Mark Aldridge
@markaldridge.info
'Agathologist', H.R.F. Keating Award winner and Associate Professor of Screen Histories. Consultant for documentaries and other projects. Co-host and co-producer of The Swinging Christies. 📧 Agathachristieonscreen@gmail.com 🏳️🌈
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Hope you've all had a Swinging Christmas, and a tisane or three 🎄🎄💃🏻💃🏻
MERRY CHRISTMAS SWINGERS! Our new Agatha Christie x Christmas podcast special has just dropped, a fun romp through not one but two festive (or festive-adjacent) ITV Poirot adaptations starring David Suchet. Listen here: pod.fo/e/366136
December 25, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Hope you've all had a Swinging Christmas, and a tisane or three 🎄🎄💃🏻💃🏻
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Gearing up for the New Year? Why not relive our last New Year special, all about the 1960s trend for looking to the past... a crime of which we're all guilty! Including, sometimes, Agatha Christie! ➡️🎧 pod.fo/e/2999e1
December 30, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Gearing up for the New Year? Why not relive our last New Year special, all about the 1960s trend for looking to the past... a crime of which we're all guilty! Including, sometimes, Agatha Christie! ➡️🎧 pod.fo/e/2999e1
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Over on Instagram I'm sharing some rarely seen Agatha Christie illustrations from newspapers and magazines, when the mood takes me. Find and follow agathaillustrated for more #AgathaChristie
December 28, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Over on Instagram I'm sharing some rarely seen Agatha Christie illustrations from newspapers and magazines, when the mood takes me. Find and follow agathaillustrated for more #AgathaChristie
Over on Instagram I'm sharing some rarely seen Agatha Christie illustrations from newspapers and magazines, when the mood takes me. Find and follow agathaillustrated for more #AgathaChristie
December 28, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Over on Instagram I'm sharing some rarely seen Agatha Christie illustrations from newspapers and magazines, when the mood takes me. Find and follow agathaillustrated for more #AgathaChristie
This is ridiculously brilliant research and - I say this with love - fabulous nerdery. When Captain Sensible popped up I practically screamed.
🚨NEW YOUTUBE VIDEO🚨
A deep dive into how The Feast of Steven’s sets were laid out based on all available evidence.
☃️ Was there snow?
🚀 Were there rockets?
🐎 Why the secret cowboy?
All this and more! Watch now!
youtu.be/8rs_J6TJPvY?...
A deep dive into how The Feast of Steven’s sets were laid out based on all available evidence.
☃️ Was there snow?
🚀 Were there rockets?
🐎 Why the secret cowboy?
All this and more! Watch now!
youtu.be/8rs_J6TJPvY?...
The Feast of Steven Lost Sets Recreated: Doctor Who's Missing Christmas Episode Revealed
YouTube video by Dalek 63•88
youtu.be
December 27, 2025 at 11:14 PM
This is ridiculously brilliant research and - I say this with love - fabulous nerdery. When Captain Sensible popped up I practically screamed.
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and god I mean, more broadly - I resent this idea that someone has to look at me to follow what I'm saying, I like writing and I like talking on the radio and on podcasts, I have no professional interest in people looking at my face, leave me alone
December 27, 2025 at 10:25 AM
and god I mean, more broadly - I resent this idea that someone has to look at me to follow what I'm saying, I like writing and I like talking on the radio and on podcasts, I have no professional interest in people looking at my face, leave me alone
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Cartoon c/o "TV21" issue 48 (dated 18/12/65). #DoctorWho
December 25, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Cartoon c/o "TV21" issue 48 (dated 18/12/65). #DoctorWho
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Don't you want to pull a cracker with Poirot? New Christmas special, spotlighting two seasonal David Suchet specials, out now! ➡️ pod.fo/e/366136 #AgathaChristie 💃🎧🎄
December 21, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Don't you want to pull a cracker with Poirot? New Christmas special, spotlighting two seasonal David Suchet specials, out now! ➡️ pod.fo/e/366136 #AgathaChristie 💃🎧🎄
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In the latest @studiocanal.co.uk podcast, @simonbrew.bsky.social talks about the brand new release of The Agatha Christie Collection on 4K Ultra HD and Blu-ray with Dr @markaldridge.info: audioboom.com/posts/882243...
December 24, 2025 at 1:23 PM
In the latest @studiocanal.co.uk podcast, @simonbrew.bsky.social talks about the brand new release of The Agatha Christie Collection on 4K Ultra HD and Blu-ray with Dr @markaldridge.info: audioboom.com/posts/882243...
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Happy Christmas Eve! This picture shows Poirot looking miserable, not because of the outcome of a case, but because he hasn't yet listened to The #SwingingChristies annual Christmas special!!!!? 🎄💃
Don't be like Poirot - not in this way, anyway. Vite! ➡️ 🎧 pod.fo/e/366136 #AgathaChristie
Don't be like Poirot - not in this way, anyway. Vite! ➡️ 🎧 pod.fo/e/366136 #AgathaChristie
December 24, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Happy Christmas Eve! This picture shows Poirot looking miserable, not because of the outcome of a case, but because he hasn't yet listened to The #SwingingChristies annual Christmas special!!!!? 🎄💃
Don't be like Poirot - not in this way, anyway. Vite! ➡️ 🎧 pod.fo/e/366136 #AgathaChristie
Don't be like Poirot - not in this way, anyway. Vite! ➡️ 🎧 pod.fo/e/366136 #AgathaChristie
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The BBC Scandal That Went Unnoticed
Christian Kriticos for the Telegraph on the disastrous changes to access at the BBC Written Archives Centre. The article does an excellent job at detailing the issues at stake [gift link]
www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/65a1031...
Christian Kriticos for the Telegraph on the disastrous changes to access at the BBC Written Archives Centre. The article does an excellent job at detailing the issues at stake [gift link]
www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/65a1031...
The BBC scandal of 2025 that went unnoticed
The Written Archives Centre has closed its doors to the public, despite being funded by the licence fee
www.telegraph.co.uk
December 23, 2025 at 5:22 PM
The BBC Scandal That Went Unnoticed
Christian Kriticos for the Telegraph on the disastrous changes to access at the BBC Written Archives Centre. The article does an excellent job at detailing the issues at stake [gift link]
www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/65a1031...
Christian Kriticos for the Telegraph on the disastrous changes to access at the BBC Written Archives Centre. The article does an excellent job at detailing the issues at stake [gift link]
www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/65a1031...
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Us today be like
December 23, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Us today be like
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The BBC is trying hard to put a positive spin on its damaging policy changes at the Written Archives, which have alienated the research community. Here's our rebuttal to today's "good news" story. tinyurl.com/WACrebuttal
December 23, 2025 at 1:39 PM
The BBC is trying hard to put a positive spin on its damaging policy changes at the Written Archives, which have alienated the research community. Here's our rebuttal to today's "good news" story. tinyurl.com/WACrebuttal
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The most recent TOTP repeat is fucking incredible. Spice Girls Goodbye, Honeyz End of the Line, Ace of Base Always Have Always Will, Lutricia McNeal fighting for her LIFE with a live vocal and Billie’s She Wants You all back to back. Feels like a trap designed specifically for me.
December 22, 2025 at 11:10 PM
The most recent TOTP repeat is fucking incredible. Spice Girls Goodbye, Honeyz End of the Line, Ace of Base Always Have Always Will, Lutricia McNeal fighting for her LIFE with a live vocal and Billie’s She Wants You all back to back. Feels like a trap designed specifically for me.
A glimpse of what I got up to on Burgh Island recently! #AgathaChristie
@markaldridge.info another nice bit in front of the camera that aired just this morning here: www.today.com/video/inside...
Inside the Remote Hotel Where Agatha Christie Found Inspiration
At England’s Burgh Island Hotel, guests celebrate famed author Agatha Christie at the place that drew inspiration for her most famous works and they get to take part in their very own mystery. Reporti...
www.today.com
December 22, 2025 at 5:58 PM
A glimpse of what I got up to on Burgh Island recently! #AgathaChristie
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Santa Is Now Using AI
December 21, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Santa Is Now Using AI
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just been thinking how incredibly funny it would be if the company in charge of independently verifying the vote sues Thomas Skinner for defamation #SCD
December 20, 2025 at 10:41 PM
just been thinking how incredibly funny it would be if the company in charge of independently verifying the vote sues Thomas Skinner for defamation #SCD
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You can’t “trust” a scholar who actually does all of their own thinking and writing without the hallucinating bullshit machine?
What?
What?
I would struggle to trust an academic who doesn‘t know how to
use AI tools.
Which is not the same as not being critical.
use AI tools.
Which is not the same as not being critical.
December 20, 2025 at 8:28 PM
You can’t “trust” a scholar who actually does all of their own thinking and writing without the hallucinating bullshit machine?
What?
What?
is it water
Supply 'too reliant' on one asset, says South East Water boss
Supply 'too reliant' on one asset, says South East Water boss
South East Water wants to expand output capacity after Tunbridge Wells issues, says David Hinton.
www.bbc.com
December 20, 2025 at 8:21 PM
is it water
😳
December 19, 2025 at 2:01 PM
😳
Spotify just served this up to me. I haven't heard it for probably a DECADE and it's given me a rush
open.spotify.com/track/6x3Qge...
open.spotify.com/track/6x3Qge...
Going Off My Rocker At The Art School Bop
open.spotify.com
December 19, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Spotify just served this up to me. I haven't heard it for probably a DECADE and it's given me a rush
open.spotify.com/track/6x3Qge...
open.spotify.com/track/6x3Qge...
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Margaret Rutherford and Celia Johnson photographed here in the stage version of “REBECCA” taken at The Queen's Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue, London, 1940
December 18, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Margaret Rutherford and Celia Johnson photographed here in the stage version of “REBECCA” taken at The Queen's Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue, London, 1940
