The Best of Radio Litopia Podcast
1) The Adversary – Emmanuel Carrère
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. But then their grasp loosens further. And disapp...Show More
2) Latecomers – Anita Brookner
Hartmann and Fibitch arrived in England as refugees on the Kindertransport and then they had had wives and children and those children had families and – what was the point of this story again? Served...Show More
3) The Scapegoat – Sophia Nikolaidou
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 was put down. Also a love story. Salonic.
4) 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...Show More
5) 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 ...Show More
6) 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 ...Show More
7) Palace Walk, Palace of Desire, Sugar Street - Mahfouz
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 Proust? Not worthy to hold a candle to today's ...Show More
8) 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 tel...Show More
9) The Golden Years of British TV Comedy
From The Two Ronnies to Blackadder…from Benny Hill to Marty Feldman… the golden years of British television comedy produced some of the funniest shows and larger-than-life characters the w...Show More
10) Debriefer Special with Dan Rather
"I wanted to know what went on -what really went on - inside Viacom/CBS... about the collaboration between very big business and very big government." So says television legend Dan Rather ...Show More