Podcast appearances and mentions of Christopher Brookmyre

In the 1850s a medical revolution was beginning with the discovery of anaesthesia and a political and social revolution was still in its infancy in the guise of the embryonic suffrage movement that would emerge in earnest over a half a century later. In their latest novel together under the pen name Ambrose Parry, Christopher Brookmyre and Marisa Haetzman explore the world of prostitution, blackmail from the perspective of their medical heroes Sarah Fisher and Will Raven in the fifth Fisher and Raven novel The Death of Shame. Today we talked about Victorian morality, sexual repression, class, the treatment of young women in service and the development of medicine in the mid 19th Century.*****STOP PRESS*****I only ever talk about history on this podcast but I also have another life, yes, that of aspirant fantasy author and if that's your thing you can get a copy of my debut novel The Blood of Tharta, right here:Help the podcast to continue bringing you history each weekIf you enjoy the Explaining History podcast and its many years of content and would like to help the show continue, please consider supporting it in the following ways:If you want to go ad-free, you can take out a membership hereOrYou can support the podcast via Patreon hereOr you can just say some nice things about it here Become a member at https://plus.acast.com/s/explaininghistory. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This month, Bookclub, presented by James Naughtie, speaks to the author Christopher Brookmyre, as he takes questions from a live BBC audience about his debut novel, Quite Ugly One Morning. The book is a pacey crime thriller, not so much a 'whodunnit', as a 'whydunnit', and it introduces us to the wily, wise-cracking journalist Jack Parlabane - a character Chris is still writing about some thirty years later. Published in 1996, Quite Ugly One Morning, was a best-seller at the time, and the actor David Tennant read the audiobook. Producer: Dom Howell Editor: Gillian WheelanThis was a BBC AUDIO SCOTLAND PRODUCTION.

For the latest Scots Whay Hae! Podcast Ali spoke to crime writer Christopher Brookmyre to hear all about his intriguing new novel The Cracked Mirror, published on the Abacus imprint of Little, Brown Book Group. In an attempt to avoid all spoilers, Ali asks Chris to take the responsibility of describing the book, before talking about how he approached writing it, the specific inspirations behind it, the importance of respecting genres, creating his central characters, having a quote from Afghan Whig's song 'Debonair' as the epigraph (and the one that got away), the importance of place, and the inspirational tweet that began it all. He also tells us how collaborating with his wife Marisa Haetzman for the Ambrose Parry books changed his approach to writing more generally, the importance of planning, the challenges presented by historical fiction, and writing as a partnership. The two also discuss the impact of his debut novel Quite Ugly One Morning, and how its influence has endured, as well as the changes in the world of Scottish crime writing since its publication and the impact of the Bloody Scotland Festival and the crime community more generally. It's a podcast not only for fans of Chris Brookmyre (or Ambrose Parry), or even crime aficionados, but anyone interested in all things bookish as one of Scotland's most celebrated writers talks at length about his work and much more. For full details, including all the ways to listen, go to https://www.scotswhayhae.com

As RNIB Connect Radio turns 20, Read On this week looks back at some of the first authors, narrators and looks behind the scenes we've had on the show. Actor Allan Tall talks about preparing a Christopher Brookmyre book for narration and being thrown from his horse during the filming of Braveheart. Author Alan Bissett joins Robert Kirkwood after narrating his book, The Incredible Adam Spark. And former manager of the Talking Book Studios, Ian Turner, talks about all the famous narrators who recorded books exclusively for RNIB. Plus, as always, we find four new gems in the library

S.I Clarke shares her home with her partner and an assortment of waifs and strays. When not writing convoluted, inefficient stories, she spends her time telling financial services firms to behave more efficiently. When not doing either of those things, she can be found in the pub or shouting at people online — occasionally practising efficiency by doing both at once. As someone who's neurodivergent, an immigrant, and the proud owner of an invisible disability, she strives to present a realistically diverse array of characters in her stories. She's also a reader, mainly of science fiction and mysteries. Some of her favourite authors include: Douglas Adams, Terry Pratchett, Becky Chambers, John Scalzi, Tanya Huff, Christopher Brookmyre, Robert J Sawyer, Charles Stross, Gareth Powell. Subscribers to her newsletter get her reviews of books she's enjoyed. Twitter Instagram Goodreads Webpage

Chaos in Paris; Wedding Moments; Lester Piggott; Allan Campbell; Terracing Teaser & Pseudonym Tunes with Stuart, Tam and Christopher Brookmyre.

Sunday Papers, Football, Great Music & Terracing Teaser with Stuart Cosgrove, Tam Cowan & Chris Brookmyre.

Karen Jones discusses Christopher Brookmyre's hilarious thriller One Fine Day In The Middle Of The Night, as well as her own work as a writer and judge of short stories and flash fiction.

Tuesday TeamTalk Episode 198 Broadcast 18-05-2021 A St Johnstone orientated podcast produced by the sports team at Hospital Radio Perth. Produced via Zoom and phone as we all hide at home! In the first of two podcasts in cup final week, John, Ken and Pete are joined by multi-award winning, million selling novelist and St Mirren fan Christopher Brookmyre.

Juliane talks to Luke about a crime novel that is also a science fiction novel: Places in the Darkness by Christopher Brookmyre. Get this audiobook for free, or any of 100,000 other titles, as part of a free trial by visiting this link: https://www.audibletrial.com/sfbrp. Buy this book at , or discuss this book at Goodreads.com […]

In Episode 50 Derek is joined by Scottish novelist Christopher Brookmyre. Christopher talks about his 25 years as an author and how that has led to him doing things never imaginable like playing at Glastonbury with his friends and fellow writers. The Fun Lovin' Crime Writers story is hilarious and brilliant and Chris recalls some of his favourite moments from their shows. He details the time he performed as a Stand-Up comedian on a Monday night at the Comedy Store opening for A-list comedians and managed to get through unscathed. We discuss his novels and his recent work with his wife under the pseudonym Ambrose Parry & loads more

The weekend's football reviewed, terracing teaser, anniversaries, birthdays and brilliant music with Stuart, Tam and Christopher Brookmyre.

We’ve reached 50 episodes, so we’re feeling all sentimental. Here are some of our favourite clips from the podcast, as selected by host Daniel Gray. All of them are taken from over a year ago, so if you have heard them before, you might have forgotten them; if you haven’t, here’s a taster for you to enjoy. Contributors include Christopher Brookmyre, Ron Ferguson, Ricky Ross, Hugh MacDonald, Pat Nevin, Jonathan Watson, Eilidh Doyle, Chris McQueer, Leeann Dempster, Cathy Jamieson, Stuart Cosgrove and Val McDermid. Never read Nutmeg magazine? We have offers on back issues and subscriptions. See https://www.nutmegmagazine.co.uk/shopPlease help us make this podcast by joining Nutmeg FC on Patreon. Your money keeps us going and gets you some goodies: https://www.patreon.com/nutmegfcSupport the show (http://www.patreon.com/nutmegfc)

Bloody brilliant Scottish crime writing! The Tartan Noir Show is a new literary podcast hosted by Theresa Talbot, celebrating the world’s best crime writing and storytelling. Featuring live event recordings, one-on-one interviews and exclusive readings from crime writing giants including Val McDermid, Ian Rankin and Christopher Brookmyre. Listen to this gripping and informative podcast for mesmerising character-based stories and backstage access to the world of Scottish crime writing. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Among our finest crime writers and funniest speakers, Chris Brookmyre is back with one of his best stories yet. He talks to Brian Taylor live at the Edinburgh International Book Festival 2019 about his new standalone thriller Fallen Angel. Sixteen years on from the death of young Niamh on a holiday in Portugal, the glamorous Temple clan hold a fateful family reunion. For Amanda, a neighbouring nanny, fascination gives way to suspicion – what did happen to the girl?

We lots of specials and time specific episodes towards the end of 2018, so we've yet to put out the final episode we recorded live at the Edinburgh Fringe, so here it is! Robin is joined by comedian and author Mark Watson and the new writing team Ambrose Parry, comprised of crime writer Christopher Brookmyre and anaesthetist Dr Marisa Haetzman. They chat about the differences between writing crime and historical fiction, stand up and novels and the best way to seek revenge against high school bullies in your books. Support the show at patreon.com/bookshambles and get extended editions of each episode

Today's guest is the Scottish novelist Christopher Brookmyre. Chris's love of videogames is peppered through many of his books, but most distinctly in his recent novel Bedlam which has subsequently become it's own videogame. We talk Manic Miner and Jet Set Willy, videogames as fuel for imagination, trolling Dreamcast players, and the parallels between the Quake scene of the 90s and the Punk scene of the 70s. All fun and games until someone loses an eye.

Acclaimed novelist Christopher Brookmyre chats with our own Daniel Gray about his life as a St Mirren fan. Expect nostalgia, dark humour and frequent mentions of the Anglo-Scottish Cup. Support the show (http://www.patreon.com/nutmegfc)

We have a trio of amazing crime writers on the show today, as we get ever-closer to the launch of the 2018 Noirwich Crime Writing Festival. First up is Christopher Brookmyre and Mark Billingham talking to Steph McKenna in their comedy duo mode, followed by Stuart MacBride in conversation with Alice Kent. Hosted by Simon Jones, writer and Digital Marketing Manager at the National Centre for Writing. Find out more about the National Centre for Writing: https://nationalcentreforwriting.org.uk/ Mentioned events: Noirwich Crime Writing Festival: https://noirwich.co.uk Music by Bennet Maples: https://sonicfruit.co.uk/

In this special, seasonal episode of A Stab In The Dark, award-winning crime writer Mark Billingham welcomes fellow award-winning crime writers Christopher Brookmyre, Susi Holliday and Martyn Waites to discuss 2017's best crime books and crime drama, as well as rising trends and the names to watch out for in 2018. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In a packed show, Red Szell and Robert Kirkwood talk to Anne de Courcy about her book 'The Husband Hunters', Christopher Brookmyre on 'Want You Gone', Anthony McGowan on 'The Art of Failing', Adam Macqueen on 'The Lies of the Land'. Peggy Hughes gives us the Books of her Life, Adrian Turpin gives us a history of the Wigtown Festival, we explore the The Diary of a Bookseller with Sean Bythell and hear about the festival's charity partner Fight for Sight.

It’s where it’s at! Steve Cavanagh and Luca Veste present a brand new podcast for readers and writers which will bring you the latest news in the book world, interviews with the best writers, agents, publicists, editors, and literary agents in the business. Also, each week we'll hear from some of the best book reviewers around, who'll give us their reads of the week.  This week, it's the special live episode recorded at the Bloody Scotland crime festival. Featuring Ian Rankin, Mark Billingham, Eva Dolan & Stuart Neville. The group discuss blocking US presidents, disappointing first dates, calling Terry Pratchett for new irons, eight part erotic adventures, one-star reviews, and take a question from Christopher Brookmyre. Credits: Produced by Twenty Inches of Monkey Productions Music by Stuart Neville

Nicole and Gayle make a bunch of promises they probably won't keep when they share their 2017 Summer Reading Lists. But our ambitiousness is your gain, as we list a ton of promising books that we want to get to over the summer. Books mentioned: http://amzn.to/2tYP2lz (The Marriage Pact), Michelle Richmond http://amzn.to/2u8k4HS (Unraveling Oliver), Liz Nugent http://amzn.to/2tYFwyD (The Immortalists), Chloe Benjamin http://amzn.to/2tYPdNL (Something Rich And Strange), Ron Rash http://amzn.to/2tYyudf (The Picture Of Dorian Gray), Oscar Wilde http://amzn.to/2u8xGDh (The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde), Robert Louis Stevenson http://amzn.to/2ty3FLy (The Miniaturist), Jessie Burton http://amzn.to/2u8mPJc (The Wife Between Us), Sarah Pekkanen http://amzn.to/2u2XeAB (An American Marriage), Tayari Jones http://amzn.to/2tYGvyP (Mrs. Fletcher), Tom Perrotta http://amzn.to/2u8yeZR (Our Little Racket), Angelica Baker http://amzn.to/2tFMx4U (The Leavers), Lisa Ko http://amzn.to/2v3sf4X (Al Franken, Giant Of The Senate), Al Franken http://amzn.to/2tG34Wt (The Versions Of Us), Laura Barnett http://amzn.to/2u03J7O (Real American), Julie Lythcott-Haims http://amzn.to/2tZXIba (1984), George Orwell http://amzn.to/2u0hnb7 (Jane Eyre), Charlotte Bronte http://amzn.to/2v3sk8D (Young Jane Young), Gabrielle Zevin http://amzn.to/2tFJ7zc (Cartwheel), Jennifer DuBois http://amzn.to/2u9XVsY (Ginny Moon), Benjamin Ludwig http://amzn.to/2tZMPq0 (The Last Hack), Christopher Brookmyre http://amzn.to/2v3mCUi (Standard Deviation), Katherine Heiny

Charlie meets Christopher Brookmyre, to talk about his experience starting out with Quite Ugly One Morning, in 1997. Chris and Charlie talk about their shared background in newspapers, terrible reviews and why it's still important to meet your readers. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

It's our 38th episode and we're back with Chris, and an interview with Christopher Brookmyre, author of numerous award winning novels (Quite Ugly One Morning, Boiling a Frog, All Fun And Games until Someone Loses an Eye), and writer of the video game and novel Bedlam. Ross (aka Bedlam) is an overworked and underpaid scientist developing medical technology for corporate giant Neurosphere. In the book, one rainy Monday morning Ross volunteers as a test candidate for the new brain scanning tech – anything to get out of the office for a few hours. But when he gets out of the scanner he discovers he’s not only escaped the office, but possibly escaped real life for good! Ross finds himself trapped in Starfire – the violent sci-fi game he spent his teenage years playing – with no explanation, no backup and, most terrifyingly, no way out! For the game they are taking a slightly different perspective... a female perspective… Players will take on the role of Heather, a colleague of Ross, who is a... See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In this event entitled “a Rally, a Rant, a Story, a Song, a Protest, a Poem”, women – and men – take to the mike for five minutes each to tell us why they call themselves feminists. Authors Val McDermid, Christopher Brookmyre, Elif Shafak and Andrew O’Hagan; activists Emma Laurie and Caroline Criado-Perez; stand-up comic Nish Kumar; playwright Jo Clifford; and poets Robin Robertson and Natasha Kanapé Fontaine make a stand. Recorded live at the Edinburgh International Book Festival.

In this event entitled “a Rally, a Rant, a Story, a Song, a Protest, a Poem”, women – and men – take to the mike for five minutes each to tell us why they call themselves feminists. Authors Val McDermid, Christopher Brookmyre, Elif Shafak and Andrew O’Hagan; activists Emma Laurie and Caroline Criado-Perez; stand-up comic Nish Kumar; playwright Jo Clifford; and poets Robin Robertson and Natasha Kanapé Fontaine make a stand. Recorded live at the Edinburgh International Book Festival.

Antman. August Movies: Shaun of the Sheep, Fantastic Four, Ricki and the Flash, The Gift, The Man from Uncle, Straight out of Compton, Air, Hitman Agent 47, Some Kind of Beautiful, American Ultra, No Escape, Sinister 2, We are your Friends. August DVD & Bluray Releases: Insurgent, Child 44, Hot Pursuit, Unfriended, Little Boy, Oloha, Justice League Gods and Monsters. August Video Game Releases: Rare Replay, Garfiled Cart, Goat Simulator, Christopher Brookmyre's Bedlam, Gears of WAr Ultimate Edition, Madden NFL 16, Disney Infintiy 3.0. Movie Classic: Batman. The List: Best fake bands.

Owen McGuire (@Owen_McGuire), Teddy (@RossTeddyCraig) and Eddie McCabe discuss glorious Scottish failures, shambolic managerial changes and unusual club/manager combos.This week the pod also features a reading by author Barry Phillips (@dundeebarry) - author of The Real Leigh Griffiths Blog - from his book, The Tartan Special One. The book is available from tecklebooks.co.uk (as well as Amazon and other booksellers) and has been described by no less than Christopher Brookmyre as -“Boundlessly imaginative, gleefully silly, occasionally nightmarish and always inventively filthy, The Tartan Special One is by some distance the funniest book I’ve read in years.”Scottish Comedy FC is the football site written by members of the Scottish comedy circuit. Please check out ScottishComedyFC.com, follow us on Twitter @ScotComFC and like us on Facebook .com/ScottishComedyFC Despite the name, we’re not just talking Scottish football. Scottish comedians, world game.

With Mark Lawson. On 3 April 2011, the Chinese artist Ai Weiwei was arrested at Beijing airport. He disappeared for 81 days and on his release the government claimed his imprisonment related to tax evasion. Howard Brenton's latest play is based on an account of conversations with Ai, in which he told the story of that imprisonment. Howard Brenton discusses the creation of the play, and also the DVD release of his memorable but never repeated 1986 noir BBC series Dead Head. William McIlvanney's Laidlaw trilogy of crime novels created a hard-drinking, Glaswegian, middle-aged cop with marital issues that inspired a generation of fellow Scottish writers including Ian Rankin, Christopher Brookmyre, Val McDermid and Denise Mina. As the Laidlaw series is republished, William McIlvanney talks about Raymond Chandler, poetry and the moment he realized that not everybody's mother read the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Io e Te (Me and You) is the latest film from Bernardo Bertolucci, the Italian director of Last Tango in Paris. Adapted from a novel by Niccolo Ammantini , Io e Te follows Lorenzo, a teenage boy who, keen to be alone, pretends to be on a school trip while he hides out in a basement, only to find himself unexpectedly joined by his half-sister. Gaylene Gould reviews. The contenders for the Ivor Novello Awards for songwriting, announced today, include an unexpected name: the composer Dmitri Shostakovich receives a co-writing nomination in the Best Contemporary Song category - because his music was sampled on a song by rapper and singer Plan B. Steve Yates looks at other unusual borrowings by contemporary stars. Producer Olivia Skinner.

Mariella Frostrup talks to Ali Smith about Sylvia Plath's ground breaking novel The Bell Jar, fifty years after it was first published. With the announcement of the Goldsmiths Prize for writers of boldly, original fiction - writer and broadcaster Alex Preston and author, poet and Profesor of Creative and Life Writing at Goldsmiths, Blake Morrison, consider what being experimental and innovative means for 21st century novelists. And in his 17th novel, Bedlam, Scottish crime writer Christopher Brookmyre turns to science fiction for inspiration.

Mariella Frostrup and her line up of comedians and authors debate their funniest book. Taking the stage in the Radio Theatre to convince an audience that their choice is the most chortle-worthy will be Jo Brand, Tony Parsons, A L Kennedy, Christopher Brookmyre and John Sessions.

Mariella continues her celebration of funny books and funny writers with award winning comic novelist Christopher Brookmyre discussing why Jeff Torrington's 1992 Whitbread Award winning novel "Swing Hammer Swing" is his choice for Open Book's Funniest Book. In the concluding part of Open Book's Mini History of Comic Writing resident expert John Mullan joins award winning screenwriter Sir Ronald Harwood to discuss the two comic writing giants of the 20th century - P G Wodehouse and Evelyn Waugh. And Gaza through the eyes of a British Palestinian - Selma Dabbagh discusses her debut novel "Out Of It".

Mariella Frostrup talks to Barry Humphries about his five favourite books, novelist Mohsin Hamid discusses Antonio Tabucchi and Christopher Brookmyre on what makes a good title.

Acclaimed Scottish novelist and hugely entertaining speaker, Christopher Brookmyre talks in this 2008 event about his latest book, A Snowball in Hell, which takes celebrity culture and turns it on its head.