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Torquay
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Agatha Christie is Torquay's most well-known resident and the best selling author of all…
Festival
St Marychurch, Torquay
Between 1941 and 1947 Agatha Christie lived in the Lawn Road Flats in Hampstead, Britain’s first Modernist apartment block. Advertised during the Blitz, as the “safest building in London”, it was here, living in a tiny, 25-square-metre Minimum…
Talk or Lecture
The King's Drive , Torquay
Most Christie fans are aware of a small number of high-profile criminal cases that Christie ripped from the headlines for a few of her most celebrated works (e.g. Murder on the Orient Express, The Mousetrap). In a LIVE recording of an episode for…
Talk or Lecture
Torquay
Even if you've never read an Agatha Christie novel or watched one of her plays, it doesn't matter!
This fascinating walking tour tells the story of her extraordinary life, which is as interesting as any of her novels. Whilst following the stunning…
Walking
The Kings Drive, Torquay
John Curran looks at Golden Age detective fiction as a literary game and explains how Agatha Christie was the greatest player. Ever.
Internationally recognised expert on Christie’s work, Dr John Curran, is a literary scholar and archivist who…
Talk or Lecture
The Kings Drive, Torquay
To commemorate the 100th anniversary of the publication of The Secret of Chimneys, bestselling Devon-based author, Victoria Dowd, will give an entertaining talk on Bundle Brent. Lady Eileen ‘Bundle’ Brent featured in both The Secret of Chimneys and…
Talk or Lecture
Brixham
Murder in the Studio is a collection of three murder mysteries plays by the Queen of Crime, and local celebrity, Agatha Christie. They were originally performed on BBC radio from the 1930s to 1950s, and have been specially adapted for the stage. So…
Performance
TORQUAY
Continuing Marple and Poirot
Lucy Foley and Sophie Hannah, Interviewed by David Brawn
In March, it was announced that Lucy Foley will be writing a new Miss Marple novel. After the success of the 2022 Marple book, with twelve new short stories by…
Talk or Lecture
Torquay
HarperCollins’ head of literary estates David Brawn marks 30 years in his role as Agatha Christie’s publisher by taking us behind the scenes of her UK publishing house and giving a unique insight into how the author’s complete canon of novels and…
Talk or Lecture
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