More from AudioFile Magazine for Christie Week by Jemma

Our friends at AudioFile have given us some more reviews for us to share with you. If you like the sound (no pun intended) of what you read, then head on over to their site where you can also download a free Christie short story The Case of the Missing Will (if you are based in the US) and listen to an interview with Hugh Fraser and  Rosalind Ayres (everyone).

THE ABC MURDERS, by Agatha Christie, read by Hugh Fraser will be familiar to listeners from the excellent PBS “Mystery” adaptations of Hercule Poirot novels in which he played the ...

• Posted 18 September 2009 at 2:51p.m. GMT
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Adapting Christie, or, How I Learned to Start Complaining and Hate the Changes by Chris_Chan

Fandom is a strange yet wonderful phenomenon.  Some professed “fans” of Agatha Christie are content to read the occasional Christie novel once in a while, when they have the time.  Other fans feel compelled to read every book that Christie ever wrote.  Still other fans seek out every movie and television adaptation of Christie novels ever filmed.  Some fans with the time and money to travel actually visits locations from Christie’s life and novels.  Then, there are fans like me, who want to help preserve, perpetuate, and polish Christie’s legacy.

Ever since the first film adaptations of Christie ...

• Posted 2 September 2009 at 1:45p.m. GMT
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Agatha Christie's Secret Notebooks - Part 2 by John_Curran

Since my last blog, people have asked me to explain a little more about Agatha Christie’s Notebooks, which I have been deciphering for my new book, published in September. The most common question has been, How many Notebooks are there?

There are over 70 Notebooks of all sizes, descriptions, colours and number of pages. For what they contain they are remarkably unimpressive…until you open and begin to read. Considering their uniqueness, I was reluctant to work straight from them and decided that photocopying the pages was the better option. This had to be undertaken carefully due to the ...

• Posted 27 July 2009 at 9:47a.m. GMT
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CHRISTIE ADAPTATIONS ON THE RADIO by Chris_Chan

The movie, stage, and television adaptations of Christie’s work are well known and often discussed amongst Christie fans.  A fourth medium, radio, is much more obscure and often ignored.  Two of the major overviews of Christie’s work and adaptations of it, Dick Riley and Pam McAllister’s The New Bedside, Bathtub & Armchair Companion to Agatha Christie, and Dennis Sanders and Len Lovallo’s The Agatha Christie Companion, discuss the movies, plays, and television adaptations, but both ignore the radio dramas.

This is a terrible shame, because some of the best and most interesting adaptations– as well as some ...

• Posted 14 May 2009 at 6:52a.m. GMT
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Agatha Christie's Secret Notebooks by John_Curran

As some of you may already know, my silence of late on the Website is due to my commitments to things Christiean elsewhere. In short, I am writing a book about Agatha Christie, specifically Agatha Christie and her plotting Notebooks. This is probably the last aspect of Agatha Christie that has not already been discussed in a book. We have had books on her life, her literary output, her husband, her disappearance; we have bought quiz books, travel books, film books, Mousetrap books; books about her poisons, her characters, her cover designs, her garden; biographies of Poirot and Miss Marple ...

• Posted 3 April 2009 at 11:41a.m. GMT
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The Domineering, The Meek and the Downright Gullible by Tony_OSullivan

One of the many interesting features of Agatha Christie’s work is her recurring focus on the dynamic that exists between strong forceful characters and subdued introverted ones. Throughout her work, these two character types are brought together in many different guises and through a wide variety of circumstances. From the sadistic bully that is Mrs Boynton, who exerts total control over her traumatised family in Appointment With Death, published in 1938, to the self-righteous Mrs. Price-Ridley who holds sway over the subordinate Miss Hartnell and Miss Wetherby over tea and gossip in St Mary Mead ( The Murder at the ...

• Posted 5 February 2009 at 7:49a.m. GMT
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The Works of Agatha Christie R.I.P. by William_Friend

Irrelevant. Dated. Dead.

These are just a few adjectives which the following article is going to apply to the works of Agatha Christie. It may make your blood boil temporarily – but hopefully you’re enough of a fan to be so wholly scandalised that anyone has the audacity to write this, you will continue to read long enough for the article to explain itself.  In 1920 ‘The Mysterious Affair at Styles’ was published and the crime genre was never the same again. With the effortless introduction of hallmarks we now refer to as ‘clichés’ and the addition to British ...

• Posted 5 January 2009 at 9:52a.m. GMT
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