True Crime Tuesdays: The Sixth Commandment

July 25, 2023 | Helen Archer

Sarah Phelps’ respectful, thoroughly moving drama restores the dignity of victims Peter Farquhar and Ann Moore-Martin.Read More

The Pale Horse review: A haunting, stylish mystery

February 9, 2020 | David Farnor

Sarah Phelps’ final Agatha Christie adaptation is a haunting, stylish mystery dripping with ghostly dread.Read More

UK TV review: The ABC Murders

December 26, 2018 | David Farnor

Poirot’s vulnerable, alienated identity is the driving mystery in this darkly gripping take on Agatha Christie’s detective.Read More

Ordeal By Innocence proves criminally popular on iPlayer

May 29, 2018 | David Farnor

Ordeal By Innocence proved criminally popular on BBC iPlayer, with the Agatha Christie drama the most-viewed BBC programme in April.

The first episode of the three-part thriller, which starred Bill Nighy and was adapted by Sarah Phelps, was April’s most … Read More

UK TV review: The Witness for the Prosecution

December 29, 2016 | David Farnor

This dark, stylish Agatha Christie adaptation seeps into your nervous system with spine-chilling precision.Read More