Doctor Who and Torchwood Stars in And Then There Were None

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Agatha Christie’s masterpiece, And Then There Were None has been adapted by the BBC to celebrate the author’s 125th anniversary, and the series is stuffed with Big Names, some of who you’ll know from the Whoniverse.

Adapted by Sarah Phelps (The Casual Vacancy), the story sees ten strangers stranded on Soldier Island with each slowly being picked off. Paranoia and suspicion lands on everyone, as the murders are carried out in the cryptic style of an 1869 rhyme by Frank Green. Christie’s book is one of the best-selling novels of all time, certainly the best-selling mystery, with over 100 million copies sold worldwide.

And deservedly so. It’s pure genius. You really should read it.

Of course, Doctor Who featured Agatha Christie in 2007’s The Unicorn and the Wasp. In this BBC series, Burn Gorman, who you’ll know as Owen from Torchwood, plays William Blore, a former police inspector-turned-private investigator. Meanwhile, The Long Game‘s Anna Maxwell Martin stars as Ethel Rogers, the housekeeper who oversleeps…

Further stars include Sam Neill as General John MacArthur, Charles Dance as Justice Wargrave, and Poldark‘s Aidan Turner as Philip Lombard (a favourite character of mine – and not just because of his name!).

And Then There Were None begins on Boxing Day, running across three nights and so concluding on 28th December. We’re hugely excited about it, actually.

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