David Suchet

Watching the detective

22 January 2022 9:00 am

Producers are getting jittery again. Large-scale shows look risky when a single infection can postpone an entire show. Hence Poirot…

David Suchet as Harry in The Collection, part of Pinter Two

Pinter comes across as an eccentric lightweight scribbler: Pinter Two reviewed

13 October 2018 9:00 am

Pinter Two, the second leg of the Pinter season, offers us a pair of one-act comedies. The Lover is a…

What’s it like to talk at length to a serial killer?

24 October 2015 9:00 am

‘I’ve never met a human being who doesn’t appreciate being listened to, being taken seriously,’ said Asbjorn Rachlew, the Norwegian…

Poor, poor Effie: Dakota Fanning

Effie off

11 October 2014 9:00 am

Effie Gray, which has been written by Emma Thompson and recounts the doomed marriage of Victorian art critic John Ruskin…

The producers

12 July 2014 9:00 am

Robert Gore-Langton talks to Duncan Weeldon and Paul Elliott about the good old days – and getting shafted

Murder, motive and moustachery

1 February 2014 9:00 am

Robert Gore-Langton on our love for fictional detectives — and especially Poirot