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Adaptations
A few things have got me thinking lately about adapting mysteries: there was an interesting post and discussion about the BBC adaptation of Agatha Christie’s Nemesis on Yvette’s blog; the awful...
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The 4:50 From Paddington (Agatha Christie, 1957)
As detailed in yesterday’s post, from time to time I’m going to pick a mystery and then compare all the different adaptations of it I can find, to see if I can pin down what works and what doesn’t. I’m...
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Tea and Crumpets; Father Brown (BBC, 2013)
I don’t envy the BBC website. They’ve got a lot of content to churn out, and it’s inevitable that a lot of it will be pure marshmallow. Last year they published a piece explaining – shock! – that real...
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Father Brown, Series 1 Episode 8 (BBC, 2013)
I still haven’t got round to watching any of the new Father Brown series, but Wednesday’s post reminded me of an unusual and instructive error that cropped up in episode 8 of the last series, The Face...
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