correspondent lyse doucet will run on bbc world news this weekend. definitely worth a watch. stay with us on bbc news. still to come: celebrating 70 years of the mousetrap the world s longest running theatre production. it has been in the same theatre that entire time and it is now heading to broadway. president kennedy was shot down and died almost immediately. the murder ofjohn kennedy is a disaster for the whole free world. he caught the imagination of the world, the first of a new generation of leaders. margaret thatcher is resigning as leader of the conservative party and prime minister. before leaving number ten to see the queen, she told her cabinet, it s a funny old world. after a few minutes,
audio loss kherson under attack new hospital patients are being evacuated from the ukrainian city because of constant russian shelling. nurses in england, wales and northern ireland will walk out in december in a dispute over pay the first time they ve gone on strike. and the world s longest running theatre production agatha christie s the mousetrap celebrates an incredible 70 years in london s west end. and it s heading for broadway. hello. if you justjoined us,
they are sworn to not tell anyone else. and next year it will cross the atlantic and open on broadway. our entertainment correspondent david sillito reports. good afternoon. welcome to today s performance of the mousetrap. agatha christie s the mousetrap. and today s performance, number 28,915 a special anniversary reunion for former cast members. this is more than a play, it s a must see on the london tourist trail. they got out their map and everything, and they were saying, what shall we do? we must see buckingham palace, we must see the tower of london, we must see the mousetrap. and you just thought, there you are. backstage, little has changed. this, the wind machine. this is the original from 1952? the originalfrom 1952, the original production. and to make it really wintry, actors step into the snow room. but what makes it remarkable is the history.
it was setting records even in the 50s. do you think it s the best play you ve written? i don t know. other people seem to, anyway! and since then, it s been a fixture on the west end, it s a very important moment, but one thing i will tell you about this anniversary, it will not be the last. and to mark the landmark, there is going to be a second mousetrap on broadway. each summer, we have thousands of american tourists coming to the show during the summer season, and i think it s time we got on the front foot and took it there. and part of the mystique of this is there s never been a film of it. there are film rights, but they came with a clause they had to wait until the london production closed. 70 years on, they re still waiting. david sillito, bbc news, in london s west end.
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