An Afternoon at the Theater with Hercule Poirot (and Director Christopher Diehl)

All About Agatha Christie

Catherine Brobeck & Kemper Donovan

Arts, Books, Tv & Film, Film Reviews

4.7 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 2 May 2025

⏱️ 81 minutes

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What fun it was to put together this roving episode of All About Agatha! Thanks again to Christopher Diehl for inviting me to A Poirot Double Bill. I'm already looking forward to his next Christie theatrical production. Come see me this week, May 4th-9th, on my tour of the (U.S.) South! Click on my website for more details. Visit and subscribe to the podcast's Patreon page. You can still buy tickets for my upcoming appearance at the Agatha Christie Festival. Check out the Redlands Footlighters Community Theatre, where this show will travel. Performances are on June 28th and 29th. Check out the Riverside Community Players, where this show already appeared, and where Christie is frequently on offer. Loose Lips, the second book in my Ghostwriter Mysteries series, is currently available for purchase. You can also buy The Busy Body, the first book in my Ghostwriter Mysteries series, in paperback at your bookseller of choice (make it an indie if you possibly can) in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia and New Zealand. Visit the podcast on Twitter and Instagram. Visit me personally on Facebook at Kemper Donovan Author, or at my author website.

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0:00.0	Hello, all about Agatha listeners. As I record this, I am just about to leave for my tour of the
0:05.9	Southern United States. So join me this coming week in Georgia, North Carolina, Virginia, and
0:13.9	Washington, D.C. Details are at my website, which I have linked to in the show notes. I should also know that many of you
0:22.7	have contacted me in the last day or so about the big Agatha Christie related news, this
0:29.1	writing course that was created by BBC Maestro, in which Agatha Christie herself, an on-screen
0:36.9	representation of Agatha Christie, the author,
0:40.1	using her voice and AI technology to mimic her voice and a live actor to fill in the gaps.
0:47.5	With the help of all sorts of digital technology, all this has resulted in a writing course
0:52.2	hosted by Agatha Christie herself, or at least what seems to be
0:56.5	Agatha Christie herself, using a lot of Christy's own words. There were people involved in this project
1:03.7	who make frequent appearances on this podcast. I have every intention of covering this development,
1:14.4	just not on this episode episode in a future episode.
1:17.6	Have no fear, we will be discussing it.
1:23.8	Never a dull day in the world of Agatha Christie scholarship and fandom more generally.
1:27.0	I also just want to take a moment to talk some spoilers. The following titles
1:28.7	will be spoiled to varying degrees in this episode. The Affair at the Bungalow. Evil under the sun.
1:35.8	Sparkling cyanide. Towards zero. Triangle at Rhodes. And then of course the two short stories
1:43.4	that will be the focus of this episode,
1:45.8	Wasp's Nest and Yellow Iris. Forewarned is forarmed, and now let's start the show.
1:57.0	Welcome to All About Agatha, the podcast dedicated to reading and drinking every single mystery novel written by the Queen of Crime, Dame Agatha Christie.
2:07.7	And, oh, listeners, how far we have come since the days of ranking those mystery novels of Agatha Christie's.
2:15.2	As you can perhaps tell by the turn signal blinking in the background.
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