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Endless Night (novel)
''Endless Night'' is a crime novel by Agatha Christie, first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club on 30 October 1967 and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company the following year. The UK edition retailed at eighteen shillings (18/-) and the US edition at $4.95. It was one of her favourites of her own works and received some of the warmest critical notices of her career upon publication. Etymology The title comes from William Blake's '' Auguries of Innocence'': : Every night and every morn, : Some to misery are born, : Every morn and every night, : Some are born to sweet delight. : Some are born to sweet delight, : Some are born to endless night. Plot summary The story begins with Michael Rogers, a twenty-two year old, telling the reader about his time as a chauffeur and how he met the architect Rudolf Santonix. He plans to one day have a house built by Santonix. Mike is poor though, and so can't afford to hire Santonix to build the house he wants. Michael explains that h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Agatha Christie
Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, Lady Mallowan, (; 15 September 1890 – 12 January 1976) was an English people, English author known for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections, particularly those revolving around fictional detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. She also wrote the world's longest-running play, the murder mystery ''The Mousetrap'', which has been performed in the West End theatre, West End of London since 1952. A writer during the "Golden Age of Detective Fiction", Christie has been called the "Queen of Crime"—a nickname now trademarked by her estate—or the "Queen of Mystery". She also wrote six novels under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott. In 1971, she was made a Dame (DBE) by Queen Elizabeth II for her contributions to literature. She is the best-selling fiction writer of all time, her novels having sold more than two billion copies. Christie was born into a wealthy upper-middle-class family in Torquay, Devon, and was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stevie Smith
Florence Margaret Smith (20 September 1902 – 7 March 1971), known as Stevie Smith, was an English poet and novelist. She won the Cholmondeley Award and was awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry. A play, '' Stevie'' by Hugh Whitemore, based on her life, was adapted into a film starring Glenda Jackson. Life Stevie Smith, born Florence Margaret Smith at number 34 De La Pole Avenue in Kingston upon Hull, she was the second daughter of Charles Ward Smith (1872–1949) and Ethel Rahel (1876–1919), daughter of successful maritime engineer John Spear.Smith, Florence Margaret (Stevie) (1902–1971) Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Retrieved 28 July 2023(Couzyn, Jeni 1985) ''Contemporary Women Poets''. Bloodaxe, p. 32. She was called "Peggy" within her family, but acqui ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joy Wilkinson
Joy Wilkinson is a British screenwriter, playwright, author, and director. Early life Wilkinson was born in Burnley, Lancashire. At age 14, she co-wrote ''Fried Eggs & Fag Ends'', a play at the Lancashire Young Writers Festival that got reviewed in The Guardian by David Ward. She worked as a journalist before winning the Verity Bargate Award. Career Wilkinson has written several plays, such as ''Britain’s Best Recruiting Sergeant'', ''Fair'' and ''The Sweet Science of Bruising'', which opened at Southwark Playhouse in 2018. In 2015, she was announced as a Screen Daily ''Star of Tomorrow'' for her thriller screenplay, ''Killer Résumé'', which landed her on the 2014 Brit List. She adapted Qiu Xiaolong's Inspector Chen Cao for BBC Radio 4, as well as several Agatha Christie adaptations. Among them were ''Ordeal by Innocence'', '' Sparkling Cyanide'' and '' The Pale Horse''. In 2021, she wrote an adaptation of Hope Mirrlees' '' Lud-in-the-Mist'' for BBC Radio 4. On television, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Broadcasting House
London Broadcasting House is the headquarters of the BBC, in Portland Place and Langham Place, London. The first radio broadcast from the building was made on 15 March 1932, and the building was officially opened two months later, on 15 May. The main building is in Art Deco style, with a facing of Portland stone over a steel frame. It is a Listed building, Grade II* listed building and includes the BBC Radio Theatre, where music and speech programmes are recorded in front of a studio audience. As part of a major consolidation of the BBC's property portfolio in London, Broadcasting House has been extensively renovated and extended. This involved the demolition of post-war extensions on the eastern side of the building, replaced by a new wing completed in 2005. The wing was named the "John Peel Wing" in 2012, after the disc jockey. BBC London, BBC News Arabic, BBC Arabic Television and BBC Persian Television are housed in the new wing, which also contains the reception area for B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BBC Radio 4
BBC Radio 4 is a British national radio station owned and operated by the BBC. The station replaced the BBC Home Service on 30 September 1967 and broadcasts a wide variety of spoken-word programmes from the BBC's headquarters at Broadcasting House, London. Since 2019, the station controller has been Mohit Bakaya. He replaced Gwyneth Williams, who had been the station controller since 2010. Broadcasting throughout the United Kingdom, the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands on FM broadcast band, FM, Longwave, LW and Digital Audio Broadcasting, DAB, and on BBC Sounds, it can be received in the eastern counties of Republic of Ireland, Ireland, northern France and Northern Europe. It is available on Freeview (UK), Freeview, Freesat, Sky (UK & Ireland), Sky, and Virgin Media. Radio 4 currently reaches over 10 million listeners, making it List of most-listened-to radio programs#Top stations in the United Kingdom, the UK's second most-popular radio station after BBC Radio 2. BBC ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Sanders
George Henry Sanders (3 July 1906 – 25 April 1972) was a British actor and singer whose career spanned over 40 years. His heavy, upper-class English accent and smooth bass voice often led him to be cast as sophisticated but villainous characters. He is remembered for his roles as wicked Jack Favell in ''Rebecca (1940 film), Rebecca'' (1940), Scott ffolliott in ''Foreign Correspondent (film), Foreign Correspondent'' (1940, a rare heroic part), The Saran of Gaza in Samson and Delilah (1949 film), ''Samson and Delilah'' (1949, the most popular film of the year), Critic, theater critic Addison DeWitt in ''All About Eve'' (1950, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor), Sir Brian De Bois-Guilbert in ''Ivanhoe (1952 film), Ivanhoe'' (1952), Richard I of England, King Richard the Lionheart in ''King Richard and the Crusaders'' (1954), Mr. Freeze in a two-part episode of ''Batman (TV series), Batman'' (1966), and the voice of Shere Khan in Disney's ''The Jungle Bo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hywel Bennett
Hywel Thomas Bennett (8 April 1944 – 24 July 2017) was a Welsh film and television actor. He had a lead role in '' The Family Way'' (1966) and played the titular "thinking man's layabout" James Shelley in the television sitcom '' Shelley'' (1979–1992). Bennett played opposite Hayley Mills in ''The Family Way'', '' Twisted Nerve'' (1968) and '' Endless Night'' (1972). Other notable film roles include Private Brigg in the comedy ''The Virgin Soldiers'' (1969), Dennis in '' Loot'' (1970) and Edwin Antony in '' Percy'' (1971). Bennett's character, Ricki Tarr, was pivotal in the BBC serial adaptation of John le Carré's '' Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy'' (1979). In later years, he was often cast in villainous roles including Mr Croup in Neil Gaiman's '' Neverwhere'' (1996), Peter Baxter in ITV police drama ''The Bill'' (2002) and crime boss Jack Dalton in ''EastEnders'' (2003). Early life Bennett was born on 8 April 1944 in Garnant, Carmarthenshire, Wales, the son of Sarah ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Per Oscarsson
Per Oscar Heinrich Oscarsson (28 January 1927 – 31 December 2010) was a Swedish actor. He is best known for his role in the 1966 film ''Hunger'', which earned him a Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor. Early life Oscarsson was born, along with his twin brother Björn, on 28 January 1927 on Kungsholmen, Stockholm, to Einar Oscarsson, an engineer, and Therèse, née Küppers. The twins had two elder siblings. Their mother, who was German, died of cancer in 1933.Per Oscarsson - Bakom rubrikerna och replikerna ("Per Oscarsson - Behind headlines and lines") TV-interview with Agneta Bolme Börjefors from 1998. Career Oscarsson was best known for his role as Pontus, a starving writer, in the social realism drama ''Hunger'', based on the 1890 Knut Hamsun novel by the same name, a role for which he won the 1966 Bodil, the Guldbagge Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role and the 1966 Cannes Film Festival best actor awards. His most recent film role was as Holger Palmgren, th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Britt Ekland
Britt Ekland (born Britt-Marie Eklund; 6 October 1942) is a Swedish actress. She appeared in numerous films in her heyday throughout the 1960s and 1970s, including roles in ''The Double Man (1967 film), The Double Man'' (1967), ''The Night They Raided Minsky's'' (1968), ''Machine Gun McCain'' (1969), ''Stiletto (1969 film), Stiletto'' (1969), and the British crime film ''Get Carter'' (1971), which established her as a sex symbol. She also starred in several horror films, including ''The Wicker Man (1973 film), The Wicker Man'' (1973), and appeared as a Bond girl in ''The Man with the Golden Gun (film), The Man with the Golden Gun'' (1974). Ekland continued to act throughout the 1970s, with roles in films such as ''The Ultimate Thrill'' (1974), ''Royal Flash (film), Royal Flash'' (1975), ''High Velocity (film), High Velocity'' (1976), and ''King Solomon's Treasure'' (1979), and into the 1980s, starring in the likes of ''Fraternity Vacation'' (1985), ''Moon in Scorpio'' (1987), an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hayley Mills
Hayley Catherine Rose Vivien Mills (born 18 April 1946) is an English actress. The daughter of Sir John Mills and Mary Hayley Bell and younger sister of actress Juliet Mills, she began her acting career as a child and was hailed as a promising newcomer, winning the BAFTA Award for Most Promising Newcomer for her performance in the British crime drama film '' Tiger Bay'' (1959), the Academy Juvenile Award for Disney's '' Pollyanna'' (1960) and Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year – Actress in 1961. During her early career, Mills appeared in six films for Walt Disney, including her dual role as twins Susan and Sharon in the Disney film '' The Parent Trap'' (1961). Her performance in '' Whistle Down the Wind'' (a 1961 adaptation of the novel written by her mother) saw Mills nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best British Actress and she was voted the biggest star in Britain for 1961. In the late 1960s, Mills began performing in theatrical plays, making her st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sidney Gilliat
Sidney Gilliat (15 February 1908 – 31 May 1994) was an English film director, producer and writer. In the 1930s he worked as a scriptwriter, most notably with Frank Launder on ''The Lady Vanishes'' (1938) for Alfred Hitchcock, and '' Night Train to Munich'' (1940), directed by Carol Reed. He and Launder made their directorial debut co-directing the home front drama '' Millions Like Us'' (1943). From 1945 he also worked as a producer, starting with '' The Rake's Progress'', which he also wrote and directed. He and Launder made over 40 films together, founding their own production company Individual Pictures. While Launder concentrated on directing their comedies, most famously the four St Trinian's School films, Gilliat showed a preference for comedy-thrillers and dramas, including ''Green for Danger'' (1946), '' London Belongs to Me'' (1948) and '' State Secret'' (1950). He wrote the libretto for Malcolm Williamson's opera '' Our Man in Havana'', based on the novel by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miss Marple's Final Cases And Two Other Stories
''Miss Marple's Final Cases and Two Other Stories'' is a short story collection written by Agatha Christie and first published in the UK by Collins Crime Club in October 1979 retailing at £4.50. It was the last Christie book to be published under the Collins Crime Club imprint although HarperCollins continue to be the writer's UK publishers. The book contains eight short stories, six featuring Miss Marple and two other stories, and did not originally appear in the United States because most of the stories had been published earlier in the US in magazines. In 2010, an audio book and the Kindle edition were released, which included six stories from the book, plus ''Greenshaw's Folly''. List of stories * ''Sanctuary'' * ''Strange Jest'' * ''Tape-Measure Murder'' * ''The Case of the Caretaker'' * ''The Case of the Perfect Maid'' * ''Miss Marple Tells a Story'' * ''The Dressmaker's Doll'' * ''In a Glass Darkly'' * ''Greenshaw's Folly'' (added in new editions by Alexander Afgan) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
