JANUARY: Time magazine ‘Pig of the Year’ “Who, moi?”

The arrival of 2026 means I finally get to use The Miss Piggy Cover Girl Fantasy Calendar 1981 that I bought in a thrift store in Conrad, Montana a decade ago.

NEW YEAR, NEW US, NEW EPISODE! Concern for the planet was rising throughout the 1960s, so Mark and Gray play detective and search tor traces of this theme in Agatha Christie's 1960s works. PLUS a very special announcement just a few minutes in... Listen here: pod.fo/e/37209b 💃🏻🎆🎇🌱

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Out now!

I think in this day and age they shouldn't have separate competitions based on your sexuality.

New episode of The Swinging Christies drops tomorrow and you're gonna want to listen if you're interested in finding out what's next for us @christietime.com... Exciting! #AgathaChristie

Gonna be the one who says: I think if they all had the hunch that the Traitors couldn't be all white, then you're doubly screwed this series if you're not a white person, because the actual Traitors knows that they're all white and the Faithful do the usual "Who is The Ethnic Traitor?" #TheTraitors

I've seen a few bits of Strictly recently and my main feedback is that ticker tape compresses really badly on streaming/digital TV even in HD so they should stop that

Isn't it nice when you give light entertainment a decent budget #TheTraitors

I love that people's jobs are mostly what a young child imagines they might become (Detective! Or sweet shop assistant!) #TheTraitors

Multiple stray 2025 (and beyond) TV opinions. All views my own. Sorry or you're welcome.

And a very Happy New Year to all of you at home! Next episode drops SUNDAY 4 JANUARY 2026! 💃🎆

Heading into the new year like

I’ve spent this morning morbidly watching the MTV channels close down and the final songs played were: MTV Music - Video Killed the Radio Star (Buggles) Club MTV - Don’t Stop the Music (Rihanna) MTV 90s - Goodbye (Spice Girls) MTV 80s - Together in Electric Dreams (Oakey and Moroder)

Hope you've all had a Swinging Christmas, and a tisane or three 🎄🎄💃🏻💃🏻

Gearing up for the New Year? Why not relive our last New Year special, all about the 1960s trend for looking to the past... a crime of which we're all guilty! Including, sometimes, Agatha Christie! ➡️🎧 pod.fo/e/2999e1

Over on Instagram I'm sharing some rarely seen Agatha Christie illustrations from newspapers and magazines, when the mood takes me. Find and follow agathaillustrated for more #AgathaChristie

Over on Instagram I'm sharing some rarely seen Agatha Christie illustrations from newspapers and magazines, when the mood takes me. Find and follow agathaillustrated for more #AgathaChristie

This is ridiculously brilliant research and - I say this with love - fabulous nerdery. When Captain Sensible popped up I practically screamed.

and god I mean, more broadly - I resent this idea that someone has to look at me to follow what I'm saying, I like writing and I like talking on the radio and on podcasts, I have no professional interest in people looking at my face, leave me alone

FFS

Cartoon c/o "TV21" issue 48 (dated 18/12/65). #DoctorWho

Don't you want to pull a cracker with Poirot? New Christmas special, spotlighting two seasonal David Suchet specials, out now! ➡️ pod.fo/e/366136 #AgathaChristie 💃🎧🎄

In the latest @studiocanal.co.uk podcast, @simonbrew.bsky.social talks about the brand new release of The Agatha Christie Collection on 4K Ultra HD and Blu-ray with Dr @markaldridge.info: audioboom.com/posts/882243...

Happy Christmas Eve! This picture shows Poirot looking miserable, not because of the outcome of a case, but because he hasn't yet listened to The #SwingingChristies annual Christmas special!!!!? 🎄💃 Don't be like Poirot - not in this way, anyway. Vite! ➡️ 🎧 pod.fo/e/366136 #AgathaChristie

The BBC Scandal That Went Unnoticed Christian Kriticos for the Telegraph on the disastrous changes to access at the BBC Written Archives Centre. The article does an excellent job at detailing the issues at stake [gift link] www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/65a1031...

Us today be like

The BBC is trying hard to put a positive spin on its damaging policy changes at the Written Archives, which have alienated the research community. Here's our rebuttal to today's "good news" story. tinyurl.com/WACrebuttal

The most recent TOTP repeat is fucking incredible. Spice Girls Goodbye, Honeyz End of the Line, Ace of Base Always Have Always Will, Lutricia McNeal fighting for her LIFE with a live vocal and Billie’s She Wants You all back to back. Feels like a trap designed specifically for me.

A glimpse of what I got up to on Burgh Island recently! #AgathaChristie

H's insufferable mugging to the camera should have had him swapped out for one of Scooch by now #totp

Santa Is Now Using AI

just been thinking how incredibly funny it would be if the company in charge of independently verifying the vote sues Thomas Skinner for defamation #SCD

You can’t “trust” a scholar who actually does all of their own thinking and writing without the hallucinating bullshit machine? What?

is it water

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Spotify just served this up to me. I haven't heard it for probably a DECADE and it's given me a rush open.spotify.com/track/6x3Qge...

Margaret Rutherford and Celia Johnson photographed here in the stage version of “REBECCA” taken at The Queen's Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue, London, 1940

Nice bit of location filming. #Corrie

ALL-NEW PLAYLISTS on YouTube now, so if you want both of our Christmas Specials in one place you know where to go! www.youtube.com/@TheSwinging... #AgathaChristie #SwingingChristies

At some point we all make the transition from Rolf to the Captain

Started Christmas as I mean to go on. (a half-hearted session on the rowing machine followed by sitting on the sofa in my dressing gown eating an ice cream)

Delighted to announce after many years of trying to get this to happen, the lovely people at North One & UKTV saw the opportunity and we're making this incredibly special series. A joy to work with these teams and of course with Sir David and the rest of the fantastic OFAH cast.

We had such a lovely, festive time at the Burgh Island Hotel. We'll be back for sure! 💃🏻🏝️

MERRY CHRISTMAS SWINGERS! Our new Agatha Christie x Christmas podcast special has just dropped, a fun romp through not one but two festive (or festive-adjacent) ITV Poirot adaptations starring David Suchet. Listen here: pod.fo/e/366136

Exciting news... #AgathaChristie deadline.com/2025/12/jona...

I do feel like this might be the beginning of the end of Eurovision as a cultural force, especially as withdrawn countries (probably) won't be showing it. You break the routine and impact, and it slips out of mind. Might seem impossible but look how easily Miss World moved into the margins.

A Christie Christmas at Burgh Island is next week! Book in for afternoon tea (and a talk) or treat yourself to an overnight stay #AgathaChristie www.burghisland.com/a-christie-c...

Our #SpotifyWrapped is so good it looks fabricated 😭💖💃🏻 If we appeared on yours please let us know!!