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 going English. https://www.radiolitopia.com/enclosures/bb/bb_006.mp3

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. https://www.radiolitopia.com/enclosures/bb/bb_005.mp3

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. For a short book, it’s quite long. https://www.radiolitopia.com/enclosures/bb/bb_004.mp3

Traitor? Spy? Loyal American or self-serving amoralist?  Howard W Campbell Jr tries to write his own get out of jail free card in in Kurt Vonnegut’s ‘Mother Night’. Vintage. https://www.radiolitopia.com/enclosures/bb/bb_003.mp3

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 word for it… https://www.radiolitopia.com/enclosures/bb/bb_002.mp3