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Time passes and the world changes. We hope that it largely changes for the better, although

the evidence for that might not yet satisfy the best detectives. Still, it is to be expected

that the language and beliefs that were commonplace and unremarkable 100 years ago are approached

differently now. For anyone who publishes or reads books from an earlier era then, this poses a

challenge. Do we accept these texts as they are, as artefacts of a previous time, even if they

contain ideas and words we would never condone in something published today? Or do we treat them

as malleable properties, capable of shifting and changing with the times to meet the ideals of

a new era and beyond? Golden age detectives fiction certainly isn't immune from this dilemma.

These are books that many people read for pleasure, for comfort even.

It's an emotive question too, both because of the feelings that the presence of prejudice and

beloved mysteries arouses, and because for some, the idea of changing the work that an admired

author had deemed complete is disagreeable. Which is why today we're going to talk about it all,

starting with the most revered author of them all, Agatha Christie.

Welcome to She Done It. I'm Caroline Grampton. A quick reminder before we get into it today,

I'm doing a special free live episode of the podcast on the 15th of July at 7pm UK time,

in which I, together with my guest Teresa Peschel, will be talking about the film adaptations of

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