On Boxing Day, the BBC once again offer up a Christmas period drama based upon a book from classic English literature.
This year it’s Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None, the 1939 crime novel considered Christie’s masterpiece, which stars Game Of Thrones’ Charles Dance, Poldark’s Aidan Turner, Jurassic Park’s Sam Neill, Anna Maxwell Martin, Douglas Booth and Miranda Richardson.
Thank goodness, though, they didn’t promote the three-part drama under the book’s original title, Ten Little N****rs.
Yes, Christie’s bestselling work originally had a super offensive title when Collins published the book on 6 November 1939 in the UK, but it wasn’t because she was a screaming racist.