Unravelling the mysteries behind classic detective stories
Sounds,·138 episodes
A good detective story has a recognisable rhythm and plot points.
03 Jun 2026,·19 mins
Ronaldo Fagarazzi joins Caroline for a 1920s serial killer mystery.
27 May 2026,·50 mins
Anne Bedingfield, Emily Trefusis, Lucy Eyelesbarrow...
20 May 2026,·18 mins
Why did Dorothy L. Sayers hate the first Peter Wimsey film so much?
13 May 2026,·19 mins
Some sleuths need no introduction. But other characters lurk in obscurity.
06 May 2026,·19 mins
Are Agatha Christie’s stories as chaste as they seem?
29 Apr 2026,·22 mins,·
The detective's sidekick is a fundamental building block of the classic whodunnit.
22 Apr 2026,·24 mins
What George Orwell can teach us about detective fiction.
15 Apr 2026,·20 mins
It's not who, or how, but why.
08 Apr 2026,·18 mins
The childhood nightmare that informed a crime writing career.
01 Apr 2026,·20 mins
The perfect collection is never complete.
25 Mar 2026,·23 mins
Jim Noy joins Caroline for some Jolly Adventures in a castle.
18 Mar 2026,·48 mins
Murder mysteries: if you believe the clichés, they all happened in the 1920s and 1930s.
11 Mar 2026,·18 mins
What could possibly go wrong?
04 Mar 2026,·40 mins
He was one of the most influential crime novelists of the 1920s and 1930s.
25 Feb 2026,·25 mins
The fascinating history of divorce in detective fiction.
18 Feb 2026,·28 mins,·
Nothing bad could possibly happen here, say the residents of the peaceful English village.
11 Feb 2026,·20 mins
The best murder mysteries transport us to another era.
04 Feb 2026,·27 mins
Will that nurse in the pristine white cap save your life, or bring it to an untimely end?
28 Jan 2026,·24 mins
Victoria Stewart and Caroline discuss Dorothy L. Sayers’ epistolary poisoning mystery.
21 Jan 2026,·47 mins
There was one thing that Dorothy L. Sayers never told anyone.
14 Jan 2026,·17 mins
Was this Agatha Christie's greatest piece of misdirection?
07 Jan 2026,·22 mins
The River Thames has always had a dark side.
31 Dec 2025,·20 mins
We’ve got puffins, peacocks and penguins galore!
24 Dec 2025,·27 mins
A devastating global pandemic preceded the original golden age of detective fiction.
17 Dec 2025,·22 mins
Make sure nobody has tampered with your turkey…
10 Dec 2025,·22 mins
Sometimes, Agatha Christie didn’t want to be Agatha Christie.
03 Dec 2025,·17 mins
Film historian Sergio Angelini joins Caroline to discuss a rather cinematic whodunnit.
26 Nov 2025,·52 mins
A woman needs a room of her own, and £500 a year to write fiction.
19 Nov 2025,·28 mins
Why aren’t her dozen detective novels better known?
12 Nov 2025,·23 mins
