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Agatha Christie: Lucy Worsley on the Mystery Queen is a 2022 television documentary broadcast on BBC. It is hosted by historian and author Lucy Worsley.

Episode 1: Cat Among the Pigeons[]

In the 1920s, Agatha Christie listed her occupation as novelist, revealing that she had ambitions. Yet by the 1960s, she called herself a "married woman" who just happened to achieve success by accident. What changed? This episode explores how Agatha Christie's childhood and the upheavals of the First World War were crucial in shaping the kind of person she become. Worsley suggests that the young Agatha gradually developed a disdain and disenchantment with authority and established norms. In her early novels such as The Mysterious Affair at Styles and crucially in The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, she proved willing to subvert expectations. The success of her novels gave her a reputation as "a clever woman" (she bought "Styles House", for example, in her own name--at a time when few women could afford to do so). She had become a woman in control of her own destiny. But society in the 1920s that was unready for such a concept and for Worsley this could explain why Agatha Christie later took pains to conceal her brilliance in plain sight.

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Episode 2: Destination Unknown[]

  • Prof. Edgar Jones - King's College London
  • Dr. Claire Hilton - Royal College of Psychiatrists
  • Prof. Adrian Bingham - University of Sheffield
  • Prof. Zainab Bahrani - Columbia University
  • Dr. Mark Aldridge - Solent University
  • Kate Mosse - Novelist and Playwright
  • Ruth Ware - Novelist
  • Jean Kwok - Novelist
  • Emily Bowker as Agatha Christie

Episode 3: Unfinished Portrait[]

  • Dr. Elena Pischikova - Director, South Asasif Conservation Project
  • Katherine Blakeney - Assistant Director, South Asasif Conservation Project
  • Prof. Frankie Bailey - Crime Historian & Author
  • Dr. Julius Green - Author, Agatha Christie: A Life in Theatre
  • Caroline Crampton - Author & Podcaster
  • Jo Cameron Brown as Agatha Christie
  • Mary Conlon as Woman on Train 1
  • Emily Swain as Woman on Train 2
  • Roger Nye as Train Guard
  • Anthony James Gordon as Passenger
  • Jamie Langlands as Passenger
  • Karin Hranicka as Passenger
  • Laura Way as Passenger
  • Alouette Hill as Passenger
  • Martha Bond as Passenger
  • Steve Langley as Passenger