Nigel Havers, Ben Miller and Lucy Foley share favourite Agatha Christie crime stories in live show touring to Chesterfield
Familiar faces from television will share their favourite Agatha Christie novels in a live show marking the 50th anniversary of the death of the Queen of Crime fiction.
NIgel Havers and Ben Miller will team up with best-selling novelist Lucy Foley in Between The Covers Live! which tours to Chesterfield’s Winding Wheel Theatre on Octoober 9, 2026.
The on-stage ensemble will talk about plotting secrets, Agatha’s influence on their careers and their own books.
NIgel is quite the Christie guru, having starred in the Radio 4 adaptation The Sittaford Mystery and narrated Apple TV’s glossy documentary Agatha Christie: 100 Years of Poirot and Miss Marple. He has had a showbiz career spanning 55 years including film roles in the Oscar-winning Chariots of Fire and Stephen Spielberg’s epic Empire of the Sun. Nigel has also appeared in several TV shows including Don’t Wait Up and Coronation Street. His autobiography, Playing with Fire, was published in 2006.
Ben played the character Basil Blake in TV adaptation of The Body in the Library for Agatha Christie’s Marple in 2004. He has cited how Christie’s influences have shaped both the television detective series Death in Paradise – in which Ben starred as DI Richard Poole for three series – and his own novel, A Very Dangerous Pursuit.
Lucy is releasing a new Marple novel – Murder at the Grand Alpine Hotel in September. Lucy’s book takes Agatha Christie’s famous detective Miss Marple on a rare holiday to the Swiss Alps but a blizzard and a murder make it far from a restful break.
The evening will be hosted by Amanda Ross who created and produced Between The Covers for BBC2 and Richard and Judy’s Book Club for Channel 5. By personally selecting the books featured on the programmes, Amanda helped to launch the careers of best-selling authors, including Kate Mosse, David Nicholls and Victoria Hislop.
There will be post-show book signing sessions with the stars.
TIckets cost £39 (including booking fee) for Between the Covers Live. Book online at www.chesterfieldtheatres.co.uk
Agatha Christie has sold more than two billion books in over 100 languages. Her best-selling novel, And Then There Were None, is also the best-selling mystery book ever written.