Litopia After Dark 1 - 25

In this first Litopia After Dark of 2008, we’re live on Ustream and there’s an opportunity watch the Podcast being made and make comments during the programme. This week the panel discuss Chuck Norris. What? Has Chuck Norris decided being an action hero is no longer fulfilling and penned his own romance novel? Fortunately not. The discussion revolves around a book called “The Truth About Chuck Norris: 400 facts about the World’s Greatest Human” and the resulting law suit. Also, the far more serious

For the last show of 2007 we’re doing something a little different. This week, VARIETY reports that more and more films are abandoning the classical 3-act structure in favour of nonlinear story construction. So the main question we’re going to address tonight is all about the future of story itself. Andrew Gillman, who will be familiar to many listeners of our earlier podcasts, is currently directing another series for BBC3 starring Rob Brydon. We asked Andrew and his producer, Alex Kavallierou, to

If you look at the bestseller charts on both sides of the Atlantic, it’s not hard to predict what you’re going to see. In the UK, 15 of the top 20 hardback non-fiction books are television spin-offs. Stateside, this week’s hardcover fiction list is equally humdrum - you’d be forgiven for thinking that we’d all been swallowed up in a time warp and gone back to the 1980s. So - has “safe” publishing finally taken over? We also tackle buzz marketing, the ten most manly writers ever, and the definitive

Recorded live and uncensored, LITOPIA AFTER DARK is a wide-ranging look at what’s new, hot or not in the worlds of writing, publishing, media and culture. Last week, we gave Amazon’s Kindle a good going-over - and we’re not finished with the subject yet - well take another look at it quite soon, when we can assess what kind of initial impact it’s made. This week, it’s the turn of another “saviour of the publishing industry” to get the high-octane attention of our panel of writers - the rise of the

Recorded live and uncensored, LITOPIA AFTER DARK is a wide-ranging look at what’s new, hot or not in the worlds of writing, publishing, media and culture. This week, we tackle The Kindle - Savior of the publishing industry or Segway? Princess Diana’s biographer Andrew Morton’s takes on Tom Cruise. And we give Bloomsbury Publishing our best advice in coping with Potter bereavement. Plus our picks of the week, and sleepers of the week. Our pundits are Donna Ballman, Dave Bartram, Beverly Gray and