Retaining the title of the “Queen of Crime” to this day, Agatha Christie is the best-selling novelist of all time. Across 66 novels, 14 short-story collections, and 20 stage plays, she depicted the evil lurking in the hearts of ordinary people. But how did this homeschooled daughter of a privileged English family learn so much about poisons, psychopaths and ... Show More
May 24
The Golden Age of Railways
In the early nineteenth century, engineers discovered that steam power and iron rails could be combined to move people and goods faster than any horse or ox could. Within a few decades, railways had spread across every continent. Cities were reorganised around stations, clocks we ... Show More
55m 5s
May 2023
The Clutter Family Murders
It’s one of the most famous cases in True Crime history, thanks to Truman Capote’s classic
book In Cold Blood. The story begins one night in November 1959 when something dark and
dangerous drifts into the small village of Holcomb, Kansas, killing four members of the same
family. ... Show More
51m 16s
Jun 2014
Ep 066 - The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, by Agatha Christie
<p>Agatha Christie is the owner of numerous superlatives: best-selling novelist, influential mystery writer, criminally successful playwright. Also, did we mention she's a dame?</p><p>Her novel, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, written in the 1930s, endures not on ... Show More
50m 10s