It’s a welcome return tonight for New York publisher Philip Turner, whose lustrous credits include works by Barack Obama, Senator George Mitchell, the bestseller IBM and the Holocaust  – and the massively controversial book by Ambassador Joseph Wilson, The Politics of Truth.  A year ago, Philip was a top-ranking corporate publisher – today, he runs his own editorial services business… suggesting that as “big publishing” contracts, the turmoil can generate opportunities as well as adversity.  So can the “creative destruction” that’s  currently cutting a swathe through the traditional publishing business have its positive side?  Philip certainly thinks so.

Our other panellists tonight are Donna Ballman, Dave Bartram and John Quirk. Eve Harvey provides regular updates from the all-impoirtant chatroom – so you won”t miss even the tiniest morsel of witty goodness!

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Topics on tonight’s show include:

• Silvio Berlusconi only wants pretty girl migrants; gets a wider bed
• Bollywood shockmeister wires audience with heart monitoring machines
• Lara Croft gets her Way
• Is story reductable?
• Why it matters that writers should get their facts straight
• Reading fiction makes kids bored

This week’s titles for the Commissioning Meeting are:

DONNA
“The Thrall of Leif the Lucky!”
Ottilia Adelina Liljencrantz, 1876-1910

PHILIP
“The Thing from the Lake”
Eleanor Marie Ingram, 1886-1921

JOHN
“Take Me for a Ride: coming of age in a destructive cult”
Mark Eliot Laxer

DAVE
“The Tadpoles of Bufo Cognatus Say”
Hobart M.Smith

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End music:

Chumbawamba
“Voices, That’s All” (mp3)
from “ABCDEFG”
(No Masters)

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