Valerie Plame Wilson – a former CIA agent whose unmasking led to the conviction of former Vice President Dick Cheney’s top aide has lost an appeal to declassify parts of her memoir. The only winner …
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The Velvet Rope
Question Time
It’s an impressively long Question Time for Peter today – nearly half an hour of accumulated questions from authors covering a wide variety of topics. Are two books better than one when it comes to …
Love Me Like A Reptile
“When love is not madness, it is not love” wrote the C17th Spanish dramatist Pedro Calderón de la Barca – although he might easily been referring to tonight’s Litopia After Dark, in which we learn …
I’m a Celebrity, Publish Me!
A double treat for you on next week’s LITOPIA DAILY: two fantastic but very different authors will be our guests. First-time author Jane Davis tells us how her career has just kicked off with a …
Jane’s Resurrection
By 1850, Jane Austen had been dead for thirty years, her writing had largely fallen out of favor and the mid-19th century greats (Wilkie Collins, Dickens, the Brontës) had grabbed the mass market and the …
The Famous Litopia Game Show
As we continue our long wind-down into the summer holidays Litopia After Dark is proud to present The Famous Litopia Game Show! The contestants battling it out for the title of Game Show Legend were …
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 …
The Death of Big Publishing
This week on Litopia After Dark we examine the role of the world’s mega-publishing houses and try to predict their future. We contemplate the often-tenuous position of being a Big Publishing Boss. If the price …
Pace Yourself!
Does Country Music reflect the history of the people? On Litopia After Dark this week we discuss a new book by Dana Jennings called Sing Me Back Home. Also, that buzzword of the ’90s – …
Are Books Bad?
The massive environmental destruction wrought by paper industry isn’t the only bad thing about book production that we cover on tonight’s LITOPIA AFTER DARK. Our special guest on this week’s show is Raz Godelnik, CEO …
What’s Your Problem?
The Doctor is in! Litopia After Dark this week takes on the role of Public Service Broadcasting. The life of a writer is often lonely, exhausting and intense; trapped in a world of introspection and …
Going, Going, Gone!
On Litopia After Dark this week:- Celebrity auctions are big business, why do people buy this stuff? Robert McCrum gives a run down on the changes during his 10 years at The Observer. Is it …
Author 2.0
Tonight on LITOPIA AFTER DARK we’re delighted to have as our special guest an acclaimed author who could be considered a signpost to the future. In the words of publishing maven Martyn Daniels (who was …
A Big, Sexy Package
Your book is written, re-written, checked and double checked and you’re ready to find it a home. But in this ultra-competitive publishing climate how do you ensure your novel escapes from the slush pile? …
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Boys Night Out
Sunday, May 25th, 2008
On Litopia After Dark this week:- Our Special Guest is Jean Hannah Edelstein, writer blogger and literary commentator. Is it time for the first female Poet Laureate? William McGonagall – genius or idiot? Nerds are …