OVERLOOKED FILM AND WHATNOT: FIVE FROM THE GOLDEN AGE

You often hear of the Five British Ladies of Mystery.  The big five from the Golden Age of British Mystery being Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, Josephine Tey, Ngaio Marsh (even though Marsh was from New Zealand), and Margery Allingham.  Here are some links for each you may not have been aware of.

A Tribute to Agatha Christie:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7G5qCnKjaEU

And a Monty Python tribute:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0BuKYiwhVQ

The Agatha Christie Festival on the English Riviera:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=up-r2wHZOWY

Christopher Lee reads Christie's The Lamp:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ze18tWlNR7Q
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErPmp_U1gs8&feature=relmfu
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ze18tWlNR7Q&feature=relmfu


A Dorothy L. Sayers story, from Studio One, September 3, 1951:

http://archive.org/details/studioOneMr.MummerysSuspicion1951

Benedict Cumberbatch reads Ngaio Marsh's Death in White Tie (follow the links):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCqHUKfvjck&feature=bf_prev&list=PLA1487282CEFC79B7&lf=results_main

And here's Ngaio Marsh as Hamlet (1936-7?)...

http://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/ObjectDetails.aspx?oid=438470

...And not as Hamlet:

http://christchurchcitylibraries.com/Heritage/Photos/Topics/People/MarshNgaio/

Josephine Tey's The Franchise Affair (1951), in seven parts:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnNR4nHW5cc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-PB4yZuXJo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wEpzxwRq9I
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Apxbqbga3w8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9iALw2GdM8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmhNqNdPel8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7w_WCTD8Yw


Margery Allingham's Albert Campion introduces himself:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9zwbjtW0Ls

Margery Allingham, from the National Portrait Gallery (1936):

http://www.npg.org.uk/index.php?id=534

Here's a link to the Margery Allingham Society:

http://www.margeryallingham.org.uk/

     Who would be the Five British Ladies of today's mystery fiction.  P. D. James and Ruth Rendell, surely, but who else?