Encore: Anthony Horowitz Takes A Meta Approach To Mystery Fiction In His 'Magpie Murders'

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🗓️ 12 August 2024

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

This is an encore release of an earlier podcast episode.

Anthony Horowitz has written dozens of books and scores of television dramas in his lengthy career, but the task of transforming his meta mystery novel, Magpie Murders — a crime novel about writing and publishing crime novels — was especially tricky. Fortunately for MASTERPIECE viewers, the resulting series is a delight, and the author explains the tricky choices he made to bring Susan Ryeland and Atticus Pünd to the screen.

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0:33.0	podcast.
0:35.0	There's no new episode of Masterpiece Studio this week,
0:39.0	but as PBS Rebroadcast Masterpieces' 2020 production of Magpie murders,
0:44.4	we thought we'd revisit our conversation
0:46.4	with writer and creator Antony Horowitz.
0:49.0	In this episode, we talk about Kraft, the Murder Mystery Cannon,
0:52.4	and how Antony adapted his 2016 meta-mystery novel
0:56.2	for the screen.
0:57.3	We hope you enjoy it.
1:01.4	I'm J. Lay Cobb, and you're listening to masterpiece studio. Mystery fiction is nothing new to tireless editor Susan Ryland,
1:09.4	who has shepherded finicky author Alan Conway to worldwide success with his best-selling Atticus Pund detective series.
1:17.0	What else can I tell you about Atticus Pund?
1:20.0	He had solved his last case, the death of Mary Blakeston, soon followed by another death at Pie Hall.
1:26.7	But when Conway's latest Atticus Pund manuscript is delivered with its final chapter missing,
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