Podcasts about David Quantick

Our guest today is writer  Ralph Dartford who works for the National Literacy Trust and is the poetry editor of literary journal Northern Gravy.   Ralph kindly made the journey from Bradford to the Lockwood residence in Sheffield, and we settled down in my living room with mugs of tea and a plate of biscuits, surrounded by books and looked down upon by at least three pictures of Larkin. Ralph also co-organises the fantastic Louder Than Words festival that takes place in Manchester every autumn, and is a celebration of writing about music. They gather together amazing writers, broadcasters and musicians to discuss, explore and debate all things music and music industry related.  I hope we will continue to see Ralph at more PLS events.Larkin poems mentioned:The Whitsun Weddings, Dockery and Son, Mr Bleaney, For Sidney Bechet, High Windows, Cut Grass, To The Sea, MCMXIV, Here, BroadcastAll What Jazz: A Record Diary 1961-1971 (1985) by Philip LarkinThe Oxford Book of Twentieth Century English Verse - ed.  Philip Larkin (1973) I am happy to see Mr. Larkin's taste in poetry and my own are in agreement ... I congratulate him most warmly on his achievement. - W. H. Auden, The GuardianPoets/writers/musicians mentioned by RalphKae Tempest, Joelle Taylor, Ted Hughes, Seamus Heaney, Vicky Foster, Steve Ely, Chris Jones, Ian Parks, John Betjeman, John Cooper Clarke, John Hegley, Simon Armitage, Carol Ann Duffy, Michael Stewart, Blake Morrison, Count Basie, John Coltrane, Sidney Bechet, Alan Bennett, Stewart Lee, David Quantick, Ray Davis, Blur,  Van Morrison,  Hang Clouds, Evelyn Glennie, Kingsley Amis, Andrea Dunbar, Helen MortOther references:Adlestrop (1914) by Edward Thomas https://www.edwardthomaspoetryplaces.com/post/adlestropArthur Scargill:  “Arthur Scargill, the miners' leader and socialist, once told The Sunday Times, ‘My father still reads the dictionary every day. He says your life depends on your power to master words.” Martin H. Manser, The Penguin Writer's ManualBob Monkhouse https://www.theguardian.com/news/2003/dec/30/guardianobituaries.artsobituariesLongbarrow Press https://longbarrowpress.com/Valley Press https://www.valleypressuk.com/Kes (1968) by Barry HinesRalph is Poetry Editor for Northern Gravy https://northerngravy.com/Ralph reads Geese and England's Dreaming from House Anthems  https://www.valleypressuk.com/shop/p/house-anthemsGareth Southgate https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-57816651 Simon Armitage Larkin Revisited Radio 4 https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/m0019yy2Nick Cave- Honorary Vice President for the Philip Larkin Society- Desert Island Discs https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0027cglLyn's English teacher 1982-1989 https://petercochran.wordpress.com/remembering-peter/The Ted Hughes Network https://research.hud.ac.uk/institutes-centres/tedhughes/James Underwood https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/early-larkin-9781350197121/Albums mentioned:OK Computer (1997) by Radiohead , Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967) and The White Album (1968) by The Beatles, Park Life (1994) by BlurSummertime in England by Van Morrison https://www.vice.com/en/article/summertime-in-england-a-monologue-on-van-morrison/Events:https://louderthanwordsfest.com/"My Friend Monica": Remembering Philip Larkin's Partner Monica JonesSat 22 Mar 2025 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Ken Edwards Lecture Theatre 2, University of Leicester, LE1 7RHhttps://www.tickettailor.com/events/literaryleicester/1538331A celebration marking 70 years of Philip Larkin's 'The Less Deceived'For World Poetry Dayhttps://www.eventbrite.com/e/a-celebration-marking-70-years-of-philip-larkins-the-less-deceived-tickets-1235639173029?aff=oddtdtcreatorProduced by Lyn Lockwood and Gavin HoggPlease email Lyn at ⁠plsdeputychair@gmail.com ⁠ with any questions or commentsPLS Membership, events, merchandise and information: philiplarkin.com

Send us a textDAVID QUANTICKTHE HYENA KICKSTARTER SPECIAL. In this episode of the Carlisle Cult Cinema Club Presents, PD sits down with Emmy Award-winning writer David Quantick to discuss the Kickstarter for his latest novel, THE HYENA. Join us as David shares insights into the intriguing world of Deborah Parkinson!THE HYENA is the story of an artist called Deborah Parkinson. She was a surrealist who grew up in pre-WW2 Plymouth where her dad ran a pub, then she ran away to Paris where she met Dali and Picasso and Frida Kahlo, and fell in love with a mysterious artist called Marius.When war came, she followed Max Ernst and Leonora Carrington to Mexico, where she hung out with Kahlo again, and met Leon Trotsky. Implicated in Trotsky's murder, she fled back to Plymouth to deal with the death of her family in the Blitz.In her later years, she settled down with a family, resolved some issues in New York, and nearly died in an old people's home.  Nearly.So check the kickstarter link below and go and give David a hand to get his latest Novel released. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/davidquantick/the-hyena/pledge/new?clicked_reward=falseYou can watch now on our YouTube Channelhttps://youtube.com/@CarlisleCultCinemaClub?si=0WSWvdtBGgXzEhwtListen Direct here on our Websitehttps://thecarlislecultcinemacast.buzzsprout.comOr Catch it on the Following Platforms.============== SPOTIFY. 

Stuart Maconie, David Quantick and Laurence Rickard discuss the 60th anniversary of The Beatles' A Hard Day's Night premiere, with Chris Shaw. Plus special guests Alex Lowe, Rob Manuel and Kevin Eldon.

The first edition of Goon Pod Film Club has dropped - and here's a taster plus huge thanks to all those who have supported it already! Head over to www.patreon.com/GoonPod to sign up and receive every month a brand new premium episode in which guests discuss their favourite British comedy films!

PopaHALLics #124 "(What's So Funny 'Bout) Pop, Love, & Understanding?Multiverse mayhem, bodice-ripping romance, and female comedians! Dueling Joel Edgertons! Music by a rising young singer/songwriter and a crafty popsmith of old! Steve and Kate return with a little something for everyone. Streaming:"The Boys in the Boat," Prime. George Clooney directed this fact-based movie about the University of Washington rowing team's quest to compete in the 1936 Berlin Olympics. Joel Edgerton plays their coach."Dark Matter," Apple TV+. A college professor (Edgerton again) finds himself abducted into an alternate version of his life in this sci-fi thriller. Can he find his way back to his family and save them from, in essence, himself?"Loot," Apple TV+. Season 2 finds Maya Rudolph's super-rich character still ineptly trying to do good. The comedy has more of a focus this time on side characters, who turn out to be weird in a funny way."Hacks," Max. In this smart, blistering, yet intimate comedy, legendary Vegas comedian (Jean Smart) is paired with an entitled,  unemployable young writer (Hannah Einbinder) in the hopes of revitalizing both's careers."Bridgerton," Netflix. Season 3 of Shonda Rimes' period bodice-ripper finds possible romance between dweeb-turned-hunk Colin Bridgerton (Luke Newton) and secret gossip columnist Penelope Featherington (Nicola Coughlan).Books:"Night Train" and "All My Colors" by David Quantick. An Emmy-winning TV writer ("Veep") writes clever horror novels. "All My Colors" is like a great lost "Twilight Zone" episode: When no one else remembers a bestselling book, a writer with no talent churns it out—and bad things start happening. In the surreal, gory "Night Train," a woman wakes up on a train speeding through the darkness with no idea who she is or what she's doing there. She heads for the front of the train, with each railroad car more nightmarish than the last.Music:Our hosts are listening to very different pop artists. Kate's enjoying breakout singer/songwriter Chappel Roan ("Pink Pony Club," "Femininomenon"), while Steve's humming Nick Lowe tunes like "Cruel to Be Kind" and "(What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love, & Understanding" thanks to a reissue of his 1979 LP "Labour of Lust." Both are on our latest playlist!Click through the links to watch, read, and listen to what we're talking about.

CARLISLE CULT CINEMA CLUB PRESENTS: DAVID QUANTICK IN CONVERSATION Welcome to a brand new episode of the Carlisle Cult Cinema Club Presents, in This episode , we're beyond thrilled to sit down for a chin wag with a friend of the show, a true wordsmith, and an absolute legend in both writing and television punditry - Mr. David Quantick!In this episode, we peel back the layers of his multifaceted career and chat about his love of receiving Awards. Our conversation takes a thrilling turn into the world of espionage and elegance as we chat about the James Bond franchise, sharing our personal picks for the quintessential Bond, the most memorable Bond themes, and the villains who stand out amongst a rogues' gallery of adversaries. But that's not all - we dive into the eclectic corners of his imagination with a discussion on his movie script, "Mod Vampires Vs Zombie Rockers," a unique mashup that promises to be as intriguing as its title suggests. And speaking of Mash Ups we also talk about our love of  mash up songs. We also chat about his favorite American sitcoms, giving us insight into his tastes in comedy from across the pond, we steer clear of delving into a horror film script thats rumored to be filming in June possibly, we talk about the state of comic book adaptations, where David shares some of his favorite adaptations and expresses his avid interest in bringing Grant Morrison's "ZENITH" to the screen, a project that would surely excite fans of the comic. The episode wouldn't be complete without a trip down memory lane to one of his most notable and Controversial contributions to television - we talk about his involvement in Chris Morris's groundbreaking "Brass Eye special Pedogeddon. Lastly, we round off our discussion with a look back at our favorite films from last year, sharing those cinematic gems that left a their mark on us from 2023.  So, grab your headphones and settle in for what promises to be another Cracking Episode, This is the Carlisle Cult Cinema Club Presents: DAVID QUANTICK IN CONVERSATION and you're in for a treat.#cult #CultCinemaPodcast #Cultcinema #CarlisleCultCinemaClub #Carlisle#DavidQuantick#PD#JamesBond#Awards#GrantMorrison#Zenith#Beatles

This episode is all about the 2 PLS conference events that took place on 13-15th March 2024 at the University of Hull.  Professor Douglas Bell, now back home in the city of Ningbo in China, reflects on visiting Hull City centre and Cottingham for the first time in over 30 years, having graduated from the University of Hull in 1991. Rachael Galletly, PLS Trustee and merchandise officer talks about speakers David Quantick, Blake Morrison, our actors Daniel Wain and Lynne Harrison, and the contribution made by our wonderful artist D J Roberts. Helen Cooper reflects on her research into larkin, Lucian Freud and cancel culture, as well as the allure of Larkin bookends and  Lucy Keating gives us her view of Larkin as someone who has also worked for many years in academic libraries as well as being a fan of classic English pop. We end with Professor Graham Chesters, our chair, and his thoughts about not just the main conference but also the schools and colleges post-16 education day that we also held that week, with an amazing story about a very special pair of  letters, one written to Larkin and one written by Larkin in response. Professor Douglas Bell is Professor of Education at the School of Education & English, The University of Nottingham, Ningbo China Bell, D.E. (2024) ‘One of those old-type natural fouled up guys': A Comparative Investigation of Larkin's poetic persona and voice in ‘The Whitsun Weddings' and ‘High Windows'.  A recording can be accessed at: Professor Douglas Bell - 'One of those old-type natural fouled up guys.' - YouTube Rachael Galletly has been a trustee of the Philip Larkin Society since 2015 and works for a national educational charity. Helen Cooper was one of the first thirty girls to join King Henry VIII School in Coventry in 1975. It was when she returned to the School as the Librarian in 2014 that she began to develop her interest in Philip Larkin. The first Larkin event she organised at the School was a Symposium to commemorate the 30th anniversary of his death in 2015 and her last, shortly before she left the School and moved to live in London, was the PLS AGM during Larkin's centenary in 2022.  Lucy Keating is originally from Birmingham, where she first encountered Philip Larkin's poetry at school in the 1980s. She spent her career working mainly in academic libraries and related projects, and now lives in Newcastle upon Tyne.  Professor Graham Chesters is the chair of the PLS and taught at the University of Hull from 1972 to 2007.  Our next event is the society AGM which takes place in Oxford on Saturday June 8th 2024, 11.30am at the Bodleian Library in Oxford. The event is free to all members. The PLS events group is planning lots more for later in the year so if you want to keep informed then please sign up to the mailing list at our website or, of course, become a member. Music: Knockin A Jug, On the Sunny Side of the Street from Larkin's Jazz Disc 1 (I Remember, I Remember), Petit Fleur (Sidney Bechet) played by Monty Sunshine Produced by Lyn Lockwood and Gavin Hogg Please email Lyn at ⁠lynlockwood70@yahoo.co.uk⁠ with any questions or comments PLS Membership and information: philiplarkin.com  Theme music: 'The Horns Of The Morning' by The Mechanicals Band. Buy 'The Righteous Jazz' at their Bandcamp page: ⁠https://themechanicalsband.bandcamp.com/album/the-righteous-jazz

It's November 2023, and the world's most successful compilation series is celebrating its 40th anniversary. Five decades of compiling the latest hits, the occasional miss, but always the songs that soundtracked our lives. Always there, always democratically and expertly sequencing the music that the UK buying (downloading/streaming/swiping) public were grooving to, laughing to, dancing along with, or crying about (add in your own band or artists here).What else is still with us from 1983? And still having such an impact?Breakfast Time? Well, certainly not Frank Bough.The Ford Sierra? Taxi!£1 coins? Down the back of the sofa.Kajagoogoo? Hush hush, as they say. (One for the older listeners)So, as our friends at NOW rightly celebrate the past through a stunning array of special albums and even see podcasters pop up across several TV programmes waxing lyrically about the famous compilation series (well, no-one else will talk about it, will they?) the numbered series that started it all in November 1983 continued to do exactly what it set out to do; bring together the songs of NOW.Perhaps no longer just the Top Chart Hits, that tag line that emblazoned the front cover of earlier volumes, but now taking into account the various ways we actually DO consume music in the third decade of the 21st century.NOW 116 - The Best of the Best.47 tracks. Tik Tok stars, Film soundtrack anthems, legendary decade surviving artists. Pop, rock, dance, soul.All present and correct, all breathlessly exciting, all taking that snapshot in time of pop culture. And as we know, an invaluable window into the soundtrack of our lives.Where, indeed, Agnetha, do we go from here?To understand the past and the future, we always need to be in the NOW. (Take a note of that line, its a good one: Ed)And joining me to make sense of this dazzling volume of the world famous compilation series is award winning writer, journalist and NOW fan David Quantick.David explains why he wanted to get in 'at the deep end' and why he thinks that NOW116 highlights that pop is in a fine healthy state in. We explore what actually is a 'hit' in 2023/24, why short songs are always an indication of great songs, why NOW continues to keep getting it right and how the compilation series is Top Of The Pops in exile.Along the way, discover who David describes as 'the Dr. Who of Pop', who are 'The Strokes for Queen fans (or was that the other way around)' and what a bad AI version of George Michael may look (and sound) like. We also revisit why Pop continues to Eat Itself (yes, David came up with that one!), why the female artists are leaving the boys behind, who the 'ASDA Madonna' is and who the real Madonna is. And did Chris Lowe really offer Tracey Chapman a lift in 1988?We really do (watch what I do here) Paint The Town Red!Jump in, buckle up and remind yourself why pop is still very, very important. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

David Quantick is an English novelist, comedy writer and critic, who has worked as a journalist and screenwriter. A former freelance writer for NME, his TV writing credits include On the Hour, Blue Jam and TV Burp. He won an Emmy Award for Veep in 2015. His new comedy, Whatever Happened to Baby Jane Austin, is airing weekly on BBC Radio 4. Show theme by Bis.Want more? Join The James McMahon Music Podcast Patreon. Thankyou to our Patreon members! John Foley. Twitter - @jamesjammcmahon Substack - https://spoook.substack.com YouTube - www.youtube.com/channel/UC8Vf_1E1Sza2GUyFNn2zFMA Reddit - https://www.reddit.com/r/jamesmcmahonmusicpod/

Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders star as respected novelist Florence and movie star Selina, in the second series of this sparkling comedy about two sisters at war, by David Quantick.The first series of Whatever Happened To Baby Jane Austen? won the Writers' Guild Award for Best Radio Comedy and the Comedy.co.uk award for Best Radio Sitcom.“Thank you, Mr Quantick – this is nigh on perfect” Radio TimesAnd now Dawn, Jennifer and David return with Series 2.Episode one: Mummy Dearest Lucy, convinced that her mother is Selina, can't take any more - she's going to be an astronaut. Meanwhile, Selina's off to the Palace to collect her OBE, with a jealous Florence in tow. And Mrs Ragnarrok has applied for Danish citizenship.Written by David QuantickFlorence - Dawn French Selina - Jennifer Saunders Mrs Ragnarrok – Meera Syal Lucy – Georgia Tennant All the men - Alistair McGowanProducer: Liz Anstee A CPL production for BBC Radio 4

Dave Cohen is a comedy writer who has written on shows including Not Going Out, Have I Got News For You, Spitting Image, My Family and Life of Riley. On Radio he's written for shows including, The News Quiz, Dead Ringers, Sunday Format and 50 episodes of the Radio 4 show 15 Minute Musical with Richie Webb and David Quantick, which won the Writers Guild Best Comedy 2009. Dave wrote the lyrics for around 100 songs for CBBC show Horrible Histories – winning eight BAFTAs and a Rose d'Or. Dave started his career performing stand up and was nominated for the Edinburgh Fringe Perrier Award in 1984. In 1985 he Started the Comedy Store Players with Mike Myers, Paul Merton, Neil Mullarkey & Kit Hollerbach and, he also started world's first Jewish heavy metal band “Guns'n'Moses” with Al Murray, Jim Tavare and Mike Cosgrave .Dave Cohen is guest number 341 on My Time Capsule and chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things he'd like to put in a time capsule; four he'd like to preserve and one he'd like to bury and never have to think about again .For everything Dave Cohen including his books, visit - davecohen.org.uk .Follow Dave Cohen on Twitter @DaveCohencomedy .Follow My Time Capsule on Twitter, Instagram & Facebook: @MyTCpod .Follow Michael Fenton Stevens on Twitter: @fentonstevens & Instagram @mikefentonstevens .Produced and edited by John Fenton-Stevens for Cast Off Productions .Music by Pass The Peas Music .Artwork by matthewboxall.com .This podcast is proud to be associated with the charity Viva! Providing theatrical opportunities for hundreds of young people. Get bonus episodes and ad-free listening by becoming a team member with Acast+! Your support will help us to keep making My Time Capsule. Join our team now! https://plus.acast.com/s/mytimecapsule. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week writer and journalist David Quantick on Ned's Atomic Dustbin. As someone who spent time with the band while writing for the NME and a former member of the GSPS, David was the ideal person to tackle NAD. The band took their name from a Goon Show episode, with band member Jonn Penney suggesting it after flicking through the More Goon Show Scripts book. The Goon Show itself was from the 9th Series in 1959 and contained vague Cold War themes as well as digs at BBC censorship and notably featured the debut of the Radiophonic Workshop-devised sound effect Bloodnok's Stomach. The conversation veers from the indie music scene of the early nineties to a joke about a talking dog and John Snagge working with the Sex Pistols. We also touch on 'terrible band names', Spike Milligan's complicated attitude to racial depictions in comedy, about Peter Sellers possibly inspiring Peter Cook with a thinly-veiled Harold Macmillan impression and consider whether the scripting of this particular episode was Spike 'on autopilot'. You can listen to the Goon Show episode Ned's Atomic Dustbin here: https://open.spotify.com/track/6pGHhb9SLNeBoy20AMTg9L More about the band here: http://www.nedsatomicdustbin.com/ David is on Twitter @quantick and follow the podcast @goonshowpod

“Have we learnt nothing from the history of geology?” The Panel of Peril rise from their slumber on the living chair, shirtless, and scream at their neighbours to turn that ruddy music down! They have a guest panellist in legendary comedy writer David Quantick (Harry Hill's TV Burp, The Thick Of It, Danger Mouse, Veep et al), and a film to watch: Indiana Jones and The Dial of Destiny (James Mangold, 2023). 1969: Indy (Harrison Ford) is confronted by the ghosts of his past as goddaughter Helena (Phoebe Waller-Bridge) and Dr. Voller (Mads Mikkelsen) come back into his life. Both seek the mysterious Antikythera, or Archimedes' Dial, which will either fetch a high price at market or provide Operation Paperclip sorts with the means to change the course of World War 2! Watch the trailer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQfMbSe7F2g ********PLOT SPOILER ALERT******** Voller believes that the Dial possesses the means to travel back in time, and he plans to win the war for the Nazis. How? Seeing him as the weakest link in the master race's plot for world domination, the good Doctor plans on assassinating one Adolf Hitler! Can he reunite the two halves of the all-powerful antique or will he be foiled by our whip-cracking hero and his latest batch of sidekicks? What did the panel think of this week's movie? How can they improve upon the villain's masterplan? And what song did David Quantick hear Rob Brydon sing during a showbiz party? Music by Oleg Kirilkov from Pixabay Music by Geoff Harvey from Pixabay Sound Effect by Peace,love,happiness from Pixabay Sound Effect from Pixabay https://twitter.com/diabolicalpod https://www.instagram.com/diabolicalpod/ https://www.facebook.com/diabolicalpod Email diabolicalpod@gmail.com

Part 1 of EggPod Live at Opera Holland Park, London on Saturday 1 July 2023. Chris Shaw is joined by special guests Samira Ahmed, Stuart Maconie and David Quantick.

I denne jubilæums-udgave markerer "Elsker The Beatles" de 100 første episoder. Og den er ovenikøbet udsendt på Ringo Starrs fødselsdag. Vi tager på en rejse til en fantastisk dag i London, der byder på besøg på "The National Portrait Gallery", der netop er genåbnet med udstillingen "Paul McCartney: Photographs 1963-64: Eyes of the Storm". Udstillingen der viser billeder fra Liverpool, London, Paris, New York, Washington og Miami, da Beatlemania indtog verden. Jacob Poul Skoubo så udstillingen i de samme dage, så han sættes stævne på en hyggelig pub, for at vende de fine billeder - og så fortæller Jacob om, hvor tæt han var på at sige hej til Paul McCartney i et "A Hard Day´s Night"-agtigt raid. Efterfølgende bevæger vi os til Holland Park nær Notting Hill, hvor en fremragende eftermiddag blev sat i scene af Chris Shaw, vært for den lige så fremragende podcast "I Am The Eggpod. I et skønt operahus fik vi to afdelinger af et show - først med et panel, hvor David Quantick, Stuart Maconie og Samira Ahmed talte, diskuterede og grinede The Beatles. Dernæst i et sæt hvor Mark Lewisohn tog os igennem 1.juli i Beatles-historien, fra 1960-69. I de smukke omgivelser blev det også til inteviews med Beatles Youtuber, Andrew Dixon, Teatles-ansvarlig, Huw og med Egg Pod vært, Chris Shaw. Episoden afrundes, efter hjemkomst til Danmark, med opklaring af et sælsomt, personligt Beatles mysterie. Happy Hundred og god fornøjelse! Egg Pod finder du her: https://podcasts.apple.com/dk/podcast/i-am-the-eggpod/id1335120302?i=1000619752461 Andrew Dixon huserer her: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tEcntcuqhg Og så må du ikke misse The Teatles der holder til her: https://twitter.com/Teatlemania?s=20        

On this episode of The Paul Weller Fan Podcast, I am joined by David Quantick - a writer whose work spans over 4 decades now. He joined NME as a staff writer in 1983.We dig in to stories of The Jam, The Style Council and Paul Weller Solo... and David's connections to the man and his music...He also just happens to be a hugely successful comedy writer and screenwriter for some of the most outstanding TV and Radio series over the past 30 years with credits for shows such as On the Hour, The Day Today, The Thick of It, Blue Jam, Harry Hill's TV Burp, Veep (for which he won an Emmy in 2015) and Avenue 5.Find out more at paulwellerfanpodcast.com/episode-152-david-quantick Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In 2022 Spike Milligan's family opened up his archive to selected guests – and what an archive it is! Hundreds of tapes, film rolls, scrapbooks, photographs, unpublished novels & scripts, box files and albums, much of it meticulously documented and annotated by Milligan himself, including bound volumes of family history, wartime journals and assorted paraphernalia covering his earliest childhood memories right up until his final years. Sky Arts filmed a documentary which originally aired in December last year where viewers saw the likes of Joanna Lumley, Ian Hislop, Eddie Izzard and Sarfraz Manzoor (as well as former Goon Pod guests David Quantick and Al Murray) nosing around this treasure trove. Spike's whole life is under the spotlight, from his early days in India to his underwhelming introduction to a Britain of fog, cold baths and terrible food, a world away from what he'd been used to; the wartime highs and lows (a whirlwind romance, being blown up); The Goon Show; his marriages and children; his post-Goons career on television; his campaigning and activism; his books, poetry, music and much more. Joining Tyler is Simon Meddings - Meds - from Waffle On podcast – a trailblazer in terms of telly and film review podcasts and certainly one of the few to have covered such diverse topics as School For Scoundrels, Fight Club and Donald Sinden! Meds and Tyler talk at length about Spike and his life as filtered through the documentary but find plenty of time to go off on tangents (within the first four minutes they've talked about Michael Caine and The Smiths, for instance) so there's plenty here for everybody who likes a good natter about old films, old telly... and old comics.   https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/waffle-on-podcast/id298729068

RHLSTP Book Club 51 - Ricky's Hand. Richard talks to music critic, sitcom and movie writer and novelist David Quantick about his fun sci-fi novel about a man who wakes up with someone else's hand, Ricky's Hand. They chat about David's career and his tentative steps towards becoming a novelist and how people expect you to stay in your lane. Plus the inspiration for this extraordinary story and whether you need to worry too much about logistics when writing about a high concept. Also having an unlikeable protagonist and whether the anonymity of a writer is a good or bad thing. Plus some good chat about Snodgrass versus Yesterday!Get the book here - https://www.hive.co.uk/Product/David-Quantick/Rickys-Hand/26548464SUPPORT THE SHOW!Watch our TWITCH CHANNELSee extra content at our WEBSITE Become a member at https://plus.acast.com/s/rhlstp. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

As next week sees the 100th edition of Goon Pod drop, here's a special 100-minute long Easter bumper bonus episode! Tyler shares clips of some of the many guests he's hosted on the pod over the last hundred shows - the selection is designed to showcase how the show has developed and evolved and (in theory) can be enjoyed by anyone with even a passing knowledge of the Goons, as long as they like fifties, sixties and seventies (and eighties & nineties) popular culture and especially comedy. Typically they'll like the Beatles and have heard of Jimmy Clitheroe - that's the sort of person who listens to Goon Pod. So you'll hear from the likes of Al Murray, David Quantick, Mike McCartney, Griff Rhys Jones, Margaret Cabourn-Smith and Mike Fenton Stevens as well as many others PLUS some never-before-heard material! (This episode is better than an Easter egg because it's less fattening, won't stain the furniture and even your dog can enjoy it) Twitter: @goonshowpod

We chat with journalist, author, screenwriter David Quantick. David covered the Queen shows in Newcastle and Budapest for the NME in 1986, meeting and interviewing the band in the process. David has won many awards, most notably an Emmy for his writing on Veep. We chat about Queen, music in general and The Thick of It.David's latest book Ricky's Hand is out now and can be purchased as a download or paper copy from all good retailers. We recommend it!|| Get more on David at davidquantick.com ||| Chat with us on Twitter @LapPods || Donate via Paypal at paypal.me/lappods || Get more content at lappods.scot ||Thanks for listening. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

David Quantick discusses the 1976 triple album 'Wings over America' with Chris Shaw.

Welcome to a very special episode of Tiny In All That Air, celebrating Philip Larkin's 100th birthday. This episode has been made with the generous help of many of our fantastic honorary vice presidents, who have many different connections with Philip Larkin, the man and the writer: former secretary of State for Health and Social care, Alan Johnson; Larkin biographer, friend and literary executor Andrew Motion; writer David Quantick; writer Ann Thwaite; academic and magician Dale Salwak; artist Grayson Perry; poet Imtiaz Dharker; sculptor Martin Jennings; writer Blake Morrison; Professor James Booth; founding chairman Professor Eddie Dawes; and our current chair Rosie Millard. Thank you so much to all our HVPs past and present for all their support of the society and thank you to you for listening. Presented by Lyn Lockwood. Theme music: 'The Horns Of The Morning' by The Mechanicals Band. Buy 'The Righteous Jazz' at their Bandcamp page: https://themechanicalsband.bandcamp.com/album/the-righteous-jazz Audio editing by Simon Galloway. Follow us and get it touch on Twitter - https://twitter.com/tiny_air Find out more about the Philip Larkin Society here - http://philiplarkin.com/

This week we are honoured to welcome Emmy award winning writer David Quantick. We talk window goats, having big ideas, getting the sack and chat to David about the reams and reams of amazing work he's done. It's fair to say we think this episode is Quanticky AND quality.      LINKS   https://davidquantick.com/ The first EVER internet sitcom "The Junkies" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFOayYFu7Fs That Star Wars bit from "The Think Of It" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cg-pnGFbwMQ New novel "Ricky's Hand" - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Rickys-Hand-David-Quantick-ebook/dp/B09DV2CVCB “How to Write Everything” https://www.amazon.co.uk/How-Write-Everything-David-Quantick/dp/1783191031 “All My Colours”, David's novel about a failing writer:  https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41840158-all-my-colors

In this episode PD sits down again with Emmy Award-winning writer and friend of the show David Quantick to discuss his new film BOOK OF LOVE. We also pay tribute to David's friend, the late great Barry Cryer, and David shares a few anecdotes about the comedy legend who sadly passed away recently

This episode Gav and Stef are joined by Emmy awarding winner writer David Quantick where they discuss mod vampires, monster marriage, stealing chips and penis shaped maps

Hear all the music on our rolling playlist: https://bit.ly/CultBunk A mash-up of Burt Bacharach, Scott Walker and Michael Nyman for the modern day, Neil Hannon of The Divine Comedy tells us about his new best of album Charmed Life, 30 years in pop, and lovely horses. Neil joins guest Hannah Verdier plus Sîan and Andrew to discuss Guillermo del Toro's grand guignol fable Nightmare Alley, the joy of angst on the new Eels album, and low-key suspense movie Framed on Amazon Prime. And comedy writer David Quantick tells us about his friend and hero Barry Cryer who died this week. “I started a radio show because I wanted to force my musical tastes down the public's throats.” – Neil Hannon “I thought I missed all the fun in the 90s, but I preferred leaving parties after an hour and coming home to a sherry in front of Frasier…” – Neil “So many films are now like pop videos, but Guillermo del Toro really dwells on his scenes.” – Neil on Nightmare Alley “Olly Alexander is one of those pop stars who would be great Smash Hits fodder.” – Hannah Verdier “Who wouldn't love a song that rhymes ‘Colin Firth' with ‘earth'?” – Neil on Eels Written and presented by Siân Pattenden and Andrew Harrison. Producer Jelena Sofronijevic. Audio production by Alex Rees. Theme music: ‘Bunker Theme (Juntos Mix)' by Kenny Dickinson. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. The Culture Bunker is a Podmasters production. Rolling playlist: https://bit.ly/CultBunk Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Looks Unfamiliar is a podcast in which writer and occasional broadcaster Tim Worthington talks to a guest about some of the things that they remember that nobody else ever seems to.Joining Tim this time is author, restaurant critic and broadcaster Grace Dent, and they're comparing notes on what they would bring to an Ultimate Christmas Experience including the Have A Cracking Christmas At Woolworths and Christmas '82 - Today's Tesco adverts, Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer pilot The Weekenders, Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie pilot The Crystal Cube, John Peel's Festive Fifty, The NME Singles Of The Year 1991, Sky Star Search, the lost Doctor Who panto episode from 1965, The Butthole Surfers appearing on Snub TV, a disastrous interview from Channel 4's Naked City, Chas'n'Dave's Christmas Knees-Up, Chorlton In The Iceworld, Banned From The Pubs by Peter And The Test Tube Babies, Weed Bus by The Stairs, and some unwelcome intrusions from Max Headroom, a shower of 'refreshed' Granada announcers and the Test Card Clown - but no Test Card Girl. Along the way we'll be testing the scientific veracity of Schrodinger's Peel Session, querying whether David Quantick is the real Santa, suffering from Hugh Laurie Seasickness, discovering the exact wrong Pulp song to serenade someone with, and calling for the immediate abolition of Sexually Assertive Butter Men.You can find more editions of Looks Unfamiliar at http://timworthington.org/.

And so things come to a head in the bunker and the elite have to decide which side they are on. It'd pretty much the same in Podcastville - will top comedy writer David Quantick and your host Toby Hadoke end up on the same side, or will they end up being thrown into the path of a laser beam by a Nazi in a wig? Anything could happen, but one things for sure, out of a Doctor Who story this classy, there must come something good... (even if it is only David getting some extra sales for his book he is plugging!)

This episode of Doctor Who contains one of the finest scenes in the show's history, but your host Toby Hadoke might go off on one - and it needs the celebrated wit of guest David Quantick to bring a bit of sanity back to proceedings. But things take an unexpected twist when he chooses his favourite thing from this episode. How will Toby react? Will he cope, or will he just nip out and... never return...

Host Toby Hadoke has strapped David Quantick - writer of Veep, Danger Mouse, Brass Eye, The Day Today and much more - to a table and threatened to torture his best friends unless he reveals his favourite things about Genesis of the Daleks. The biggest challenge here is narrowing down what to most celebrate about one of Doctor Who's first hours. And will you, the listener, enjoy the same things as these two? You will tell me! You will tell me! You will tell me!!!

'Allo 'Allo, what is going on here then? You'd have to be suffering from distronic toxaemia not to enjoy this episode of Doctor Who even though it's full of not very nice people doing not very nice things. Special guest David Quantick doesn't do anything nasty though, he casts his expert eye over proceedings to choose his favourite thing, but will host Toby Hadoke approve of his choice?

David Quantick's new quiz book comes out a few days after the release of this podcast, that is why this lauded comedy writer's contribution to Happy Times and Places has been released so close to him recording it. Will he and your host Toby Hadoke like the same things ...? And more to the point, what will they choose? What's not to love about one of Doctor Who's most highly regarded stories?

A last minute juggle of the release schedule as this edition's special guest - hugely respected comedy writer David Quantick - has something coming out that he wants to plug, a book that'll hit the shops in early November 2021. So to sing for his supper he is crooning a ditty of praise for one of Doctor Who's most highly lauded and repeated stories, Genesis of the Daleks. David saw it first time around, whereas host Toby Hadoke knows it so well in edited, audio form thanks to having it on cassette.So will their different perspectives happen upon the same favourite thing? Grab the Time Ring and see...

On this week's bonus episode, PD chats to British comedy writing legend and Emmy award winner DAVID QUANTICK. Join us as we discuss the books he's written, his love of The Goons and the Beatles and writing for Brass Eye, Danger Mouse and so much more!

Comedy writer, novelist and Goon Show fan David Quantick is Tyler's guest this week. With Spike Milligan being one of David's earliest influences as a writer he was keen to explain how, for him, the Goons had more of an impact than the Pythons and helped sharpen his comic sensibilities, along with the likes of absurdist playwright NF Simpson. As well as general Goon chat there are conversational meanderings such as: Meeting Spike on Saturday Zoo; the brilliance of Barry Cryer; bringing back Dangermouse; Chris Morris on ‘aardvark comedy'; John Cleese; The Beatles (for a change); David freaking out his mother with his first typewritten script; Sabrina in Stoke Newington and noddin' along to Val Doonican on Pam & Tony's old Dansette record player. Please follow the show on The Twitters @goonshowpod and rate & review on iTunes!

David Quantick is a comedy writer. He won an Emmy as part of the writing team on Veep, a BAFTA for Harry Hill's TV Burp and a Writers' Guild Award for The Thick Of It. He's also written for HBO's Avenue 5, The Day Today and Brass Eye with Chris Morris, Spitting Image, Smack The Pony and much more. He wrote for the NME for many years and is a best selling author or both fiction and non fiction books. David Quantick is guest number 125 on My Time Capsule and chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things he'd like to put in a time capsule; four he'd like to preserve and one he'd like to bury and never have to think about again .Follow David Quantick on Twitter: @quantick .Follow My Time Capsule on Twitter, Instagram & Facebook: @MyTCpod .Follow Michael Fenton Stevens on Twitter: @fentonstevens & Instagram @mikefentonstevens .Produced and edited by John Fenton-Stevens for Cast Off Productions .Music by Pass The Peas Music .Artwork by Matthew Boxall .Social media support by Harriet Stevens .This podcast is proud to be associated with the charity Viva! Providing theatrical opportunities for hundreds of young people. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The Philip Larkin Society has a formal structure which helps us to run effectively. This has allowed us to appoint a President (Anthony Thwaite 1930-2021) and a number of honorary vice-presidents. HVPs support the charity both publicly and behind the scenes and generously lend their name to our work. Recently we have been able to appoint some new HVPs, three of whom we speak to in this episode. Rosie Millard, journalist and University of hull Alumnus, sculptor Martin Jennings and writer David Quantick. They all reflect on their love of Larkin and their thoughts about the PLS. We also have a reading of The Whitsun Weddings by another new HVP, writer Ann Thwaite, OBE. Philip Larkin Collected Poems, edited by Anthony Thwaite, 1988 Faber Hull: City of Culture | British Council https://martinjennings.com/ https://davidquantick.com/ David Quantick reads MCMXLXIX from About Larkin No. 50 (October 2020) Ann Thwaite | Authors | Faber & Faber Presented by Lyn Lockwood. Theme music: 'The Horns Of The Morning' by The Mechanicals Band. Buy 'The Righteous Jazz' at their Bandcamp page: https://themechanicalsband.bandcamp.com/album/the-righteous-jazz Audio editing by Simon Galloway. Follow us and get it touch on Twitter - https://twitter.com/tiny_air Find out more about the Philip Larkin Society here - http://philiplarkin.com/

Reviewer Lisa Glass looks at three books with the theme of someone faking their story. She talks about The Plot by Jean Hanff Korelitz , All My Colours by David Quantick and Fake Accounts by Lauren Oyler.

Emmy Award winning screenwriter and author, David Quantick discusses Paul McCartney's 1978 retrospective - Wings Greatest - with Chris Shaw

In this episode we invite Emmy award-winning screenwriter David Quantick to relive his days as a budding pop scribe on the NME – and to share his memories of Paul Weller, Lloyd Cole & the ignominious Morrissey. As someone who's written with Chris Morris, Armando Iannucci and Harrys Hill & Enfield, David is predictably hilarious about '80s pop – as well as about Simon Cowell & many other things. He also offers his tuppenceworth on the week's featured act Teenage Fanclub, and on our 1998 Marianne Faithfull audio interview, clips from which we hear and discuss in this episode.Mark then talks us through new library pieces about John Lennon's dad, Led Zeppelin and Earth, Wind & Fire; Barney cites Mat Snow's 2009 interview with Mike Oldfield, triggering a Quantick memory of theTubular Bells dude being quizzed by the late Steven Wells; and finally Jasper wraps up the episode with reflections on pieces about the 2001 BRIT Awards, soundtrack composer Mica Levi & jazz titan Kamasi Washington.Many thanks to special guest David Quantick. Read more about his work at davidquantick.com and pre-order Quantick's Quite Difficult Quiz Book here.Pieces discussed: Style Council, Lloyd Cole, Morrissey, Simon Cowell, Teenage Fanclub, Teenage Fanclubber, Teenage Fanclubbest, Marianne Faithfull audio, Jimi Hendrix live, Allman Brothers live, Bob Marley & the Wailers live, Freddie Lennon, Led Zeppelin, Rolling Stones at Altamont, Earth, Wind & Fire, Mike Oldfield, Nick Tosches, BRIT Awards 2001, Mica Levi and Kamasi Washington.

In this episode we invite Emmy award-winning screenwriter David Quantick to relive his days as a budding pop scribe on the NME – and to share his memories of Paul Weller, Lloyd Cole & the ignominious Morrissey. As someone who's written with Chris Morris, Armando Iannucci and Harrys Hill & Enfield, David is predictably hilarious about '80s pop – as well as about Simon Cowell & many other things. He also offers his tuppenceworth on the week's featured act Teenage Fanclub, and on our 1998 Marianne Faithfull audio interview, clips from which we hear and discuss in this episode. Mark then talks us through new library pieces about John Lennon's dad, Led Zeppelin and Earth, Wind & Fire; Barney cites Mat Snow's 2009 interview with Mike Oldfield, triggering a Quantick memory of theTubular Bells dude being quizzed by the late Steven Wells; and finally Jasper wraps up the episode with reflections on pieces about the 2001 BRIT Awards, soundtrack composer Mica Levi & jazz titan Kamasi Washington. Many thanks to special guest David Quantick. Read more about his work at davidquantick.com and pre-order Quantick's Quite Difficult Quiz Book here. Pieces discussed: Style Council, Lloyd Cole, Morrissey, Simon Cowell, Teenage Fanclub, Teenage Fanclubber, Teenage Fanclubbest, Marianne Faithfull audio, Jimi Hendrix live, Allman Brothers live, Bob Marley & the Wailers live, Freddie Lennon, Led Zeppelin, Rolling Stones at Altamont, Earth, Wind & Fire, Mike Oldfield, Nick Tosches, BRIT Awards 2001, Mica Levi and Kamasi Washington.

In this episode we invite Emmy award-winning screenwriter David Quantick to relive his days as a budding pop scribe on the NME – and to share his memories of Paul Weller, Lloyd Cole & the ignominious Morrissey. As someone who's written with Chris Morris, Armando Iannucci and Harrys Hill & Enfield, David is predictably hilarious about '80s pop – as well as about Simon Cowell & many other things. He also offers his tuppenceworth on the week's featured act Teenage Fanclub, and on our 1998 Marianne Faithfull audio interview, clips from which we hear and discuss in this episode.Mark then talks us through new library pieces about John Lennon's dad, Led Zeppelin and Earth, Wind & Fire; Barney cites Mat Snow's 2009 interview with Mike Oldfield, triggering a Quantick memory of theTubular Bells dude being quizzed by the late Steven Wells; and finally Jasper wraps up the episode with reflections on pieces about the 2001 BRIT Awards, soundtrack composer Mica Levi & jazz titan Kamasi Washington.Many thanks to special guest David Quantick. Read more about his work at davidquantick.com and pre-order Quantick's Quite Difficult Quiz Book here.Pieces discussed: Style Council, Lloyd Cole, Morrissey, Simon Cowell, Teenage Fanclub, Teenage Fanclubber, Teenage Fanclubbest, Marianne Faithfull audio, Jimi Hendrix live, Allman Brothers live, Bob Marley & the Wailers live, Freddie Lennon, Led Zeppelin, Rolling Stones at Altamont, Earth, Wind & Fire, Mike Oldfield, Nick Tosches, BRIT Awards 2001, Mica Levi and Kamasi Washington.

Today's very special episode features niche, narrow, qualified recommendations. And a couple books that we recommend you AVOID. Books we talk about: Fury by Laurann Dohner: bit.ly/3eOj3tv Clownfellas by Carlton Mellick III: bit.ly/3xMd40X Phantom Effect by Michael Aronovitz: bit.ly/3xFHlP4 Army of Darkness: Ash Saves Obama by Elliott R. Serrano: bit.ly/2SfaEHU Books we mentioned and didn't get to: Night Train by David Quantick: bit.ly/2SnPIPb Swordquest by Gerry Conway: bit.ly/3gUScic Death Rides a Chestnut Mare by Ralph Compton: bit.ly/3gYVTmU Centipede Vol. 1: Game Over by Max Bemis: bit.ly/3vD27gn

In this episode we invite Emmy award-winning screenwriter David Quantick to relive his days as a budding pop scribe on the NME – and to share his memories of Paul Weller, Lloyd Cole & the ignominious Morrissey. As someone who's written with Chris Morris, Armando Iannucci and Harrys Hill & Enfield, David is predictably hilarious about '80s pop – as well as about Simon Cowell & many other things. He also offers his tuppenceworth on the week's featured act Teenage Fanclub, and on our 1998 Marianne Faithfull audio interview, clips from which we hear and discuss in this episode. Mark then talks us through new library pieces about John Lennon's dad, Led Zeppelin and Earth, Wind & Fire; Barney cites Mat Snow's 2009 interview with Mike Oldfield, triggering a Quantick memory of theTubular Bells dude being quizzed by the late Steven Wells; and finally Jasper wraps up the episode with reflections on pieces about the 2001 BRIT Awards, soundtrack composer Mica Levi & jazz titan Kamasi Washington. Many thanks to special guest David Quantick. Read more about his work at davidquantick.com and pre-order Quantick's Quite Difficult Quiz Book here. Pieces discussed: Style Council, Lloyd Cole, Morrissey, Simon Cowell, Teenage Fanclub, Teenage Fanclubber, Teenage Fanclubbest, Marianne Faithfull audio, Jimi Hendrix live, Allman Brothers live, Bob Marley & the Wailers live, Freddie Lennon, Led Zeppelin, Rolling Stones at Altamont, Earth, Wind & Fire, Mike Oldfield, Nick Tosches, BRIT Awards 2001, Mica Levi and Kamasi Washington.

Since July 2020 we've been speaking to people who's work and livelihoods have been impacted by the coronavirus pandemic - some of them in devastating ways, leading to moving testimony about radical change, challenge and renewal needed in the coming months and years. And other people who have had more of a calm, philosophical moment of peace in any otherwise chaotic ratrace - with the forced disruption actually giving them permission to do things they think they should have done long ago. In this episode, we're shining a light on the media, publishing and broadcasting industries and lifting the bonnet on what the pandemic has meant for them. Demand for high quality content, as we all seem to be calling it, has gone through the roof over this past year - with a lot of people stuck at home getting good value for their Netflix and Disney+ subscriptions whilst learning how to crochet. But what is the reality for the creatives and the - in a sense - architects of the content we consume? With TV and film sets shut down for most of the year and print media in freefall - have we been changing any of our habits or expectations around what we want to watch, listen to or read? I get the sense that this has been a fantastic time for podcast hosts and radio makers, YouTubers and amateur bloggers - but who is paying for this, and how do we know what's good? Our special guests answering the same personal and bigger picture questions are: - the brilliantly acerbic TV and radio broadcaster, novelist, comedian and script-writer David Quantick - leading technology journalist and magazine editor Chris Middleton; - TV and film production manager Greg Harris - audio producer and presenter and Director of Chelmsford Community Radio, Michelle Durant. Contributions to this episode were made from various points in the pandemic since April 2020. We wanted to know - both then and now - how they are feeling about all of this, and what happens next. --------- Useful links: https://davidquantick.com/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Quantick https://chrismiddleton.company/ http://www.chelmsfordcommunityradio.com/ --- For more information on how you can get involved with The Possibility Club – an inclusive community of professionals working out what's next, have a look here > www.thepossibilityclub.org You can also receive Finding Chances, a free weekly letter from Richard Freeman, looking behind-the-scenes at business, culture, community and education by signing-up at findingchances.substack.com/ We'd love to know what you think of this podcast. Please review and share your responses to this podcast on your favourite podcast platform. This is an always possible podcast. The interviewer was Richard Freeman for always possible and the producer was Chris Thorpe-Tracey for Lo Fi Arts.

I'm Philip Holden and this is Ideas in Writing - the podcast where we talk to people about words and books and the how, why, when and where of writing. The guests bring along a word and so do I...it's all downhill from there on...In this episode I talk to the award-winning writer David Quantick whose TV credits include The Day Today, So Graham Norton, Harry Hill's TV Burp and Veep for which he won an Emmy. he's also written and presented shows on radio and TV and has now written several novels and books about the craft of writing.Given that I was speaking to a comedy writer, there is a spectacularly badly judged and poorly delivered joke at about the 1 hour mark..from me. If you are of a sensitive disposition etc etc...The word David brought along was wednesday not in itself an interesting definition, but it leads on to the curious word 'hebdomad'. My word, absurdism isn't there, but absurd and surrealism are both so you can explore these words at the fun Visuwords dictionary just by clicking them. Take a look at the links below to order David's books or some of the other titles we mentioned.Ideas in Writing is produced with the support of Mr Books Bookshop in Tonbridge - the home of inspiring, imaginative and intelligent books, gifts and conversation. They're on Twitter too @mrbooks_ton. But most importantly of all, eventually you will be able visit them (in the lovely market town of Tonbridge in Kent) for a browse any Wednesday to Saturday 10am to 5pm...eventually...Don't forget to subscribe for new episodes coming up.CREDITS & linksIf you're interested, you can check out the words we contributed by clicking these links through to the Visuwords dictionary. Wednesday may not seem very interesting, but it leads on to the word ‘hebdomad’. Check it out.Absurdism isn’t in the dictionary though absurd is so you’ll just have to make do (or you could look up surrealism I guess), You can click on the links here to order any of David’s books (though some are due to be reprinted to keep checking)Night Train is his latest and David has thoughtfully provided a link to his Night Train playlist on Spotify!David's other recent novels are here - All My Colours and The Mule. For help and inspiration in your writing try David's How to be a Writer or How to Write Everything. David talked about NF Simpson as a forerunner of the Goons and Monty Python. Ian Greaves has edited a recent compilation of some of his work entitled Most of What Follows is a Complete Waste of Time. David was also reading the Elizabeth Jane Howard Cazalet Chronicles. There are five books in the series so you can read them in order...The Light Years Marking Time Confusion Casting Off All Change Jonathan Meades Peter Knows what Dick Likes isn’t currently in print (though I’m sure we could track down a copy) but his Pedro and Ricky Come Again : Selected Writing 1988-2020 is published in March so you can order it now.George Saunders Booker winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo had A Swim in a Pond in the Rain published in January. And there are lots of memoirs, poetry and collections of writing by Clive James. David recommended Cultural Amnesia : Notes in the Margin of My Time which can also be ordered just by clicking on the link.All the books you order through these links help support Mr Books and this podcast and, if you can't find exactly what you're looking for, just visit the Mr Books webiste at www.mrbooks.co.uk and we'll do our best to track it down for you.Ideas in Writing is recorded and produced by Philip Holden using Zencastr and Acast.comThe Ideas in Writing theme "Farting Around" is by Kevin MacLeod Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/The "Light Easy March" sting is by ...dog http://www.besonic.com/dog See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

I'm Philip Holden and this is Ideas in Writing - the podcast where we talk to people about words and books and the how, why, when and where of writing. The guests bring along a word and so do I...it's all downhill from there on...In this episode I talk to the award-winning writer David Quantick whose TV credits include The Day Today, So Graham Norton, Harry Hill's TV Burp and Veep for which he won an Emmy. he's also written and presented shows on radio and TV and has now written several novels and books about the craft of writing.Given that I was speaking to a comedy writer, there is a spectacularly badly judged and poorly delivered joke at about the 1 hour mark..from me. If you are of a sensitive disposition etc etc...The word David brought along was wednesday not in itself an interesting definition, but it leads on to the curious word 'hebdomad'. My word, absurdism isn't there, but absurd and surrealism are both so you can explore these words at the fun Visuwords dictionary just by clicking them. Take a look at the links below to order David's books or some of the other titles we mentioned.Ideas in Writing is produced with the support of Mr Books Bookshop in Tonbridge - the home of inspiring, imaginative and intelligent books, gifts and conversation. They're on Twitter too @mrbooks_ton. But most importantly of all, eventually you will be able visit them (in the lovely market town of Tonbridge in Kent) for a browse any Wednesday to Saturday 10am to 5pm...eventually...Don't forget to subscribe for new episodes coming up.CREDITS & linksIf you're interested, you can check out the words we contributed by clicking these links through to the Visuwords dictionary. Wednesday may not seem very interesting, but it leads on to the word ‘hebdomad'. Check it out.Absurdism isn't in the dictionary though absurd is so you'll just have to make do (or you could look up surrealism I guess), You can click on the links here to order any of David's books (though some are due to be reprinted to keep checking)Night Train is his latest and David has thoughtfully provided a link to his Night Train playlist on Spotify!David's other recent novels are here - All My Colours and The Mule. For help and inspiration in your writing try David's How to be a Writer or How to Write Everything. David talked about NF Simpson as a forerunner of the Goons and Monty Python. Ian Greaves has edited a recent compilation of some of his work entitled Most of What Follows is a Complete Waste of Time. David was also reading the Elizabeth Jane Howard Cazalet Chronicles. There are five books in the series so you can read them in order...The Light Years Marking Time Confusion Casting Off All Change Jonathan Meades Peter Knows what Dick Likes isn't currently in print (though I'm sure we could track down a copy) but his Pedro and Ricky Come Again : Selected Writing 1988-2020 is published in March so you can order it now.George Saunders Booker winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo had A Swim in a Pond in the Rain published in January. And there are lots of memoirs, poetry and collections of writing by Clive James. David recommended Cultural Amnesia : Notes in the Margin of My Time which can also be ordered just by clicking on the link.All the books you order through these links help support Mr Books and this podcast and, if you can't find exactly what you're looking for, just visit the Mr Books webiste at www.mrbooks.co.uk and we'll do our best to track it down for you.Ideas in Writing is recorded and produced by Philip Holden using Zencastr and Acast.comThe Ideas in Writing theme "Farting Around" is by Kevin MacLeod Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/The "Light Easy March" sting is by ...dog http://www.besonic.com/dog See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Our guest is author, music journalist and screenwriter David Quantick. We discuss some of David's favourite Elvis Costello songs as he adds five tracks to the Dangerous Amusements playlist. David recalls being unable to stand up for falling down at an Attractions gig, considers EC's acting roles and speculates about the existence of a graphic Costello novel. Visit David's website to find out about his latest works. You can also find him on Twitter.

Gabriel Byrne joins Richard Coles and Nikki Bedi. The Award-winning actor made his acting debut as a shepherd in a Nativity play and since then has made over 80 films, won a Golden Globe for In Treatment and had a successful stage career. He talks about growing up in Ireland, wanting to be a priest, turning his life around and loving a simple life. Courtney Act talks about her life and career which includes winning Celebrity Big Brother 2018 (UK). The performer also talks about why she's giving a lesson in ‘Kindness’ as part of the Celebrity Supply Teacher series on CBBC. Guitarist Hank Marvin shares his Inheritance Tracks. He has chosen Lonnie Donegan - Rock Island Line and Allan Holdsworth - Joshua. Listener Matt Flukes was told he has an incurable cancer just ten minutes after his adoption of two children was made official by a judge. He will talk about how he was inspired to write fiction by his experiences of adoption. David Quantick is an Emmy-award winning comedy writer who has worked on Veep, Thick of It, Brass Eye and Spitting Image. But he explains everything might have been very different if he had carried on with his initial career choice in Law. Gabriel Byrne main image credit: Jerome De Perlinghi 1999. Walking With Ghosts by Gabriel Byrne is out now. Courtney’s Act’s lesson is on Thursday 19th November at 10 am on CBBC. Olly and Lilly, the search for a new race is out now Night Train by David Quantick is out now. Producer: Claire Bartleet Editor: Eleanor Garland

Writer, David Quantick discusses Paul McCartney's 2018 album 'Egypt Station' with Chris Shaw.

David Quantick is the Emmy-award winning writer of Veep, The Thick of It, TV Burp and much more. He has worked with comedy legends such as Harry Hill and Chris Morris, and is currently continuing his longstanding contribution with Armando Iannucci on his latest series, Avenue 5. He is also a journalist, having worked many years for the NME, and more recently began to write novels, the most recent of which is Night Train, a horror mystery set on a train in a post-apocalyptic world. On top of all that, he's also written some great books on writing, including How to Write Everything and How to Be a Writer.Our chat with David was great fun, hearing about how he developed his creative writing skills writing gossip columns on the NME and where the famous Star Wars rant from Malcolm Tucker in The Thick of It came from (see the link to the relevant clip!). He also has some great hints and tips on how to generate ideas, and we even get to hear about what it's like to win an Emmy, and what you do with it while you are at the after-party…Links:Buy Night Train and David's other novelsVisit David's websiteWatch Malcolm Tucker talking about Star Wars on The Thick of ItWatch our video panel Page One Sessions as we discuss writing with great authors: https://youtu.be/gmE6iCDYn-sThe Page One Podcast is brought to you by Write Gear, creators of Page One - the Writer's Notebook. Learn more and order yours now: https://www.writegear.co.uk/page-oneFollow us on Twitter: @write_gearFollow us on Facebook: www.facebook.com/WriteGearUK/Follow us on Instagram: write_gear_uk See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Our guest on this episode is David Quantick - journalist, essayist, writer of television shows Veep and The Thick Of It, horror novel All My Colours (2019, Titan Books), soon-to-be released novel Night Train (2020, Titan Books) and much, much more! A few months ago, David Quantick tweeted about his enjoyment of Trouble At Willow Gables and other Brunette Coleman works by Philip Larkin. In this episode he joins us to talk about Brunette Coleman and in particular her essay What Are We Writing For? (1943), poem Femmes Damnes and the wider ‘schoolgirl’ writing of Philip Larkin. More Larkin stuff discussed: Jill, A Girl in Winter, The Whitsun Weddings, Afternoons, An Arundel Tomb, Mr Bleaney, A School in August, Aubade. Other writers, books and shows: George Orwell Boys Weeklies (1940) (Available here: https://orwell.ru/library/essays/boys/english/e_boys ), Harry Potter, Mallory Towers, the James Bond books of Ian Fleming and Martin Amis, JRR Tolkien, CS Lewis, Frank Richards, Downton Abbey, Call the Midwife, Orange is the New Black. Trouble at Willow Gables and Other Fictions ed. By James Booth (2002) Faber and Faber. Presented by Lyn Lockwood. Theme music: 'The Horns Of The Morning' by The Mechanicals Band. Audio production by Simon Galloway. Follow us and get it touch on Twitter - https://twitter.com/tiny_air Find out more about the Philip Larkin Society here - http://philiplarkin.com/

This week we review - Brass Eye - Decline (Series 1 Episode 6) Brass Eye is a British television comedy series which parodied the current affairs news programming of the day.A series of six episodes aired on Channel 4 in 1997, and a further episode in 2001. The series was created and presented by Chris Morris, written by Morris, David Quantick, Peter Baynham, Jane Bussmann, Arthur Mathews, Graham Linehan and Charlie Brooker and was directed by Michael Cumming.Originally planned as a spin-off from The Day Today (1994), the pilot (then called Torque tv™) was passed on by the BBC. Channel 4 commissioned a new pilot, which would become called Brass Eye (mixing together the titles of two popular current affairs shows, Brass Tacks and Public Eye).The series satirised media portrayal of social ills, in particular sensationalism, unsubstantiated establishmentarian theory masquerading as fact, and creation of moral panics, and is a sequel to Morris's earlier spoof news programmes On the Hour (1991–92) on radio and The Day Today (1994) on TV. The series stars Morris's The Day Today colleague Doon Mackichan, along with Gina McKee, Mark Heap, Amelia Bullmore, Simon Pegg, Julia Davis, Claire Skinner, John Guerrasio, Hugh Dennis and Kevin Eldon. Written by Chris Morris.Produced by Caroline Leddy & Chris MorrisDirected by Michael CummingA Talkback Production for Channel 4.Brass Eye is available to here: https://bit.ly/2BlgAqH The Comedy Slab Podcast is available on Apple Podcasts, Spreaker, Stitcher, iHeart Radio, Spotify and Youtube. Subscribe for a new episode each Monday. Get in touch - we're @ComedySlab on Twitter and ComedySlab on Facebook.

Quantick, the swiss army knife of the writing world, has worked on some of the most iconic comedy creations this century, but now's your chance to hear his earlier, less successful work, plus the first ever online sitcom - about heroin addicts - that preceded his later triumphs. Clips performed by: Alex Lowe, Rachel Atkins, Beth Chalmers, Toby Longworth, Chris Pavlo and Keith Wickham.  For a tracklist of the clips visit offcutsdrawer.com/david-quantick Warning: This episode contains strong language and adult content. David is a comedy writer, cultural commentator, acclaimed best-selling author and music journalist. He works regularly with Armando Iannucci, including on the new HBO series, Avenue 5. He won an Emmy as part of the writing team on Veep, a BAFTA for Harry Hill's TV Burp and a Writers' Guild Award for The Thick Of It. David has written for everyone from Dangermouse to the Duke of Edinburgh. His books include The Grumpy Old Men series and the thriller The Mule. His recent books include All My Colours (Titan books), How To Write Everything and How to be A Writer' (both published by Oberon). He has written and appeared on a multitude of BBC radio shows, including The Now Show, The 15 Minute Musical, The Blagger's Guide and 52 First Impressions. His latest novel Night Train is out soon. Episode show notes and more details:  https://offcutsdrawer.com/david-quantick/  Listen to us on whichever podcast app you prefer:  https://offcutsdrawer.com/insta-links/ or if you don't usually listen to podcasts you can hear all the episodes here: offcutsdrawer.com/episodes/

Emmy Award winning screenwriter and author, David Quantick, discusses John Lennon's 1971 album, Imagine, with Chris Shaw.

Emmy Award winning writer, David Quantick, discusses Wings' London Town with Chris Shaw.

Hosted by Olivier nominee Richard James (Space Precinct, Terrahawks) and Gerry Anderson’s son Jamie Anderson, the Gerry Anderson Podcast is a weekly audio extravaganza featuring Gerry Anderson chat, news, interviews, reviews, competitions and more. Every week we have a different feature or interview with previous guests including: Gary Numan, Chris Packham, Sophie Aldred, Nicholas Briggs, David Quantick, Lee Sullivan, Mike Noble, Shane Rimmer, David Graham and many many more. It's the perfect place for a Gerry Anderson fan, whether you like one, a few or all of his fantastic shows like Thunderbirds, Space 1999, Captain Scarlet, UFO, Stingray, Terrahawks and many others. The podcast is released every Monday on iTunes, https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/the-gerry-anderson-podcast (Stitcher), https://www.soundcloud.com/GerryAndersonTV (Soundcloud) and all other major podcast providers and platforms. Or you can listen to all our episodes right here.

Clive Anderson and Tom Allen are joined by Samin Nosrat, Hattie Morahan, Susan Hill and David Quantick for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. Producer: Sukey Firth.

It’s a legend-heavy podcast this week as we welcome TERRY HALL of The Specials to talk about the rebirth of every rude boy and girl’s favourite band – and music press and TV comedy giant DAVID QUANTICK of The Day Today and Veep fame. On the agenda: Is Ricky Gervais’s new Netflix comedy AFTER LIFE brave, bold, funny… or just obnoxious egotism? And do we prefer DERRY GIRLS, TV’s premier all-girl comedy based on religious sectarianism, the threat of terrorism and Take That? Plus we get on the analyst’s couch with London hip hop debutant DAVE – that’s his name, how hip hop is that? – to unpick his debut album ‘Psychotherapy’. All this and more we bring to you. Produced and presented by Andrew Harrison and Siân Pattenden. Studio production by Sophie Black. Bigmouth is a Podmasters production. Get every episode of BIGMOUTH a day early, plus the famous EXTRA BIT, when you back us on the crowdfunding platform Patreon. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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Joining Tom Jackson to discuss the postcards from their pasts are Emmy-winning writer DAVID QUANTICK (Go West, The Mule, The Thick Of It, Veep, The Blagger's Guide) and blogger and author JO MIDDLETON (Slummy Single Mummy, Playgroups and Prosecco). In this episode we encounter a vicar inappropriately sponging his aspidistra, recall the postage stamps that only existed in sweetshop packets, and relive the horrors and indignities of school foreign exchanges. Along the way we discuss the Soviet space programme, the days when radio requests were sent by postcard and John Peel's missing Festive Fifty. Hide the rabbit's head behind the cruet, for the Cosmos belongs to us all. Wish you were here? See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Lucy Porter, Neil Brand and David Quantick join Matthew Sweet to talk about Cric e Croc or Flip i Flap or even Dick und Doof though, if you're not Italian, Polish or German, it's far more likely that Hollywood's most famous comedy duo will be known to you simply as Stan and Ollie. Laurel and Hardy to give them their more formal title won the hearts of cinema goers all over the world in the '30s and '40s with films such as Way out West, Sons of the Desert and The Music Box, the sublime short which is the focus of this edition of Free Thinking. With the release of a new film about their life Stan and Ollie - starring John C Reilly and Steve Coogan, and a month long season of their work already underway at the British Film Institute in London - Matthew Sweet is joined by the standup comedian, Lucy Porter, the Emmy award winning writer, David Quantick and playwright and musician, Neil Brand to pay tribute to their achievement and enduring appeal. Producer: Zahid Warley Lucy Porter begins a nationwide tour of her show - Pass it On - in February 2019. The BFI Laurel and Hardy season is on now at London's Southbank and runs until 26th January 2019.

In conversation with celebrated comedy writer David Quantick. To find out more information about this and my other interviews, please go to my website: www.beyondthetitle.co.uk www.facebook.com/beyondthetitle

is an Emmy-Award-winning English journalist, radio and screen writer, and critic who specialises in music and comedy. He has collaborated with comics and writers such as Chris Morris and Armando Iannucci (as co-writer for On the Hour, Blue Jam and Veep) and Harry Hill as a writer for TV Burp. David shares his memories and analysis of Gerry Anderson shows including Thunderbirds, Captain Scarlet and Joe 90 - a mixture of fond memories and gentle mockery including some of David's thoughts on Zelda of Guk. Plus it's a jam-packed with Gerry Anderson news, the Randomiser goes to a secret location on South America, and Jamie has a hot date...

White Album 50th Anniversary Special - Part 2 Emmy Award winning journalist, radio and screenwriter, David Quantick discusses The White Album with Chris Shaw

White Album 50th Anniversary Special - Part 1 Emmy Award winning journalist, radio and screenwriter, David Quantick discusses The White Album with Chris Shaw

Bits of sound. Short. Every Sunday. An audio commonplace. BBC Radio 4 - Archive on 4 - Listen to Brtain, Julie Birchill and David Quantick - https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b2780g 99% Invisible - The Hair Chart - Leila Day and Hana Baba https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/the-hair-chart/ Radio 3 - Sunday Feature - Select Copy Paste - https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09p5d0m

Russell is joined by TV presenter AJ Odudu, comedian Arthur Smith and the writer of Veep, David Quantick. This week: Body hair - or a lack thereof, feminisation, tattoos, grooming, body dysmorphia, going to the toilet in front of your partner, and drinking culture. Follow the panel on Twitter: Russell Kane - @russell_kane AJ Odudu - @AJOdudu Arthur Smith - @arfursmith David Quantick - @quantick Like what you've just heard? Make sure you get the next episode. Subscribe for free → playpodca.st/boys-dont-cry Want to hear more great podcasts from JOE? Unfiltered with James O'Brien, our critically-acclaimed and award-nominated interview series. House of Rugby, the UK's #1 new rugby show. With James Haskell, Mike Tindall and Alex Payne TKO with Carl Frampton, bringing you unprecedented access and brutal honesty from inside the world of boxing.

Live from the 2018 Craft of Comedy conference (16/06/18), join John and Emmy-award winning writer David Quantick as they take a look under the bonnet of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Emmy Award winning comedy writer David Quantick (The Day Today, Thick of It, Harry Hill, Brass Eye) talks to Jason Hazeley and Joel Morris about his love for "one of the best films ever made", Terry Gilliam's Time Bandits. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

PinUps is Bowie's fond parting gift to 1960s London, with covers of classic and less-known tracks from the Who, Kinks, Yardbirds, Syd's Pink Floyd, Them and more. It's also his farewell to Ziggy - having broken up the band when the kids had killed the man in July of 1973, our little wonder was going places - inventing Orwellian rock dystopia and becoming a grand, raddled dame of despair. But first! There was this LP to do, and what a fine album it is, a rocking, reeling rolling romp through the track listing but unlike similar covers albums by contemporaries Bryan Ferry, and a few years later, Lennon, PinUps has a deliciously freaky feel to it - these aren't straight covers, they're fantastically inventive impressionistic reworkings. You hear Bowie and band deconstruct the Who's 'I Can't Explain' or Pink Floyd's 'See Emily Play' with spooky menace and dread, yelp manically through Them's 'Here Comes The Night' and the Pretty Things' 'Rosalyn' and croon beautifully in the Merseys' 'Sorrow'. It's an extraordinary album and one that stayed close to its creator's heart for many years to come. David Quantick tells me why it has stayed with him all these years in a most enjoyable chat - so come and hear for yourself and enjoy!

When Q journalist David Quantick flew to New York in 1999 to meet Bowie ahead of the release of 'Hours…' he found King Gnome in chipper form, sprightly, funny and eager to discuss almost everything other than his new album. Maybe that was because (in my opinion) it's far from being one of his best. I think it's dull and ininspiring. Not Quantick. Listen and marvel as my guest fights his corner with grace and insight, countering my rather lumpen repeated assaults on the record. He cleverly admits its shortcomings while stubbornly extolling its virtues. Can I sustain my position in the face of such eloquence? I must apologise to you, as I had a terrible cold when I recorded this, so had to subsequently dub some questions on afterwards, for clarity, instead of the snivelling sneezing mess that originally ended up on tape. So there will be a few minor glitches, echoes and weird edits. But I hope they don't distract you from this half an hours or so [arf!] of Bowie chat.

There is a rock and roll band you may have heard of called the Beatles. They had a few hit recorders in the 1960s. I think they may have had a few numbers ones. In my youth I was obsessed with the band and have resisted doing an episode about John, Paul George and Ringo for years, until today. Today I tell the story of the making of the 1968 album titled, The Beatles. Show notes and links: * The Making of The Beatles’ White Album by David Quantick (goodreads.com) * The Beatles in India – Wikipedia (wikipedia.org) * Beatles history – 1968 year (dmbeatles.com) * The Beatles Bible | Not quite as popular as Jesus… (beatlesbible.com) * The Beatles – Wikipedia (wikipedia.org) * The Beatles’ White Album. The in-depth story behind the Beatles’ first Apple album. Recording History. Origin of the Album. Cover Art. (beatlesebooks.com) * The Beatles “White Album:” The Untold Story (forbes.com) * Flashback: The Beatles release ‘The White Album’ (kshe95.com)

MY NAME IS CHIP AND I’M DIFFERENT Bit of a change of pace here dear listenoids. While Gary Lactus tutors Little Barry Lactus in the ways of cosmic righteousness, The Beast takes a solo sojourn into the 4-colour wastelands outside your window, till he finds himself knee deep in the comics slurry. There he encounters none other than Tom Oldham, of Breakdown Press and Gosh Comics. The two proceed to have a nice long chat about the origins of Breakdown Press, and their newest release, the long awaited Good News Bible: The Complete Deadline Strips of Shaky Kane. It’s a rambling, yet laser-focused conversation taking in Deadline, 2000AD, Brett Ewins, Nick Abadzis, Brendan McCarthy, Bulletproof Coffin, Connor Willumsen, Fort Thunder, Michel DeForge, Steve Cook, music and comics, Beserker Magazine, Jonathan Chandler, Antoine Cosse, the comics virus, David Quantick, Richard Short, David Hine, Crossed, Worthing and a whole heap more. It’s two hours of high qualidee chad, and you know you want it. WARNING: Contains no discussion of My Two Dads @silencepod @frasergeesin @thebeastmustdie @bobsymindless @kellykanayama silencepodcast@gmail.com You can support us using Patreon if you like.

This time, Mel Byron reviews and recommends some great books for creatives, by David Quantick, Grayson Perry and Fergus O'Connell. Entertaining, yes, but you'll also learn a lot (from this episode AND from the books!).

Matt Braunger, Brandie Posey, Carrie Quinlan and David Quantick join host, Dave Holmes to talk about slutty Halloween costumes and simian selfies. Plus #BaeOfPigs, #PizzaRat and #LammilyMenstruation. Links: Matt Braunger wants to plug his new special Big Dumb Animal which is out now on Netflix, his own podcast Ding-Donger with Matt Braunger and the Ding-Donger live tour. Matt recommends the music of Open Mike Eagle. Brandie Posey wants to plug the New Album she's about to release, her podcast Lady to Lady and the live show she tours Picture this. Brandie recommends the music of The Melbourne Ska Orchestra. Carrie Quinlan wants to plug the sketch show she's about to tour, John Finnemore's Souvenir Cabin and recommends "the Australian Orange is the New Black" Wentworth which is currently on Netflix. David Quantick didn't want to plug anything except the fact that he just won an Emmy, but you can also find his books on Amazon. And finally, Dave Holmes is on Twitter @DaveHolmes and hosts his live quiz show, The Friday Forty at LA’s Meltdown Theatre on the second Friday of every month. You can let us know what you think of International Waters and suggest guests through our Facebook group or on Twitter. Written by Sarah Morgan and Asterios Kokkinos, recorded at MaxFunHQ in LA and GuiltFreePost in London, produced by Jennifer Marmor and Colin Anderson.

Rob's guest this week is the journalist, writer and critic, David Quantick.

In this episode I interview David Quantick who started at NME reviewing bands and has since gone on to write TV shows including The Day Today, Brass Eye and Spitting Image. As well as radio shows including On The Hour & Blue Jam.He also created the world’s first internet sitcom “Junkies" and has published several booksincluding “How To Write Anything" and his latest book which he is currently crowdfunding called "The Mule" buy it here. You can find the show notes here and follow me on Twitter here. See you next time! Si Please buy a ticket or three to my Edinburgh Fringe 2019 show - https://tickets.edfringe.com/whats-on/simon-caine-every-room-becomes-a-panic-room-when-you-overthink-enoughOr come see me on tour - http://simoncaine.co.uk/PanicRoom----------------------------------------------------------------------My 2nd book is finally out! It's called "How To Make A Living By Working For Free" and you can buy it here for £5 (digital) or £8 (paperback). Here's the synopsis of the book - The book is a how-to guide for artists to create their own online community for their work and how that community can support the artist to become sustainable in every way.The book takes a critical and in-depth look at the media's perception of "free content" vs the reality of what the general public see it as.If you're an artist in the modern age who wants a sustainable audience you're no longer just an artist, you're a community leader. If you'd like... See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Jeffers & Jane chat about the following: Graeme appears on BBC Radio 4 in 'The Frequency of Laughter'. Bill appears in episode 15 of 'Holiday of My Lifetime' on BBC TV. David Quantick lauds Graeme in '52 First Impressions'. Plus Quiz and Tweet Tally!

Craig Cackowski, Janie Haddad Tompkins Tompkins, Carrie Quinlan and David Quantick join Dave Holmes for crisp tasting, Dylan slating and gangster film translating. Written by Sarah Morgan and Asterios Kokkinos. MaximumFun.org

Episode 6 Hanging Out This is the last of this series. WE WILL BE BACK in a few weeks! Please do continue to spread the word and share the podcast with your friends. Or if you hated it, your enemies... The Z List Dead List is a podcast about obscure people from history. Hosted by Iszi Lawrence @iszi_lawrence. www.zlistdeadlist.com This Episode we explore the rather horrid world of the Hangmen of England, were they evil? Were they mad? Were they just doing their job? And who were the condemned Featuring Albert Pierrepoint (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Pierrepoint) John Christie (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Christie_(murderer)) Timothy Evans (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_Evans) Harry Allen (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Allen_(executioner)) John Ellis (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ellis_(executioner)) Ruth Ellis (http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/ruth.html) With thanks to Wil Hodgson @WilHodgson, Natalie Haynes, David Quantick @quantick, Diane Spencer @dianespecerfun, Andrew Hunter Murray @andrewhunterm, Yianni Agisilaou @yianni_a & Trudi Stevens @trudistevens. Wil Hodgson is an award winning comedian, raconteur and kitsch collector www.wilhodgson.wordpress.com Diane Spencer is a comedy writer and performer www.difunny.co.uk Natalie Haynes is an author, comedian, broadcaster and classicist has a book out, The Amber Fury it is very good indeed. (http://www.amazon.co.uk/-/e/B004XKCZGK) Andrew Hunter Murray is a Qi Elf and performs critically acclaimed improv austentatiousimpro.com. He also is a co-host of the Podcast No Such Thing As A Fish. (http://qi.com/podcast/) Yianni Agisilaou is an international comedian www.ycomedian.com David Quantick a comedy writer and author he also has a book with unbound called The Mule. (http://unbound.co.uk/books/the-mule) Iszi Lawrence is a UK based comedian www.iszi.com MUSIC www.freemusicarchive.org Theme: Time Trades Live at the WFMU Record Fair - November 24, 2013 by Jeffrey Lewis (http://www.thejeffreylewissite.com/) is licensed under a Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License. Cylinders by Chris Zabriskie (http://chriszabriskie.com/) is licensed under a Attribution License. The Journey of Enoch by Jeremy Bible (http://jeremybible.com/) is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 International License. First Offense by Red Mass (http://www.myspace.com/redmassfce) is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 International License. Native by HE-LUX (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/HE-LUX/) is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 International License. Servants by Jahzzar (http://www.betterwithmusic.com/) is licensed under a Attribution-ShareAlike License. Based on a work at http://www.betterwithmusic.com Unattainable by Deadly Combo (http://www.blocsonic.com/releases/show/unattainable) is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives (aka Music Sharing) License.

Episode 5 The Internet Was Invented in 1860 The Z List Dead List - a podcast about obscure people from history. Hosted by Iszi Lawrence @iszi_lawrence www.zlistdeadlist.com Please do spread the word, write reviews and sign up for our mailing list for info about live shows and podcasts. This episode introduces three seemingly modern characters, the businessman, the artist and the performer. All were trying to find their place in history, did any suceed? Featuring Louis Wain (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Wain) Nicolas Soyer (https://archive.org/details/soyerspaperbagc00soyegoog) Jeffery Hudson (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Hudson)   With thanks to David Quantick @quantick, Stevyn Colgan @stevyncolgan, Helen Zaltzman @helenzaltzman and Trudi Stevens @trudistevens. Helen Zaltzman is a problem-solving podcaster http://helenzaltzman.com http://answermethispodcast.com Andrew Hunter Murray is a Qi Elf and performs critically acclaimed improv austentatiousimpro.com. He also is a co-host of the Podcast No Such Thing As A Fish (http://qi.com/podcast/) Stevyn Colgan used to be a Police officer and has written a nonfiction book on crime prevention with Unbound which you should support. (http://unbound.co.uk/books/why-did-the-policeman-cross-the-road) David Quantick a comedy writer and author he also has a book with Unbound (a novel) titled The Mule (http://unbound.co.uk/books/the-mule).   MUSIC www.freemusicarchive.org Theme: Time Trades Live at the WFMU Record Fair - November 24, 2013 by Jeffrey Lewis (http://www.thejeffreylewissite.com/) is licensed under a Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/). Yearning by Podington Bear (http://podingtonbear.com/) is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/). Native by HE-LUX (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/HE-LUX/) is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/). Cylinders by Chris Zabriskie (http://chriszabriskie.com/ is licensed under a Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Kaikou EP by Satori (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Satori/) is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/). First Offense by Red Mass (http://www.myspace.com/redmassfce) is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/). Pirates of the Coast by Black Bones (http://www.myspace.com/blackbonescom) is licensed under a Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/). I Feel Your Pain by Eric & Magill (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Eric__Magill/) is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/). Live on WFMU's Airborne Event with Dan Bodah - January 13, 2013 by Speed The Plough (http://www.speedtheplough.com/) is licensed under a Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/). Unattainable by Deadly Combo (http://www.blocsonic.com/releases/show/unattainable) is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives (aka Music Sharing) License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).  

Episode 2: Did You Hear The One About The Angry Roman?   The Z list Dead List - A podcast about obscure people from History. Hosted by Iszi Lawrence @iszi_lawrence.    In this episode we take a peek at satire. What about blind rage is funny? Was the Music Hall a place of equal opportunities? And what is the best way to survive the ego of Roman Emperors? www.zlistdeadlist.com Please do spread the word and sign up for our mailing list for info about live shows and podcasts.   Featuring Juvenal (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juvenal) Marie Lloyd (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Lloyd) Robert Coates (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Coates_(actor))   With thanks to Natalie Haynes, David Quantick @quantick, Andrew Hunter Murray @andrewhunterm, Elf Lyons @elf_lyons &Trudi Stevens @Trudistevens. Natalie Haynes (www.nataliehaynes.com) is an author, comedian, broadcaster and classicist. She has a novel (released 2014) called The Amber Fury, it is very good indeed. Andrew Hunter Murray is a Qi Elf and performs critically acclaimed improv austentatiousimpro.com. He also is a co-host of the popular podcast No Such Thing As A Fish (http://qi.com/podcast/). Elf Lyons is an actor and comedian (www.theelflyons.com) David Quantick a comedy writer and author he also has a book with Unbound (a novel) titled The Mule (http://unbound.co.uk/books/the-mule). Iszi Lawrence is the host of the Z List Dead List and UK based comedian www.iszi.com   Music www.freemusicarchive.org Theme: Time Trades Live at the WFMU Record Fair - November 24, 2013 by Jeffrey Lewis (http://www.thejeffreylewissite.com/) is licensed under a Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/). Kaikou EP by Satori(http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Satori/) is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/). First Offense by Red Mass (http://www.myspace.com/redmassfce) is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/). Native by HE-LUX (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/HE-LUX/) is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/). Cylinders by Chris Zabriskie (http://chriszabriskie.com/) is licensed under a Attribution License(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Unattainable by Deadly Combo (http://www.blocsonic.com/releases/show/unattainable) is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives (aka Music Sharing) License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Norydes by Edoardo Romani Capelo (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Edoardo_Romani_Capelo/) is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/). Antique Phonograph Music Program 03/06/2012 by Antique Phonograph Music Program [Various Artists] (http://wfmu.org/playlists/ap) is licensed under a Public Domain / Sound Recording Common Law Protection License (http://freemusicarchive.org/Sound_Recording_Common_Law).

Episode 1: Cornish Pastors The Z list Dead List - A podcast about obscure people from History. Hosted by comedian Iszi Lawrence. In this episode we take a trip down to Victorian Cornwall and discover if we do like to be beside the seaside. Please do spread the word, leave us reviews and sign up for our mailing list for info about live shows and podcasts. Featuring: Robert Stephen Hawker (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Stephen_Hawker) Reverend Henry Prince;(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agapemonites) With thanks to Stevyn Colgan@stevyncolgan, David Quantick@quantick, Matt Price @mattpricecomedy and Trudi Stevens @Trudistevens. Stevyn Colgan used to be a Police officer and has written a nonfiction book on crime prevention. You can pledge to buy it from Unbound here;Why Did The Policeman Cross the Road? (http://unbound.co.uk/books/why-did-the-policeman-cross-the-road) David Quantick a comedy writer and author he also has a book with Unbound (a novel) titled;The Mule.(http://unbound.co.uk/books/the-mule) Matt Price is a comedian who hosts regular storytelling nights in Camden;www.mattpricecomedian.com Iszi Lawrence is the host of the Z List Dead List and UK based comedian www.iszi.com   MUSIC www.freemusicarchive.org Theme: Time Trades Live at the WFMU Record Fair - November 24, 2013 by Jeffrey Lewis (http://www.thejeffreylewissite.com/) is licensed under a Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License. Unattainable by Deadly Combo (http://www.blocsonic.com/releases/show/unattainable) is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives (aka Music Sharing) License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). First Offense by Red Mass (http://www.myspace.com/redmassfce) is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/). Live on WFMU's Airborne Event with Dan Bodah - January 13, 2013 by Speed The Plough (http://www.speedtheplough.com/) is licensed under a Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/). Cylinders by Chris Zabriskie (http://chriszabriskie.com/) is licensed under an Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Kaikou EP by Satori (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Satori/) is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/).­ Native by HE-LUX (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/HE-LUX/) is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/).    

Screenwriter Jimmy McGovern talks about his new BBC drama, Common, which was inspired by a letter from a mother whose son was imprisoned under the controversial Joint Enterprise law. Tony Hatch, composer of TV theme tunes for Crossroads, Neighbours and Sportsnight, looks back over his career and the hits he wrote for Petula Clark, Scott Walker and The Searchers. Amanda Hopkinson reviews a new Royal Academy exhibition, Radical Geometry, which focuses on art produced during a 50-year period in distinct parts of South America, and Ryan Gilbey reviews The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed out the Window and Disappeared, a new film adapted from the novel by Swedish author Jonas Jonasson. And as Ed Sheeran's album X - which is pronounced "multiply" - reaches number one, David Quantick discusses numbers in music.

With Kirsty Lang Veronica Mars, the film spin-off of the noughties TV show, is the first major Hollywood film to be crowd-funded. Raising its entire budget through the Kickstarter platform, its success inspired other high profile stars including Spike Lee and Zach Braff to finance their passion projects through the site. Briony Hanson, Head of Film at the British Council, reviews the film and discusses the impact of Kickstarter on film financing. To discuss the impact of Kickstarter - which marked another milestone last week as total pledges to the site surpassed $1 billion - CEO and co-founder Yancey Strickler discusses the future for the platform, and whether controversial pitches by celebrities are really contrary to the site's original ethos. Vivienne Franzmann's first play, Mogadishu, explored the culture of a contemporary London secondary school. It drew on her background as a secondary school teacher and went on to win her the Bruntwood Prize - the UK's biggest national playwriting competition - in 2008. Franzmann is now a full-time playwright and as her third play, Pests, opens at the Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester, she talks to Kirsty Lang about her writing life and being inspired by the women she came across as a resident prison playwright. As Ricky Gervais prepares for his UK tour as David Brent and his backing band Foregone Conclusion, David Quantick looks at the history of the fake band from Spinal Tap to The Rutles. Producer: Rebecca Armstrong.

With Mark Lawson Author Donna Tartt discusses her long-awaited third novel, The Goldfinch. Like her previous books, The Secret History and The Little Friend, The Goldfinch has taken Tartt a decade to write. The plot centres around the theft of a priceless painting, the goldfinch of the title, which is stolen from a museum after a horrific bombing in the opening chapters. Donna Tartt talks about the long gestation period for her novels, and how studying Greek tragedy informed the book's structure. Actor Forest Whitaker discusses his starring role in The Butler, a film inspired by the real-life story of a White House butler who served during seven presidential administrations. Through the eyes of the butler and his family, the film follows the changing tides in American politics and race relations - from the assassinations of John F Kennedy and Martin Luther King, to the Black Panthers, and Watergate. The Pet Shop Boys' latest single is called Thursday. David Quantick considers which days of the week are the least-loved, by songwriters. Producer Rebecca Nicholson.

With Kirsty Lang. Mark Rylance is currently taking a break from acting, and is concentrating on directing a new production of Much Ado About Nothing, which stars Vanessa Redgrave and James Earl Jones. He discusses his approach to the play, and reflects on the success of his role in Jez Butterworth's play Jerusalem, for which he won numerous awards as hard-living Johnny 'Rooster' Byron. Prisons and the lives of prisoners have provided an enduring fascination for film and TV producers and viewers alike, with series such as Porridge and Prisoner Cell Block H, and more recently Bad Girls and Prisoners' Wives. This summer has seen two new prison dramas - Wentworth Prison, Channel 5's re-imagining of Prisoner Cell Block H, and Orange Is the New Black, the Netflix series which has proved a great success for the streaming network. To examine why prisons offer such a draw, Front Row brought together Dick Clement, co-creator and writer of Porridge, Pete McTighe, scriptwriter for Wentworth Prison, and Maureen Chadwick co-creator and writer of the ITV series Bad Girls. As actor Dominic West makes a speaking appearance on Rizzle Kicks' new album, David Quantick considers the other thespians who have lent their voices to pop records, from Brian Blessed to Vincent Price and Stephen Fry. Producer Stephen Hughes.

With Mark Lawson. About Time, a new film written and directed by Richard Curtis, is the story a 21 year old, played by Domhnall Gleeson, who is told by his father (Bill Nighy) that he has the ability to travel back in time and change events. He uses this ability to woo future girlfriend Mary, played by Rachel McAdams. Camilla Long reviews. British reggae group UB40 are back with Getting Over the Storm, their 20th studio album, which includes new versions of country and western songs, including covers of tracks made famous by Jim Reeves and Willie Nelson. Saxophonist Brian Travers and drummer Jimmy Brown, original members of the band, discuss the inspiration behind the album, and reflect on recent financial troubles. Two new TV documentary series starting this week go behind the scenes at two very different schools. Sky 1's Harrow: A Very British School charts life at one of the UK's most famous boarding schools, while Channel 4's Educating Yorkshire follows staff and pupils at Thornhill Community Academy in Dewsbury. Former Education Secretary Baroness Estelle Morris and free school founder Toby Young review. As actor Dominic West makes a cameo appearance on the new album by British rappers Rizzle Kicks, David Quantick examines the tradition of using actors' voices on records, including songs featuring Stephen Fry, Brian Blessed and Sadie Frost.

With Kirsty Lang. Barry Norman reviews Dustin Hoffman's directorial debut, Quartet. The film is set in a home for retired opera singers and features Maggie Smith, Billy Connolly and Michael Gambon among the all-star cast. Katy Carr is a singer, songwriter and aviator. She's half Polish and her album, Paszport, focuses on Polish stories from World War II, including a veteran who escaped from Auschwitz. She reflects on how she turns personal histories into songs. The release of new DVDs by leading stand-up comedians has become a Christmas tradition. Stephen Armstrong offers his guide to the best of this year's stocking-fillers. Many of today's newspapers feature a photograph of the Queen and the Cabinet, with the monarch flanked by politicians who are laughing, looking away or unprepared. Jeremy Selwyn, the photographer who took the memorable shot, discusses the art of the group photo. According to a Mayan prophecy, the world will end on 21 December. Making good use of the remaining time, David Quantick has pulled together a selection of music for an apocalypse. Producer Olivia Skinner.

With Kirsty Lang. Rod Stewart, the gravelly-voiced singer, songwriter, and stadium-filling star behind hits such as Maggie May and You Wear It Well - and chart-topping covers including I Don't Want To Talk About It - talks to Kirsty about his passion for art, how his less than perfect harmonica playing opened doors for him, and his only regret. Hebburn is a culture clash TV sit-com about what happens when a Geordie twentysomething brings his Jewish wife home to meet his family. Critic Boyd Hilton delivers his verdict. The Lost Prince at the National Portrait Gallery is an exhibition which focuses on the life of Henry Prince of Wales, son of James I, who was destined to become King Henry IX, but died at the age of 18. The exhibition includes his post-mortem report as well as miniatures, manuscripts and paintings and gives a glimpse into the culturally rich life of the young prince. Historian Suzannah Lipscomb reviews. Singer Lana Del Rey opens her new song with a long spoken section. The track joins an illustrious back-catalogue of songs where singers choose to speak over the music. David Quantick talks his way through his favourites, including Meat Loaf, Julian Cope, David Bowie and Diana Ross. Producer Ellie Bury.

With Kirsty Lang Meera Syal has made her professional Shakespeare debut playing Beatrice in the RSC's new production of Much Ado About Nothing. Directed by Iqbal Khan, this latest adaptation sets the comedy in modern-day India - with Paul Bhattacharjee playing Benedict. Author Bidisha gives the critical verdict. Director Lynn Alleway discusses her experiences making a documentary, which follows an Old Order Amish family in America. According to the strict rules of the Amish church, filming is not permitted, so by opening up their homes and life to the cameras Miriam and David risk being ex-communicated and excluded from their society. Glasgow writer Louise Welsh talks about her latest novel, The Girl on the Stairs, a thriller set in Berlin - and also about the libretto she's written for a short opera called Ghost Patrol, about soldiers returning from an unspecified war. The opera is part of a Scottish Opera season opening at the Edinburgh Festival. With Kate Moss appearing in a video for George Michael's track White Light, and Daniel Radcliffe in a Snow Club video - David Quantick considers cameos in pop videos. In celebration of the Olympics, the BBC - in partnership with the Scottish Poetry Library in Edinburgh - has selected and recorded a poem representing every country that's competing. Each poem is introduced and read by a native of the country in question, who has made their home here in Britain. Every night during the Olympics, Front Row features one of these poems. Producer Rebecca Nicholson.

Can David Rudisha dominate the 800 metres and finally achieve Olympic gold after missing out on Beijing through injury. Richard Bacon is joined by Olympian Michael Johnson and guests to discuss what may become the most competitive Olympic 100 meters race ever if Usain Bolt, Yohan Blake and Tyson Gay all run. As the rift between the BOA and triple jumper Phillips Idowu grows, UK Athletics head coach Charles van Commenee reveals why he will not be apologising. In a final London Calling, Eleanor Oldroyd speaks to rowing legends Martin Cross, Fred Scarlett and Kieran West about Greg Searle's Olympic comeback. Can BMX rider Shanaze Reade put her bad luck behind her and secure a gold medal in London? David Quantick returns to Radio 2 to give the 2012 Games the full Blagger's Guide treatment.

With Mark Lawson. Novelist A S Byatt discusses a new exhibition Picasso and Modern British Art at Tate Britain, which examines Picasso's relationship with the country and how British artists including Francis Bacon, David Hockney and Henry Moore have responded to his work. As a child, Italian tenor Vittorio Grigolo sang for the Sistine Chapel choir, before making his debut at La Scala in Milan at the age of 23. Grigolo explains why he likes to cross over from classical to pop, from Keane's Bed-Shaped to La Donna E Mobile, and why he never talks to his wife before a concert. Kate Saunders reviews a new French film Hadewijch, about a young Christian fanatic who befriends a group of Muslims and finds herself being led down paths which put her life in danger. And with David Guetta's single Titanium doing well in the charts, David Quantick considers how chemical elements and the periodic table have inspired a variety of songwriters. Producer Jerome Weatherald.

With Mark Lawson. Writer-director J C Chandor discusses his acclaimed feature directorial debut Margin Call, about an American investment bank during the financial crisis, starring Kevin Spacey, Jeremy Irons and Demi Moore. The writer and former cricketer Ed Smith reviews a TV documentary by former England cricket captain Freddie Flintoff about depression in sport. Scottish composer Anna Meredith discusses her new piece, entitled Hands-Free. It's written for the National Youth Orchestra but uses no instruments, involving instead clapping, body-percussion and beat-boxing. David Quantick tucks into the long history of songs featuring food - from Oliver, via The Beatles and Bob Dylan, to reggae, ska and beyond. Producer Timothy Prosser.

With Kirsty Lang. Film-maker Terence Davies has adapted and directed The Deep Blue Sea, based on the play by Terence Rattigan. It stars Rachel Weisz as a woman who walks out on her husband and her comfortable life, to move in with a young former RAF pilot. Peter Kemp give his verdict. As piano duo Katia and Marielle Labèque embark on a three day festival celebrating minimalist music, they discuss whether sisterhood is useful when sharing a piano, and why minimalism has a lot in common with rock and roll. To mark four decades of Newsround, the children's news programme will receive a special Children's BAFTA award this weekend. John Craven, its original presenter, reflects on it covering difficult events such as the Challenger shuttle disaster and the arrest of murderer Fred West. Pixie Lott's new album has a track which includes a harmonica solo by Stevie Wonder. It's the first time the two artists have worked together, though Stevie Wonder's distinctive harmonica-playing has featured in a host of songs by other musicians. David Quantick considers the art of the harmonica solo. Producer Rebecca Nicholson.

With Mark Lawson. Actor and writer James Corden reflects on his career so far, and admits that some of the work he produced after his initial successes was sub-standard. Corden has just published an autobiography, and is touring in the acclaimed National Theatre production One Man, Two Guvnors. Justin Lee Collins and X Factor winner Shayne Ward star in Rock of Ages, a new musical touted as 'Mamma Mia! for men'. The show weaves a narrative around 80s rock anthems. David Quantick reviews. Leeds enjoys a special place in the history of British cinema: it was once the centre for the manufacture of film projectors. This has inspired a new work from Turner Prize nominee Lucy Skaer. She and cinema projectionist Alan Foster give Mark a guided tour in the Lyric Picture House, Armley, Leeds, Producer Georgia Mann.

In episode three we meet that royalty of the comedy and music worlds, lovely David Quantick and ask him about Doctor Who, Morrissey and making the world's first internet sitcom. We hang out at Playful 2009 and talk to James Bridle about his noughts and crosses calculating matchboxes. We chat to internet personality Robert Brook, [...]