Tea or Books? #18: titles: fancy or simple? and Hercule Poirot vs Miss Marple

  Agatha Christie and curious titles come together in perhaps my favourite episode of the podcast yet. And also the first one where we’re both in our 30s, guys. And also one of our most bizarre. In the first half, we look at

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Agatha Christie and curious titles come together in perhaps my favourite episode of the podcast yet. And also the first one where we’re both in our 30s, guys. And also one of our most bizarre. In the first half, we look at titles and discuss whether we prefer them fancy or simple – yes, those are the categories – and quickly realise what a tangle that is.

On safer ground, we turn to Dame Agatha Christie in the second half, pitting her two most famous detectives against each other. Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple – who will come out on top? The answers, as they say, might surprise you.

Listen above, via iTunes (rate! review!), or your app of choice – and let us know which you’d pick from each pair!

Here are the books and authors we mention in this podcast – it’s a lot this week – and, if you’re a fan of films, do give Colin’s podcast The C-Z of Movies a try.

What is Not Yours is Not Yours by Helen Oyeyemi

The Years by Virginia Woolf

The Lost Europeans by Emanuel Litvinoff

Eudora Welty

Christina Stead

Emma by Jane Austen

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

The Sweet Dove Died by Barbara Pym

Dear Life by Alice Munro

Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

A Pin to See the Peepshow by F Tennyson Jesse

Messalina of the Suburbs by E.M. Delafield

Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand

A Short History of Tractors in Ukranian by Marina Lewycka

A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers by Xiaolu Guo

[could not find the particle physics novel title!]

The Secret Orchard of Roger Ackerley by Diana Petre

William by E.H. Young

The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

Hickory Dickory Dock by Agatha Christie

The Murder of Roger Acroyd by Agatha Christie

Murder of a Lady by Anthony Wynne

The Driver’s Seat by Muriel Spark

Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone by J.K. Rowling

All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque

The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford

The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald

To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

Jacob’s Room by Virginia Woolf

Between the Acts by Virginia Woolf

Some Tame Gazelle by Barbara Pym

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

All Passion Spent by Vita Sackville-West

Samson Agonistes by John Milton

Taken at the Flood by Agatha Christie

The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner

Hamlet by William Shakespeare

The World My Wilderness by Rose Macaulay

Andrew Marvell

Alexander Pope

A Murder is Announced by Agatha Christie

Appointment With Death by Agatha Christie

The Body in the Library by Agatha Christie

The Majestic Mystery by Denis Mackail

The Life and Times of Hercule Poirot by Anne Hart

The Life and Times of Miss Jane Marple by Anne Hart

Dumb Witness by Agatha Christie

The Mirror Crack’d From Side to Side by Agatha Christie

The Lady of Shalott by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie

The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters

The Night Watch by Sarah Waters