In fact, when I first got the role of Hercule Poirot in 1988, my wife Sheila and I celebrated by taking a trip on the Orient Express. So, to me, trains now represent freedom and celebration. I was far happier at my next school, Wellington School in Somerset, where an inspirational teacher suggested I take the part of Macbeth in a production. That bus was the symbol of home, the moment we knew we were back in civilisation. We always used to have a bet: the first person to see a red London bus out of the window would win a Mars bar. Iconic: David Suchet as Hercule Poirot, with and Toby Jones in a scene from Murder On The Orient Expressīut at the end of every term, the same train also took us home, to freedom as John and I saw it. We lived in West London and at the start of every term we undertook the two-hour, 70-mile journey to Kent by rail. I was first sent there in 1954, two years after my brother John, the journalist and author. The pupils were beaten with canes, and it drained my confidence. I associate them with travelling to my prep school, Grenham House, in Birchington, Kent, which I loathed - it was like a prison. However, my earliest memories of trains are not particularly fond ones. In other words, I would not be here today. Were it not for the railways that facilitated the family's emigration, my father would not have been born in Johannesburg and subsequently he would never have come to Britain where he studied medicine and met and married my English mother.

They emigrated to South Africa at the end of the 19th Century in search of a better life. It became evident that the coming of the railways to the area of Russia where my grandparents lived had provided them with an escape route. A couple of years ago I appeared on Who Do You Think You Are?, the television show that investigates your ancestry. Trains have certainly been significant in my life. 'Suchet is pitch perfect'- filmsoundoff.All aboard: David Suchet at Venice Station during his dream journey aboard the Orient Express Run Time: 93 minutes, plus bonus programmingįormat: 1080p (bonus program 1080i)/Widescreen

David Suchet on the Orient Express: David Suchet hosts a tour of the Orient Express and recounts its history.

Includes David Suchet on the Orient Express bonus feature. With Hugh Bonneville, Eileen Atkins, and Barbara Hershey.

This luscious new adaptation of Dame Christie's novel was seen on Masterpiece Mystery! in 2010. His little grey cells are tested to the limit when the train is trapped by a blizzard in the Serbian mountains. Traveling from Istanbul to London on the Orient Express, Poirot (David Suchet) must solve the murder of a ruthless businessman.

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