RHLSTP Book Club 141 - Chris Whitaker
RHLSTP with Richard Herring
British Comedy Guide
4.8 • 5.7K Ratings
🗓️ 6 June 2025
⏱️ 53 minutes
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RHLSTP Book Club #141 - All the Colours of the Dark - Rich talks to the inspiring author of All The Colours Of The Dark, Chris Whitaker, about his fantastically engaging and impressive novel. They chat about how someone from Hertfordshire has ended up writing such an authentic book about America in the 20th Century, his writing process and why he spent a year just writing dialogue between the main characters, how you approach writing about dark subjects such as child abduction and murder in a respectful way, whether he was inspired by the X Files for one character in particular and Chris still works in Bishops Stortford library. Chris also talks very openly about his own troubled childhood and how this has informed the novel, but also led to him becoming a writer and how surreal journey of having bestselling novels, meeting Presidents and getting this book made into a huge TV series. A really inspiring podcast for any aspirant writers, though the take home is that success comes from hard work and being immersed in your idea. Don’t miss this one.
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| 1:08.2 | This podcast is sponsored by the Audible Original Comedy Podcast, Future Tense, with Richard A. O'O. Addy and Warwick Davis. You know, the future is a scary place, and so is the present. And the best way to face up to our fears, I think, is through fantastic comedy, which you are guaranteed to get with Richard A.O. Addy and Warwick Davis, |
| 1:29.5 | two of our funniest actors and comedians. They're worried about the future, as we should all be, |
| 1:34.3 | so they've squirled themselves away in a bunker deep beneath, audible HQ. It must cost millions of pounds, |
| 1:41.5 | billions probably to build this bunker, but that's the kind of guys we're dealing with here. |
| 1:45.5 | Luckily, they're accompanied by scientist-comedian Helen Keane, |
| 1:48.5 | who is absolutely fantastic to, |
| 1:51.0 | to help them figure out whether their concerns are unfounded or founded. |
| 1:55.8 | They're helped along by testimony from expert witnesses |
| 1:57.9 | and Helen's detailed research documents. |
| 2:02.1 | Richard and Warwick will consider the evidence and then decide whether they want to come out of the bunker and face the future, |
| 2:06.1 | or just stay where they are and hope they've got enough toilet roll to last them for the rest of |
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