'Travels with Agatha Christie & David Suchet' Arrives on International Women's Day

BritBox and Channel 4 initially announced they would team up to produce Travels with Agatha Christie with David Suchet in June 2024. The five-part docuseries features David Suchet, the man who became a household name playing the author’s most famous detective, Hercule Poirot, paying it back by uncovering parts of Agatha Christie’s life little known to the public. Suchet spent almost a quarter-century playing the Belgian sleuth known for his little grey cells and well-kept mustaches over thirteen seasons. Now the series, with a slightly altered name, Travels with Agatha Christie & David Suchet, has set a 2025 release date.

Suchet’s journey traces Christie’s travels before becoming famous, an around-the-world journey where she continent hopped across the British Empire during its height when the tiny island could boast the sun never set on its holdings. Speaking to Deadline about the project, Suchet admitted that he thought himself a Christie expert after studying her writings and bringing Poirot to life, but that this side of her was a revelation. “I’ve got to know my author as a more three-dimensional human being, and that’s an unexpected gift,” Suchet said.

“I was learning about the character of a young lady who loved surfing, who loved socializing, who actually when her early stories were published, would willingly give press interviews. She was vivacious. On board the ship, she openly writes in her diary that she was kept up into the early hours with one of the officers on board. The Agatha Christie that I was discovering during my journey was happy. She was a little bit flirty. I wish I’d met her.”