Mark Aldridge

Textbook Apple

The most baffling thing about the EastEnders repeats on U&Drama is that they are STILL preceded by The Bill, which it seems ran for at least a decade longer than I thought

I still harbour resentment for when it screwed up my entire catalogue. Talk about giving me a reason to cut the Apple cord - they did it for me!

Doctor Who looking bored

Got a full day off tomorrow

It might be more than a month away but several events are about to sell about for the International Agatha Christie Festival - including my chat about Witness for the Prosecution and the first ever live episode of The Swinging Christies @christietime.bsky.social #AgathaChristie

Pssst. An offer for #Bookish people - the unfoxable
Kindle edition can now be downloaded for £4.99. Banish that summer sun and go an enjoy yourself in foggy, bomb-shattered postwar London. amazon.co.uk/Bookish-warm...

Episode underrunning Tony? #Crossroads

It might be more than a month away but several events are about to sell about for the International Agatha Christie Festival - including my chat about Witness for the Prosecution and the first ever live episode of The Swinging Christies @christietime.bsky.social #AgathaChristie

Very informal screening of Penda's Fen + me at the University of Roehampton tomorrow (Tuesday) at 6pm. Obviously I want you all to go to the bells and whistles screening with Spencer Banks at the Barbican on September 6 but if you can't make that for whatever reason, then DM me about tomorrow. Ta.

YouTube video by The Swinging Christies Still Swinging (Bonus Episode) - Interview with Jan Carson at the Belfast Book Festival

FYI we had a glitch and our last two episodes were slightly tardy reaching YouTube... but they're available now if that's where you like to listen! www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9V2...

#SwingingChristies is also available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Pocketcasts, Podbean, Overcast, Audible YOU NAME IT!

Ha! The "magic" of podcasting...

L-R: Gray, Jan, Mark at Crescent Arts Centre, Belfast

NEW EPISODE KLAXON! Gray and Mark head now to Belfast to discuss all things Agatha Christie and Ireland with author @jancarsonwrites.bsky.social. Big thanks to Jan for helping us pull on a VERY seldom spoken-about thread in Christie's writings. Listen now: pod.fo/e/3090e9 #SwingingChristies 💃🏻☘️

A recent season of Drag Race UK removed a contestant from the first two episodes and it was seamless. Absolutely extraordinary, the editor should have won awards. Bear in mind at least half the show is the contestants milling around and chatting, then lining up on a stage together!

L book and R dustjacket for "Danger: Great Stories of Mystery and Suspense from The Saturday Evening Post"

Here's what the only 1960s collection that includes BOTH the Queen of Crime AND the Queen of Suspense looks like. Appropriately striking for Agatha Christie and Shirley Jackson, no? Hear all about it and more in our latest podcast ep: pod.fo/e/2f6807 #SwingingChristies 💃🧙‍♀️

Exactly my thought! Many many contestants in TV shows would be happily edited out if they have an early exit or a disaster...

Reports suggest it's going to be a Swinging Sunday.......... 👀💃🏻

I note another title page error to join The Third Girl - The HoundS of Death!

Saw Burlesque the musical on stage and can report that there is NO mention of Air Rights!!

Not gonna say we are a little obsessive about planning, but we now know what we are doing in 2027 #AgathaChristie

Extremely ugly photo covers of Agatha Christie books, most of which are trying to look like a face for some reason

Love Agatha Christie AND hideous covers that will haunt your nightmares? This eBay auction has you sorted! #AgathaChristie

I'd like to see Mandy get a job as a Gladiator one day

A page on FB dedicated to remembering life in good Old Britain is currently celebrating...

The Moorgate tube disaster.

2 weeks today until our next ep... 💃☘️

If you're in the area the Agatha Christie Festival in Torquay is the same week!

Dr Mark Aldridge (in conversation with Marcus Field) - The Flavel Showing from Sun 21 Sep

On 21 September I'll be in conversation with Marcus Field at the Dartmouth Book Festival. Come along if you're free! theflavel.org.uk/TheFlavel.dl...

Absolutely no idea, I was just walking home.

For all the tech stuff the only bits I remember are Jason from Take That's acting (bless) and a decaying Brighton pier

"Oi!" shouts random van driver at me, who then sticks his middle finger up, laughing. What is this, the NINETIES?!

First page of the play Tea for Three

Very pleased to get a copy of this obscure one-act play, 'Tea for Three'. It's a dramatisation of Christie's short story 'Accident', written by Margery Vosper, whose brother Frank adapted Philomel Cottage as Love from a Stranger. The stories have quite a bit in common! #AgathaChristie

The Bookish book - available for eyes and ears from today.