Interview with Lucy Worsley, Author of Agatha Christie: A Very Elusive Woman

All About Agatha Christie

Catherine Brobeck & Kemper Donovan

Tv & Film, Books, Film Reviews, Arts

4.7 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 26 August 2022

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

Lucy Worsley is an author, a historian, a TV presenter, and she is also one of us, because she is a listener of this podcast (!!) and she is *obsessed* with Agatha Christie. As our conversation will attest. Bonus points for the Jane Austen content we manage to shoehorn in here, plus, this is easily the best conversation I've had with anyone (barring my beloved Catherine) about Agatha Christie's infamous disappearance.

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0:00.0	Welcome to All About Agatha, the podcast dedicated to reading and ranking every single mystery
0:10.0	novel written by the Queen of Crime, Dame Agatha Christie.
0:13.8	I am Kemper Donovan, and we have an interview episode on our hand listeners.
0:19.4	There is a new biography of Agatha Christie making its way into the world in just a few
0:25.0	short weeks.
0:26.0	It will be here in the beginning of September.
0:28.8	And fortunately for you, I have a fascinating conversation with the author of that biography,
0:35.2	Lucy Worsley.
0:36.8	We had so much to talk about, it was all so interesting.
0:39.3	So let's just get right to the interview.
0:54.3	But an absolute treat it is to be able to speak with today's guest.
0:58.9	You may know Lucy Worsley as a television presenter, particularly if you live in the UK and
1:04.6	have enjoyed numerous programs of hers on the topic of history.
1:09.0	Honestly, these programs really are too numerous to enumerate right now.
1:13.2	I admit I'm intrigued by the Fibs series, British history's biggest Fibs, American
1:17.9	history's biggest Fibs, Royal history's biggest Fibs, so many Fibs, so much time, apparently.
1:23.8	In 2019, her BBC One program suffragettes with Lucy Worsley won a BAFTA.
1:29.7	And Lucy has accomplished all this not only because she is fun to watch and to listen to,
1:34.2	but because she is a historian and a curator.
1:37.6	In fact, she is joint chief curator of historic Royal Palaces, which is a group of Royal
1:42.5	homes, including Hampton Court.
1:45.1	And that means I get to mention the Hampton Court maze right now, if only tangentially,
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