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

There’s always Christie at Christmas! Join Mark and Gray making the yuletide gay with a discussion about Christie’s festive writings from the 1960s. Come swing around the Christmas tree!

You can read our special article for the Agatha Christie website 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: Revivalism

00:00:00 - Opening titles

00:00:43 - Introductory chat

00:07:24 - A Christie for Christmas: a tale as old as time?

00:16:40 - Agatha Christiemas

00:20:20 - Christmas Then and Now - from Christmas Adventure (1923) to The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding (1960)

00:28:26 - The Mysteries of the Spanish and Baghdad Chests (1932, 1960)

00:32:46 - Star Over Bethlehem (1965)

00:39:46 - Next episode, how to get in touch

00:41:27 - Closing titles

00:41:54 - Coda

Solutions revealed! - Star Over Bethlehem (titular story from the Star Over Bethlehem collection)

In a very special episode, join Mark and Gray as they delve deep into Agatha Christie’s family archive and uncover some seldom-seen 1960s gems…

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: it's Christmas!

00:00:00 - Opening titles

00:00:39 - Introductory chat at the train station

00:01:50 - We arrive at the archive!

00:05:30 - Death Beat

00:31:44 - Miss Perry

00:58:53 - Other archive gems, Agatha Christie’s writing process

01:12:46 - Back at Paddington, how to get in touch

01:14:29 - Closing titles

01:14:57 - Coda

Solutions revealed! - Endless Night

TW: violence against women