Radio Read Along

In which Poirot begins the search for the murderer from scratch, enlisting the help of Hastings and beginning a beautiful invesitgative friendship…

In which Poirot shocks everyone with an announcement concerning the case’s primary suspect…

In which details are pieced together during Mrs. Inglethorpe’s inquest…

In which Poirot launches his investigation and makes several shocking discoveries about the secrets of Styles…

When a dead body turns up at Styles, it’s time to fetch the Belgian detective and turn on our little gray cells…

On medical leave in the midst of World War I, our narrator Hastings is invited by a childhood friend to spend his holiday at Styles manor house. The quirky bunch of folks he meets there can only mean one thing…we are in an Agatha Christie mystery.

We’ve finally made it to the very end of our Great Expectations journey! In this last discussion we look back on Pip’s development, relish his relationship to Joe, and discuss why Dickens’ editor had him change Pip’s ending with Estella. And, if you wait until the end of the episode, you won’t want to miss the announcement of what our next Radio Read Along title will be!

In which Emily reads the ending Dickens originally wrote for Great Expectations before his editor made him change it…

The concluding chapters of Dickens’ Great Expectations…

In which Pip falls desperately ill and reaps the consequences of his poor financial decisions…