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Omnibus File: Thrillers and Crime Fiction

Featuring a report from outside the Ambassador's Theatre where The Mousetrap, by Agatha Christie, has been running for 20 years and has just finished its 8,320th performance. (1972)

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The Ambassadors, as it was originally known, and St Martin's Theatre were conceived by their architect, WGR Sprague, as companions. Building work started in 1913, but World War I interrupted the construction of the latter for three years.

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