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Holding the Guinness World Record for the world’s bestselling fiction author, there can be few people who haven’t heard of Agatha Christie. Born in 1890, she wrote a whopping 61 novels, 14 short stories and managed to find time to write The Mousetrap, the longest running play in the world. Her most beloved characters, Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple have been adapted numerous times for TV, radio and film and were even turned into a Japanese anime series in 2004. In this interview from 1955, recorded for inclusion in another programme, Agatha Christie talks about her lack of formal education and how boredom during childhood led her to write the Mysterious Affair at Styles, which was completed when she was still in her 20s.