It’s a truly vintage show tonight: far better entertainment than anything you’ll find on the box these format-ridden days.  With a panel that encompasses marketing guru Jamie Mollart, Litoon’s creator Richard Howse, our regular panelists Dave Bartram and Donna Ballman… well, you’d expect nothing less than effortless brilliance.  Oh, and did we mention that Günther makes a last-minute and rather scary appearance? It’s a bit like that moment in The Exorcist when Linda Blair’s head spins round… sans the pea soup.

Topics covered and links include:

• Dr McCoy’s white rabbit - how film, tv and writing was unfettered by convention, genre definition and expectation in the ’60s, ’70s and maybe the ’80s
• Bad teeth and poor reading habits - why the British aren’t reading enough, and the link between reading and optimism
• Video trailers as marketing tools for books? Good idea or just a crap camcorder film that no-one watches?
• How far can we go with parodies?
• Hatchette claim to be the first to podcast a book – how far out of touch are they?

This week’s orgy of titles for the multiple-choice Commissioning Meeting comprise:

Sabotage in Space by Louis Glanzman
The Saddle Boys in the Grand Canyon or The Hermit of the Cave by James Carson
Safe Marriage – A Return to Sanity by William Arbuthnot Lane
The Safety Curtain, and Other Stories by Ethel May Dell
Sail Ho! A Boy at Sea by George Manville Fenn
Sailor’s Knots (Entire Collection) by William Wymark Jacobs
The Sailor’s Word-Book – An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Sir Edward Belcher
“Same old Bill, eh Mable!” by Edward Streeter
Sane Sex Life and Sane Sex Living – Some Things That All Sane People Ought to Know About Sex Nature and Sex Functioning; Its Place in the Economy of Life, Its Proper Training and Righteous Exercise by Harland William Long
Schelmuffskys wahrhaftige, kuriöse und sehr gefährliche Reisebeschreibung zu Wasser und zu Lande by Ludwig Berwald
The School Queens by L. T.Meade
Sea-Wolves of the Mediterranean by E. Hamilton Currey

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