RARA-AVIS: The Great Detectives

From: ejmd ( ejmd@cwcom.net)
Date: 16 Dec 2000


UK-based rara-avians may be interested to know that The Great Detectives is soon to be repeated on BBC Knowledge, one episode shown twice a day betwen between Dec 25th and Dec 29th.

ED

Here's the blurb from digi-guide:

> The Great Detectives is on BBC Knowledge at 21:00 and 23:00
> on Monday 25th December.
>(The Mysterious Affair of Sherlock Holmes and the Visionary Doctor)
> Documentary series examining the origins and appeal of famous fictional
> sleuths.In this programme, author Nigel Williams goes on the trail of
> Sherlock Holmes and his creator, Arthur Conan Doyle. Who was
> the inspiration for the most celebrated detective in British literature?

> The Great Detectives is on BBC Knowledge at 21:00 and 23:35
> on Tuesday 26th December.
>(The Simple Art of Philip Marlowe)
> Documentary series examining famous fictional sleuths and
> their creators. Nigel Williams takes a look at the work of Raymond
> Chandler, the creator of the legendary gun-toting private eye
> Philip Marlowe

> The Great Detectives is on BBC Knowledge at 21:00 and 23:35
> on Wednesday 27th December.
>(Hercule Poirot and the Disappearing Novelist)
>Documentary series examining fictional sleuths and their
> creators. Nigel Williams looks at the life and work of Agatha
> Christie, who was at the heart of the golden age of crime fiction
> in the 1920s and 1930s. He journeys to the Burgh Island Hotel
> in Devon, where he unravels the plot of 'The Mysterious Affair
> at Styles', Hercule Poirot's first case, and also investigates
> Christie's ten-day disappearance in Sunningdale

> The Great Detectives is on BBC Knowledge at 21:00 and 23:35
> on Thursday 28th December.
> (Maigret and the Belgian Author)
> Nigel Williams presents a series examining famous fictional sleuths and
> their creators. This edition focuses on Belgian-born French novelist
> Georges Simenon and his creation Inspector Jules Maigret

> The Great Detectives is on BBC Knowledge at 21:00 and 23:30
> on Friday 29th December.
> (PD James)
> Nigel Williams presents a series examining famous fictional sleuths and
> their creators. Crime writer P D James talks about her life and work
>
> Taken from DigiGuide - UK and Ireland television listings available free
> from http://www.digiguide.com. Copyright ©2000 GipsyMedia Limited.
> Information copied from DigiGuide cannot be re-distributed without prior
> consent from GipsyMedia Limited. All rights reserved.

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