The Swinging Christies: Agatha Christie in the 1960s

Mark and Gray ring in the New Year with a discussion of the 1960s trend for… actually not being very 1960s at all! But just how much of Christie’s 1960s writing harks back to the Edwardian and Victorian eras? Did they even ‘swing’ back then?? You can listen to our guest spot on the All About Agatha podcast, here. You can read our special article for the Agatha Christie website here. You can read Mark’s paper about Agatha Christie’s Charles Dickens’s Bleak House here. And tickets and info for The Mirror Crack'd at the Tower Theatre can be found here! You can find us on Instagram (as well as X) @Christie_Time. We are on BlueSky at christietime.bsky.social. Please do rate and review us wherever you get your podcasts. Our website is ChristieTime.com. The Swinging Christies is a Christie Time project by Mark Aldridge and Gray Robert Brown. Next episode: wait and see… 00:00:00 - Opening titles 00:00:51 - Introductory chat 00:04:29 - The Sixties weren’t Swinging for everyone 00:15:38 - Old-new locations 00:58:02 - The Next Generation 01:04:28 - Servants and service 01:14:44 - Reviving the greats: Shakespeare, Tennyson, Austen, Brontë 01:22:37 - Bleak House by Agatha Christie 01:33:57 - Brave monkey puzzle: remembering Christie’s childhood home 01:37:22 - Next episode, how to get in touch 01:38:33 - Closing titles 01:39:01 - Coda Solutions revealed! - The Mirror Crack’d from Side to Side, At Bertram’s Hotel