SUNDAY, March 5th at 1:30pm: TEA TIME Mysteries!

THIS WEEK: featuring Dame Agatha Christie

Four and Twenty Black Birds: Poirot is eating out with a friend, Henry, and the conversation turns to people's habits. Henry eats regularly in the restaurant that they are in and he points out a white-bearded man as evidence of his theories. This bearded man eats the same meal there on Wednesday and Saturday and always orders much the same items as part of his three-course meal. The waitress brings their meals and sees Henry staring at the bearded man. She tells him that except the previous week he also came in on Monday and ordered things he'd never ordered before. Poirot's curiosity is piqued.

Wasps' Nest: Poirot visits an old friend, this time in the hopes of preventing a murder. But whose?

Live in voice, with Corwyn Allen, Kayden Oconnell, John Morland and Caledonia Skytower.

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WEDNESDAY, May 20th at 7pm: The Conclusion of CHRISTIE'S DETECTIVES

Did you know that Hercule Poirot is one of the few fictional characters ever to be given an obituary in the New York Times?  

In fact, by 1930, Agatha Christie found Poirot "insufferable", and by 1960 she felt that he was a "detestable, bombastic, tiresome, ego-centric little creep". Yet the public loved him and Christie refused to kill him off, claiming that it was her duty to produce what the public liked. That's hard to imagine for a character that populated 33 novels, one play (“Black Coffee”), and more than 50 short stories published between 1920 and 1975.  But Dame Agatha was not the first author to create something that took on a life of its own - ask Sir Arthur Conan Doyle!

Tonight, Cale concludes her explorations of some of Christie's short story adventures with more from Hercule Poirot: "The Adventure of Johnny Waverly" and "Four and Twenty Black Birds."

Live in voice.

WEDNESDAY, May 13th at 7PM: More from CHRISTIE'S DETECTIVES

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Hercule Poirot is one of Christie's most famous and long-lived characters, appearing in 33 novels, one play (“Black Coffee”), and more than 50 short stories published between 1920 and 1975.

Poirot first appeared in “The Mysterious Affair at Styles” (published in 1920) and exited in “Curtain” (published in 1975). Following the latter, Poirot was the only fictional character to receive an obituary on the front page of The New York Times.

Caledonia shares adventures of the peculiar and precise little man from Belgium tonight, live in voice.