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All About Agatha Christie

*LIVE!* Episode: Agatha Christie's Greatest Screen Adaptation? (Recorded at the 2024 Agatha Christie Festival)

All About Agatha Christie

Catherine Brobeck & Kemper Donovan

Tv & Film, Books, Film Reviews, Arts

4.71.6K Ratings

🗓️ 13 September 2024

⏱️ 107 minutes

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Summary

It's time for another live episode from the Agatha Christie Festival in Torquay, with a to-die-for panel of Agathologists! And guess what? The sound quality of this one is SUPERB, thanks to the presence of an on-site technician. Thank you to the Festival for making this happen!

I hope you all enjoy; I know we did....

I'm appearing at Bloody Scotland tomorrow, Saturday 14 September, and hope to see some listeners there!

You can currently pre-order Loose Lips, the second book in my Ghostwriter Mysteries series, in the United States.

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Visit me personally on Facebook at Kemper Donovan Books, or at my author website.

You can buy my debut mystery novel, The Busy Body, 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.

Transcript

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0:00.0

We've all seen the headlines in the news of how somebody lost their life in an act of cold-blooded murder, and it grabs your attention,

0:06.0

but have you ever stopped to think about the life of the person at the center of the news story?

0:11.0

These victims were way more than a salacious headline. I'm Eric Carter-Londine, and my podcast, The Murder and

0:17.6

my family dives into some of those stories to help listeners get to know the person who was lost and how their death affected those closest to them.

0:26.0

Listen to the murder of my family everywhere you listen to podcasts. Welcome to a live episode of All About Agatha, the podcast dedicated to reading and

0:40.9

ranking every single mystery novel written by the Queen of Crime, Dame Agatha Christie.

0:46.0

I am Kemper Donovan and once again for the third year in a row.

0:50.0

I am here in Agatha land in Lovely Devon on the south coast of England in

0:55.6

Agatha Christie's birthplace of Torqui. It is Thursday, September 12th and

1:00.1

this episode is coming to you from the Spanish Barn at Tor Abbey.

1:04.0

For five years, I co-hosted the All About Ag of the Podcast with my beloved co-creator and co-host,

1:11.4

Catherine Brobeck.

1:13.2

Tragically, Catherine passed away at the end of 2021.

1:16.4

So for almost three years now,

1:18.5

I have been hosting the podcast solo.

1:21.2

In addition to podcasting, I give vent to my own obsession with all things Ag of the Christie and mystery by writing my own fiction.

1:28.0

My debut mystery novel, The Busy Body, is currently out in multiple territories, including a physical paperback copy that has just become

1:35.0

available here in England.

1:37.3

And you know what, the book wasn't supposed to be available until December, but my publisher here,

1:41.6

the wonderful people at Little Brown they decided to make it

1:44.7

available a little early so that we could sell and sign some copies here at the

1:49.5

Ag of the Christie Festival. Last year I was complaining that I didn't have a UK publisher and this year I will be signing copies in the UK what a difference a year makes.

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