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All About Agatha Christie

A Very Special Episode: Interview with Sophie Hannah, Author of New Hercule Poirot Novels

All About Agatha Christie

Catherine Brobeck & Kemper Donovan

Tv & Film, Books, Film Reviews, Arts

4.71.6K Ratings

🗓️ 23 November 2018

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

We were thrilled to have bestselling—and Poirot-continuing!—author Sophie Hannah on the podcast for a wide-ranging chat about all things Agatha. Please revel in the Christie fandom, as we did.

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:12.6

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0:15.4

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0:19.0

but with zero sugar and zero calories.

0:21.8

It's a taste you can't quite put your finger on.

0:24.1

Weird, but in a surprisingly good way, the podcast dedicated to reading and ranking.

0:39.1

Every Single Mystery Novel written by The Queen of Prime Dame Agatha Christie. I'm Catherine

0:44.7

drawback and I'm Camper Donovan and this week we're actually not exactly

0:50.4

talking about our dear Agatha. We are talking about something that is very much related to her.

0:58.6

We are lucky enough to have on this week the great Sophie Hannah who most of our listeners will know as

1:06.7

the author of the continuation Poiro novels and there are three to date the last one just having been

1:16.1

published in the States a few months ago so we are going to talk to her about all things Agatha, of course, as well as her, you know,

1:28.3

award-winning and illustrious career, writing everything from poetry to children's fiction to a large number of

1:35.6

psychological thrillers in addition of course to our beloved Poirot. So we could

1:41.7

not be more thrilled to have Sophie on. She's been a great friend to us and while we have long

1:48.2

loved our Twitter conversations with her and other exchanges. This was a wide-ranging and I hope for you guys

1:59.3

insightful conversation into the writing process and into mystery novels and also as it turns that

2:06.3

how to hold a grudge Sophie's other new book. I just wanted to note that Sophie really has been

2:11.5

a long time friend of the podcast. We met her all the way back when

2:15.2

we traveled to Cambridge. Oh so many moons ago, she was so welcoming then and we are just so excited that we finally can have her on the podcast.

2:25.8

We've been meaning to do this for a while and those Poirot novels which some of you will be familiar with are the monogram murders closed

2:35.8

casket and then most recently the mystery of three quarters and we won't be

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