With panellists from Norway, England, Florida and India, tonight’s show is the most geographically-diverse we’ve ever had – and as we approach our one hundredth episode, we can modestly congratulate ourselves on being the world’s oldest, biggest and some would say best show for readers and writers.
But there’s no time for laurel-resting. Martyn Daniels introduces a couple of new concepts to our global audience this evening: the snippet era and the contextual wrap. Our newcomer from Norway is Cath Murphy, who wants to know whether teenagers really are addicted to reading rubbish – and if so, should we care? Donna Ballman’s spotted an extraordinary conflict of interest by no less an august institution than the Washington Post – a bit of a come-down for the folk who brought you Watergate – and Dave Bartram believes that YouTube may be the ultimate de-sensitization tool. So much brain-stimulating goodness this evening, it’s hard to see how we can pack it into one 60-minute show!
Topics covered on tonight’s show include:
- Sex like a spoon scraping the inside of a soft-boiled egg – why Jonathan Littell needs help
- Britain is awash with champers
- Dickens is angry about bankers’ bonuses
- KGB wipes MPs bottoms
- Are authors going YouTube to stay ahead of their competitors?
- Margaret Hodge is back worrying libraries again – let Starbucks run them
- WashPo is desperate for Amazon commission, someone toss them a dime
- Life lessons for the Twilight gen – if the boy you are in love with causes you to be badly beaten, you should tell the doctors that you “fell down the steps”
This week’s titles for the Commissioning Meeting are:
DONNA
“Applied Eugenics”
Roswell Hill Johnson, 1877- AND Paul Popenoe, 1888-1979
CATH
“Little Sky-High – The Surprising Doings of Washee-Washee-Wang”
Hezekiah Butterworth, 1839-1905
MARTYN
“Lulu, Alice and Jimmie Wibblewobble”
Howard Roger Garis, , 1873-1962
DAVE
“Are You a Bromide? – The Sulphitic Theory Expounded and Exemplified According to the Most Recent Researches into the Psychology of Boredom Including Many Well-Known Bromidioms Now in Use”
Gelett Burgess, 1866-1951
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DONNA
“Applied Eugenics”
Roswell Hill Johnson, 1877- AND Paul Popenoe, 1888-1979
CATH
“Little Sky-High – The Surprising Doings of Washee-Washee-Wang”
Hezekiah Butterworth, 1839-1905
MARTYN
“Lulu, Alice and Jimmie Wibblewobble”
Howard Roger Garis, , 1873-1962
DAVE
“Are You a Bromide? – The Sulphitic Theory Expounded and Exemplified According to the Most Recent Researches into the Psychology of Boredom Including Many Well-Known Bromidioms Now in Use”
Gelett Burgess, 1866-1951
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