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Culture: Christie murdered in thrilling spoof; Trevor Bannister talks to Terry Grimley about the art of performing and lampooning Agatha Christie.(Features)

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From: The Birmingham Post (England)
Date: 20020923
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Byline: Terry Grimley

It's always nice to know that survivors of 70s sitcoms are alive and well and living in a theatre near you.

Murdered to Death, the comedy whodunnit which opens at the Alexandra Theatre tonight, brings a bumper crop of them, with Trevor Bannister and Nicholas Smith from Are You Being Served? and Anna Karen from On the Buses in the role of amateur sleuth Miss Maple (sic).

'I play the inspector who comes to sort out the murder,' says Trevor Bannister. 'He's called Inspector Pratt, and that just about sums it up. He's a very Clouseau-like character.

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