A Christmas Christie for Christmas: The Naughty Donkey by Agatha Christie Mallowan (with bonus rerun of Star Over Bethlehem)

All About Agatha Christie

Catherine Brobeck & Kemper Donovan

Tv & Film, Film Reviews, Books, Arts

4.7 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 22 December 2023

⏱️ 150 minutes

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And you thought the days of bumper-sized episodes of All About Agatha were behind you.... This one might be a bit of a cheat, since it's a Frankenstein's monster (a Bella Baxter?!) of a few different things: 1) a nice long "mail bag"/"housekeeping" segment; 2) a fresh episode analyzing "The Naughty Donkey" in Christie's Star Over Bethlehem and Other Stories collection; and 3) a rerun of the episode I aired in the summer this year with Sarah Hinlicky Wilson co-hosting, in which we discussed the titular story of the same collection. So much Christie, so much Christianity, so much Christmas. Rejoice! You can check out Sarah's short story podcast here. You can see my upcoming book tour events (!!) here. Please come see me! You can pre-order my mystery novel, The Busy Body, in the United States here, in the United Kingdom here, and in Australia and New Zealand here. You can visit and subscribe to the podcast's Patreon page here. This episode is sponsored by BritBox. For listeners in the U.S. and Canada, click here and use the promo code "AGATHA" at checkout for 50% off the first month of your monthly subscription.

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0:00.0	Welcome to All About Agatha, the podcast dedicated to reading and ranking every single mystery novel written by the Queen of Crime Dame Agatha Christie.
0:15.0	I am Kemper Donovan and Merry Christmas to those of you who celebrate.
0:20.0	Happy holidays to those of you who might be celebrating non-Christmas festivities.
0:25.0	Happy end of the year to those who aren't celebrating any holidays at all.
0:29.0	I'm so happy for each and every one of you to be here with me on this very special episode that I have
0:35.4	titled a Christmas Christie for Christmas and that is not a typo, listeners.
0:41.1	For this episode I am covering one of Agathicristy's more unusual stories, one of her religious
0:46.4	tales, you could even say her religious fables, which she created for her short story collection, Star Over Bethlehem and other stories.
0:55.9	My copy of that book proclaims it to be a Christmas Christie, the perfect little gift,
1:02.1	and the reason it makes this claim is that many of the stories in the collection
1:05.2	especially the titular story are religious in nature and the kind of thing
1:09.6	Christian people in particular might like to read around the Christmas holiday.
1:14.1	I discussed this collection at some length in a previous episode in which I covered
1:18.4	that titular story, Star Over Bethlehem.
1:20.9	I did that with the fabulous Sarah Hindlicky Wilson, a theologian
1:25.7	and pastor and podcaster and author, among other things, and I'm actually going to be
1:30.0	re-running my conversation with Sarah at the end of this episode because it really is so
1:35.3	perfect for the Christmas holiday. But I did not just want to do a re-run for you on this
1:40.3	episode. I wanted to give you some original content as well so first I will be
1:44.8	covering the second story in that collection the naughty donkey you heard me right the
1:51.1	naughty donkey that is actually what the story that I am going to be discussing by Agatha Christie is called or Agatha Christie Malloyen, I should say, because that is the technical name of the author of Star Over Bethlehem and other stories.
2:05.1	Again, these were very personal to her and the full name of Agatha Christie Mallowin
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