Two chairs, placed the required two metres apart on stage, set the tone for the evening: they look comfortable and more likely to have a couple of gin and tonics on the little table between them than ...

As someone synonymous with a fastidious Belgian detective – having played Hercule Poirot on ITV for a quarter of a century – it probably comes as little surprise that David Suchet understands the ...

Created with AI assistance. Quality assured by Metro editors. There’s no denying that Hercule Poirot is one of television’s greatest fictional detectives, and it’s likely a single actor springs to ...

When David Suchet was 25, he played Scrooge at the Liverpool Playhouse. He wasn’t living in the city, so the company arranged his accommodation for the show’s run. On a chilly Sunday evening in 1971, ...