James Harkin

And there was one particular press baron called Edward Lloyd who hired 10 or 15 writers to just churn these things out, get them on the streets before Dickens has released his next chapter or whatever it is.

And Dickens did sue over one.

saying this is outrageous but the judge in the case i love this who was called sir lancelot shadwell yes please yes please said these are so bad that they don't meet the test of plagiarism or pirating no one could possibly be fooled oh really by by nicholas nickelberry or whatever yeah it just is not good enough to be plagiarism

I think there are laws about parody and there are tests.

Do you remember The Moron in a Hurry?

Yeah, like if a moron in a hurry can still tell the difference between your work and the original, then it's fine.

That's it.

But if they would be fooled, then it might be a problem.

You leave my wife out of this.

No offense, but depending on the bit of Bleak House, it's not always totally easy to completely lose yourself in it.

That would above everything.

how interesting and there was all this debate about whether people in olden times had the capacity to read silently yeah because there was one guy wasn't there from like the 9th century and someone wrote amazingly he can read without talking and that was taken as evidence that actually no one could do that before but I'm not sure I don't know I think there's still debate going on about that or it's a bit of a dubious one

Sorry, are we talking about the book or the readings?

James was just slapping his cheeks.

Yeah, absolutely.

And welcome to the show.

You've had your fireworks right at the top.

Now let's get into some facts.

We'll do it next time.

So you've been sending in all your facts.