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Television

Is BBC1’s Quirke bravely unhurried – or too slow?

Plus: A group of 11 year olds gather for dinner for Channel 4 and talk alcoholism and anomie

7 June 2014

9:00 AM

7 June 2014

9:00 AM

The work of John Banville — Booker-winning novelist and impeccably high-minded literary critic — might seem an unlikely source for a primetime crime series. But since 2006, under the telling pseudonym of Benjamin Black, he’s also published a series of Celtic-noir novels set in 1950s Dublin about a pathologist-sleuth known, even to his intimates, only as Quirke.

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