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Agatha Christie’s Marple

Hmm.

Now, I love Geraldine McEwan normally but it’s not just me who thinks that she’s hopelessly miscast in the role of Miss Marple is it?

That said, she’s also adrift in a fairly apalling set of productions anyway. Somehow the BBC adaptations I grew up with keep on shining by comparison. I caught the new “Sleeping Murder” the other day and - whilst Sophia Miles was predictably brilliant - somehow something didn’t feel at all right about the whole thing.

Joan Hickson, we miss you.

Posted on April 9, 2007 | Filed Under Film and Television 

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Miss Marple will always be Joan Hickson to me.

Response left by Emma on April 11th, 2007

She couldn’t be anyone else.

I hear she was even Agatha Christie’s choice for the role. Years before the BBC even mooted it.

Response left by Rob on April 12th, 2007

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