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All About Agatha Christie

A Hercule Poirot Amuse-Bouche: The Lernaean Hydra & The Arcadian Deer by Agatha Christie

All About Agatha Christie

Catherine Brobeck & Kemper Donovan

Tv & Film, Film Reviews, Books, Arts

4.71.6K Ratings

🗓️ 5 June 2020

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

You get two Poirot short stories in this episode for the price of one--but the bargain gets even better, because the first of these felt very much like a Miss Marple story, while the second felt even more like one of our beloved Quin/Satterthwaite tales....

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and savour for taste of a classic chippin.

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Epic flavor, epic crunch, epic eats, because only the real McCoys, tastes like the real McCoys. Welcome to All About Agatha, the podcast dedicated to reading and ranking every single

0:29.3

mystery novel written by the Queen of Crime Dame Agathichristy.

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I'm Kemper Donovan.

0:34.1

I'm Catherine Brobeck.

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And on this episode, we shall be covering two short stories

0:41.0

from the Labors of Hercules collection.

0:43.4

We wanted to take a moment, just a moment, because we do understand that many of you out there

0:49.1

use this podcast as a means of comfort and diversion and distraction from the cares of the world and

0:57.9

there are many of those cares right now but it would just honestly feel a little

1:02.1

weird not to acknowledge the fact that these are now, but it would just honestly feel a little weird,

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not to acknowledge the fact that these are really troubling times

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right now, especially here in the US,

1:08.9

where both Catherine and I live.

1:11.9

You know, I think that a lot of you have been very sensitive online about a lot of stuff and I follow a lot of your Twitter accounts and I think a lot of you have incredibly thoughtful and considerate opinions.

1:25.6

I mean this is a situation that is far more complicated and quite honestly crucial to at least I think who we are as a country.

1:37.0

There are obviously greater implications for this even beyond the US and we know a lot of you are

1:42.0

listening beyond the US. So this a lot of you are listening beyond the US so this is neither the time nor place to get into a greater

1:47.0

discussion about it if we were ever to do that we would certainly want to bring in a lot of different voices beyond hours.

1:55.2

Right. I like to think that in our little corner of the universe here we try very hard to talk about

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