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I am lucky to introduce today’s guest who has been at the forefront of British comedy for the last two decades.

The man behind hit shows such as Back starring Mitchell and Webb and Sky’s Breeders, his career is long and celebrated but it is his partnership with Armando Innaucci for which he is probably best known.

Together they have brought movies like In The Loop and The Personal History of David Copperfield into the world as well as the now legendary sitcom The Thick of It and its ridiculously acclaimed US cousin Veep which won seventeen Emmy awards during its run. Along the way, he picked up two of them for himself, as well as four BAFTA nominations and an Oscar nomination for In The Loop.

My guest is Mr Simon Blackwell.

This year Northern Ireland turned 100. And much like Australia day, many celebrate — but many have regrets too. There's a fragile peace in Northern Ireland, after 40 years of violence in the troubles, and challenges remain today: from Brexit to the dream of a united Ireland. On God Forbid, James Carleton and the panel explore questions of identity, conflict, religion, and peace in Northern Ireland — but with universal lessons.

We get into spoilers starting at 16:30. If you want to avoid spoilers, skip ahead to 1:00:12 when indicated.

Links to things we talked about:

• Deadline: "Jeffrey Wright To Star In MRC and T-Street’s Untitled Cord Jefferson Film"
• Erasure and Dr. No by Percival Everett 
• The New York Times: "In a New Novel, Percival Everett Riffs Gleefully on 007" 
• Deadline: "'The Sympathizer’: Sandra Oh Among Three Cast In HBO & A24’s Drama Series Adaptation" & "‘The Sympathizer’: Five Join Robert Downey Jr. In HBO & A24’s Drama Series Adaptation"
• The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen 
• The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell
• Other major books in the "Mitchellverse" include:
   Cloud Atlas, Black Swan Green, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, and Utopia Avenue
• Ed Brubaker, famed comic book writer who's name sounds like a character in this book!
• A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
• Dark (2017-2020) by Baran bo Odar & Jantje Friese
• Cloud Atlas (2012) dir. by Tom Tykwer, Lana Wachowski, & Lilly Wachowski

A couple books coming in our 2023 season:

• Gideon the Ninth by  Tamsyn Muir 
• The "First Law" books by Joe Abercrombie

Shepherd.com: "Five Graphic Novels Just Begging to be Brought to the Screen"

• Black Hole by Charles Burns
• The Prince and the Dressmaker by Jen Wang
• Sandman Mystery Theatre by Matt Wagner, Steven T. Seagle, Guy Davis, et al.
• I Killed Adolf Hitler by Jason 
• Through the Woods by Emily Carroll

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Sunday 27 March: The art of curating an accessible and multi-generational jazz festival, and The New Statesman's Tom Gatti on writers' favourite albums.

We're back with another episode of The Book Jar Podcast and we're discussing our most spectacular DNFs. We start this week's podcast with a review of our most recent reads: Marissa's got a long list and Megan has a modest one. 

From there, we dive into DNF lists. Marissa takes a brief moment to discuss why she is a "carry-on" type reader with books she doesn't love and Megan defends the lost art of putting down a book to never, ever pick it up again. 

Megan and Marissa then dive into an account of all the books they've ever not finished. Megan cites some terrible romance scenes in a popular series, Marissa discusses how backpacking through Scotland inadvertently led to her never finishing Cloud Atlas, and both discuss some novels that they WISH they had never picked up in the first place.

The readers finish it off by discussing their reading goals for the next two weeks and pull the next topic from the Book Jar. 

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Sunday 5 December: A collection of essays from writers like Deborah Levy, George Saunders, Ben Okri and David Mitchell on personally significant LPs, and how composer Georgia Scott uses music to break down stigmas around disability.

In Culture Catch Up this episode: the songs of Scottish singer/songwriter Jackie Leven, a tip for the Christmas number one (it’s not Adele), recommendations for The Dig, and TV series Ted Lasso and Criminal: UK, plus a brief review of American Dirt, by Jeanine Cummins. The Hidden Life of Trees, Cloud Atlas, Catch 22 and The Luminaries are just some of the books we’ve given up on. Find out which ones our readers abandoned and why!

Talfryn Thomas, Harry Andrews, Imogen Hassall, Brian Glover and more: we tell some stories of character actors in film, theatre and advertisements. Their names you might not know, their faces may be much more familiar.

And one factual error.. five OAP bonus points if you spot it!

Full show notes at http://www.onlyapodcast.com/episode-5-character-actors-and-abandoned-books/

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Happy Halloween! In this bonus mini-episode, David Mitchell and John Freeman tell each other ghost stories. S'mores not included. Find a selection of appropriately spooky literature at: Greenlightbookstore.com/radio9

David Mitchell (Cloud Atlas, Number9Dream) on his new novel, The Bone Clocks, his illicit dreams of Amsterdam, and why Optimism is probably the best choice – in conversation with John Freeman (How to Read a Novelist). Also: exciting new reissues from Wakefield Press and a second look at Daphne DuMaurier’s Rebecca. Find all the titles discussed in this episode at Greenlightbookstore.com/radio7