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EPISODE · Apr 20, 2025 · 1H 48M

Swinging India

from The Swinging Christies: Agatha Christie in the 1960s · host The Swinging Christies

Mark and Gray travel to India (metaphorically) in search of the Queen of Crime! Along the way, they discuss various Hindi and Bengali adaptations, and meet with friend-of-the-podcast and expert adaptor/writer Ayeesha Menon to discuss her Mumbai stage version of The Mirror Crack’d!You can find us on Instagram @Christie_Time. We are on Bluesky at christietime.bsky.social. Please do subscribe, rate and review us wherever you get your podcasts.Our website is ChristieTime.com.Ayeesha Menon can be found via her production company ⁠Goldhawk Productions⁠. Her excellent drama podcast ⁠Mumbai Crime⁠ is available on all good podcatchers.The Swinging Christies is a Christie Time project by Mark Aldridge and Gray Robert Brown.Next episode: stay tuned…!0:00:00 - Opening titles00:00:41 - Introductory chat00:06:25 - Agatha and India00:14:57 - Chupi Chupi Aashey (1960 Bengali version of The Mousetrap)00:29:51 - Gumnaam (1965 Hindi version of And Then There Were None)00:39:42 - Shubho Mahurat (2003 Bengali version of The Mirror Crack’d from Side to Side)00:56:12 - Interview with Ayeesha Menon, adaptor of The Mirror Crack’d for the Mumbai stage01:45:12 - How to get in touch01:46:35 - Closing titles01:47:02 - CodaSolutions revealed! - The Mirror Crack’d from Side to Side. NOT THE MOUSETRAP! We would never!TW: discussion of struggle with fertility, miscarriage, IVF etc.

Mark and Gray travel to India (metaphorically) in search of the Queen of Crime! Along the way, they discuss various Hindi and Bengali adaptations, and meet with friend-of-the-podcast and expert adaptor/writer Ayeesha Menon to discuss her Mumbai stage version of The Mirror Crack’d!You can find us on Instagram @Christie_Time. We are on Bluesky at christietime.bsky.social. Please do subscribe, rate and review us wherever you get your podcasts.Our website is ChristieTime.com.Ayeesha Menon can be found via her production company ⁠Goldhawk Productions⁠. Her excellent drama podcast ⁠Mumbai Crime⁠ is available on all good podcatchers.The Swinging Christies is a Christie Time project by Mark Aldridge and Gray Robert Brown.Next episode: stay tuned…!0:00:00 - Opening titles00:00:41 - Introductory chat00:06:25 - Agatha and India00:14:57 - Chupi Chupi Aashey (1960 Bengali version of The Mousetrap)00:29:51 - Gumnaam (1965 Hindi version of And Then There Were None)00:39:42 - Shubho Mahurat (2003 Bengali version of The Mirror Crack’d from Side to Side)00:56:12 - Interview with Ayeesha Menon, adaptor of The Mirror Crack’d for the Mumbai stage01:45:12 - How to get in touch01:46:35 - Closing titles01:47:02 - CodaSolutions revealed! - The Mirror Crack’d from Side to Side. NOT THE MOUSETRAP! We would never!TW: discussion of struggle with fertility, miscarriage, IVF etc.

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