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Interview with Alison Light, a Scholar of Agatha Christie (Among Many Other Subjects)

Interview with Alison Light, a Scholar of Agatha Christie (Among Many Other Subjects)

FromAll About Agatha Christie


Interview with Alison Light, a Scholar of Agatha Christie (Among Many Other Subjects)

FromAll About Agatha Christie

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Length:
61 minutes
Released:
May 20, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

I took the opportunity to have a somewhat different conversation about Christie than I usually do, with the literary theorist Alison Light, who wrote about Christie as far back as 1991. We talked a whole lot about the middle classes, the notion of “small c” conservatism, and what it means to be English. Not your usual Christie fare, but I left the conversation with a fresh appreciation of our favorite author, and I hope you do too.   Visit the podcast's Patreon site at: http://www.patreon.com/allaboutagatha.
Released:
May 20, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

All About Agatha is a podcast all about, well, Agatha. Agatha Christie, of course: the Queen of Crime, a real-life Dame of the British Empire, and author of sixty-six mystery novels that spanned the Twentieth Century, defining a genre. For five years, Catherine Brobeck and Kemper Donovan revisited these novels in publication order, ranking them according to pre-set criteria (plot, character, etc.). Tragically, Catherine Brobeck passed away at the end of 2021. Since then, Kemper has completed the podcast's ranking project, and now contents himself with celebrating the greatness of Christie by attempting to solve the ultimate mystery where she is concerned. Why Christie--and Christie alone--endures as powerfully as she does.