Olly Smith on Death by Noir - Book Club
Richard Herring's Leicester Square Theatre Podcast (RHLSTP)
British Comedy Guide
4.7 • 5.8K Ratings
🗓️ 26 June 2026
⏱️ 43 minutes
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RHLSTP Book Club #185 - Death by Noir - Rich meets Britain’s favourite wine expert (possibly) Olly Smith to talk about his Wine Crime Book, Death by Noir. They talk about how he isn’t just another celebrity cashing in with murder mystery books, as he was already an award winning writer, how he became a wine expert, whether there are any good non-alcoholic or English wines, why he wanted to write about a wine drinking amateur detective, being mistaken for a popular kids TV character, how the book is a love letter to not just wine and the process of making it, but the town of Lewes and the eccentric people who live there, doing a podcast with P!nk, the bits of England that remain very much themselves, whether anyone can really tell what wine smells of and the exciting possibility of turning the book into a TV show or film and what it’s like finally working with his brother Will Smith (not that one)
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| 1:55.5 | Hello, welcome to another Rahalisterberg Book Club this week. I have been reading Death by Noir by Olly Smith, who joins me now. He is Britain's favourite wine expert. I mean, it says in print, so it's got to be true, right? I'm trying to think of another wine expert. Oz Clark. Oh, Gillie. No, I love it. Oh, yeah, I love they're better than me. Yeah, they're so much better. They were the people who kind of inspired me when I was growing up because they just seemed to be having the time of their lives. I was watching them wondering what it was all about. No, absolutely fantastic. Look, there's a lot I want to talk to you about because, like, first of all, obviously there's a lot of, especially murder mystery novels coming out written by TV personalities. |
| 2:34.5 | Yeah, there's a lot. |
| 2:35.0 | Probably as a little reaction to the success of Richard Osman. |
| 2:38.8 | Completely. |
| 2:39.5 | It could be. |
| 2:40.1 | Yeah. |
| 2:40.5 | But I think, in your case, I think we can give you a pass. |
| 2:45.0 | Okay. |
| 2:45.6 | Because you were a writer before this. |
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