Open House
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Open House Highlights: Prayer of Logs Special Limited Edition Sampler Box Set
The merest soupçon of a smidgen of a taster of Radio Litopia’s weekly compendium of word games and general eccentricity… Open House. It’s a live event – not really a recorded show – so you’ve got to be in the chat room to take part. Join us every Sunday at 6pm UK , 1pm Eastern, [...]
Go to show »A Superficiality of Facebook Friends
Here’s an unedited recording of yesterday’s uninhibited live internet happening… featuring all the amazing word games that will live forever in infamy – plus neologisms, neolimericks, and neo-collective nouns! If you love words, you’ll get it. Open House is first and foremost a live event – you’ll enjoy it most if you can join us [...]
Go to show »Midnight-Stranglers, Chimney-Danglers, Orang-Utan-Wranglers
Open House… the show of which Gaston Leroux once tweeted… ” Seuls les écrivains de le comprendre. D’autres peuvent écouter, mais ne comprendra jamais“. Here’s an unedited recording of yesterday’s uninhibited live internet happening… featuring all the crazy word games that will live forever in infamy – plus neologisms, neolimericks, and neo-collective nouns! If you’re [...]
Go to show »New Pies and Tarts for Penitents
An unedited recording of yesterday’s sensational live internet happening, Open House… featuring all the crazy word games that will live forever in infamy – plus neologisms, neolimericks, and neo-collective nouns! Open House is first and foremost a live event – you’ll enjoy it most if you can join us in the chat room for next [...]
Go to show »“When The Author Said “May I Promote…”
A live and unedited recording of yesterday’s sensational internet happening, Open House… featuring all the crazy word games we’re infamous for, plus details of this week’s competition for you to enter – open until 30 minutes before the next show starts this coming Sunday – post your entries in The Colony, here. Open House is [...]
Go to show »Library Day of Action
All across the UK, people have been taking action in the last 24 hours to protest against cuts to local library services which could see more than half of Britain’s public libraries closed. The BBC, as always, appears to be on the side of the politicians… not the people. Plus… even more word games! Links: [...]
Go to show »Snowclones
The Perfect Trifecta… we’ve all seen those three-word book titles… Eats, Shoots & Leaves… Eat Prey Love… Slim Calm Sexy… what if the whole publishing industry went three-word crazy – and re-titled all the classics accordingly? That’s our new game in this edition of OPEN HOUSE… the entries are mind-boggling! [Audio clip: view full post [...]
Go to show »Lashings Of Ginger Beer
Lots of Skype & phone calls in this edition of Open House, mostly concentrating on revealing the arcane inner secrets of the publishing world, plus… absolute lashings of ginger beer! [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Download the show as mp3 file Subscribe in iTunes Subscribe to our shows by Email Picture by Prairiekittin [...]
Go to show »Open House HNY
Kicking off the new year with crime, lapsus linguae and silly word games that only writers can appreciate! Remember to catch next Sunday’s OPEN HOUSE – it’s your show, open for you to call in and chat – full details here. [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Download the show as mp3 file Subscribe [...]
Go to show »Apocalypse BBC
The BBC has provided the world – yes, the world – with outstanding radio drama for 75 years. Yet as of the 1st of April 2011, the BBC’s World Service Radio Drama department is being completely axed – and shockingly, the BBC World Service will no longer broadcast any regular drama. This essential betrayal of [...]
Go to show »All About Eve
Dust off your Rubik’s Cube, because OPEN HOUSE, our global live call-in show, is going back to the 1980s today. How do we assess the zeitgeist of the 80s? Apart from heaps of very dodgy pop music, what permanent legacy has it left – for good or otherwise? Do join us next Sunday both in [...]
Go to show »Wriggle, Writhe, Squirm
OPEN HOUSE, our global live call-in show, is still in beta – here is today’s program for your enjoyment – and do join us next week both in the chatroom and live on air. Remember to catch this Sunday’s OPEN HOUSE – it’s your show, open for you to call in and chat to Peter [...]
Go to show »Open House
One hour before last week’s Litopia After Dark started, we opened up the lines to anyone who wanted to call in and chat – it was so successful that we’re going to do this regularly. Here’s the recording of our first OPEN HOUSE – featuring a chat with David Bridger, whose first book is published [...]
Go to show »Litopia Wins!
Last night, Litopia won the very first Golden Twit Award for Writing. We are immensely proud of our Chief Twitterer, Jamie Mollart, for masterminding our success. Follow the evening as it develops on today’s extended show. And of course, lots more inside the Colony! [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Download the show as [...]
Go to show »If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller – Italo Calvino
The bestselling children’s author MG Harris is our guest today in our Books That Matter series; her choice is a book by one of Italy’s finest postwar writers, Italo Calvino’s If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller. “I can think of no finer writer to have beside me while Italy explodes, Britain burns, while the [...]
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Litopia is the winner
of the first Golden Twits Award for excellence in social media.