Agatha Christie: In the Flesh

All About Agatha Christie

Catherine Brobeck & Kemper Donovan

Tv & Film, Books, Film Reviews, Arts

4.7 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 11 March 2023

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Did you ever wonder what it would be like to meet Agatha Christie in person? Well, here's your answer. Special thanks to Yasuo Sudoh, Dr. Ernestine Elster, and Norman Home for contributing to this episode.

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0:00.0	Welcome to all about Agatha, the podcast dedicated to reading and ranking.
0:10.1	Every single mystery novel written by the Queen of Crime, Dean Agatha Christie.
0:14.7	I am Kemper Donovan, and on this episode I will not be discussing a written text.
0:19.2	I have something much more special in store for you, dear listeners.
0:23.8	I will start rather circuitously.
0:27.3	The hypothetical I used to like to amuse myself with when I was younger.
0:32.3	If you could go anywhere in time, when would you go?
0:36.8	And why?
0:38.7	I had a very specific answer to this that I came up with at some point in my teenage
0:43.6	deers.
0:45.0	This answer is still featured in the Twitter bio for my personal Twitter account, which
0:50.3	I never tweet from or use, so don't go to it.
0:55.6	These do go to the podcast Twitter account at all about the day.
0:59.8	In any case, my specific answer was that I would travel back in time to the year 1848.
1:06.4	That's right.
1:07.4	I was so obsessed with Victorian literature that I loved the idea of being able to go back
1:13.2	in time to a period when so much was about to happen.
1:17.8	There was so much exciting stuff in store for those Victorians in 1848.
1:21.8	They had over 50 years to go of the Victorian era, which did not end technically until
1:26.8	Queen Victoria's death in 1901.
1:29.5	So first off, I just liked the idea of traveling back to the early to mid Victorian period.
1:35.2	The late Victorian era always slightly depresses me for the very simple reason that it means
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