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All About Agatha Christie

*Special Announcement* in re Agatha Christie: A Reappraisal (a.k.a. We're Going to Cambridge!)

All About Agatha Christie

Catherine Brobeck & Kemper Donovan

Tv & Film, Books, Film Reviews, Arts

4.71.6K Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2017

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

We are heading to the University of Cambridge in June to present a paper on Agatha Christie! We wanted to share this news with you because 1) we are so excited; and 2) we encourage you to join us there if you can! (Check out http://www.agathachristieconference.com for more details.) Our regularly scheduled programming will resume next week....

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0:00.0

Welcome to All About Agatha, the podcast dedicated to reading and ranking every single

0:08.9

mystery novel written by the Queen of Crime Dame Agatha Christie. I'm Camper Donovan. I'm Catherine Brobeck.

0:16.1

And this is a short little episode. It's not even a real podcasting episode. This is a bit of

0:21.6

a teaser advert to notify our dear listeners about a conference we have mentioned a couple of times

0:29.2

Passingly in the last few episodes we will be traveling to Cambridge University as in

0:37.4

Cambridge England where we will be participating we are so excited in a conference, Agatha Christie, a re-appraisal, and this is the fourth international Agatha

0:48.8

Christie conference, taking place pretty much at the summer solstice,

0:52.8

which is very exciting and rather pagan,

0:56.1

on the 19th to 20th of June,

0:58.5

at Lucy Cavendish College at Cambridge.

1:01.5

Essentially, it seems that there are a bunch of like-minded

1:04.6

Akathicristy scholars and fans, could perhaps call them nerds, fanatics, what

1:11.0

have you, who gather there.

1:12.6

No, hey no, those are our people.

1:15.0

They are. I'm not using the words nerds and fanatics

1:18.0

pejordably by any means.

1:20.0

Of course. No, at this point, nerd is, I feel like it's...

1:23.0

You're saying it with love, is that what you're saying?

1:25.0

Yeah, I'm saying, I'm saying nerd with love.

1:27.0

So Agatha Christie nerds all gather and present papers and ideas about Dame Agatha. and I think it's important to talk about the fact that it's not even nerd-dom it's the idea

1:40.0

that you know obviously we spend a lot of time every week a shocking amount of time

1:47.0

in fact a shocking amount of time working through all of her work and it's because we

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