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The ‘How to Have Sex’ actor hails from Kent but deploys a posh accent in two of her latest projects

Last year marked 250 years since the birth of the English novelist Jane Austen. The Conversation celebrated this important literary milestone with a series of articles and a dedicated podcast, Jane Austen’s Paper Trail. This special year saw a variety of high-profile celebratory events across the country, from regency balls…

It makes total sense for Broadchurch creator Chris Chibnall to be behind Agatha Christie's Seven Dials on Netflix – but don't waste your time directly comparing the two.

Martin Freeman does his best to lift this three-parter, but it feels like Enid Blyton – made for an international market that thinks Paddington Bear is holding the queen’s hand in heaven

4/5 It’s camp, it’s silly and it’s utterly absurd. What’s not to like?

As a former Agatha Christie-obsessed teenager, it breaks my heart to report that Seven Dials on Netflix is a criminal adaptation of a master at work.

4/5 Netflix manages to capture the seductive appeal of Britain’s Roaring Twenties in this spirited and ingeniously plotted espionage thriller

It is 1925 and the scene is Chimneys. It’s the English stately pile of the Caterham family, but the penurious Lady Caterham (Helena Bonham Carter), has been forced to rent it to the industrial magnate Sir Oswald Coote (Mark Lewis Jones).

This week's crop of new Netflix original content includes an Agatha Christie murder-mystery and an action-thriller starring two A-listers.