5. Horror
Description
In the fifth episode of The Swinging Christies, Mark and Gray spook each other by discussing everything from contemporary fears to olde folklore in the 1960s Agatha Christies.
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The Swinging Christies is a Christie Time project by Mark Aldridge and Gray Robert Brown.
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00:00:00 - Opening titles
00:00:39 - Introductory chat
00:05:21 - Horror landscape in the 1960s
00:21:05 - Domestic horror
00:36:28 - Folklore
00:51:25 - Horror and insanity, suicide
01:12:19 - Hardboiled thrillers, violence
01:22:00 - Sanitised horror in adaptations
01:30:06 - Rising crime in the 1960s
01:37:33 - Next episode, how to get in touch
01:38:22 - Closing titles
01:38:49 - Coda
Solutions revealed! - Hallowe’en Party, A Caribbean Mystery, The Patient, By the Pricking of My Thumbs, The Pale Horse, Endless Night, At Bertram’s Hotel
TW - death of children, suicide, mental illness, outdated terms in quoted material