Mark Aldridge

She's got that very interesting perspective where it's like Agatha Christie as Mary Westmacott.

And then she looks at her different strands of her career in life and analyses them separately, which is really interesting.

And a lot of anxiety about...

what the Labour Party was then.

And it's quite complex because you can't ever really know exactly how you would feel.

But Labour then was much more radical, I guess.

It's not like New Labour and so on.

So a proper party for the working classes in a way that actually it isn't really now.

Well, let's talk a bit about Agatha's world.

Please.

Because she's been married to Max for some time now.

Of course, they married in 1930.

And as we discussed way back in the introduction, there is something about the sort of progression of the relationship between Max and Agatha and maybe other relationships, such as with family members that we see throughout the Westmacottes.

But that's the joy, isn't it?

The thing about Giant's Bread being just on the cusp but that she's divorced.

Is she Agatha Christie?

She hasn't married Max yet.

Yeah.

You'd pointed out something about the language that's used.

Because in 1943, Matthew Pritchard is born.