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Christie Time @christietime.com · 13/09/2026

Join us for our special wrap-up episode of #Westmapod: Agatha Christie's Secret Identity, which is OUT NOW! Who is Mary Westmacott? We have the definitive answer!* Listen here my #Westmangels > pod.fo/e/6094df *Sort of

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Christie Time @christietime.com · 30/08/2026

NEW EPISODE! And it's confession time...! Several times during Agatha Christie's life she sat down to write answers to some personal questions in a family book - and we have been granted access to them! Listen here now: pod.fo/e/5a1c58

"The Further Confessions of Agatha Christie" episode artwork designed by Tom Double.

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Christie Time @christietime.com · 23/08/2026

COVER REVEAL!!! The #SwingingChristies: How Agatha Christie Conquered the 1960s, by Mark Aldridge and Gray Robert Brown, coming next February from HarperCollins, and it has a RAD NEW LOOK! Pre-order now: harpercollins.co.uk/products/the... #AgathaChristie #booksky

THE SWINGING CHRISTIES book cover, designed by HarperCollins using elements from Bartlett Studio

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Christie Time @christietime.com · 15/08/2026

A live episode of The #SwingingChristies and a screening of a Agatha Christie cult classic in an iconic venue?? Surely not!! Weds 4 Nov TICKETS ON SALE NOW > thecastlecinema.com/programme/11...

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Christie Time @christietime.com · 02/08/2026

NEW EPISODE! This month's #SwingingChristies is a spotlight on the Miss Marple Margaret Rutherford film, 1964's #MurderMostFoul. But is it foul?? You'll have to listen to find out! > pod.fo/e/4e5223

Original theatrical poster of Murder Most Foul

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Christie Time @christietime.com · 29/07/2026

So THAT'S what my co-host has been up to 👀👀👀👀

Titlecard for "The Agatha Christie Hour", 1982

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Christie Time @christietime.com · 07/07/2026

NEW #WESTMAPOD! And it's probably the least known of the Agatha Christie x Mary Westmacott titles - is it secretly the best...? Join Mark and Gray for their podcast discussion to find out! > pod.fo/e/44390c

"The Burden" episode artwork by Tom Double

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Christie Time @christietime.com · 05/07/2026

Ever wonder, where oh where should I start with the #SwingingChristies?? Both the hit podcast (😉💖) and the books themselves?? Well wonder no more, and listen here! > pod.fo/e/44205d 💃🏻🎧

Titlecard artwork "Where to Start with..." by Tom Double

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Christie Time @christietime.com · 23/06/2026

This will appeal to approximately >10 of our listeners, but both hosts, sooo

The Swinging Christies title done in the style of Blake's 7 episode titlecards

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Christie Time @christietime.com · 23/06/2026

BONUS PODCAST EPISODE! We've done A Daughter's A Daughter by Agatha Christie/Mary Westmacott - but did you know it was a play first? What are the similarities, differences, and which one's better? Listen now > pod.fo/e/4374c9 🎧📚🎭💐 Catch up on the novel episode > pod.fo/e/42be70 🎧📚🎭💐

"Westmapod" A Daughter's A Daughter - the play titlecard by Tom Double

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Christie Time @christietime.com · 09/06/2026

NEW #WESTMAPOD! Agatha Christie aka Mary Westmacott has had a stunning, emotionally-complex play script in the draw for some time. So, in 1952 she converts it into a stunning novel! Join Mark and Gray as they discuss the fifth of six Westmacott novels: A Daughter's A Daughter > pod.fo/e/42be70

"Westmapod" A Daughter's A Daughter episode art by Tom Double

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Christie Time @christietime.com · 07/06/2026

NEW #SWINGINGCHRISTIES EP! And it's a laugh a minute! Join us while we ask the question, "is Agatha Christie a mix of murder and mirth?" at the London Comedy Film Festival! Listen here: pod.fo/e/42a228 🎭💃🏻💖🎧😂

"Murder She Said" - Miss Marple (Margaret Rutherford) blowing a raspberry

Miss Marple (Margaret Rutherford) hoping for a hole-in-one!

Dr Benedict Morrison (LOCO) and Gray Robert Brown (Christie Time)

Mr Stringer gives Miss Marple (Margaret Rutherford) a leg-up

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Christie Time @christietime.com · 26/05/2026

NEW PODCAST DAY! The secret's out - Mary Westmacott's identity has been discovered. But what of the book she publishes just before that? How similar is it to Agatha Christie's other books. Oh woops- spoilers. It's her. Sorry. Happy listening Westmafans! > pod.fo/e/41f17c #Westmapod 🌹🌳📚🎧🌹🌳

"The Rose and the Yew Tree" titlecard artwork designed by Tom Double.

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Christie Time @christietime.com · 12/05/2026

NEW #WESTMAPOD JUST DROPPED! And for this very special Agatha Christie novel we are joined by the gorgeous Kemper Donovan from All About Agatha! Listen now: pod.fo/e/413b0a

Westmapod "Absent in the Spring" titlecard designed by Tom Double

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Christie Time @christietime.com · 28/04/2026

NEW #WESTMAPOD OUT TODAY! And we recorded it in glorious Tenerife. Listen on and let us know what you thought of Agatha Christie's second secret book, #UnfinishedPortrait! > pod.fo/e/40880b #Westmafan

Unfinished Portrait original artwork by Tom Double.

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Christie Time @christietime.com · 14/04/2026

NEW EPISODE JUST DROPPED! #Westmapod kicks off properly now with episode 1, book 1, #GiantsBread, Agatha Christie's first secret novel! What did Mark and Gray make of it? Listen on to find out: pod.fo/e/3fdd40 and please rate, review and subscribe!

GIANT'S BREAD artwork by Tom Double for Westmapod, Christie Time.

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Christie Time @christietime.com · 07/04/2026

Hello Bluesky! 🦋 We are Christie Time and we make Agatha Christie podcasts because she's the best! Check them out ➡️ The #SwingingChristies: podfollow.com/the-swinging... 💃 And #Westmapod: podfollow.com/westmapod-ag... 📚 All links here: linktr.ee/christietime 💖

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Christie Time @christietime.com · 01/04/2026

Thanks @radiotimes.bsky.social for our eggs-cellent endorsement in the Easter issue!!!! On sale now 🐣🥹📚🎧 #Westmapod available now! > podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/w...

Review of Westmapod in the Radio Times Easter edition

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Christie Time @christietime.com · 06/03/2026

Gray is hosting an original talk THE MYSTERIOUS CASE OF ROGER STYLES at the @agathafestival.bsky.social in September! You're a spy, you're on the run, who do you turn to- but Agatha Christie?! It's going to be a wild ride! Tickets on sale now! > www.iacf-uk.org/festival-202...

Mark was very clear that he wanted credit for taking this photo of Gray at a previous Agatha Christie event.

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Christie Time @christietime.com · 01/03/2026

NEW EPISODE KLAXON! Agatha Christie - Work in Progress. Come Swing with us! > pod.fo/e/39a630 🎧💃🏻🎧💃🏻🎧💃🏻

Titlecard for Agatha Christie: Work in Progress, designed by Tom Double

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Christie Time @christietime.com · 28/02/2026

It's truly addictive stirring-fox-7e1fab.netlify.app

Parody headline: The sinister alliance between big business and Westmapod is destroying free markets

Parody headline: Dr Mark Aldridge is a symptom of a deeply-sick, anti-Western ideology

Parody headline: The total failure of Gray Robert Brown exposes the moral bankruptcy of the Left

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Christie Time @christietime.com · 27/02/2026

Accidentally got hooked on this

Headline generator - "How The Swinging Christies became the ultimate tool for the Left to destroy our liberties" (parody/satire)

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Christie Time @christietime.com · 14/02/2026

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

Screengrab from "Resources" page on the Christie Time website

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Christie Time @christietime.com · 08/02/2026

Peek behind the curtain, here we are recording our Agatha Christie in Devon special in the Burgh Island Hotel! Catch it now if you haven't already: pod.fo/e/3855e3

Mark L and Gray R on the (portable) mics! In a Burgh Island Hotel suite (fancy)

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Christie Time @christietime.com · 03/02/2026

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

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

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Christie Time @christietime.com · 01/02/2026

Why not listen back to our Muriel Spark special on what would have been her birthday? Born OTD in 1918. Agatha Christie was a fan- so should you be!! > pod.fo/e/2a782a

Muriel Spark in the style of Andy Warhol, designed by Mitch Bartlett

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Christie Time @christietime.com · 01/02/2026

NEW EPISODE JUST DROPPED! Recorded specially from @burghislandhotel.bsky.social, we discuss Agatha Christie in Devon in the 1960s, and meet the proprietor of this gorgeous art deco hotel, on the island that inspired some of Christie's best plots... Listen now: pod.fo/e/3855e3 #podcast

Mark Aldridge (R) and Gray Robert Brown (L) outside Burgh Island Hotel, December 2025

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Christie Time @christietime.com · 23/01/2026

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

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Christie Time @christietime.com · 04/01/2026

WESTMAPOD: Agatha Christie's Secret Identity New podcast launches 31 March 2026

Podcast art for "Westmapod", designed by Tom Double.

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Christie Time @christietime.com · 04/01/2026

NEW YEAR, NEW US, NEW EPISODE! Concern for the planet was rising throughout the 1960s, so Mark and Gray play detective and search tor traces of this theme in Agatha Christie's 1960s works. PLUS a very special announcement just a few minutes in... Listen here: pod.fo/e/37209b 💃🏻🎆🎇🌱

Titlecard "Climate Change" for The Swinging Christies designed by Tom Double.

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Christie Time @christietime.com · 30/12/2025

Gearing up for the New Year? Why not relive our last New Year special, all about the 1960s trend for looking to the past... a crime of which we're all guilty! Including, sometimes, Agatha Christie! ➡️🎧 pod.fo/e/2999e1

The Swinging Christies "Revivalism" titlecard, designed by Bartlett Studio

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Christie Time @christietime.com · 28/12/2025

It's chilly outside, stay in the warm and put our podcast on, mes amis! ➡️ 🎧 pod.fo/e/366136 💃🏻🎄

Poirot (David Suchet) in the snow for Agatha Christie's Poirot: Murder on the Orient Express (2010)

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Christie Time @christietime.com · 24/12/2025

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

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

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Christie Time @christietime.com · 21/12/2025

Don't you want to pull a cracker with Poirot? New Christmas special, spotlighting two seasonal David Suchet specials, out now! ➡️ pod.fo/e/366136 #AgathaChristie 💃🎧🎄

Screencap of David Suchet in The Theft of the Royal Ruby, for Agatha Christie's Poirot (1991)

The Theft of the Royal Ruby's source material- The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding, first published in expanded form in 1960

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Christie Time @christietime.com · 18/12/2025

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

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Christie Time @christietime.com · 16/12/2025

We had such a lovely, festive time at the Burgh Island Hotel. We'll be back for sure! 💃🏻🏝️

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Christie Time @christietime.com · 14/12/2025

MERRY CHRISTMAS SWINGERS! Our new Agatha Christie x Christmas podcast special has just dropped, a fun romp through not one but two festive (or festive-adjacent) ITV Poirot adaptations starring David Suchet. Listen here: pod.fo/e/366136

Titlecard from Agatha Christie's Poirot: The Mystery of the Spanish Chest (1991)

Titlecard from Agatha Christie's Poirot: The Theft of the Royal Ruby (1991)

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Christie Time @christietime.com · 11/12/2025

Feeling festive? Why not curl up with our Christmas special from last year? ➡️ pod.fo/e/294968

Titlecard for Christmas 2024, designed by Bartlett Studio

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Christie Time @christietime.com · 07/12/2025

Our Belfast special provoked the most conversation this year! We found that one so illuminating. Check it out if you missed, or listen again at ➡️ pod.fo/e/3090e9 #AgathaChristie #podcast with special guest @jancarsonwrites.bsky.social

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Christie Time @christietime.com · 04/12/2025

Thrilled that our REVIVALISM special from January is getting its flowers. If you haven't heard it, it's still available on all good podcatchers ➡️ pod.fo/e/2999e1 #AgathaChristie #podcast

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Christie Time @christietime.com · 03/12/2025

Our #SpotifyWrapped is so good it looks fabricated 😭💖💃🏻 If we appeared on yours please let us know!!

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Christie Time @christietime.com · 30/11/2025

New episode is going down well, eh 🎧➡️ pod.fo/e/353a30

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Christie Time @christietime.com · 27/11/2025

QUESTION: what connects doomed BBC soap opera Eldorado and Agatha Christie's Swinging novel, #AtBertramsHotel? Answers on a postcard dears (or just y'know reply)

Facsimile first edition of AT BERTRAM'S HOTEL by Agatha Christie (1965)

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Christie Time @christietime.com · 17/11/2025

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 💃🏻💃🏻

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

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Christie Time @christietime.com · 16/11/2025

We had a great time at the International Agatha Christie Festival in Puerto de la Cruz, Tenerife - big thanks to the organisers, attendees and our fellow speakers! In fact we had such a great time, we made this episode out there - and it's available here now: pod.fo/e/353a30

Gray L and Mark R having presented The Swinging Christies: The Story So Far, International Agatha Christie Festival 2025, Tenerife

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Christie Time @christietime.com · 11/11/2025

Pleased to see a few Swinging titles represented on these beautiful steps! #TheMarkFromTheSea @markaldridge.info

The Agatha Christie steps, Puerto de la Cruz, Tenerife

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Christie Time @christietime.com · 02/11/2025

It's not too late to catch our Hallowe'en special before things start to get a little Christmassy... pod.fo/e/3448f0 and on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGUG... There will be an episode in November, and our now-annual Christmas special is due on 14 December! 💃🍏

Facsimile first edition of Hallowe'en Party by Agatha Christie

Tina Fey as Ariadne Oliver in A Haunting in Venice (2023)

Poirot post-apple bobbing in A Haunting in Venice (2023)

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Christie Time @christietime.com · 31/10/2025

Happy Hallowe'en Swingers!! Dish out that potion (pumpkin soup? Wine?), light some gnarled old candles, and curl up under a blanket with our new Hallowe'en podcast: pod.fo/e/3448f0 discussing the #HalloweenParty adaptation that relocated from 1969 to 1947. Plus apple bobbing! #AgathaChristie 🎃👻💃

Pumpkin spice colourway of Agatha Christie's portrait in the style of Andy Warhol for The Swinging Christies, designed by Bartlett Studio

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