedingly lavish final series still comes down to David Suchet's perfect impersonation of the fastidious, self-regarding, utterly brilliant detective
Hercule Poirot: David Suchet's bottom-up approach to the part
Suchet clasped a coin between his buttock cheeks to perfect Poirot's 'rapid, mincing gait', the actor has revealed, as he is about to appear in his final ITV adaptation of the Agatha Christie murder mysteries
October 2013
Monkey goes to...
David Suchet: 'Poirot is an irritating little man'
Media Monkey: Actor reveals his thoughts about the character at BFI event – at which there is a surprise press guest
Andrew Collins: telly addict
The Week in TV: Boardwalk Empire, Poirot, Iceland Foods: Life in the Freezer Cabinet ... and more – video review
Telly addict Andrew Collins reviews Boardwalk Empire, Poirot, Iceland Foods: Life in the Freezer Cabinet, Monday Mornings, and Toast of London
TV and radio blog
David Suchet's final Poirot episodes: the end of one of TV's great castings
Mark Lawson: You could debate who was the best Bond, Doctor or Sherlock, but David Suchet is the definitive Hercule Poirot. After nearly 25 years and 70 episodes, his marathon is almost complete
