Latest Publsihing Podcast Episodes
Joseph Boyden: Who Are You, Really?
Litopia After Dark - December 27, 2016 17:21 - 25 minutes ★ - 1 ratingWithout a doubt, it was our worst-ever show. We never had a guest walk out on us before; the shitstorm that followed saw us branded all over the Internet as racially-insensitive bigots. The author’s publicist swore never to work within us again, and insinuated that he’d try to pull us off the ...
For The Love of Film
Litopia After Dark - April 06, 2016 12:11 - 1 hour ★ - 1 ratingHow To Make A Movie: Have a great idea. Write a screenplay. Offer it to Hollywood (this step may take sixteen years waiting tables) Sell your soul (i.e. tarnish your great idea with two nudes, an astronaut, graphic sex, two vampires and three fart jokes) Watch the whole thing get mothba...
The Icelandic Book Flood
Litopia After Dark - February 14, 2016 14:57 - 1 hour ★ - 1 ratingWhat the hell is going on with publishing? Lots of empty opinion, hype, doom saying and general noise. Cutting through to the signal is difficult – but heck, that’s what LAD does best! So tonight, we bring you an author, a leading industry expert and a publishing rain-maker (oh yes) to cu...
The Year's Midnight
Litopia After Dark - December 30, 2015 20:33 - 1 hour ★ - 1 ratingAs the winter solstice passes, Litopia After Dark becomes Litopia After Darker. it's time for festive cheer, certainly. But it's also the moment when the fabric (sorry) between our nightmares and our waking world is at its thinnest. A time for cosy hibernation, yes-- but also fear, depression ...
Money, Medicine & Marijuana
Litopia After Dark - December 24, 2015 16:31 - 1 hour ★ - 1 ratingThis year Colorado is expected to generate $125 million in tax revenue from legal marijuana sales. In the first full year of legalization Colorado homicide rates have dropped by 24%. Medically, the (preliminary) research is in: while cannabis has been shown to have deleterious effects on deve...
Of Headscarves & Hymens: A Candid Conversation With Mona Eltahawy
Litopia After Dark - September 27, 2015 16:05 - 1 hour ★ - 1 rating"When more than 90% of ever-married women in Egypt -- including my mother and all but one of her six sisters -- have had their genitals cut in the name of modesty, then surely we must all blaspheme... to hell with political correctness." So wrote tonight's guest, Egyptian journalist and women'...
The Hard Conversation
Litopia After Dark - August 01, 2015 18:31 - 1 hour ★ - 1 ratingLITOPIA AFTER DARK is back! And in typical style, our first guest for the new season spent four nights in a freezing cave in Tora Bora interviewing none other than Osama bin Laden. How’s that for openers? But that’s far from Abdel Bari Atwan’s only claim to fame. Born in Gaza, he is one of th...
France A La Mod - or, A Beer in Provence
Litopia After Dark - April 06, 2015 10:30 - 55 minutes ★ - 1 ratingIt's Easter, everybody! Time for daffodils... daylight savings... and life-sized chocolate statues of Benedict Cumberbatch. So how about we put aside Ebola, Somalian jihad, narcotraficantes, the heart-wrenching demise of a literary titan-- not to mention the greatest extinction event in the hi...
The Viral Mind of Susan Blackmore
Litopia After Dark - March 25, 2015 14:31 - 55 minutes ★ - 1 ratingMeet Susan Blackmore, the world’s foremost expert on memes. The intro to her seminal work The Meme Machine was written by none other than genius biologist and fundamentalist atheist blowhard Richard Dawkins. Her lectures on TED receives millions of views— even despite TED's dishwater-dull forma...
Beki Adam – Top Gear Mutineer
Litopia After Dark - March 22, 2015 12:34 - 55 minutes ★ - 1 ratingYou might think that landing a coveted job presenting BBC TV’s Top Gear would be the peak of most people’s careers. Not for tonight’s guest, Beki Adam. For her, presenting the most widely-watched factual television programme in the world was just the start of a long, and very strange journey......
Inside The Waugh Zone
Litopia After Dark - March 09, 2015 11:05 - 55 minutes ★ - 1 ratingDaisy Waugh is literary royalty. Following in the footsteps of her legendary grandfather Evelyn and her journalist/author father Auberon, Daisy is a popular columnist and novelist in her own right. According to her regular column in the Sunday Times she promoted her last book, “a feminist dia...
El Narco: Inside Mexico's Deadly Drugs Wars
Litopia After Dark - March 05, 2015 10:48 - 55 minutes ★ - 1 ratingSeventy thousand dead. Twenty thousand disappeared. Severed heads with threatening messages dumped by the side of the highway. A terrorist insurgency on the verge of toppling governments. Iraq? Syria? The Congo? Ukraine? No. This is Northern Mexico— one of the most violent places on earth...
The Litopia After Dark Xmas Family Murder Show!
Litopia After Dark - February 13, 2015 12:10 - 55 minutes ★ - 1 ratingAt Last – The Litopia After Dark Xmas Family Murder Show is here! Yeah – it’s a tad late, folks (or early, for next Xmas). But hardcore Yule like this is worth waiting for. This is the show that puts Fifty Shades in the shade. That makes your office Xmas party look sophisticated. That crac...
Attack of the Tax Resistors
Litopia After Dark - February 05, 2015 13:52 - 55 minutes ★ - 1 ratingWhen US and UK forces invaded Iraq in 2003, millions of people took to the streets to protes – to little effect. The bombs of Shock and Awe kept falling. By some estimates the civilian death toll stands at over 150,000. Like many people, tonight’s guest David Gross had a crisis of conscience. ...
The Cosmic Trigger
Litopia After Dark - November 27, 2014 13:16 - 55 minutes ★ - 1 ratingIan’s guests tonight are Daisy Eris Campbell and Jon Higgs who are bringing Robert Anton Wilson’s cult classic The Cosmic Trigger, The Final Secret of the Illuminati to the stage. Impossible? Well, when you consider that this nonfiction and partly autobiographical work covers, amongst many...
The World According to Mal Peet
Litopia After Dark - November 13, 2014 12:49 - 55 minutes ★ - 1 ratingMal Peet is widely acknowledged to be one of the greatest British writers alive. His books have won many awards, and reviews range from the merely enthusiastic to the ecstatic. A deeply creative writer, Mal joins us tonight to chat about the writing process, tar-grouted macadam, nano-drones an...
Three Faces of War – Very Special Forces
Litopia After Dark - November 11, 2014 11:06 - 55 minutes ★ - 1 ratingOn this day in 1918 – the eleventh day of the eleventh month, at the 11th hour – the hostilities of the First World war formally ended. This is Remembrance Day, aka Poppy Day. But why poppies? Well, contrary to popular belief, poppies have been associated with war since at least Napoleonic tim...
Three Faces of War – The English Lady
Litopia After Dark - November 10, 2014 13:31 - 55 minutes ★ - 1 ratingShe does her job with typically understated bravery. To meet her, you might think (for a moment) that this headscarved and very English lady is, perhaps, a headmistress, a rose grower or possibly something a bit nebulous in the arts. But this is Lindsey Hilsum. The woman for whom the expressio...
Three Faces of War – The Assassin
Litopia After Dark - November 09, 2014 19:25 - 55 minutes ★ - 1 ratingMaking a welcome return tonight is journalist-turned-investigative-historian, Tim Butcher. Tim specialises in covering awkward places at difficult moments: Kurdistan under attack in 1991 by Saddam Hussein, Sarajevo during the Bosnian War of the 1990s, the Allied attack on Iraq in 2003, Israel's...
Susan Greenfield – Baroness of the Brain
Litopia After Dark - September 30, 2014 16:50 - 55 minutes ★ - 1 ratingBaroness Susan Greenfield is one of the most interesting scientists alive on the planet. Reviled by some, admired by many, never short of a piercing insight and a provocative soundbite... Susan Greenfield is everywhere. But who is the real Susan Greenfield – and what is she really saying to us...
The Greatest Escape
Litopia After Dark - July 25, 2014 15:41 - 55 minutes ★ - 1 ratingYou may think you know about World War Two… but you don’t. Tonight you’ll find out why. Featuring blistering contributions from our special guests Peter Grose, author of The Greatest Escape, and journalist & WWII maven, Neill Denny. Scintillating conversation and scorching debate… from Boy Scou...
Ukraine, Crimea & World War III
Litopia After Dark - March 24, 2014 21:17 - 55 minutes ★ - 1 ratingIt started in Sochi — the most expensive winter Olympics in history. A winter Olympics which, let us not forget, saw Great Britain take the gold in curling! Then Pussy Riot— which is decidedly not a niche pornography market — were being publicly horsewhipped by men in funny hats while the worl...
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