Travels with Agatha Christie and
David Suchet
Director:
NA
Year: 2025
Rating: 6.0
Sir David (as he is commonly greeted) is good
traveling company. He is constantly enthusiastic, complimentary, curious
and thoughtful about his surroundings. In this five-part series he retraces
the travels of Christie back in 1922 when she and her then husband Archie
went on a mission for the British Empire. There was planned a British Exhibition
to encompass England and her Empire. Not many days left in that Empire, but
still formidable. They traveled to South Africa, Australia, New Zealand,
Canada with a vacation stopover in Hawaii.
Suchet as best as he can visits the same
areas and stays at the same grand hotels. I don't do much traveling these
days with my bad feet and an aversion to tourists - so I do my traveling
through documentaries like this. Some spectacular scenery in all five locations.
He ties Agatha to his travels through her autobiography, letters and newspaper
clippings very nicely. He also relates a bit of history along the way. Some
wonderful train rides. She was not famous yet having only published her first
Poirot novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styes, and just released her second
novel, Secret Adversary. Suchet paints an admirable picture of her
as a young adventurous woman learning how to surf, play golf and drive cars.
His admiration for her and her creation Poirot is visible - getting very
sentimental about them. Each episode comes in at 47 minutes and they fly
by. I only wish Suchet had done it as Poirot with Hastings by his side.
