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🗓️ 25 April 2023
⏱️ 27 minutes
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0:00.0 | In 2008, 23-year-old Norwegian students Martina Vic Magnussen was killed in an apartment near Mayfair. |
0:08.0 | Hours after her death, the only suspect in the case fled the UK to Yemen. |
0:13.0 | He's never been questioned by the police. |
0:16.0 | I'm Noel El-Makafi and I made a promise to Martina's family 15 years ago to find out what happened. |
0:22.0 | Murder in Mayfair is the new mini-series right here in the documentary. |
0:27.0 | All episodes are available now. |
0:30.0 | Welcome to the documentary from the BBC World Service. |
0:33.0 | This is in the studio. The programme that explores the processes of the world's most creative minds. |
0:39.0 | In this edition, actress Geranuman Roe on the resurrection of one of the world's most famous detectives. |
0:51.0 | I am here to tell you about Miss Marple, a veritable phenomenon. |
0:56.0 | Agatha Christie's stories about this amateur sleuth have been translated into at least 103 languages. |
1:02.0 | And those stories have been made into countless films and television series. |
1:06.0 | They have titles like A Murder is Announced, The Body in the Library and A Caribbean Mystery. |
1:14.0 | Marple has been played by the likes of Gracie Fields, Joan Hickson, Angela Lansbury and most famously Margaret Rutherford. |
1:25.0 | Jane Marple first appeared in the short story The Tuesday Night Club for the Sketch magazine in 1927 and in novel form with The Murder at the Vicarage in 1930. |
1:44.0 | For 50 years, she solved a whole hodgepodge of crimes. Many of them committed in her bucolic English village of St Mary Mead. |
1:55.0 | And now, 46 years since the last Miss Marple story was published, the crime fighting spinster has been brought back to life. |
2:04.0 | You see, there is a new collection of Marple mysteries. Of course, they are not written by Agatha Christie. She died in 1976. |
2:14.0 | No, they are written by 12 novelists, all devotees of the eccentric detective. |
2:22.0 | In this edition of In The Studio, we will investigate the process of rewriting one of Britain's best loved characters with Drida Sey Mitchell. |
2:33.0 | I was a huge fan of Miss Marple. When I was young, I saw Margaret Rutherford play Miss Marple in the film Murder She Said, which was an adaptation of the 450 from Paddington. |
2:46.0 | For me, as a young girl, reading a book that's about an older woman solving mysteries because older women are not meant to be doing that type of thing. She's so clever, yeah. |
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