Christopher Gunning obituary

Composer best known for creating the theme music for the popular and long-running ITV series PoirotThe composer Christopher Gunning, who has died aged 78 of renal cancer, operated with equal assurance in both the film and television world and the classical symphonic tradition. The music for which he is most widely known is that for ITV’s long-running series Agatha Christie’s Poirot, starring David Suchet, for which he won a Bafta in 1989 and created incidental music for some 40 of th