1. Middle Eastern Adventure
In 1928, after the break-up of her marriage, the English crime writer began a Middle Eastern adventure. Read by Andrew Eames.
"Her adventure had been taken at a moment of major personal change; mine was beginning at a moment that could change the world".
In 1928, crime writer Agatha Christie made a spur-of-the-moment decision to go on holiday, alone, to Iraq. Then in her late thirties she was already a popular and successful novelist, but her 14 year marriage to Archie Christie had recently ended and her comfortable life at Sunningdale had become oppressive.
In the first of five readings from his book, Andrew Eames describes how 75 years later on, on the eve of the second Gulf War, he set out to trace Agatha's journey and explore her reasons for making it.
Written and read by Andrew Eames
Abridged in five parts by Laurence Wareing.
Producer: David Jackson Young
First broadcast on 麻豆社 Radio in July 2004.
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