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All Radio Litopia's shows are here - LITOPIA AFTER DARK, THE DEBRIEFER, OPEN HOUSE, BETWEEN THE LINES... and much more besides!
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Eyes Stop Moving | They're putting people into MRI scanners to find out which parts of their brains are stimulated by reading. Nothing new to LAD listeners - we covered this in 2010 and to some extent with David Eagleman in 2009 (always on the leading edge, us). But tonight, Dr. Susan O'Doherty tells us where this research is heading... prepared to be freaked, folks. With her feet in the fridge and her head in the stars, newcomer Kate Milford is both delightfully cool and fully financed, via the rather wonderful KickStarter... hear how she did it! If anyone knows the link to Dave's YouTube "50 Shades" clip, please tweet it to us... but do watch your bodily functions... Presented by Peter Cox with Dave Bartram and featuring the chilled-out Ali Gardiner in the chat room. Join us in the chat room for next week's live show! Download the show as mp3 file Subscribe in iTunes Subscribe to our shows by Email If you enjoy Radio Litopia, please help us to keep going by making a donation! | 5/28/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Something Innovative This Way Comes | It was start-up night on The Naked Book with three of the hottest new innovators explaining how their bookish brews will charm the money, entice the publisher, and beguile the reader. Oh, and make a billion. Representing Small Demons was Richard Nash: officially charged with saving the "book biz", Nash is getting into his stride. Small Demons, quoth he, will "restore books to the center of the cultural universe". Nothing less will surely do. Unbound was John Mitchinson, formerly marketing director at Waterstones, former legacy publisher with Cassell, turned writer for QI. His inverted publishing model, where the reader pays upfront, is working out well for authors. But the money men were less easy to win over. He's found himself loving angels instead. Flooved founder Hamish Brocklebank had no such worries. He's raised £500,000 for his text-book start-up. But then he had British Bull Dog spirit and a sprinkling of semantic wizardry to aid his persuasions. But what about that name? A Latin mash-up, said Brocklebank. Convinced yet? Helping ignite the discussion were the regulars Sam Missingham and Catherine Neilan. Drinking was not mandatory. Ambition was. Presented by Philip Jones, deputy editor of The Bookseller. Why don't you join us live for the next show? Click here to pop it in your diary! Download the show as mp3 file Subscribe to our shows by Email | 5/25/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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China Takes The Biscuit (And Everything Else) | What the heck happened? We are now living through - and suffering from - the greatest financial crisis since the 19th century. But it wasn't supposed to be like this. Our guest tonight, City Editor of the Daily Mail, Alex Brummer, has written a book which traces our gradual descent into this mess. Way back in the days of Margaret Thatcher, Britain was the first country to adopt wholesale neo-Liberalism as an economic and political philosophy. Deregulation and the free markets triumphed: we all became shareholders and lived happily ever after... at least, that was supposed to be the idea. Today, our industry is largely owned by faceless companies located in far-off tax havens... the middle classes are being squeezed into irrelevance... and the Chinese own vast swathes of our industry, apparently soon to include our nuclear reactors. That wasn't what was intended - was it? Alex's book "Britain For Sale" cogently explains how all this happened, and he's got our vote to be the next Chancellor. Presented by Peter Cox with Dave Bartram and featuring the tax-efficient Ali Gardiner in the chat room. Join us in the chat room for next week's live show! Download the show as mp3 file Subscribe in iTunes Subscribe to our shows by Email If you enjoy Radio Litopia, please help us to keep going by making a donation! | 5/21/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Vigilante Justice, YouTube Style | This week we talk about states jumping on the bandwagon to sue for eBook price fixing; a book that’s been banned in multiple states; a blogger who demands what’s due him; piracy running rampant as eBook sales increase; how Facebook may be censoring your comments; and how the UK plans to reform libel laws. Presented by leading lawyer Donna Ballman with literary agent Peter Cox. Don't forget - you can post topics for Donna to discuss in Donna's Domain inside the Colony. Download the show as mp3 file Subscribe in iTunes Subscribe to our shows by Email Be a wonderful human being and support us with a donation | 5/20/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Don't Stop Thinking About Tomorrow | How do you feel about the future? Fifty years ago, most views would probably have been rosily optimistic: our faith in science to solve the most pressing problems was mostly untarnished, and our belief in politicians to take wise and beneficent decisions not quite threadbare. Today, the clouds of doubt assail us from every quarter. Not, though, as far as Bálint Szent-Miklósy is concerned. An unreconstructed optimist, tonight's guest is a distinguished futurist; formerly president of the World Future Society, and the founder of Futurific Leading Indicators Magazine. His forecasts are upbeat but, he says, never wrong - listen and judge for yourself! Presented by Peter Cox with Dave Bartram and featuring the beguiling Ali Gardiner in the chat room. Join us in the chat room for next week's live show! Download the show as mp3 file Subscribe in iTunes Subscribe to our shows by Email If you enjoy Radio Litopia, please help us to keep going by making a donation! | 5/14/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Something Innovative This Way Comes | It was start-up night on The Naked Book with three of the hottest new innovators explaining how their bookish brews will charm the money, entice the publisher, and beguile the reader. Oh, and make a billion. Representing Small Demons was Richard Nash: officially charged with saving the "book biz", Nash is getting into his stride. Small Demons, quoth he, will "restore books to the center of the cultural universe". Nothing less will surely do. Unbound was John Mitchinson, formerly marketing director at Waterstones, former legacy publisher with Cassell, turned writer for QI. His inverted publishing model, where the reader pays upfront, is working out well for authors. But the money men were less easy to win over. He's found himself loving angels instead. Flooved founder Hamish Brocklebank had no such worries. He's raised £500,000 for his text-book start-up. But then he had British Bull Dog spirit and a sprinkling of semantic wizardry to aid his persuasions. But what about that name? A Latin mash-up, said Brocklebank. Convinced yet? Helping ignite the discussion were the regulars Sam Missingham and Catherine Neilan. Drinking was not mandatory. Ambition was. Presented by Philip Jones, deputy editor of The Bookseller. Why don't you join us live for the next show? Click here to pop it in your diary! Download the show as mp3 file Subscribe to our shows by Email | 5/5/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Porn Supremacy | In the week that Microsoft bought a fifth of Barnes & Noble’s digital businesses, and we learned that e-books sales grew 360% in the UK last year, we thought at The Naked Book we’d ignore all that - and focus on 'mummy porn'. Why? Well, it was the public wot did it. Four pence in every pound spent on a book last week went on the adventures of Anastasia Steele and the manipulative billionaire Christian Grey: whose dangerous couplings take place in E L James' Twilight-inspired trilogy Fifty Shades of Grey, Fifty Shades Darker, and Fifty Shades Freed. The erotic hits are revitalizing a genre gone flaccid, and prompting publishers to unsheathe their erotic back-list. Scott Pack, publisher at HarperCollins imprint The Friday Project, was so excited he decided to 'do' the show naked. Dr Brooke Magnanti, formerly known as the blogger and call-girl Belle de Jour, suggested playing a drinking game. Needless to say the innuendos, along with the liquor flowed freely. The discussion, ably assisted by regulars Sam Missingham and Catherine Neilan was, ahem, deep. Hopefully most of the smut will get past the censors. Maybe some of the insight too. The big Question from the show - we don't like "mummy porn". What shall we call it instead? Presented by Philip Jones, deputy editor of The Bookseller. Why don't you join us live for the next show? Click here to pop it in your diary! Download the show as mp3 file Subscribe to our shows by Email | 5/5/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Said The Cabbie To Jeremy Hunt... | What with Leveson, Hunt, Murdoch... to say nothing of a double-dip recession... there's way too much bad news around... so enough already! When life gets excessively glum - it's time for us to dig out Litopia's infamous Ant Game... which is exactly what we've done tonight, for your aural bliss. We're delighted to be joined by Anna Raverat, whose first book Signs of Life is impressing everyone... and Simon Cheshire, too - author of the bestselling Saxby Smart private detective series, and the just-published and highly-recommended You've Got To Read This: A Beginner's Guide To Great Writers And The History Of Books. Presented by Peter Cox with Dave Bartram and featuring the beguiling Ali Gardiner in the chat room. Join us in the chat room for next week's live show! Download the show as mp3 file Subscribe in iTunes Subscribe to our shows by Email If you enjoy Radio Litopia, please help us to keep going by making a donation! | 4/30/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Philip Reeve: Spike & Spook Go To The Moon | Philip Reeve is one of the godfathers of steampunk (although today he's somewhat allergic to that word) with his massively successful Mortal Engines series. One of the most enduringly popular of all YA authors, Philip's fans are everywhere - especially in our chat room tonight, as they bombard him with questions! His most recent book, Goblins, has just been published - and has been snapped up by Hollywood. If you love Philip's books or love steampunk, sci-fi or indeed write it - this show is a classic. Presented by Peter Cox with Dave Bartram and featuring the beguiling Ali Gardiner in the chat room. Join us in the chat room for next week's live show! Download the show as mp3 file Subscribe in iTunes Subscribe to our shows by Email If you enjoy Radio Litopia, please help us to keep going by making a donation! | 4/28/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Our Man In The Cold | Tonight's show is a real-life thriller: featuring espionage, double-dealing, murder and even a dash of Hollywood. And a British ambassador who sees things he shouldn't - and decides to tell the world. Sounds like the plot of a movie? Craig Murray's amazing story has already been optioned by producers - if you can't wait to see the big-screen version, you can hear him on Litopia After Dark - you'll be riveted! Presented by Peter Cox with Dave Bartram and featuring the beguiling Ali Gardiner in the chat room. Join us in the chat room for next week's live show! Download the show as mp3 file Subscribe in iTunes Subscribe to our shows by Email If you enjoy Radio Litopia, please help us to keep going by making a donation! | 4/9/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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A Defining Moment | In this show: why the publishing industry is angry that the Pulitzers snubbed fiction. And quite possibly the biggest story we have ever covered - the U.S. Justice Department lawsuit against publishers for "conspiring to end e-book retailers' freedom to compete on price". Truly momentous times for the publishing business. Presented by leading lawyer Donna Ballman with literary agent Peter Cox. Don't forget - you can post topics for Donna to discuss in Donna's Domain inside the Colony. Download the show as mp3 file Subscribe in iTunes Subscribe to our shows by Email Be a wonderful human being and support us with a donation | 4/6/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Narcissistic Personality Disorder of Facebook | This week we talk about why you shouldn’t expect a check for your Huffington Post blog; why you may never be able to write a cookbook, use your checkbook or book a flight again; why you might be hanged if you’re too uppity on Facebook; how to lose $1 million and still keep your job; a disappearing contract in a publishing suit; and why you should think twice before suing over a bad review. Plus, we’ll be talking about a TV show that hit close to home for Donna and how they got the real-life legal issues wrong. Presented by leading lawyer Donna Ballman with literary agent Peter Cox. Don't forget - you can post topics for Donna to discuss in Donna's Domain inside the Colony. Download the show as mp3 file Subscribe in iTunes Subscribe to our shows by Email Be a wonderful human being and support us with a donation | 4/6/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Papyrus to Pixels | We love to talk about story here on Litopia After Dark - and in particular, the impact that new media is having on its development, production and consumption. Are we entering a Promised Land full of storytelling richness, fuelled by ubiquitous multimedia devices - or is this merely the beginning of a new Dark Age, when story - and therefore authors - are devalued? Someone who's taken the bull by the horns on this issue is Andrea Buchanan, no stranger to listeners of Litopia After Dark, whose new work Gift is a feast of storytelling sumptuousness - including not just words, but music and songs, characters' diaries and comics, too. Is this the way of the future? Listen, and decide for yourself! Presented by Peter Cox with Dave Bartram and featuring the immortal Ali Gardiner in the chat room. Join us in the chat room for next week's live show! Download the show as mp3 file Subscribe in iTunes Subscribe to our shows by Email If you enjoy Radio Litopia, please help us to keep going by making a donation! | 4/3/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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A Severe, Prolonged Misunderstanding | She's a scholar of Latin and ancient Greek, and admits to being a recovering stickler. He's a lexicographer and dictionary editor; a profession which ranks as one of the sexiest on Earth (that's what the chat room says, and who are we to disagree?). Together, Martha Barnette and Grant Barrett host one of the 'net's most venerable public radio shows, A Way With Words - fifty minutes of sheer verbal bliss for anyone who's curious about the language we use. A Way With Words has recently started to run on Radio Litopia and we think once you've met Martha and Grant, you'll be back for more! Presented by Peter Cox with Dave Bartram and featuring the return of the awesome Ali Gardiner in the chat room. Join us in the chat room for next week's live show! Download the show as mp3 file Subscribe in iTunes Subscribe to our shows by Email If you enjoy Radio Litopia, please help us to keep going by making a donation! | 3/27/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Smaug The Dragon Sues Hobbit | This week we’ll be talking about an agency that has agreed to stop discriminating against older writers; a big company that has dropped attempts at censorship; a TV show that has copyright issues; allegations of censorship at the London Book Fair; whether Twitter might run afoul of UK libel law; a TV show that a writer claims is stolen; contraband book smuggling; a writer striking back at a big studio; and a legal fight over a Middle-earth pub. Presented by leading lawyer Donna Ballman with literary agent Peter Cox. Don't forget - you can post topics for Donna to discuss in Donna's Domain inside the Colony. Download the show as mp3 file Subscribe in iTunes Subscribe to our shows by Email Be a wonderful human being and support us with a donation | 3/23/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Jeffrey Archer: The Archer Still Has Two Fingers | With 270 million copies of his books in circulation, Jeffrey Archer can justly claim to be one of the world's all-time bestselling novelists. From his first book way back in 1976 - rejected by fifteen publishers - to his current worldwide hit The Sins Of The Father - his writer's journey has been a wild ride of extremes. This absorbing in-depth interview, during which Jeffrey fields questions both from our panel and from the live audience in the chat room, is utterly unmissable. No topic is off-limits. Candid, witty and very much the consummate pro, Jeffrey packs a lifetime of advice into sixty spellbinding minutes. If you've ever wanted to attend a masterclass in how to become a bestselling novelist - start listening now. Presented by Peter Cox with Dave Bartram and featuring the return of the awesome Ali Gardiner in the chat room. Join us in the chat room for next week's live show! Download the show as mp3 file Subscribe in iTunes Subscribe to our shows by Email If you enjoy Radio Litopia, please help us to keep going by making a donation! | 3/19/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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When Good Lawyers Go Bad | This week we talk about how the world is about to change for ebooks in a big way and why we need to be worried, a presidential candidate who thinks he can use your work without paying, a suit over bogus takedown notices, copyright versus patent lawyers in a major showdown, something you need to do right now if your books are published in France, a new libel superinjunction, and Paypal gets into the censorship game. Plus - why lawyers who get suspended in your stories should not be celebrating their vacation. Presented by leading lawyer Donna Ballman with literary agent Peter Cox. Don't forget - you can post topics for Donna to discuss in Donna's Domain inside the Colony. Download the show as mp3 file Subscribe in iTunes Subscribe to our shows by Email Be a wonderful human being and support us with a donation | 3/11/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Green Chilblain Shrews | He's worked with Bjorn and Benny from ABBA, orchestrated the music for Inspector Morse, conducted some of the world’s greatest orchestras and his dance music has been played by the likes of Sasha, John Digweed, Paul Oakenfold and Nick Warren. Matthew Slater is a professional composer, and in tonight's fascinating show, he takes us for an intimate look behind the scenes of a sister creative industry to the writing and publishing world. There are many similarities, and indeed, many believe that the music industry is about five years ahead of the publishing business; if you want to know what the future looks like, here it is. Presented by Peter Cox with Dave Bartram and featuring the return of the awesome Ali Gardiner in the chat room. Join us in the chat room for next week's live show! Download the show as mp3 file Subscribe in iTunes Subscribe to our shows by Email If you enjoy Radio Litopia, please help us to keep going by making a donation! | 2/27/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Donna Is Sheriff For A Day | This week we talk about Amazon taking its name a little too seriously, why Paramount wants a Mario Puzo screenplay to sleep with the fishes, a trademark battle over an ape man, putting pirates out of business, and why a new version of Sherlock Holmes is anything but elementary. Plus, we talk about why your police officer characters should never drop their guns. Presented by leading lawyer Donna Ballman with literary agent Peter Cox. Don't forget - you can post topics for Donna to discuss in Donna's Domain inside the Colony. Download the show as mp3 file Subscribe in iTunes Subscribe to our shows by Email Be a wonderful human being and support us with a donation | 2/27/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Million Dollar Voice | BJ Harrison is doing what many authors dream of doing; he's made a huge success out of recording and selling audiobooks on the net. What's even more amazing - the texts he reads and sells are public domain and out of copyright. With seven million downloads, he's obviously doing something right. BJ's reading of The Mark of Zorro will start running soon on radio Litopia; prior to that, we're delighted to have him as our guest on tonight's show - there's a lot authors can learn from him. Back with a bang is Litopia After Dark's very own Donald Trump - Martyn Daniels, to give us a succinct update of the current state of play in the publishing business... where it's old guard versus new guard... and, despite what some may say, how Amazon's deep understanding of the publishing business is paying off... Presented by Peter Cox with Dave Bartram and featuring the return of the awesome Ali Gardiner in the chat room. Join us in the chat room for next week's live show! Download the show as mp3 file Subscribe in iTunes Subscribe to our shows by Email If you enjoy Radio Litopia, please help us to keep going by making a donation! | 2/20/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Who Killed Hilda Murrell? | It was an iconic murder - pre-dating the mysterious death of British biological warfare expert David Kelly, but bearing uncanny similarities, too. Rose grower, naturalist, diarist and campaigner against nuclear energy and weapons, Hilda Murrell's murder in 1984 entered the national consciousness and has never left (for Americans - think of her as Britain's Karen Silkwood). Tonight's show features an in-depth interview with her nephew, former Royal Navy Commander Robert Green. You will find it compelling listening. Robert's book is available here. Download the show as mp3 fileSubscribe in iTunesSubscribe to our shows by Email | 2/14/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Man Behind Sherlock Holmes | What with Benedict Cumberbatch’s radical new television interpretation of Sherlock Holmes, and the recent big-screen Guy Ritchie / Robert Downey / Jude Law action movies, the Baker Street seven per-center is enjoying a major revival of interest. How appropriate, then, that the master scriptwriter of the entire Holmes canon should join us for tonight's Litopia After Dark. Bert Coules is nearly as legendary as his protagonist in Holmesian circles. He’s a man who’s had more experience of Sherlock Holmes than almost anyone else, apart from Conan Doyle. Not only was he head writer on the BBC’s project to dramatise the entire Holmes canon, but he then went on to write The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – original plots based on passing references from Conan Doyle’s oeuvre. Bert has also adapted several Ellis Peters’ Brother Cadfael novels, starring Philip Madoc as Cadfael, and has dramatised works by Ian Rankin, Val McDermid, Isaac Asimov and other best-selling genre authors. Whether you're a Holmes fan, an aspiring scriptwriter, or simply interested in great drama, you'll love this show - pass it on to your friends! Presented by Peter Cox with Dave Bartram without the awesome Ali in the chat room - she'll be back next week. Join us in the chat room for next week's live show! Download the show as mp3 file Subscribe in iTunes Subscribe to our shows by Email If you enjoy Radio Litopia, please help us to keep going by making a donation! | 2/10/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Rumors Of The End Of The World | Canadian writer Margaret Atwood once noted that "the Colonies" (i.e. former British posessions) were not places where great literature was supposed to happen. That myopic view is well and truly demolished by tonight's guest: Australian writer Chris Womersley. Chris's fiction has appeared in Granta, and his second novel Bereft has just been published in the UK by Quercus. Garnering massive praise, it won the Australian Book Industry Award for Literary Fiction, and was short-listed for the Miles Franklin Literary Award, The Age Book of the Year and the Australian Society of Literature Gold Medal. Chris's first book, The Low Road, won the 2008 Ned Kelly Award for Best First Fiction for his novel. We love introducing our listeners to brilliant new talent, and Chris is certainly that - a name to watch in years to come. Presented by Peter Cox with Dave Bartram without the awesome Ali in the chat room - she'll be back next week. Join us in the chat room for next week's live show! Download the show as mp3 file Subscribe in iTunes Subscribe to our shows by Email If you enjoy Radio Litopia, please help us to keep going by making a donation! | 1/23/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Snow Business | One hundred years ago, on January 17th, 1912, Captain Robert Falcon Scott's five-man team reached the South Pole: only to find Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen had beaten them to it more than a month earlier. Scott's ill-fated expedition is the stuff of legend. This week's Litopia After Dark has two legendary guests: Dr. Huw Lewis-Jones, formerly Curator of Art at the Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge, and Kari Herbert, daughter of polar explorer, Sir Wally Herbert. Kari spent the first few years of her life living on a remote island in the Arctic with the Polar Inuit of Northwest Greenland. Her first language was Inuktun, the local dialect of Greenlandic. At the age of four Herbert accompanied her parents on a journey that took them through winter blizzards in a caravan to spend time with the Sami of Lapland. She has continued to travel extensively ever since. Kari's forthcoming book (available for pre-order on Amazon) is Polar Wives: The Remarkable Wives Behind the World's Most Daring Explorers. Kari and Huw have jointly written In Search of the South Pole, which is available now. All this plus Litopia's very own Nic Alderton - it's one cool show...! Presented by Peter Cox with Dave Bartram and the awesome Ali in the chat room. Join us in the chat room for next week's live show - it's neoannual! Download the show as mp3 file Subscribe in iTunes Subscribe to our shows by Email If you enjoy Radio Litopia, please help us to keep going by making a donation! | 1/23/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Apple Pwns Education | Today, Apple made a grab at the education market. Not at part of it. No. All of it. As authors, we've become quite accustomed to extremely large companies appropriating things. Think about Google unilaterally grabbing eBook rights. Or consider Amazon giving away our eBooks. You get the picture. Apple, however, are going beyond all that with their educational product launch today. They're aiming to own education. In this special edition of Litopia After Dark, we've assembled a word-beating team of panellists to cut through the hype. Industry professionals all, they will clearly explain exactly what's happened today - and even more importantly, how it will affect you... and indeed, how you might be able to benefit. Our crack team comprises: Philip Jones - deputy editor of The Bookseller and founder of FutureBook. Follow Philip on Twitter John Pettigrew - Senior Managing Editor, International Education, Cambridge University Press Alison Jones, Director of Digital Development, Palgrave Macmillan Martyn Daniels - publishing industry consultant and blogger for the Booksellers' Association MJ Rose - legendary New York author, publicity guru & publishing commentator Huw Alexander - Rights & Digital Sales Manager for SAGE Publications hank you to everyone who contributed, both on the panel and in the chat room... you all made this a very special show, and spread great knowledge and enlightenment! Join us in the chat room for next week's live show - it's neoannual! Download the show as mp3 file Subscribe in iTunes Subscribe to our shows by Email If you enjoy Radio Litopia, please help us to keep going by making a donation. | 1/19/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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I Wish I'd Written It | The new year is a time to make dreams come true... and if you could make one authorial wish come true, what might it be? Perhaps you'd like the ultimate rave review from a legendary author such as Stephen King, along these lines: "this one gets the writer's ultimate bit of praise: I wish I had written it". That's exactly what happened to our guest Erin Kelly tonight; her first novel The Poison Tree found its way onto Mr. King's desk, and that is what the great master wrote. With an endorsement like that, who needs reviews? Jill Wolfson's latest YA book, the deeply emotional Cold Hands, Warm Heart is inspiring a similar degree of passion amongst its readers - or should we say, fans. Set in the life-and-death world of organ transplants, and meticulously researched by Jill, the book is a fabulous story about young people who are learning - in extreme circumstances - what's most important in life: love, work, a sense of purpose and community. Philip Jones, deputy editor of The Bookseller and founder of FutureBook, is here to give us an eagle-eyed overview of the state of the publishing business. There are so many contradictory views, so much noise, and so many axes being ground that it's increasingly hard to determine exactly what happening and what's likely to happen this year. Philip is one of the industry's leading commentators, and you'll find his insights both clear and astonishing... it's a must-listen! Presented by Peter Cox with Dave Bartram and the awesome Ali in the chat room. Join us in the chat room for next week's live show - it's neoannual! Download the show as mp3 file Subscribe in iTunes Subscribe to our shows by Email | 1/9/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Peter Englund: The Beauty and the Sorrow | His origins were humble; a working-class boy from a small military town in northern Sweden, not far from the Arctic Circle. Today, he is one of the most influential figures in the world of literature, because Peter Englund is Permanent Secretary to the Swedish Academy, the body that awards the Nobel Prize in Literature. For someone who has within his power the making or breaking of international writing careers, Peter, as you'll hear, is remarkably unassuming. Perhaps one reason for this is that he's still a writer himself; he understands the writing process profoundly, and his own books have been both bestsellers and widely acclaimed. His most recent, just launched in London, is a stunning new approach to the history of the First World War. Subtitled "an intimate history", The Beauty and the Sorrow explores the personal aspects of war: not the grand strategies concocted in the cabinets of Europe, but the experiences of "ordinary" people from around the world, all now unknown - were it not for Peter's deeply moving book. This extended and intimate interview with Peter England reveals a wise and thoughtful author, unaffected by success, still driven to pursue his writing journey to its ultimate destination. | 1/3/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sam Leith: You Talkin' To Me? | What's it like to receive 300 books to review for a major national newspaper - every week? That is but one of the more-or-less impossible tasks that befalls a typical literary editor - which is what Sam Leith did as Literary Editor of the Daily Telegraph. Highly regarded in the publishing business, Sam talks with us today about good reviews and bad reviews, about publishing and publishers, and about the future of the newspaper business. In fact, Sam is the scion of a newspaper dynasty. Grandson of Sir John Junor (editor of the Sunday Express for 32 years) and son of journalist and author Penny Junor, Sam rose through the ranks to become Literary Editor: until, that is, things suddenly changed. Today, he's crossed the floor to become an author (an interesting experience for a former literary editor). The author of two previous non-fiction titles, Dead Pets and Sod's Law and one novel, The Coincidence Engine, Sam has now written a book about rhetoric, You Talkin' To Me?- a witty and elegant enquiry into the art of persuasion. Sam is a fascinating conversationalist - you'll enjoy this romp of a discussion that ranges from Barak Obama to Kerry Katona... by way of Plato and Kate Moss. And a dash of Evelyn Waugh, too! | 1/2/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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John Simopoulos: A Tiger Burning Bright | When we asked John Simopoulos, Founding Fellow and Dean of Degrees at St Catherine’s College, Oxford, to read Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner last year, we had an overwhelming response from listeners wanting to hear more from him. We're thrilled to welcome John back to present this special new year's "mixed bag of prose, poetry and century" that is certain to delight and inspire you... happy new year! John reads and discusses: Meditation 17 by John Donne "The Little Black Boy" by William Blake "The Tiger" by William Blake Samuel Johnson's letter to Lord Chesterfield "Those Winter Sundays" By Robert Hayden "Heraclitus" by William Johnson Cory "On The Coast Of Coromandel" by Osbert Sitwell "The Owl And The Pussy Cat" by Edward Lear Music in the programme is available for purchase from magnatune.com | 1/1/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Acting Up Over ACTA, Dicing With DRM | This week we talk about why some works you thought were public domain might be back in copyright; why Wikipedia went dark; how a copyright law that did pass may affect you; school-book censorship; whether Amazon has gone all Capt. Jack Sparrow on us; why some publishing insiders are abandoning DRM; and a law that may stop some authors from writing for schools. Plus, we talk about why using twin stand-ins in your stories may not be a good idea. Presented by leading lawyer Donna Ballman with literary agent Peter Cox. Don't forget - you can post topics for Donna to discuss in Donna's Domain inside the Colony. Download the show as mp3 file Subscribe in iTunes Subscribe to our shows by Email Be a wonderful human being and support us with a donation | 12/29/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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What Facebook Really Thinks About You | This week we talk about trademark-eating zombies, how signing a check may cost you your copyright, why you might already be a public figure, which famous writer’s heirs’ reign of terror is over, a publisher claiming copyright on rights that didn’t exist, whether agents should have ethics, and how writing a memoir might cost you your job. Plus, Donna makes her predictions for publishing for 2012. Presented by leading lawyer Donna Ballman with literary agent Peter Cox. Don't forget - you can post topics for Donna to discuss in Donna's Domain inside the Colony. Download the show as mp3 file Subscribe in iTunes Subscribe to our shows by Email Be a wonderful human being and support us with a donation | 12/29/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Customer Reviews
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