A Hercule Poirot Amuse-Bouche: The Kidnapped Prime Minister by Agatha Christie

All About Agatha Christie

Catherine Brobeck & Kemper Donovan

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🗓️ 8 March 2017

⏱️ 34 minutes

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This one gets pretty political! (Because if there's one thing we're missing these days, it's politics....) However, it's at least OLD politics (also known as history), taken from four discrete periods: 1918(ish), 1923, 1936, and 1990. Join us as we two Americans attempt to speak somewhat intelligently about what's been happening across the pond all these years.... Also, this may in fact be our most Irish episode; even Liam Neeson makes a guest appearance!

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0:00.0	Welcome to All About Agatha, the podcast dedicated to reading and ranking every single
0:10.0	mystery novel written by the Queen of Crime, De Maggot the Christie.
0:13.9	I'm Catherine Brobeck.
0:15.3	And I'm Kemper Donovan.
0:16.9	And this week we are tackling the Kidnapped Prime Minister.
0:22.2	First published in what Else the Sketch in April of
0:26.6	1923. So pretty early in the long run of Christie Short stories and some of that we can tell to be completely
0:35.4	honest up front about this short story I think. You are not a huge fan of this
0:38.8	short story? Not not a huge fan you? I was not.
0:42.8	I was neither a fan of the short story nor the adaptation this time,
0:46.2	for both the same and slightly different reasons.
0:48.8	So we'll get into it.
0:50.6	Yeah, so let's start with the victim and it is the Prime Minister of Britain.
0:57.5	David McAdam and he's originally shot at on a car ride from Windsor back to London.
1:06.0	He is en route to a little bit unclear in the short story.
1:11.0	It says Versailles, but the assumption is it's actually the Paris Peace Conference,
1:16.0	which was not actually held up for Sai, so it's a little confusing what's going on here
1:22.1	because there's like a lot of real world tension in this short story, but yet there are some inaccuracies which make it a little bit unclear what's happening.
1:32.1	It's clearly stated at the beginning of the story
1:34.6	that this is a story being told by Captain Hastings
1:38.6	after World War I has, after the Great War has ended that took place during the Great War, right?
1:46.1	So, well, or possibly at the end of it.
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