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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Rachel Hall

Agatha Christie’s family welcome diversity in new BBC adaptation

The cast of Murder is Easy standing ensemble in the midst of a forest, David Jonsson's Luke in the foreground, holding an umbrella. Other cast members are Dr Thomas (Mathew Baynton), Mrs Humbleby (Nimra Bucha), Rev Humbleby (Mark Bonnar), Lord Whitfield (Tom Riley), Bridget (Morfydd Clark), Miss Pinkerton (Penelope Wilton), Major Horton (Douglas Henshall), Rivers (Jon Pointing), Honoria Wayneflete (Sinéad Matthews) and Mrs Pierce (Tamzin Outhwaite).
The cast includes Tom Riley as Lord Whitfield, Penelope Wilton as Miss Pinkerton, and Tamzin Outhwaite as Mrs Pierce. Photograph: Mark Mainz/BBC/Mammoth Screen/Gavin Andrews

Agatha Christie would have approved of changing the protagonist’s heritage from white to Nigerian in the BBC’s TV adaptation of Murder Is Easy, her great-grandson has suggested.

This year’s BBC Christmas Christie adaptation has cast David Jonsson as the protagonist Luke Fitzwilliam, a young man forging a career in Whitehall until a mysterious encounter drives him to investigate a murder in an English village.

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