Tea & Murder: An Agatha Christie Podcast

Writer, historian, and curator Subhadra Das has been exploring the connection between Golden Age detective fiction and eugenics. In this interview, she discusses the late Christie work, Elephants Can Remember. She and host Rebecca Thandi Norman address eugenics concepts across Christie's career, why Poirot would take this case, if "twin plots" ever really work, and which book Rebecca thought she was agreeing to before getting started (spoilers: it wasn't the right one!).

Read Elephants Can Remember
Read Uncivilised: Ten Lies that Made the West by Subhadra Das
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Visit Subhadra's website

This podcast is hosted by Rebecca Thandi Norman and produced by Kate Krosschell. Our sound engineer is Winther Robinson. Have feedback for us? Get in touch! Email us at teaandmurderpodcast@gmail.com or follow at @teaandmurder on Instagram.
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Ram Murali's debut novel, Death in the Air, is not only a fun and glamorous mystery set in an Indian hotel, it's also a love letter to Agatha Christie. Host Rebecca and Ram discuss homages to Christie's work, how characters are created, and the messy-but-sometimes-fun Death in the Clouds.

Read Death in the Air by Ram Murali
Read Death in the Clouds by Agatha Christie

This podcast is hosted by Rebecca Thandi Norman and produced by Kate Krosschell. Our sound engineer is Winther Robinson. Have feedback for us? Get in touch! Email us at teaandmurderpodcast@gmail.com or follow at @teaandmurder on Instagram.

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In the first episode of season 1, host Rebecca Thandi Norman welcomes comedian and writer Josh Gondelman to discuss the classic kids' comedy book, Sideways Stories from Wayside School by Louis Sachar. They dive into how to structure jokes for kids that still resonate with adults and to how this book is reflected in Josh's own work. How does a comedian build his comedic sensibility? Books are a pretty good start!

Read Sideways Stories from Wayside School

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Read Josh's book, Nice Try: Stories of Best Intentions and Mixed Results

Resources we discussed off-mic:
Labour Notes
How Things Work by Hamilton Nolan
Salvo by Kim Kelly
Jacobin articles by Alex N. Press

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Has a book ever changed your life? How old were you? At Book Imprint, host Rebecca Thandi Norman interviews people about the books that changed their lives before the age of 25, ostensibly the time until which our brains are developing.

Check out the trailer and subscribe to our feed at Book Imprint to listen to the first episode, launching 29th January 2025.

Join us for season 1! Have questions or comments? Write to us at bookimprintpodcast@gmail.com and follow along at @bookimprintpodcast.

This podcast is produced by Kate Krosschell with sound engineering by Winther Robinson.
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We have news! This is not only the final episode of season 3....it's also the final episode of Tea & Murder! Ever! Well, at least for now. We're answering some listener questions, including how to get away with murder, how to fake your own death, and even a few questions about Christie's work!

Books recommended in this episode:
The Couple at the Table by Sophie Hannah
A Game for All the Family by Sophie Hannah
Case Histories by Kate Atkinson
Everyone Here is Lying by Shari Lapena
The Whispers by Ashley Audrain
These Toxic Things by Rachel Howzell Hall
Trail of Echoes by Rachel Howzell Hall

Stay subscribed to this feed to hear the first episode of our upcoming podcast, Book Imprint, which will be interviews with notable people about books that changed their lives before the age of 25. And we might occasionally drop in a new episode of Tea & Murder as a little treat.

Special thanks to Bond & Grace, our season 3 sponsor. You can get 20% off with code TEA20.

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