Litopia All Shows
All Litopia's fantabulous shows!
- Update frequency
- every 8 days
- Average duration
- 40 minutes
- Episodes
- 233
- Years Active
- 2014 - 2021
Neville Staple - Original Rude Boy
The Specials were one of the most important, vital and influential bands to come out of the post-punk explosion, the band who created the 2-Tone movement.
Tue 12 Aug 2014
Kramer Versus The World
Is the world getting weirder, or is it just us? Listen and decide.
00:25:00 |
Mon 11 Aug 2014
The Greatest Escape
You may think you know about World War Two… but you don’t.
00:55:00 |
Sat 26 Jul 2014
Pukes of Hazard – Rebellion Special
In a Rebellion-themed special edition, Garry is joined by punk ukulele-pluckers the Pukes, who have risen from London pub strummers to festival stalwarts.
00:58:00 |
Sat 26 Jul 2014
The Devil – Leo Tolstoy
St Matthew is going to poke out your eyes. Or some such. After what seemed like a millennium of exile from the Motherland, we go back to the heart (and other parts) of Russian literature with a Tolst…
00:28:34 |
Fri 25 Jul 2014
American Pastoral - Philip Roth
Feel like making glove?? That's not a typo. This week we discuss perhaps the best passage in any of Philip Roth's novels, the 'glovemaking scene' (again, not a typo) in American Pastoral. And we do t…
00:38:34 |
Mon 07 Jul 2014
A True Novel - Minae Mizumura
A novel that says it’s based on Wuthering Heights is taking a risk – because Wuthering Heights is a crazy effective soporific. But the further it strays from the original, the better A True Novel bec…
00:28:34 |
Sun 06 Jul 2014
Satan in Goray - Isaac Bashevis Singer
The Messiah is coming! His arrival is imminent! That’s the bad news... The good news is his arrival and social schedule are narrated with a combination of enthralled immediacy and distrustful distanc…
00:27:07 |
Sat 05 Jul 2014
A Heart So White - Javier Marías
Did we like this novel? What does it mean to like? What is our past, really, if we continue to relive it? And relieve it? And relive it? And you get the point, but I'll say it again. And again. And –…
00:19:18 |
Fri 04 Jul 2014
Seven Days in the Art World - Sarah Thornton
'They believe what they say in the moment they say it.' And then the moment is gone, and someone's stuck with a desiccated horse's head or a painting of Jesus framed in piss. In this episode we learn…
00:21:18 |
Fri 04 Jul 2014
The Passion of The JK Rowling
Edinburgh resident JK Rowling gives a million quid to campaign against Scottish independence from Britain. And is promptly labeled a specky bastard, a ginga and a squeaky wee bitch. Way to go, ScotsN…
00:25:00 |
Fri 04 Jul 2014
The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge - Rainer Maria Rilke
Enter the eminently other world of Malte Laurids Brigge – and don't plan on coming back in one piece. The big window shatters and the little pieces giggle. What? You didn't hear that? We talk about R…
00:32:36 |
Thu 03 Jul 2014
Skinhead Truth Romp - Roy Ellis, Mr. Symarip
Tonight's guest on the Garry Bushell Talk Show is the legendary reggae star Roy Ellis, also known as Mr Symarip. Roy is one of the genuine icons of sixties reggae in the UK and his band Symarip were …
Wed 02 Jul 2014
The Blue Fox - Sjón
Things are not what they appear to be, and not even what they appear later to be. Foxes are animals that cannot be trusted, and sometimes they are not even animals. This is that in Sjón's slender nov…
00:11:47 |
Tue 01 Jul 2014
The Man Who Made Vermeers - Jonathan Lopez
Is there anything better than the story of a master forger? If there is, I don't know it. This time we take a trip to the realm of non-fiction, looking into the complex world of Han Van Meegeren, a f…
00:00:20 |
Tue 01 Jul 2014
The Private Life - Josh Cohen
An interview with author, professor and psychoanalyst Josh Cohen, spy of our inner selves, examiner of the lies we live, and creator of the smash new meme, '#pervingon'. No secrets, please – we're go…
00:27:09 |
Tue 01 Jul 2014
The End - Hans Erich Nossack
Hans Erich Nossack's rare first person account of the 1943 destruction of Hamburg is served with a side of WG Sebald, who employs the word 'should', with grave consequences. BFFs.
00:22:05 |
Mon 30 Jun 2014
Sexing the Cherry - Jeanette Winterson
King Charles, Oliver Cromwell, a vagrant narrator, hedge mazes and dreaded puritans – Jeanette Winterson goes historical fiction on us again in her 1989 novel that is less than the sum of its parts. …
00:33:20 |
Mon 30 Jun 2014
Mother Night - Kurt Vonnegut
Review of Kurt Vonnegut's 1961 novel, 'Mother Night'
00:16:40 |
Sat 28 Jun 2014
The Tin Drum - Günter Grass
Canonical fodder about a little boy with a man's mind, who becomes a fully grown man in a little boy's body, born and raised in the foreshadow and shadow of the Second World War. Blechtrommel is one …
00:33:20 |
Sat 28 Jun 2014
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