Agatha Christie with Lucy Worsley

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🗓️ 25 September 2022

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Agatha Christie is the best-selling fiction writer of all time and her many detective novels, short stories and plays have gripped and entertained millions around the world. Her real life was just as fascinating as any of her crime novels. It was full of love and loss, travel and adventure and an enduring passion for archaeology.

In this episode, Dan is joined by historian and Chief Curator at Historic Royal Palaces Lucy Worsley to discuss the life of Agatha Christie. They talk about her upbringing, what Christie was like in private and the inspirations that led her to become probably the most famous author in history.

This episode was produced by Mariana Des Forges, the audio editor was Dougal Patmore.

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0:00.0	Hi buddy welcome to History Hit. I'm on the Nile, it's searingly hot time, I look
0:05.0	at the Valley Kings on the West Bank, the side of the dead, but you know what? I'm
0:09.0	nice and cool, you know I'm nice and cool because I'm strolling along the side
0:13.1	deck of a beautiful paddle steam, one of the most fantastically refurbished
0:18.8	historical vessels in the world and you know me, I love historic ship. This one
0:23.7	plows up and down the night, it's the most luxurious, all the cruises that go on
0:26.7	now, it is the SS Sudan, it's a paddle steam, it's bought by Thomas Cook Company
0:31.8	who in 1911 commissioned a series of steam ships to ride up and down the Nile, it
0:37.0	took Agatha Christie, among other sorbetees from Cairo down to Luxor, look at the
0:41.8	newly found tomb of Tutankham in the early 1920s and down to Aswan and Abou Symbol.
0:46.9	It was well Agatha Christie was on the ship in 1931, she was with her husband
0:52.3	Max Malauin, she decided it would make the perfect setting for one of her
0:57.0	fabled murder mysteries and it wasn't like a big English country house really,
1:01.3	it's up loads of posh people in a very intense environment with no escape and
1:05.3	sure enough pyro found herself on board and he solves the ensuing murders, so
1:10.2	about that spoiler folks. In this episode of Dan Social Street I'll be talking
1:14.2	to someone who like Agatha Christie is a national treasure, she's the one
1:18.4	only Lucy Wurz, leave her on the podcast before, you've seen on TV before, you've
1:22.0	read her books, she's the best and she is now going to a new project I'll all
1:25.4	about Agatha Christie and so I thought this would be the ideal place to come
1:28.5	recording introduction, fly out to Egypt and give her the opening that she
1:32.7	definitely deserves. So when I get enjoy a little pink gin on the upper deck of
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