Gray Robert Brown

Well, are we?

We'll get on to that.

We're in Torquay.

We're in Torquay.

To be discussed.

To be discussed.

But yes, around this time.

So Christie publishes The Hollow in 1946.

And so many people, we wouldn't be the first people to observe that The Hollow feels with its kind of psychological insight of the Westmacott sport, very prevalent in The Hollow.

Although, in the Hollow, Poirot interrupts.

But people often say, don't they, that I think the Hollow would be better without Poirot?

Or doesn't need him, maybe?

And his Westmacottish...

It almost jumps away from the war, doesn't it?

But we really should have festival organiser and world expert on Taken at the Flood, Joe Barlow, here to explain.

But backing into the late 40s very quickly, away from the war.

in the way that murder is easy and and then there would not feel very just going into the war pre-war and actually the only anomaly there is nrm there's something really fascinating to be said about yes the way wartime specialists well i was just about to say i think you might have something interesting to say about nrm in a forthcoming something but i will leave that

But yeah, Christie's relationship to the war, like a lot of people, I think it's very, you know, it's difficult, right?

I think she was maybe careful about when she went hell for leather in making something a war book.

And her publishers had thoughts on that and there were back and forths and all the rest of it.