It’s The Swinging Christies as you've never heard (or seen) it before - with a live audience! Join Mark and Gray at the 2025 International Agatha Christie Festival in Torquay, Devon, for this special recorded and filmed episode all about the way Agatha Christie’s books were packaged for a whole new Swinging era! Expect laughs, mishaps, ribbing, and even the occasional fact.

With heartfelt thanks to everyone at the festival for making this happen, from the volunteers to the organisers to the bookshop, and a special thanks to our brilliant director and editor for this episode, John Tomkins of Emberlense Productions.

You can find us on Instagram ⁠@Christie_Time⁠. We are also on Bluesky at ⁠christietime.bsky.social⁠. Our YouTube account is @TheSwingingChristies.

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Next episode: we’re going apple bobbing… It’s the Hallowe’en special!

00:00:00 - Opening titles

00:04:15 - Colour

00:17:50 - Shape

00:26:54 - Pattern

00:31:18 - Headline

00:34:21 - Femme

00:39:10 - Psychedelia

00:45:48 - Wrap up, next episode

00:48:48 - Closing titles

Solutions revealed - Cat among the Pigeons

Gray and Mark meet Mystery Steve who has travelled all the way from Australia! Steve has been examining the way Agatha Christie titles have been translated into other languages. Steve’s project has just hit the 1960s, so we wanted to get him onto the podcast for the full lowdown. Travel the world with Gray, Mark and Steve!

You can find us on Instagram ⁠@Christie_Time⁠. We are also on Bluesky at ⁠christietime.bsky.social⁠. Our YouTube account is @TheSwigingChristies.

Please subscribe to the podcast so you’re notified every time an episode drops!

Please also consider giving us a star rating and/or reviewing us on your podcatcher of choice.

Our website is ⁠ChristieTime.com⁠.

The Swinging Christies is a Christie Time project by Mark Aldridge and Gray Robert Brown.

Next episode: we’re going LIVE!

00:00:00 - Opening titles

00:00: 40- Introductory chat

00:01:58 - Mystery Steve: Agatha Christie - Titles in Translation

00:10;41 - Cat Among the Pigeons (1959)

00:15:16 - The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding (1960)

00:20:06 - The Pale Horse (1961)

00:24:10 - The Mirror Crack’d from Side to Side (1962)

00:27:52 - The Clocks (1963)

00:31:48 - A Caribbean Mystery (1963)

00:34:12 - At Bertram’s Hotel (1964)

00:37:23 - Third Girl (1966)

00:42:24 - Endless Night (1967)

00:46:13 - By the Pricking of My Thumbs (1968)

00:49:48 - Hallowe’en Party (1969)

0:56:37 - Passenger to Frankfurt (1970)

00:57:58 - Wrap up, next episode

01:00:58 - Closing titles

01:02:08 - Coda

Solutions revealed - The Pale Horse, The Mirror Crack’d from Side to Side, Endless Night, By the Pricking of My Thumbs

Gray and Mark head to beautiful Belfast to chat to novelist and Agatha Christie fan Jan Carson. Jan has been tackling the Troubles in her work for some time, and we want to discuss with her Christie’s Troubles references in Passenger to Frankfurt, as well as Irish characters and references in other Swinging books - all the way from The Pale Horse to By the Pricking of My Thumbs!

A handful of tickets are still available⁠ for our first ever live episode recording in Torquay this September as part of the International Agatha Christie Festival 2025!

You can find us on Instagram ⁠@Christie_Time⁠. We are also on Bluesky at ⁠christietime.bsky.social⁠. Our YouTube account is @TheSwigingChristies.

Please subscribe to the podcast so you’re notified every time an episode drops!

Please also consider giving us a star rating and/or reviewing us on your podcatcher of choice.

Our website is ⁠ChristieTime.com⁠.

The Swinging Christies is a Christie Time project by Mark Aldridge and Gray Robert Brown.

Next episode: we’re going global… again…!

00:00:00 - Opening titles

00:00:47 - Introductory chat in Belfast

00:02;46 - Interview with Jan Carson and discussion of Ireland in the Swinging Christies

00:37;58 - The Troubles

00:52:46 - Next episode, how to get in touch

00:54:03 - Closing titles

00:54:31 - Coda

Solutions revealed! - The Pale Horse, At Bertram’s Hotel, Endless Night, Passenger to Frankfurt

TW: Racist and xenophobic language quoted