Podcast Episodes

The Saint Goes On (1934)

Season 3 Episode 73

"The Saint Goes On" is the fourteenth book of adventures by Leslie Charteris to feature Simon Templar and his unique skillset of wit, charm and reckless abandon. In the first, "The High Fence", Templ…

Published on 2 months, 3 weeks ago

LTP 007: Nobody Lives Forever (1986)

Season 3 Episode 72

Our inspection of John Gardner's continuation novels rolls on with his fifth 007 adventure. Here, James Bond is forced to jettison his annual leave in Europe when he's made aware of a SPECTRE contrac…

Published on 3 months ago

Castle in the Air (1980)

Season 3 Episode 71

Part satire, part crime adventure and part screwball comedy, Donald E Westlake's heist caper follows an eclectic team of European baddies vowing to aid (then betray) a beautiful freedom fighter in a …

Published on 3 months, 2 weeks ago

LTP Special: Sir Francis Walsingham

Season 3 Episode 70

In this special episode (a listener-favourite from our BBN days), Josh newly presents his research on Sir Francis Walsingham. Dubbed "Spymaster to the Queen", popular history broadcasts Walsingham as…

Published on 4 months, 1 week ago

LTP Selects: The Priory School (1904)

Season 3 Episode 77

When Dr Huxtable (no, not that one) makes a desperate appeal to Sherlock for help in locating a missing pupil of his school, the great detective politely declines. When he learns of the £6000 reward,…

Published on 4 months, 1 week ago

LTP Noir: Sweet Smell of Success (1957)

Season 3 Episode 69

"I'd hate to take a bite of you... you're a cookie full of arsenic."

Alexander McKendrick's compelling noir is full of lines like this, courtesy of screenwriter Clifford Odets - quite fitting for intr…

Published on 4 months, 2 weeks ago

The Benson Murder Case (1926)

Season 3 Episode 68

According to Ogden Nash, "Philo Vance needs a kick in the pants", and Dashiel Hammett described the character's posturing as being, "like a teenager who had been studying the foreign words and phrase…

Published on 5 months ago

LTP 007: Role of Honour (1984)

Season 3 Episode 67

Another year, another 007 continuation novel for John Gardner! In 1984 it was "Role of Honour", his fourth effort, which pits a rich but disenchanted James Bond up against a SPECTRE in sheep's clothi…

Published on 5 months, 3 weeks ago

Maigret and the Headless Corpse (1955)

Season 3 Episode 66

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Our first foray into the work of Georges Simenon sees us tackle one of the Belgian writer's most celebrated books. When a barge travelling t…

Published on 6 months ago

LTP Special: The Eiger Sanction (1975)

Season 3 Episode 65

Fresh on the heels of last week's novel review, we're proud to present our conversation about Clint Eastwood's film adaptation of Trevanian's "The Eiger Sanction" from 1975. Recorded a few years back…

Published on 6 months, 2 weeks ago