The Death Of The Country House

Shedunnit

Caroline Crampton

Books, Arts

4.9 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 22 February 2023

⏱️ 29 minutes

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A most golden age murder. Books mentioned in this episode — Lady Chatterley's Lover by DH Lawrence — The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame — Peril at End House by Agatha Christie — The Crime at Black Dudley by Margery Allingham — There Came Both Mist and Snow by Michael Innes — Sad Cypress by Agatha Christie — Too Soon to Die by Henry Wade — The Stately Home Murder by Catherine Aird — Strange Bedfellows by Andrew Soutar — Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh — Orlando by Virginia Woolf — Coming Up for Air by George Orwell — Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier NB: Links to Blackwell's are affiliate links, meaning that the podcast receives a small commission when you purchase a book there (the price remains the same for you). Blackwell's is a UK bookselling chain that ships internationally at no extra charge. This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at betterhelp.com/shedunnit. To be the first to know about future developments with the podcast, sign up for the newsletter at shedunnitshow.com/newsletter. The podcast is on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram as @ShedunnitShow, and you can find it in all major podcast apps. Make sure you’re subscribed so you don’t miss the next episode. Click here to do that now in your app of choice. Find a full transcript of this episode at shedunnitshow.com/thedeathofthecountryhousetranscript Music by Audioblocks and Blue Dot Sessions. See shedunnitshow.com/musiccredits for more details. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:33.7	Burnt to death, blown up, stripped and beaten up,
0:39.3	knocked to the ground, dismembered or just abandoned,
0:43.7	and left to a slow undignified demise.
0:48.0	This was golden age murder in a world of wealth and privilege.
0:52.6	But the murder victims were not people, they were country houses,
0:56.8	those historic houses that will be so familiar to readers of golden age detective fiction.
1:02.4	These houses died at an alarming or possibly pleasing rate through the 1920s and 1930s.
1:09.7	In this episode, we will be looking at country houses,
1:13.8	the challenges and changes they encountered between the wars,
1:16.6	and how books of the period responded.
1:19.5	Join me on a tour of the stately homes of Britain,
1:23.0	those that survive and those that have gone,
1:25.6	and those that only lived in books.
1:38.0	Welcome to She Done It.
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