The Best of Radio Litopia
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
The Adversary – Emmanuel Carrère
28 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In the quiet Jura region of France, a physician goes completely haywire in a series of crimes that are hard for his friends and acquaintances to grasp...
Latecomers – Anita Brookner
28 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Hartmann and Fibitch arrived in England as refugees on the Kindertransport and then they had had wives and children and those children had families an...
The Scapegoat – Sophia Nikolaidou
28 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The real life murder mystery of a CBS reporter is foreground and backdrop for a modern day high school student trying to figure out why the wrong man ...
Peter Englund: The Beauty and the Sorrow
24 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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 Man Behind Sherlock Holmes
24 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What with Benedict Cumberbatch’s radical new television interpretation of Sherlock Holmes, and the recent big-screen Guy Ritchie / Robert Down...
John Simopoulos: A Tiger Burning Bright
24 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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 Anci...
Palace Walk, Palace of Desire, Sugar Street - Mahfouz
24 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
It's our last discussion for a while with John Simopoulos and again, we're focusing on our series entitled Books That Matter. Galsworthy and Pro...
Our Man In The Cold
24 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Tonight's show is a real-life thriller: featuring espionage, double-dealing, murder and even a dash of Hollywood. And a British ambassador who s...
The Golden Years of British TV Comedy
24 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
From The Two Ronnies to Blackadder…from Benny Hill to Marty Feldman… the golden years of British television comedy produced some of the &nbs...
Debriefer Special with Dan Rather
24 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"I wanted to know what went on -what really went on - inside Viacom/CBS... about the collaboration between very big business and very big ...
The Zelig of American History
24 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
How do you go about writing a book about one of the most powerful dynasties on earth? That's the challenge special guest Russ Baker faced when h...
R.J.Ellory - A Quiet Belief In 'What-If...'
24 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
You'll recognize him as one of Britain's leading thriller writers, author of the multi-million seller A Quiet Belief In Angels and ten oth...
Litopia After Dark : The Litopia 4th July Holiday Quiz
24 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Where do your most brilliant ideas come from? What's the most extreme thing you've done when researching your book? What's the worst book you've...
One-on-One with Geoff Dyer
24 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Geoff Dyer is the consummate writer’s writer: winner of the Somerset Maugham Prize, the US National Book Critics Circle Award the E. M. Forste...
Litvinenko: Murder Most Foul
24 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
At the age of 43, a few weeks after he secured British citizenship, former KGB and FSB officer Alexander Litvinenko was murdered: the world's fi...
The Causes of the First World War
24 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
It was supposed to be "the war that will end war" - according to the misplaced optimism of British author H.G. Wells, and countless others like ...
Sex and the Bipolar Explorer
24 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We've got a lovely Easter chocolate-box full of naughtiness for you this week! All tied up in a saucy bow. Choose from a tempting se...
The Love of Money
24 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
British Prime Minister David Cameron and his Chancellor George Osborne are currently enforcing "savage" spending cuts that, in Cameron's o...
The Listener in the Shadows
24 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
It's not often we have a real-life spy as our special guest on LAD - but tonight, stepping out of the shadows and into our spotlight is special ...
Hollywood Lives: The Stunt Woman's Tale
24 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"Behind the phony tinsel of Hollywood" quipped Oscar Levant, lies the real tinsel". Maybe true, but for our guest tonight, action ac...
The R Word
24 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
When award-winning Canadian author Joseph Boyden flounced off Litopia After Dark, we were dismayed. It's the only time in our history that  ...
I'm JK Rowling! Do Not Make Me Angry!
24 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
It's been a summer of high weirdness! Featuring all our favorite topics... Harry Potter, Tolkien, and... let's hear it for the Singing Den...
Three Faces of War – The Assassin
24 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Making a welcome return tonight is journalist-turned-investigative-historian, Tim Butcher. Tim specialises in covering awkward places at d...
Three Faces of War – The English Lady
24 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
She does her job with typically understated bravery. To meet her, you might think (for a moment) that this headscarved and very English lady is,...
Three Faces of War – Very Special Forces
24 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
On this day in 1918 – the eleventh day of the eleventh month, at the 11th hour – the hostilities of the First World war formally ended...
El Narco: Inside Mexico's Deadly Drugs Wars
24 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Seventy thousand dead. Twenty thousand disappeared. Severed heads with threatening messages dumped by the side of the highway. A &nb...
The Viral Mind of Susan Blackmore
24 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Meet Susan Blackmore, the world’s foremost expert on memes. The intro to her seminal work The Meme Machine was written by none other tha...
Ripped Off By The BBC?
24 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The BBC – the world’s oldest and biggest public service broadcaster – appears to have a serious ethics problem. That’s the devastating c...
Mother Night - Kurt Vonnegut
24 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Traitor? Spy? Loyal American or self-serving amoralist? Howard W Campbell Jr tries to write his own get out of jail free card in in Kurt V...
Satan in Goray - Isaac Bashevis Singer
24 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The Messiah is coming! His arrival is imminent! That’s the bad news... The good news is his arrival and social schedule are narrated with a co...
The Porn Supremacy
24 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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 la...
Peter James - King of Crime
24 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
He's a crime boss - but not the way you'd expect. British writer Peter James was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Letters in recognition of his ...
Seth Godin: The New Face Of Publishing
24 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
There are some people who just get what's going on: faster, more accurately, and more cogently than the rest of us. Seth Godin is one of those p...
Martin Bell: A Front Row Seat At The Making Of History
24 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"I liked the idea of having a front-row seat at the making of history. I felt myself move into another gear when I hit a war zone. And sometimes...
Go Ahead, Steampunk, Make My Day!
24 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We're partying like it's 1899 tonight as special guest Robert Brown of steampunk band Abney Park takes us inside the intrepid world of one of th...
Jeffrey Archer: The Archer Still Has Two Fingers
24 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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. Fr...
The World’s Deadliest Country
24 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Get your jabs, people! Our guest (and fixer tonight) is none other than the great travel writer Tim Butcher - journalist, war-corresponden...
My Brilliant Friend – Elena Ferrante
24 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Elena is friends with Lila, whom hurts Elena in all kinds of ways that Elena finds fascinating, and painful. Slums, slums, slums, creepy older m...