Following in her footsteps for a five-part More4 series is actor Sir David Suchet, who played Poirot for 25 years and is a proud fan of the author. While Christie’s novels deliver life and death, the stakes of Travels with Agatha Christie are much lower – this is a gentle and polite travelogue that benefits from having a clear path to emulate and a genial host.
If this doesn’t seem especially insightful, things pick up when Suchet heads to the former home of controversial Imperialist businessman Cecil Rhodes, a mining magnate who took land from Black South Africans. The show is quick to address the rather icky nature of Christie’s “mission” being intrinsically tied to colonialist values and we are promised that Suchet will be interrogating the impact of the British Empire on indigenous peoples while on his televised jolly.
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The nature of Christie’s journey means that Rhodes continues to be a focal point. The next location is the Big Hole diamond mine in Kimberley, where Rhodes founded the De Beers diamond company and ultimately came to control 90 per cent of the world diamond production. Later, Suchet visits the Rhodes grave in Matobo National Park in Zimbabwe, a sacred site that many believe has been tarnished by his presence.
But his deep knowledge, understanding and love of Christie and her work elevate the moments where he considers how her travels influenced her writing, in particular her South Africa-set novel The Man in the Brown Suit. He is delighted to purchase a giraffe ornament souvenir, just as she did, and is floored by Victoria Falls, becoming overwhelmed and tearful at the “power of nature”.
Travels with Agatha Christie and Sir David Suchet continues next Wednesday at 9pm on More4
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