Show overview
Lighting the Pipes has been publishing since 2017, and across the 9 years since has built a catalogue of 153 episodes. That works out to roughly 260 hours of audio in total. Releases follow a monthly cadence, with the show now in its 3rd season.
Episodes typically run over ninety minutes — most land between 1h 9m and 2h 11m — though episode length varies meaningfully from one episode to the next. Roughly 30% of episodes carry an explicit flag from the publisher. It is catalogued as a EN-language Arts show.
The show is actively publishing — the most recent episode landed 2 weeks ago, with 27 episodes already out so far this year. The busiest year was 2025, with 33 episodes published.
From the publisher
Blending research and literary analysis with conversation and review, we lock down crime stories and read them their rights. The game is afoot!
Latest Episodes
View all 153 episodesDr Mabuse, The Gambler (1921)
LTP 007: Moonraker (1955)
The Saint vs Scotland Yard (1932)
LTP 007: Live and Let Die (1954)
Maigret and the Burglar's Wife (1951) w/ The Book Graveyard
The Biter Bit (1858)
Ripley Under Ground (1970)
LTP 007: Casino Royale (1953)
LTP Special: Operation Mincemeat
LTP Noir: The Big Heat (1953)
The Labyrinth Makers (1970)
LTP Selects: The Naval Treaty (1893)
LTP Selects: Charles Augustus Milverton (1904)
Scorched Grace (2023)
The Leavenworth Case (1878)
Where the Body Was (2023)
LTP 007: Death is Forever (1992)
Assignment Sorrento Siren (1963)
He Who Whispers (1946) w/ The Book Graveyard
S3 Ep 99The Adventure of the Egyptian Tomb (1923)
EIn February 1923, Howard Carter unearthed the tomb of Tutankhamun and fed the '20s zeitgeist an abundance of ancient-world dopamine hits. One writer who picked up on this wave was Agatha Christie, who would return to Egypt five more times in her famous stories. Here, however, she pits Hercule Poirot against a series of sudden deaths at the excavation site of Men-her-Ra's tomb in the Valley of the Kings. As tensions mount and another life hangs in the balance, Poirot must separate myth and whispers of a Pharoah's curse from human greed and murderous methodology. LTP sinks its feet into the soft, deceptive sands of Christie's pocket-size prose in this short episode. Summary@5:00; PIPES@23:00