This week the critic, writer and guide Caroline Hopkinson-Woolley takes us back to 1926 to consider a mysterious event. This was the perplexing disappearance of the best-selling author Agatha Christie.Christie's disappearance happened at a moment of great tension both in her own life and in British history. That May the General Strike had upended society in a way that was both unprecedented and terrifying for the establishment. Christie, meanwhile, was simultaneously experiencing commercial success and private turmoil as her mother died and her marriage faltered.All these forces can be glimpsed in the strange disappearance of Christie shortly before Christmas that year. It is an event that has long puzzled historians and here Hopkinson-Woolley weighs the evidence.Enjoyed this? Find out more about Hopkinson-Woolley's tour of 'Literary Oxford: The Worlds of Tolkien & Lewis', departing next June.Show NotesScene One: May 1926. The General Strike Scene Two: June 1926. Publication of The Murder of Roger Ackroyd.Scene Three: December 1926. Agatha Christie's disappearance. People/SocialPresenter: Peter Moore Guest: Caroline Hopkinson-WoolleyProducer: Maria NolanTheme music: Firelight by MinkaPartner: ACE Cultural Tours.