The Swinging Christies LIVE! Cool Covers & Groovy Graphics - Packaging Agatha Christie for the 1960s

It’s The Swinging Christies as you've never heard (or seen) it before - with a live audience! Join Mark and Gray at the 2025 International Agatha Christie Festival in Torquay, Devon, for this special recorded and filmed episode all about the  way Agatha Christie’s books were packaged for a whole new Swinging era! Expect laughs, mishaps, ribbing, and even the occasional fact.

With heartfelt thanks to everyone at the festival for making this happen, from the volunteers to the organisers to the bookshop, and a special thanks to our brilliant director and editor for this episode, John Tomkins of Emberlense Productions.

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The Swinging Christies is a Christie Time project by Mark Aldridge and Gray Robert Brown.

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00:00:00 - Opening titles

00:04:15 - Colour

00:17:50 - Shape

00:26:54 - Pattern

00:31:18 - Headline

00:34:21 - Femme

00:39:10 - Psychedelia

00:45:48 - Wrap up, next episode

00:48:48 - Closing titles

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