The Metro (U.K.) reports:
Hercule Poirot may have solved his last crime and shuffled his mortal coil straight off our screens, but fans having withdrawal symptoms for the melodic timbre of a moustachioed David Suchet are in for an aural treat.
The British actor who played Agatha Christie’s legendary detective in ITV’s on-screen adaptations for 25 years has recorded the entirety of the Holy Bible on audio tape — all 80 hours and 752,702 words of it — for release next month.
… Suchet, who converted to Christianity at the age of 40 after reading a Bible in a hotel room in 1986, devoted 200 hours of his time to recording the audio book, and donated his fee to charity.
Matthew Townsend is a Halifax-based freelance journalist and volunteer advocate for survivors of sexual misconduct in Anglican settings. He served as editor of the Anglican Journal from 2019 to 2021 and communications missioner for the Anglican Diocese of Quebec from 2019 to 2022. He and his wife recently entered catechism class in the Orthodox Church in America.
