Agatha Christie at Christmas
Johny Pitts explores the Queen of Crime's connection to the festive season with novelists Lucy Foley, Abir Mukherjee, historian Mark Aldridge and Knives Out director Rian Johnson.
Johny Pitts explores the Queen of Crime's connection to the festive season with Lucy Foley, Abir Mukherjee and historian Mark Aldridge.
Why does a snowy midwinter lend itself so well to mystery narratives? How do the books puncture the "cosiness" of Christmassy nostalgia? And what are Poirot's views on this time of the year and peculiarly "English" traditions? All these questions, and more, are investigated.
Plus Rian Johnson, director of Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, on what made him fall in love with Christie's work and how it continues to inspire his Detective Benoit Blanc films.
Presenter: Johny Pitts
Reader: Joanna Monro
Producer: Ciaran Bermingham
Book List – Monday 26 December and Thursday 29 December
Marple: Twelve New Stories by Twelve Great Writers
The Sittaford Mystery by Agatha Christie
Agatha Christie: A Very Elusive Woman by Lucy Worsley
Curtain by Agatha Christie
Hercule Poirot’s Christmas by Agatha Christie
The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding by Agatha Christie
Midwinter Murder by Agatha Christie
Byomkesh Bakshi Stories by Saradindu Bandopadhyay. Translated by Monimala Dhar
A Christmas Party by Georgette Heyer
The Mistletoe Murder and Other Stories by P D James
Christmas is Murder: A Chilling Short Story Collection by Val McDermid
The Paris Apartment by Lucy Foley
The Shadows of Men by Abir Mukherjee
Agatha Christie’s Poirot: The Greatest Detective in the World by Mark Aldridge
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