Inspiration is for amateurs.
It is a wonderfully chaotic place, loud.
And bursting with personality.
How did he do this?
What's real?
What's not?
I feel the vibe.
I need to feed off activity.
I want people's senses to be engaged.
In the studio.
In the studio.
In the studio.
Magical.
BBC World Service.
Okay, how do we make this thing?
During the darkest days of the pandemic, the famous British mystery writer Agatha Christie became a constant presence in the life of our family.
Perhaps it was because so many of her stories have people trapped in a house or a village, trapped by their habits or their own minds.
Our favorite Agatha Christie detective was Hercule Poirot, and we rather methodically worked our way through the audiobook library, often the BBC radio versions of the Belgian detective, until, disappointingly, there were none left.
But what happens when fans want a beloved character to live well beyond the books already written?
Sometimes a character gets a chance to live on with new inspiration from new writers.