The Theatrical World of Agatha Christie

Shedunnit

Caroline Crampton

Arts, Books

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🗓️ 25 August 2021

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Agatha Christie was the most successful female playwright of all time. She also wrote some detective novels you might have heard of. Julius Green is the author of Agatha Christie: A Life in Theatre, available in paperback now at all good booksellers. There are no spoilers in this episode. Find links to all the books mentioned in this episode at shedunnitshow.com/thetheatricalworldofagathachristie. Sources and further information: — Agatha Christie: A Life in Theatre by Julius Green — The Mousetrap by Agatha Christie — Witness for the Prosecution by Agatha Christie — Spider's Web by Agatha Christie — An Autobiography by Agatha Christie — Black Coffee by Agatha Christie — And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie — The Stranger by Agatha Christie — The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie — Hercule Poirot's Christmas by Agatha Christie — Look Back in Anger by John Osborne — The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie — Alibi by Michael Morton — Verdict by Agatha Christie — A Daughter's A Daughter by Agatha Christie — The Mary Westmacott episode of Shedunnit — Giant's Bread by Mary Westmacott 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. Buying from them is a great way to support both the podcast and the book trade! 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/thetheatricalworldofagathachristietranscript 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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0:00.0	Agatha Christie is a very well-known writer, to put it mildly.
0:10.2	Her novels and short stories have been translated into dozens of languages, she's a household
0:15.3	name all over the world, and her books are still selling in their millions, nearly half
0:20.4	a century after her death. Her characters offer ever being reincarnated on screen and
0:25.8	keep finding new fans, many, many decades after she first created them, so far, so obvious.
0:37.9	But what if I was to tell you that Agatha Christie had a whole other career in which she was,
0:42.7	some people argue, even more successful? One that she herself regarded as the much
0:48.4	greater achievement, even though today, even her most ardent fans often don't give any
0:53.9	thought to it. Well, that would really be something, wouldn't it? Join me, won't you,
1:01.4	as we enter the theatrical world of Agatha Christie.
1:12.4	Welcome to She Done It, I'm Caroline Crampton.
1:24.0	Agatha Christie's career as a playwright isn't a secret, of course. If you happen to
1:29.2	be in Central London and walk through the West End, you'll pass at least one theatre
1:33.9	currently showing one of her plays. One of her works holds the record for the longest
1:39.3	run ever of a West End play. But overall, it's just that her fame and global reach as
1:45.6	a novelist has mostly eclipsed her reputation in the theatre. If you look closely at her
1:52.0	achievements, though, it becomes clear both that she was a successful playwright separately
1:57.2	to her other writing work, and that she cared very deeply about this facet of her career.
2:03.0	She is undoubtedly and inarguably the most successful female playwright of all time,
2:08.0	and nobody has yet challenged that statement.
2:11.6	This is Julius Green, a theatre producer and the author of Agatha Christie, a life in
2:16.7	theatre. This book, which was first published in 2015, is a brilliantly comprehensive
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