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A German-made tv series featuring an Agatha Christie-style detective is finding its way to a US audience just now. The lead character is based on an unlikely real-life heroin. It's former German chancellor Angela Merkel who grows a little bored with retirement and decides to become an amateur sleuth.

Weekend's Julian Worricker speaks to Katharina Thalbach who plays the leading role in tv show 'Miss Merkel'.

(File photo: The real-life Angela Merkel, pictured in 2011, who is the inspiration for the television show which reimagines her as an amateur detective. Credit: Yves Herman/REUTERS)