Episode Details

It's the first full episode of The Swinging Christies! And Mark and Gray are discussing hot topics around sex and the 1960s. How does Agatha Christie write about gender, queerness, feminism, and how often? The answer is: very insightfully, and a lot more than you might think!

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00:00:00 - Opening titles

00:00:59 - Sex

00:08:09 - Pornography

00:16:03 - Girls into women

00:30:20 - “Sexed up” adaptations

00:45:15 - Love and marriage

00:52:00 - Children born out of wedlock, divorce, abortion

01:00:48 - Feminism

01:15:42 - Queerness

01:31:09 - Next episode, how to get in touch

01:31:55 - Closing titles

01:32:16 - Coda

Solutions revealed! - Hallowe'en Party, Endless Night, A Caribbean Mystery, At Bertram's Hotel

TW - sexual references including sexualisation of young people, misogynistic language quoted, homophobic language quoted.