Agatha Christie | A look at the life and craft of the world's most successful crime writer
Women of Mystery
The female art of crime writing.
CHANNEL | Radio 4
FIRST BROADCAST | 22 December 1982
DURATION | 28 minutes 12 seconds
FIRSTBROADCAST
1982
Synopsis
In this programme, presenter Jessica Mann poses the question: why are so many murder mystery writers genteel, conventional, middle-class women? Agatha Christie's biographer, a crime fiction historian and a psychiatrist address this issue in an examination of the life and works of the most successful crime writer of them all. This broadcast also reveals the culprit in 'The Murder of Roger Ackroyd' at five minutes and 58 seconds into the transmission.
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Agatha Christie is pictured above at the 1937 radio recording of 'Yellow Iris'.
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