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The Swinging Christies @christietime.bsky.social · 29m

"Nobody ever wrote a masterpiece before the age of thirty-five." - The Millstone, Margaret Drabble (1965)

Your reminder that Agatha Christie was 69 when the 1960s dawned... 😉💃💃💃

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The Swinging Christies @christietime.bsky.social · 1d

Ah thank you so much! Glad you enjoyed

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rithebard.bsky.social @rithebard.bsky.social · 4d

Congrats!

The Swinging Christies @christietime.bsky.social · 8d

Our live episode is on track to be our BIGGEST EPISODE on YouTube to date! (Which makes sense I guess, given there's something to watch, even if it is just our wild gesticulations.) See what all the fuss is about > www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjs_... 📺💃💃 or listen as normal > pod.fo/e/332d77

The Swinging Christies: Agatha Christie in the 1960s: LIVE! Cool Covers and Groovy Graphics - Packaging Agatha Christie for the 1960s

It’s The Swinging Christies as you've never heard (or seen) it before - with a live audience! Join Mark and Gray at the 2025 International Agatha Christie Festival in Torquay, Devon, for this...

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The Swinging Christies @christietime.bsky.social · 7d

Not one but two quotes, from two episodes, I misremembered !

Start of Chapter 3 of White Heat by Dominic Sandbrook

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The Swinging Christies @christietime.bsky.social · 8d

Our live episode is on track to be our BIGGEST EPISODE on YouTube to date! (Which makes sense I guess, given there's something to watch, even if it is just our wild gesticulations.) See what all the fuss is about > www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjs_... 📺💃💃 or listen as normal > pod.fo/e/332d77

The Swinging Christies: Agatha Christie in the 1960s: LIVE! Cool Covers and Groovy Graphics - Packaging Agatha Christie for the 1960s

It’s The Swinging Christies as you've never heard (or seen) it before - with a live audience! Join Mark and Gray at the 2025 International Agatha Christie Festival in Torquay, Devon, for this...

pod.fo

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The Swinging Christies @christietime.bsky.social · 8d

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

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The Swinging Christies @christietime.bsky.social · 8d

Sandbrook opens a whole chapter on a quote from this episode in White Heat!

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The Swinging Christies @christietime.bsky.social · 10d

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

Alex Will Resurrect That Werewolf Pic 🔸🏳️‍🌈 @alexwilcock.bsky.social · 10d

I listened to this while out for a long walk yesterday and had to imagine the excitingly gaudy visuals, though apparently there’s a new-fangled on-screen in-colour version (but, being the Sixties, only 0.3% of viewers can watch it)

The Swinging Christies @christietime.bsky.social · 11d

We've Swung our way into TECHNICOLOUR! Oh it's the future, dear Swingers. You can WATCH our LIVE EPISODE on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjs_... or Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/6lQg... or if you think we have faces for radio, just listen: pod.fo/e/332d77 💃📺📻 @agathafestival.bsky.social

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The Swinging Christies @christietime.bsky.social · 10d

Find out the answers to such questions as: what connects Help by the Beatles and Agatha Christie? Truman Capote and Third Girl? Mark Rothko and Tesco? 😂💃🏻

Agatha Christie Festival @agathafestival.bsky.social · 10d

For those who weren’t able to be there (or indeed anyone who was there), here’s the first ever video episode of the Swinging Christies - recorded at the recent Agatha Christie Festival. It’s groovy, baby!🌻
Thank you to Emberlense films

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The Swinging Christies LIVE! Cool Covers & Groovy Graphics - Packaging Agatha Christie for the 1960s

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Mark Aldridge @markaldridge.info · 11d

Our first video episode of The Swinging Christies - recorded LIVE at @agathafestival.bsky.social, filmed and edited by Emberlense Productions! Video available on YouTube and supported podcast apps, including Spotify. #AgathaChristie @christietime.bsky.social

youtu.be/gjs_0IjqgVA?...

The Swinging Christies LIVE! Cool Covers & Groovy Graphics - Packaging Agatha Christie for the 1960s

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The Swinging Christies @christietime.bsky.social · 11d

We've Swung our way into TECHNICOLOUR! Oh it's the future, dear Swingers. You can WATCH our LIVE EPISODE on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjs_... or Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/6lQg... or if you think we have faces for radio, just listen: pod.fo/e/332d77 💃📺📻 @agathafestival.bsky.social

L Mark Aldridge and R Gray Robert Brown (with some sunflowers between them) at The Swinging Christies LIVE! episode recording on 19/09/2025 as part of the International Agatha Christie Festival in Torquay, Devon

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The Swinging Christies @christietime.bsky.social · 13d

READ ALL ABOUT IT 💃💃

Agatha Christie Festival @agathafestival.bsky.social · 13d

We made the front page of the newspaper! The mystery of the curious headline is explained on page 4. And there's a double page spread of photos inside, so see if you recognise anyone...

Thank you to Torbay Weekly and Ben Tisdale for all of the support.

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The Swinging Christies @christietime.bsky.social · 17d

LOVE this! Apple and all!

Speaking of apples, our Hallowe'en ep isn't far off... 🍏💃🏻

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The Swinging Christies @christietime.bsky.social · 17d

yeah well it's only 40 miles away from Agatha's Wallingford I guess!

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The Swinging Christies @christietime.bsky.social · 18d

My phone just autocorrected Swindon to Swinging 💃🏻💃🏻

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Richard Banks @lyricalbankster.bsky.social · 18d

Every episode I think: “they’ll never top this one”. But I genuinely think this one’ll be impossible to surpass. On a trip to Estonia we noticed they’re as passionate as ever about classic detective fiction.

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The Swinging Christies @christietime.bsky.social · 18d

Aw that's such a lovely comment Richard thank you! And those pics are fascinating. Our next one - the live audience recording - was the most giddy yet, so hopefully you'll enjoy. Coming soon!

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The Swinging Christies @christietime.bsky.social · 18d

We agree 💖

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The Swinging Christies @christietime.bsky.social · 18d

Thank you so much for coming 💃🏻💃🏻

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Dr Angela Buckley @drangelabuckley.bsky.social · 18d

I had a wonderful time at @agathafestival.bsky.social - fantastic talks from Kemper Donovan, Dr John Curran, @victoriadowd.bsky.social, David Brawn and a fabulous evening at a LIVE recording of @christietime.bsky.social with @markaldridge.info and Gray Robert Brown. A great weekend!

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The Swinging Christies @christietime.bsky.social · 20d

Thanks for listening and saying so!! 💖💃🏻

The Swinging Christies @christietime.bsky.social · 21d

We are so excited for our first ever live episode recording tomorrow!!!!!

The ep will drop on all our normal platforms including a filmed version for YouTube in the days/weeks afterwards! 💃🏻💃🏻

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The Swinging Christies @christietime.bsky.social · 24d

Not a single 1959-1970 title there. For shame! 😉

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Bert’s Books @bertsbooks.bsky.social · 24d

It’s Agatha Christie’s birthday today, so it’s an even better day than usual to buy one of her books!

Or any book, really. Like all the best people, she loved reading. - Michael

It is only when you see people being ridiculous that you realise just how much you love them. - Agatha Christie

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The Swinging Christies @christietime.bsky.social · 26d

Lovely to see some of the @goldenagemysteries.bsky.social crew tonight - another day of great academic papers on Agatha Christie and her contemporaries awaits tomorrow!

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