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BBC’s ‘brilliantly entertaining’ drama Marble Hall Murders is perfect for Agatha Christie fans

BBC’s ‘brilliantly entertaining’ drama Marble Hall Murders is perfect for Agatha Christie fans

The BBC has unveiled a first look at the upcoming mystery series, Marble Hall Murders, based on the best-selling novel by Anthony Horowitz. The six-part series, which is a sequel to Magpie Murders and Moonflower Murders, sees Lesley Manville reprise her role as book editor turned sleuth Susan Ryeland, alongside Tim McMullan as famous literary detective Atticus Pünd. © BBC/Eleventh Hour Films/Sony Pictures Television/Jonathan HessionLesley Manville and Tim McMullan lead the cast as Susan Ryeland and Atticus Pünd An impressive list of stars has joined the cast, including Mark Bonnar (Shetland, Dept.Q), Patricia Hodge (All Creatures Great and Small, A Very English Scandal) and more. The series is adapted by Horowitz, who is no stranger to bringing acclaimed dramas to the small screen. His previous credits include Foyle’s War, ITV’s Agatha Christie’s Poirot and the previous two adaptations of his Susan Ryeland novels.  Recommended videoYou may also likeWATCH: Have you seen Magpie Murders? Since devouring the entire Foyle’s War boxset in lockdown, I’ve become a big fan of Horowitz’s TV dramas. An expert at crafting …

21 Best Outdoor Dinnerware And Tablecloth Buys For Spring 2026 Entertaining

21 Best Outdoor Dinnerware And Tablecloth Buys For Spring 2026 Entertaining

We hope you love the products we recommend! All of them were independently selected by our editors. Just so you know, HuffPost UK may collect a share of sales or other compensation from the links on this page if you decide to shop from them. Oh, and FYI — prices are accurate and items in stock as of time of publication. No one will admit it, but we’re all secretly fighting for the spot of the best hostess. Especially when it comes to summer – there are way too many outdoor dining opportunities to pass up to not have your garden ready for any social event you can think of. It’s all part of the experience of summer: sipping on a glass of wine or Aperol, picking at various carbs, veggies and dips, and giggling late into the evening. Just like any other occasion, you want to look cute while you’re doing it, and that includes giving your table a makeover ahead of all the guests that will soon be flooding it. So whether you’re …

My Year in Paris With Gertrude Stein by Deborah Levy review – wonderfully entertaining | Deborah Levy

My Year in Paris With Gertrude Stein by Deborah Levy review – wonderfully entertaining | Deborah Levy

The narrator of Deborah Levy’s witty scherzo of a “fiction” – “novel” isn’t the word for this uncategorisable book – thinks that Gertrude Stein would have liked Sigmund Freud. She imagines them enjoying a cigar together while their wives make small talk. Would Frau Freud “have exchanged her recipe for boiled beef with Alice B [Toklas]’s recipe for hashish fudge”? The two never met (though with her interest in the “bottom character” and his in the “unconscious”, Stein and Freud would have had plenty to talk about), but that barely matters. This book is full of things that don’t actually happen, of relationships that are not what the people involved suppose them to be, of digressions and fantasies and encounters that are imagined but never take place. It all starts with a lost cat. The cat is called “it”: lower-case “i” followed by lower-case “t”. This causes all sorts of linguistic confusion, highlighting the way we use the word “it” to mean something indeterminate (as in the first sentence of this paragraph), or something trivial, …

Southbank Centre chair Misan Harriman urges artists to take a political stand: ‘I have no interest in entertaining’

Southbank Centre chair Misan Harriman urges artists to take a political stand: ‘I have no interest in entertaining’

Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Photographer and Southbank Centre chair Misan Harriman has urged creatives to “reflect the times” in which we’re living through with their work, saying that you can “either be an artist or an entertainer”. Harriman, who is known for capturing civil rights protests and moments in history, is taking part in Choose Love’s Together For Palestine auction alongside the likes of Grayson Perry, Es Devlin, Charlie Mackesy and leading Palestinian artists. Their works, which will be placed in an exhibition alongside the online auction, will be sold with the proceeds going to humanitarian organisations delivering frontline relief in Palestine amid the ongoing conflict in Gaza. Misan Harriman said that you can either be ’an artist or an entertainer’ (Misan Harriman) Harriman – who was the first Black man to shoot a cover of British Vogue and has photographed Olivia Colman, Duchess of …