Agatha Christie Festival in Torquay

 

 

 

There has been a long delay in posting my report on this, apologies for that.

I had a tremendous time in Torquay – it was the first time I had attended the Festival, and it was great fun and I wished I could stay longer. Next year! There are many splendid events going on, of all different kinds: my talk was part of the Literary Festival.

I very much enjoyed the other events I was able to take in, including Brad Friedman’s excellent film about his long history producing Agatha Christie plays – this from the programme:  'In this short film which he describes as a “labour of love”, high school drama teacher Brad Friedman shares how he took every opportunity to introduce his students and local community to his favourite author.'

And you can view his film on YouTube right here

I gave a 45 minute talk on various aspects of clothes in Christie, illustrated with more than 50 slides, and luckily a lot of people turned up to listen (including some very kind old friends who surprised me!). I expect aspects of the talk will turn up in blogposts in the near future. I had a great time meeting up with old friends - including Kate Jackson of Cross Examining Crime, who was also giving a talk -  and also made some new ones.

There is now a lovely short film showing highlights of the festival - you can see it here. 

  

A hugely enjoyable trip, and I can strongly recommend the Festival to all Agatha Christie fans.

And I am inspired to try to complete my coverage of AC on the blog. I have done more than 90 posts on Christie's works - see tab above - including entries on all but a handful of the full-length books (as well as many short stories, themed entries, podcasts...). I am now going to try to fill in those last few novels. Look out for posts coming soon!