{"id":553,"date":"2007-10-11T22:01:50","date_gmt":"2007-10-11T22:01:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog-test\/?p=553"},"modified":"2024-02-05T21:06:07","modified_gmt":"2024-02-06T02:06:07","slug":"christie_sittaford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2007\/10\/christie_sittaford\/","title":{"rendered":"Christie, Agatha: <cite>Sittaford Mystery, The<\/cite> (radio play)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I picked a radio adaptation of <strong>Agatha Christie&#8217;s <cite>The Sittaford Mystery<\/cite><\/strong> because it was referenced in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.steelypips.org\/weblog\/2007\/10\/willis_dog.php\"><cite>To Say Nothing of the Dog<\/cite><\/a>, though not in a way that helped me solve it. This opens with a seance that communicates that a Captain Trevelyan is dead&mdash;murdered&mdash;though the last anyone knew, he was just fine. One of the seance participants goes to check, and of course discovers his corpse. (Oddly, the seance is not mentioned in <cite>To Say Nothing<\/cite>.)<\/p>\n<p>This didn&#8217;t work very well as a radio play. The solution relies on a psychological motivation that&#8217;s told, not shown. And John Moffat plays a character who is <em>not<\/em> Hercule Poirot, which was tremendously distracting. The story itself also has some problems: the method is not very interesting, and it contains an odious view of marriage. So, long story short: just because it gets a shout-out from Connie Willis, doesn&#8217;t mean it&#8217;s good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I picked a radio adaptation of Agatha Christie&#8217;s The Sittaford Mystery because it was referenced in To Say Nothing of the Dog, though not in a way that helped me solve it. This opens with a seance that communicates that a Captain Trevelyan is dead&mdash;murdered&mdash;though the last anyone knew, he was just fine. One of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2007\/10\/christie_sittaford\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Christie, Agatha: <cite>Sittaford Mystery, The<\/cite> (radio play)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,111],"tags":[165],"class_list":["post-553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mystery","category-radio-plays","tag-christie-agatha"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=553"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2778,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553\/revisions\/2778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}