Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Bulbous Salutations Versus Google Translations - Literary Loitering 129
28 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
So 2020 is over, but thanks to some cunning and stealthy arrangements our cultural anarchists hid aw...
Sherrington's New Steampunk Balls - Literary Loitering 128
14 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The cultural anarchists venture forth across pandemic-riddled wastelands in their quest to find some...
Wes Anderson's Tommy Knockers - Literary Loitering 127
29 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Cultural anarchy is the order of the day as the Literary Loitering gang sashay back into the foregro...
Meat Safes And The Dictionary Sausage - Literary Loitering 126
19 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
These are strange times we're living in, which is why it's good to carry a stick as part of your EDC...
The Liberace Pocket Guide (With Checklist) - Literary Loitering 125
21 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
It’s time for another dose of the cultural anarchy that cures all ailments (medically proven by tr...
Nietzsche's Happy Days Fandom - Literary Loitering 124
27 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Literary Loitering returns for another round-up of interesting things that have happened in cultured...
Tasty Steampunk Beef - Literary Loitering 123
13 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
It’s time for another spin on the news wheel of cultural anarchy so round-and-around-and-around we...
James Joyce’s Undersea Pineapple - Literary Loitering 122
28 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We’re back once again with those renegade masters of cultural anarchy, and this week we make our u...
She's All About The Joust - Literary Loitering 121
21 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Weird things happen when you're locked up, and as usual it's up to Literary Loitering to ... poke ge...
Attack Of The Light Novel Raccoon - Literary Loitering 120
03 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
These are strange times that we live in, but during these days of pandemic, social distancing and lo...
Targaryen Pterosaurs Versus Raptor Jesus - Literary Loitering 119
02 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
After a short hiatus (for several reasons which include an attempted podcast coup-de-tat across The ...
4-Panel Takeover - Literary Loitering 118
09 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
It’s Takeover week here on The Geek Show Network, and since we were so rudely shoved out of our us...
Stupid Sexy Orwell - Literary Loitering 117
10 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
After gathering once more in their secret hideout above a cafe on a high street in a small town that...
Adam Driver's Bioelectric Superpositions - Literary Loitering 116
24 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
It's 2020, and there may be many, many, many useful and constructive ways to start the new decade .....
Sexy Christmas Preambles And Footnotes - Literary Loitering 115
23 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Not only is it the most wonderful time of the year, it’s also our last episode of 2019, and what b...
Attack Of The Phallocratic Entryists - Literary Loitering 114
15 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Donald Trump Jr. has apparently been upholding the family’s traditional methods of inflating book ...
Roger Bacon's Robot Head - Literary Loitering 113
18 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This week we’re kicking things off with one of our favourite books awards - the Bookseller/Diagram...
Mastery Over The Power Of Denim - Literary Loitering 112
04 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The cultural anarchists are back for another not-so-serious look at the serious world of books and t...
Sentient Twitter Hot-Takes - Literary Loitering 111
19 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The ramshackle paddle-boat on the turbid rivers of culture returns for another meandering;y humorous...
Golden Toilet 2: Electric Portaloo - Literary Loitering 110
10 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
We begin this episode with the news that someone has stolen Maurizio Cattelan’s Golden Toilet from...
Willy Wonka’s Golden Toilet - Literary Loitering 109
24 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
It’s been a strange few weeks in the arts world, beginning with Slovenia, which now has a rather o...
A Disappointing Lack Of Antlers - Literary Loitering 108
08 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
After roaming the cultural wastelands for a while, we’re back with another sack full of scavenged ...
Literary Loitering 107 - Laser Bulge Versus Sexy Voodoo
24 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
We kick things off this week with an excerpt from the 1960s sci-fi novel Agent of Chaos by Norman Sp...
Literary Loitering 106 - Balls Deep With Geoffrey Of Monmouth
28 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The internet’s hand-basket of cultural anarchy return for more playful poking of the over-stuffed ...
Literary Loitering 105 - My Laudanum Hell
30 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
After a lengthy introduction about the pumping of jam and the lack of any noteworthy news relating t...
Literary Loitering 104 - Surprise Lions Cause Khaki Pants
10 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The goat herders of cultural anarchy return with another sack full of interesting and sometimes stra...
Literary Loitering 103 - My Life in the Bum of Ghosts
02 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The cultural anarchists have gathered for another edition of the notorious books and arts podcast th...
Literary Loitering 102 - Pro Evolution Narnia In Space
08 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Some time in the near yet seemingly distant past (which would be around the end of last year), the c...
Literary Loitering 101 - Everybody Definitaly Poobs
24 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The Literary Loitering soap box car speeds its way through the mean streets of cultural anarchy, wit...
Literary Loitering 100 - 100 Years Of Very Successful Pimpery
11 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
It’s party time for the cultural anarchists as we finally hit 100 episodes! Now that we’re off...
Literary Loitering 99 - Salinger Versus Predator
15 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Don your leather jackets, wheel out your tricycles, and join Graham, Sarah and Rob for another anarc...
Literary Loitering 98 - Badgers Don't Knit
08 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Literary Loitering returns for another year of cultural anarchy, and with all the gang present and c...
Literary Loitering 97 - There’s No Smut Like Sci-Fi Convention Smut
28 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
It’s the most wonderful time of the year which can only mean one thing - the Literary Review's Bad...
Literary Loitering 96 - Franz Kafka, The Fifth Beatle
20 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The end of the year draws near, and with one episode left before a well deserved break it’s time f...
Literary Loitering 95 - The House on Harry Hill
25 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Under normal circumstances (or what passes as normal around here), we’d take our rickety wagon of ...
Literary Loitering 94 - Tanned Gingers From Outer Space
07 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Apparently there’s a new way to become a published author - get a job in Trump’s White House and...
Literary Loitering 93 - 2 Little 2 Women
12 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This week Graham and Andrew discover that they may not be the bastions of sanity and elegance that t...
Literary Loitering 92 - The Lost City of Scotlantis
01 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The junk wagon of cultural anarchy rolls into town again with Andrew, Graham and Producer Rob riding...
Literary Loitering 91 - Gerry Anderson's Space Deliverance
02 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Has anyone else noticed that stories about the Trump presidency are beginning to sound more like sto...
Literary Loitering 90 - Twaddle, Youth Ninjas!
22 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
There are three Brontë sisters, and since we’re missing a Graham this week we decided to find out...
Literary Loitering 89 - All Stork, No Chin
08 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The calamitous cultural anarchists have wandered haphazardly into town again, and this time they’v...
Literary Loitering 88 - Tales From Fort Peddlesmut: The Big Cocky Dragon Slayer
21 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Don’t trust fairies and other fey creatures like unicorns. After that public service announcemen...
Literary Loitering 87 - He's Got The Whole World In His Koozie
10 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Cultural anarchy reigns once more, and to kick things off this week we’ve got another Game-Of-Thro...
Literary Loitering 86 - Captain Swallow: Scourge of All Seamen
16 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
We’re a man down this week, but since it’s the most sensible of our three amigos it’s up to An...
Literary Loitering 85 - Middle-Class Oedipus Rex
27 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
An annual, grandiose and symbolic event is upon us once again, but before we get into all of that we...
Literary Loitering 84 - Middle-Class Mutant Hipster Turtles
14 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
We’re a man down this week, but the solemn duty of being a cultural anarchist cannot be stopped by...
Literary Loitering 83 - John Updike's Pee Maze
25 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This week we get acquainted with the power of language via the medium of Sean Penn’s debut novel B...
Literary Loitering 82 - Peter Rabbit's Soul-Sucking Eldritch Abomination
01 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
We begin this episode with the shocking revelation that schools are teaching children to not only re...
Literary Loitering 81 - Unlock The Summer Beef Closet
17 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Kicking things off is the news that there’s a new fantasy sheriff in town – or there will be soo...
Literary Loitering 80 - Jeff Goldblum: Interdimensional Sex God
25 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
After a decent hiatus for showbiz purposes, our infamous books, arts and culture podcast returns wit...
Literary Loitering 79 - Selfies With Malice and Forethought
17 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
It’s the last show of 2017 and we’ve swapped our Graham for a Mick. In other news, the winner ...
Literary Loitering 78 - Lie Back and Think of Kierkegaard
01 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Get your ballet dancers and rollercoasters ready because it’s the most wonderful time of the year,...
Literary Loitering 77 - The Handible of Justice
21 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The Word of the Year is upon us once more, which heralds the steady march to Christmas – a time fo...
Literary Loitering 76 - Cockermouth Tends to Stick in the Mind
05 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
While we were trying to figure if Biloxi in Mississippi was a real or imaginary we stumbled upon an ...
Literary Loitering 75 - Surfer Jesus and the Hang Ten Commandments
15 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
While French philosopher Vincent Cespedes claims that his statement that Tintin is a girl was nothin...
Literary Loitering 74 - He Who Holds The Most Stickers is King!
02 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
We’re back for another romp through the cultured world and this time we bringing steamrollers, com...
Literary Loitering 73 - Invest Your Didlum Wisely
13 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
It’s a mixed bag of happenings this week with unfair tax rules, books on politics by Nick Clegg, t...
Literary Loitering 72 - A Face Only A Mother Could Punch
28 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
While we lament the fact that Nipples On My Knee didn’t win the Diagram Prize, Grr Martin makes so...
Literary Loitering 71 – Rob and Andrew’s Science Corner
14 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Jane Austen finally arrives on the £10 note so everyone should be happy, right? Well, not quite ......
Literary Loitering 70 - Blistering Postman on Postman Action
27 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
With new ideas about what the Voynich Manuscript actually is, disarmingly obvious sanity for librari...
Literary Loitering 69 - Batman's Single Dad Fanfiction
16 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
We’ve got a smorgasbord of strangeness this week with the Jeremy Corbyn colouring book, Anthony Bu...
Literary Loitering 68 - Dude, Wherefore Art Mine Chariot?
03 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
We’re a man down and suffering from the heat this week, but still we soldier on against history st...
Literary Loitering 67 - The Balaclava of Shame
24 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
While Grr Martin continuing to work on the new Game of Thrones novel, a charity shop is inundated wi...
Literary Loitering 66 – Magic Balls and Where to Find Them
11 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Bill Clinton is teaming up with James Patterson to write a thriller. Meanwhile a Harry Potter preque...
Literary Loitering 65 - It's a Mads, Mads, Mads, Mads World
25 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
While the sales of real books rises and e-books fall, we discover a litany of complaints from a cons...
Literary Loitering 64 - Death By Weaponised Hairpiece
14 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This week we’ve got a kid’s book award, Stephen King versus Donald Trump, the lesser spotted LaB...
Literary Loitering 63 - Extremely Political Cream
06 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This week we’ve got empty plinths, book burnings, accidental forest fires, National Index Day, whi...
Literary Loitering 62 - Jackson Pollock All Over The Place
06 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This week we’ve got book store conspiracies, political satire, elections dreams, naked men reading...
Literary Loitering 61 – Roughing Up The Suspect
06 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This week we investigate the newest additions to the English language, bookshops that troll Piers Mo...
Literary Loitering 60 – Hitler-Raptor and the Tyrannosaurus Reich
06 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This week Grr Martin continues to tease his fans, disturbing photo mashups of Donald Trump emerge, w...
Literary Loitering 59 – The Goondock Saints
06 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This week we've got news that isn't news, facts that aren't facts, blatant copyright infringement an...
Literary Loitering 58 - Dorky Daredevil Vs. The Comma Crusader
06 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
It's 2017, and we begin the year with Adventures in Moominland, Watership Down (again), blatant plag...
Literary Loitering 57 – Mutton-Shunters Dressed As Lamb
06 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
It's that time of the year again, and Santa has delivered us a sack full of goodies thanks to the Li...
Literary Loitering 56 – Spirit Roasts and Cocktails
06 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Strange things are afoot with ghost-written novels, spirit cooking and Fairy Tales for the Disillusi...
Literary Loitering 55 – Gated Community Fantasy
06 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Ice Cube will pay the role of Fagin in Disney's new musical adaptation of Oliver Twist (we're not ki...
Literary Loitering 54 – The Flavour of Existential Dread
06 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
We're top-filled with weirdness this week with surrealist cook books, scary clowns, Mein Drumpf and ...
Literary Loitering 53 – The Temple of Bad Ideas
06 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Things continue to be odder than normal with a new twist in a war of words, Scottish translations of...
Literary Loitering 52 – Licence To Quill
06 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
It's an odder than whatever passes for normal this week as Frederick Forsyth decides to stop writing...
Literary Loitering 51 – Big Papa Hemingway
06 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Aside from Elon Musk accidentally causing the price of a book to skyrocket and a Hemingway winning a...
Literary Loitering 50 – Everything Needs More Swashbuckling
06 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This week the English language obtained some strange new words and phrases, a Mexican artist creates...
Literary Loitering 49 - The Plums of Anger
06 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
We're a man down and two men up this week, and somewhere in that equation is an algorithm for best-s...
Literary Loitering 48 - Redneck Avengers
06 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
There's never a dull moment when you have judo books for kids by Vladimir Putin, 9-year-old journali...
Literary Loitering 47 –Anglo-Saxon Trolling
06 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
UNESCO have finally listed the Exeter Book as a principal cultural artefact. In other news, research...
Literary Loitering 46 – Romans Be Crazy
06 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This week researchers continue to try to prove things that are common sense, Tom Holland finds paral...
Literary Loitering 45 - Tickle That Catastrophe
06 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
It’s an assortment of oddments this week with Walt Whitman’s recently rediscovered 47,000 word t...
Literary Loitering 44 – The Cronenberg Colouring Book
06 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This week Producer Rob is doing cartwheels because one of his favourite fantasy novel franchises –...
Literary Loitering 43 – Eye Protection is Important
06 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In amongst the Dali diaries, more additions to Stieg Larsson’s Millenium series and our favourite ...
Literary Loitering 42 - Lovecraftsploitation
06 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Good Omens by Sir Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman is getting a TV adaptation! In other news a comp...
Literary Loitering 41 – The Siege Weapons of Outrageous Fortune
06 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This week we get off to a steamy start with the launch of the Literary Hub's prize for the “best e...
Literary Loitering 40 – Ancient Psychic Tandem War Elephant
05 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
It’s been a strange week with the passing of renowned architect Dame Zahar Hadid, the news that Ki...
Literary Loitering 39 - The Noble Fort Peddlesmut
05 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
There’s weirdness afoot as the NRA add firearms to fairytales, adult colouring books cause a globa...
Literary Loitering 38 - Inconceivable!
05 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The rambunctious scamps return for more literary conversation including the winner of the Bookseller...
Literary Loitering 37 - The Erms and Whys of Entropy Nerds
05 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
We open this week’s show with the sad news that Harper Lee and Umberto Eco had passed away. In oth...
Literary Loitering 36 – The Shnonsense Has Hit The Fan
05 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
We go off into the wild blue yonder once again with discussions about the eighth Harry Potter book, ...
Literary Loitering 35 – How Do You Say "Chtonobdella Tanae"?
05 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
We return for more book-related antics, and this week we discuss leeches named after Amy Tan, fairy ...
Literary Loitering 34 – Wigs Versus Ruffs
05 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
We return for another year of books and other artsy things, and we kick off our first show of 2016 w...
Literary Loitering 33 – Morrissey Versus The Daffodils
05 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
It’s our last show of 2015, but before we head off into the frozen waste we discuss the plagiarism...
Literary Loitering 32 – Aquaman’s Thermal Longjohns
05 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The Loiterers are back with more arty goodness, and this week we’re discussing the unusual winners...
Literary Loitering 31 - Bulbous Salutations To Everyone
05 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Those cheeky bookish boys return for more shenanigans, and this week they discuss Mein Kampf's first...
Literary Loitering 30 - How Do You Like Your Eggs
05 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Thing go South very quickly this week as we discuss the appointment of the UK's first comics profess...