Скачать или смотреть Q&A: The science of murder: Agatha Christie's deadly poisons - with Kathryn Harkup

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This Q&A was recorded at the Ri on 23 June 2025.

00:00 How do antidotes to poisons gets developed?
2:29 Are there any poisons that work differently on a plane?
4:26 Could you remove enough nitroglycerine from medicine to blow something up?
6:08 What inspired you to become an author instead of a chemist?
6:59 Does it help you as an author to know so much about poison?
8:45 How disciplined are you as a writer?
10:33 Which poison is the least detectable in victims?
12:59 Can you build up immunity to poisons?
14:49 If you had to kill someone what would you use (hypothetically)?
16:23 Do poisons have expiration dates?

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