...Mr Pot Noodle will have the final say...
...If you say the word intention you are immediately murdered...
...A typical piece of anthropomorphism...
...It's one of the pleasures of being a woman...
...It's nicely balanced with slag and snacks...
...I'm from the North. I'm allowed to say these things...
...If you were better-looking you would be more popular...
...I'll see your poetry and raise you some end-lines...
...I think Goebbels said a great artist must be a fanatic and a cynic...
...On the simplest level, adverts are very loud...
...Watching Come Dine with Me is my philosophy...
...Saddam Hussein promised The Mother of all Battles. That inspired The Slag of all Snacks...
...David Cameron watches Esure adverts...
...Honour, dignity, self-sacrifice are what the banking industry is all about...
...Ploughman's lunch was coined by advertising executives. Now I feel debased...
...Advertising takes language and ruins it...
...Poetry makes me angry...
...The number of people who complain about adverts is minimal. You have to be fairly mental...
...Slag is the fifth most offensive swearword...
...The Guiness Book of Records' most complained about advert of all time...
...I read Larkin and Beteman at school. Well, this is something to kick against... ...
...For me, that had very little imagination and bad imagination....
...The pun of 'heavy light' was worthy of some form of execution...
...The novel and the cookbook hit the imagination in slightly different ways...
...What does football stand for?...
...I was wondering about the relationship between cookery books and autobiography...
...Football and literature are semi-autonomous worlds within the world of our life...
...If you read Dickens, the food is rather wonderful...
...The novel and the cookbook hit the imagination in slightly different ways...
...How long have I been a Tottenham fan? 30 years. That’s longer than I’ve been reading Modernism...
...Beckenbauer was standing on the sideline and Barry Davies said, 'Clearly a man with a knowledge of Milton'...
...That’s the tiny tragedy of a great meal. It passes....
...In architecture, you have to make the building legible from the outside...
...In football, certain players become characters...
...It’s like a vocal version of Burberry....
...a form of horse-cleaning product....
...Can we talk about Andrew Motion?...
...I went to William Faulkner’s house in Mississippi. The telephone was surrounded by scribblings on the wall....
...Think of it as a series of adverts with little bursts of Shakespeare interspersed....
...As you were talking about Sister Act 2, I immediately thought of Ben Jonson....
...Where does this idea come from, that the artist should be separated from commerce?...
...Did Derrida ever write about football?...
...…which is a misunderstanding of the word “witty”....
...Adverts come at us all the time....
...The inspiration for that was Saddam Hussein....
...It’s like a debased and emasculated version of Keats’ “To Autumn”...
...These ideas about honour, dignity and self-sacrifice … are exactly what the banking industry is all about....
...It sounds kind of like Larkin put through a food blender....
The Podcasters
Adam Smyth
James Kidd
Joe Brooker
Polly Russell
Steve Rose
Jonathan Thake
James Byrne
James Mottram
Giles Milton
Paul Myerscough
Dinah Roe
Alex von Tunzelmann
Hallie Rubenhold
Liane Strauss
Jonathan Beckman
Dennis Duncan
Alexandra Goddard
Christina Michalos
Lynn Shepherd
Samantha Ellis
Gill Partington
Laurence Scott
Emma Smith
Emma Simon
Alexandra Goddard
Alexandra Goddard is a Curator at the
Geffrye Museum
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Literature & Rooms
The Podcasts
1.
Lit Bits on Football
2.
Lit Bits on Bad Literature
3.
Lit Bits on Food
4.
Lit Bits on Film
5.
Lit Bits on Advertising
6.
Lit Bits on Architecture
7.
Lit Bits on History
8.
Lit Bitlette ... Knights
9.
Lit Bits on Pop Music
10.
Lit Bitlette ... Larkin around
11.
Lit Bitlette ... Computers 1.0
12.
Lit Bitlette ... Sheds
13.
Lit Bits on Art
14.
Lit Bitlette ... Computers 2.0
15.
Lit Bitlette Live @ London Library ... Fear
16.
Lit Bitlette ... Auden
17.
Lit Bitlette ... Pubs
18.
Lit Bits on Truth
19.
Lit Bitlette ... New Year Resolutions
20.
Lit Bits Walking - Live in London
21.
Lit Bitlette ... Flying
22.
What is LitBits?
23.
Alcohol
24.
Lit Bitlette ... Shopping Malls
25.
Waiting for Lit Bits - Live in Oxford
26.
Lit Bits Live @ London Library Stacks
27.
Lit Bitlette ... Beards!
28.
Lit Bitlette ... Snow
29.
Literature and Error
30.
Literature and Impersonation
31.
Literature & Laughter
32.
Literature & Blurbs
33.
Literature & Sex Scenes
34.
Literature & Hair
35.
Literature & Translation
36.
Literature & Rooms
37.
Literature and Law
38.
Literature and portraits
39.
Literature and Kisses
40.
Litbits at the Oscars
41.
Litbits and Heroines
42.
Litbits and Procrastination
43.
Litbits and Banned Books
44.
Literature and Exhaustion
45.
Literature & Holidays
46.
Literature & Destruction
47.
Literature & Difficutly
48.
Lit Bitlette ... Giving Up Books
49.
Literature & Home
50.
Literature & Connection
51.
Literature & The Night
52.
Litbits & Beginnings
53.
Litbits & the Cold
54.
Litbits and Hamlet
55.
Literature & Driving
56.
Litbits & Celebration
57.
Litbits & Money
58.
Litbits & Reviews