In Parliament’s dying days, the UK’s Digital Economy Bill will be pushed into law next week – without a full Parliamentary debate, and without most people fully understanding the sweeping measures it contains (e.g. disconnection …
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Lord Mandelsauron Upsets Everyone Again
Face-To-Face: This Time It’s Personal!
London’s Poetry Café was never more vibrantly electric this summer than when it hosted our first two live Litopia After Darks: Face-To-Face.
And tonight, we’re delighted to bring you – complete, unedited but by no means …
Face-To-Face At Last!
“So that’s what you look like!” was one of the most commonly-heard exclamations at London’s Poetry Café on Friday evening, as the cast of LITOPIA AFTER DARK made a little bit of Litopian history – …
Amanda Lees
An acclaimed novelist, journalist, actress and broadcaster, London-based Amanda has five books under her belt, including the Kumari trilogy for children. She has written for The Evening Standard, The Times, Cosmopolitan and Company, appears regularly …
Women Don’t Get No Respect
“There are three difficulties in authorship”, wrote the Canadian priest Charles Caleb Cotton at the end of the 18th century. “To write anything worth publishing – to find honest men to publish it – and …
What To Talk About With Girls
Litopia After Dark guest Amanda Lees is busy signing books at the Cheltenham Literary Festival, and we pop behind the scenes with Peter to find out what really goes on at these august occasions. In …
Art for Art’s Sake
In the week when Damien Hirst made $198 million selling pickled animals, famed art critic Robert Hughes all but crucified Hirst and his “dull witted” patrons in an outspoken attack published in The Guardian.
On Litopia …
The Litopia 4th July Holiday Quiz
Where do your most brilliant ideas come from? What’s the most extreme thing you’ve done when researching your book? What’s the worst book you’ve ever bought? Litopia After Dark this week begins to wind down …
Warts & All
In this first Litopia After Dark of 2008, we’re live on Ustream and there’s an opportunity watch the Podcast being made and make comments during the programme.
This week the panel discuss Chuck Norris. What? Has …
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Porcupines and Nuns
Saturday, January 17th, 2009
Should criminals profit from the sale of their memoirs? The Internet is falling victim to soft censorship. And Wikipedia, Knol and Mahalo – what use are they to the writer? Just some of the highlights …