Stunning wallpaper of our podcast artwork: The Swinging Christies, designed by Bartlett Studio, and Westmapod, designed by Tom Double. Our Christie Time logo was designed by Bartlett Studio too.

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The Swinging Christies: Agatha Christie in the 1960s: Introducing Westmapod! Our new Agatha Christie podcast Hello Swingers, we have a new Agatha Christie podcast over on another feed we wanted to tell you about! But don't worry, The Swinging Christies isn't going anywhere. Go search WESTMAPOD in ...

For one month only it's a #Westmapod x #SwingingChristies TAKEOVER!

Listen here: pod.fo/e/3f42a1
Subscribe to our new podcast here: podfollow.com/westmapod-ag...

Don't forget our latest ep is available on YouTube (as well as all major podcatchers) if you prefer to do your listening on there. Next month's live episode means we'll have another visualised podcast for you v soon!! #SwingingChristies #AgathaChristie

www.youtube.com/watch?v=tF-m...

We're beavering away planning our special LIVE EPISODE for this, The Confessions of Agatha Christie, ft. HUGE ANNOUNCEMENT!!!!! Not to mention a string of fabulous talks and fun all day and into the evening! If you haven't got a ticket yet, what are you waiting for?? #SwingingChristies

Screengrab from "Resources" page on the Christie Time website

Calling all #Westmafans! We have started building up a resources list for #Westmapod alongside our resources for #SwingingChristies - if you want to take a look at what we've been reading, and maybe inspire your own TBR pile, check it out: christietime.com/resources #AgathaChristie #MaryWestmacott

After a couple of technical faults (hey, look, we're book nerds, not IT support) the latest #SwingingChristies podcast ep is available NOW to stream on YouTube, as well as anywhere else you find good podcasts: www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yQX... #AgathaChristie

Front of Burgh Island Hotel, Dec 2025

View across to Burgh Island, complete with sea tractor! Dec 2025

We had such a great time recording on... well, a much smaller island than usual, namely Burgh, on a blustery atmospheric day fit for a murder! Listen to the new episode of the #SwingingChristies here all about Agatha Christie in her beloved Devon in the 1960s: pod.fo/e/3855e3

The Swinging Christies: Agatha Christie in the 1960s: Climate Change New year, new us…new world? Since before the 1960s, scientists have been warning at the negative human impact on the world around us, but it’s a topic that really hit the headlines in the Swing...

Last few days to catch up on the latest #SwingingChristies before the new episode drops on Sunday! Available on all major podcatchers & YouTube as usual: pod.fo/e/37209b #AgathaChristie

1 week today until the next #SwingingChristies episode......... 👀💃🏻

Is Revelation of the Daleks speaking to us???? #DoctorWho #SwingingChristies #AgathaChristie 💃🏻🔷➕❤️❤️

We're thrilled you're all as excited about the news as we are!!

Rest assured, don't have to wait this long till your next pod though, as The #SwingingChristies returns on 1 Feb!

Promotional still from ITV's Agatha Christie's Poirot: Murder on the Orient Express, famously a 1960s book adapted in the 1960s (not really)

Happy Christmas Eve! This picture shows Poirot looking miserable, not because of the outcome of a case, but because he hasn't yet listened to The #SwingingChristies annual Christmas special!!!!? 🎄💃

Don't be like Poirot - not in this way, anyway. Vite! ➡️ 🎧 pod.fo/e/366136 #AgathaChristie

ALL-NEW PLAYLISTS on YouTube now, so if you want both of our Christmas Specials in one place you know where to go! www.youtube.com/@TheSwinging... #AgathaChristie #SwingingChristies

The Swinging Christies: Agatha Christie in the 1960s

This year's #SwingingChristies Christmas special drops ON SUNDAY! Make sure you're subscribed on the platform of your choice so you catch it as soon as it drops! podfollow.com/the-swinging... 💃🏻💃🏻🎄🎄

"Echoes of the Disappearance" titlecard. Designed by Tom Double.

NEW EPISODE! We said we wouldn't cover it... So why now?

Listen to find out: pod.fo/e/353a30 #SwingingChristies all the way in Tenerife! #AgathaChristie 💃🏻💃🏻

Following in Agatha Christie’s footsteps on the Isle of Man: No archive could ever get me as close to her experience In 1930 the detective novelist was commissioned to set a treasure hunt on the island enticing tourists to visit

We loved friend-of-the-podcast @jancarsonwrites.bsky.social's article following in the footsteps of Agatha Christie on the Isle of Man! 💃 www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...

You can hear Jan on The #SwingingChristies here: pod.fo/e/3090e9 @markaldridge.info

Who would decorate a broomstick for a #HalloweenParty? 🧹

Ah, yes, a Dutch #AgathaChristie reader!

(Looking forward to the no doubt spooktacular second Hallowe’en #SwingingChristies episode!)

Wimbledon. Daleks. Then The #SwingingChristies. All the important things available in GLORIOUS TECHNICOLOUR 🎨💃

A French edition of Murder on the Links, Le Crime Du Golf

In our most recent podcast, with @mysterysteven.bsky.social, Titles in Translation, we learnt about the use of "Le Crime" in French translations. How many clocks in The Clocks? Why does Norway love Canon Pennyfather? For this and more, listen now! > pod.fo/e/3263c3 #AgathaChristie #SwingingChristies

L-R Mystery Steve, Whodunnit Gray and Murder Mark

NEW EPISODE!! We're traversing Europe with Melbourne's own @mysterysteven.bsky.social investigating how Agatha Christie's Swinging book titles have been translated! 💃🌏 LISTEN NOW and please ⭐ rate or review and subscribe pod.fo/e/3263c3 #AgathaChristie #podcast #SwingingChristies @markaldridge.info

Only in this project do you find yourself saying things like "Phew, I'm FINALLY leaving 1963!!!!!!!"

#SwingingChristies #AgathaChristie 💃💃

Titlecard for the bonus episode Swinging India

Titlecard for the bonus episode Revivalism

Titlecard for episode 7, Empire

Titlecard for episode 4, Fashion

No new episode today BUT why not make it a Swinging Sunday anyway by diving into our groovy back-catalogue of far out episodes - all available on the podcatcher of your choice! podfollow.com/the-swinging... #AgathaChristie #SwingingChristies

FYI we had a glitch and our last two episodes were slightly tardy reaching YouTube... but they're available now if that's where you like to listen! www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9V2...

#SwingingChristies is also available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Pocketcasts, Podbean, Overcast, Audible YOU NAME IT!

L-R: Gray, Jan, Mark at Crescent Arts Centre, Belfast

NEW EPISODE KLAXON! Gray and Mark head now to Belfast to discuss all things Agatha Christie and Ireland with author @jancarsonwrites.bsky.social. Big thanks to Jan for helping us pull on a VERY seldom spoken-about thread in Christie's writings. Listen now: pod.fo/e/3090e9 #SwingingChristies 💃🏻☘️

L book and R dustjacket for "Danger: Great Stories of Mystery and Suspense from The Saturday Evening Post"

Here's what the only 1960s collection that includes BOTH the Queen of Crime AND the Queen of Suspense looks like. Appropriately striking for Agatha Christie and Shirley Jackson, no? Hear all about it and more in our latest podcast ep: pod.fo/e/2f6807 #SwingingChristies 💃🧙‍♀️

Mark (L) and Gray (R) outside Shirley Jackson's former home in Greenwich, New York City

Here's us, a damp Swinging duo outside Shirley Jackson's former home in Greenwich, New York City, recording the intro for our newest episode all about SJ and #AgathaChristie. Listen here: pod.fo/e/2f6807 and pls don't forget to subscribe, rate, review! 💃🏻🧙‍♀️ @markaldridge.info #SwingingChristies

Graphic showing various Penguin Modern Classics covers for Shirley Jackson. Credit: Ryan MacEachern/Penguin

Have you listened to our latest episode yet...? 💃🧙‍♀️ > pod.fo/e/2f6807

#SwingingChristies #AgathaChristie x #ShirleyJackson #podcast #SwingingSixties
Pic from: www.penguin.co.uk/discover/art...

Shirley Jackson Swingafied (Warholified) by Bartlett Studio.

NEW EPISODE KLAXON! #AgathaChristie and #ShirleyJackson - two wickedly witty peas in a pod. And that's exactly what this pod is about! Recorded during our America trip, and including some seldom-seen archival material, it's available on all podcatchers NOW: pod.fo/e/2f6807 #SwingingChristies #1960s

A tribute to Mary Wilson (NOT DIANA ROSS) in the Smithsonian Museum of American History

Occasionally in episodes we say "we'll post a pic of that on socials". Because podcasts famously lack visuals. Apart from those conjured up in your mind of course...

As promised, pics from our recent Washington DC ep - which you can catch now! > pod.fo/e/2e1994 #SwingingChristies #AgathaChristie

Bonus episode titlecard for Swinging USA: New York (Part 1), designed by Bartlett Studios

Bonus episode titlecard for Swinging USA: Washington DC (Part 2), designed by Bartlett Studios

Have you listened to our #SwingingChristies USA miniseries yet?
Part 1 💃 New York 💃 pod.fo/e/2dd689
Part 2 💃 Washington DC 💃 pod.fo/e/2e1994