What movies do astronauts on the international space station watch?  What do George W. Bush, Roy Orbison and Darth Vader all have in common? Why are cops in one North American city arresting zombies?  And why are researchers from the University of Ottawa and Carleton University compiling a report on how to deal with a zombie invasion?

Answers to these pressing conundrums and much more besides on tonight’s show.  Why does billionaire Steve Forbes pay his employees to go out and buy his new (and apparently not very good) book?  Why don’t we change the spelling rules to make English more logical?  And why is writing such darn hard work?

You see – we just can’t stop asking questions!  Here to supply some of the answers tonight are – cue the bagpipes – Eve Harvey, queen of the Athens of the North, and children’s author / publishing expert Graham Marks, who’s also been hanging out this week at the world’s largest literary festival in Edinburgh.  Add to that our regular panelists Dave Bartram and Donna Ballman and you’ve got yourself one mean hour’s worth of litertainment… use it responsibly.

Topics covered and links include:

• Will writers cause the end of the world as we know it?  Military Researchers Develop Corpse-Eating Robots – Ecobot Eats Dead Flies – retail robots
• Why the hell is a university compiling  report on how to deal with a zombie invasion?
• Why are they arresting zombies in Mnneapolis?
• Steve Forbes has all his employees buy his book to get on the bestseller list
• What about throwing out all the spelling rules and returning to the happy days before Samuel Johnson made life so difficult for foreigners?
• Blood, Sweat, and Words

This week’s panoply of titles for the praeternaturally vituperative Commissioning Meeting comprise:

Donna
“Books Fatal To Their Authors” P. H. (Peter Hampson) Ditchfield, 1854-1930

Graham
“Odd” Amy Le Feuvre, -1929

Eve
“On The Vice Of Novel Reading” Young Ewing Allison, 1853-1932

Dave
“Obed Hussey – Who, Of All Inventors, Made Bread Cheap” Follett Lamberton Greeno, 1889-

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