Agatha Christie (with Gillian Gill)

The History of Literature

Jacke Wilson

History, Books, Arts

4.6 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 10 February 2020

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

Agatha Christie is one of the most successful writers of all time - it's often said that sales of Christie's books are surpassed only by Shakespeare and the Bible. But who was Agatha Christie? What was she like before she became famous? And what exactly happened during those infamous two weeks, when she disappeared from view - perhaps suffering from amnesia, perhaps to spite her husband and his young lover, or perhaps even to frame him for the murder of his wife. In this episode of The History of Literature, Gillian Gill (author of Virginia Woolf and the Women Who Shaped Her World and Agatha Christie: The Woman and Her Mysteries) joins Jacke for a discussion of Agatha Christie's mysteries and her, well, mysteries. Help support the show at patreon.com/literature or historyofliterature.com/shop. (We appreciate it!) Find out more at historyofliterature.com, jackewilson.com, or by following Jacke and Mike on Twitter at @thejackewilson and @literatureSC. Or send an email to [email protected]. *** This show is a part of the Podglomerate network, a company that produces, distributes, and monetizes podcasts. We encourage you to visit the website and sign up for our newsletter for more information about our shows, launches, and events. For more information on how The Podglomerate treats data, please see our Privacy Policy. Since you're listening to The History of Literature, we'd like to suggest you also try other Podglomerate shows surrounding literature, history, and storytelling like Storybound, Micheaux Mission, and The History of Standup. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:25.0	Oh, no,
0:27.0	Oh, my, Hey, oh, oh, what you do?
0:30.0	Oh, I, Oh, I was a son. Oh, I'm here. Do you think the mouse trap is the best play that's ever run in London, Mrs. Christie?
0:54.0	Oh, I'd hardly say that. No, not by a long way.
0:57.0	Why has it been so phenomenally successful, then?
1:00.0	Well, there again, I don't know. People like it, but who can say why?
1:04.0	Do you ever go to see it now yourself?
1:06.0	Oh yes, frequently.
1:08.0	Just about three or four times a year.
1:10.0	How many years would you give the mouse trap yet?
1:13.0	I wouldn't like to prophesy.
1:16.0	I always said it's coming off next year for years, but it never has now. That's mystery writer par excellence. I get the
1:27.6	Christie talking about her play the Mouse Trap. The Mouse Trap is by far the
1:32.1	longest running play in history with more than 25,000 performances and counting.
1:37.0	She was being asked about it 50 years ago.
1:40.0	Wondering how long it could continue. Well, it has. I saw it 25 years ago or so and people were joking about it then.
1:47.7	Go see something else, they said. But I wanted to see it because why not?
1:52.2	It's kind of like going to see big men or the houses of parliament just as its author
1:57.6	Agatha Christie is kind of a fixture as well Sherlock Holmes Harry, Harry Potter, Shakespeare Dickens, Jack the Ripper, the Beatles, Agatha Christie.
2:07.8	Enduring Classics of that
2:13.3	the enduring island nation. 25,000 performances.
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