Unravelling the mysteries behind classic detective stories
Sounds,·139 episodes
John Curran joins Caroline to read Christie’s third novel, her first green penguin.
01 May 2024,·53 mins
A portrait of a writer via her addresses.
24 Apr 2024,·24 mins
Meet the hypochondriacs of golden age detective fiction
11 Apr 2024,·23 mins
A scientific murder mystery.
21 Mar 2024,·41 mins
The crime fiction of Lucy Beatrice Malleson deserves to be better known.
06 Mar 2024,·26 mins
Helen Zaltzman is the guest for this dissection of the first green penguin.
21 Feb 2024,·61 mins,·
One visit to Agatha Christie changed everything.
07 Feb 2024,·28 mins
A conversation about how Shedunnit is made.
24 Jan 2024,·46 mins
Time travelling, murder mystery style.
10 Jan 2024,·26 mins
Renée read her first detective novel in the 1930s. She hasn’t stopped since.
27 Dec 2023,·23 mins
Not every mystery needs a murder.
13 Dec 2023,·22 mins
A riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.
29 Nov 2023,·25 mins
Private members’ clubs are surprisingly popular with corpses.
15 Nov 2023,·22 mins
How Adelaide Bartlett got away with murder.
01 Nov 2023,·30 mins,·
The supernatural and the rational come together in the murder mystery.
18 Oct 2023,·20 mins
Agatha Christie and P.G. Wodehouse had a lot in common.
04 Oct 2023,·22 mins
Wouldn’t sleuthing be so much easier if the dead could speak to the living?
20 Sep 2023,·25 mins
What's in the true detective fiction fan's library?
06 Sep 2023,·25 mins
Murder does like to be beside the seaside.
23 Aug 2023,·30 mins
When the temperature rises, don't lose your cool.
09 Aug 2023,·30 mins
Why are crime writers so bowled over by the game?
26 Jul 2023,·30 mins
How do we approach offensive language in texts from previous times?
12 Jul 2023,·25 mins
What happens when a couple of socialists decide to write mysteries?
28 Jun 2023,·30 mins
A feminist take on the gossiping busybody of St Mary Mead.
14 Jun 2023,·30 mins
The tragic tale of Alma Rattenbury.
31 May 2023,·30 mins
The parallel lives of a writer and her detective.
17 May 2023,·25 mins
If you need a golden age detective fiction recommendation, we are at your service.
03 May 2023,·23 mins
Golf and murder have been close companions for a whole century.
19 Apr 2023,·30 mins
Step inside the mortuary.
05 Apr 2023,·30 mins
Come with me on a tour of Greenway.
22 Mar 2023,·20 mins
