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In my second author interview, I speak with guests Charlotte Booth and Brian Billington. Charlotte Booth is a professional writer of history books (including The History of the Undead, and How to Survive in Ancient Egypt), and was also an extra in a Bollywood movie. Brian Billington is an IT professional, amateur photographer, and a lover of movies who enjoys working out where those movies were filmed.

Over the years they’ve created personal movie location tours including Wells, Turin and London, and decided it was time to share this with others. They join me today to talk about their collaboration, The Movie Lover’s Guide to London.
 
Listen to hear about how Charlotte and Brian came up with the idea for the book, some diverging thoughts on James Bond, and the oddest dinner party guest list in film.
 
Books mentioned in this episode include:

• Hollywood Wants to Kill You: The Peculiar Science of Death in the Movies by Michael Brooks and Rick Edwards
• The Italian Boy: A Tale of Murder and Body Snatching in 1830s London by Sarah Wise

Films mentioned in this episode include:

• Hot Fuzz directed by Edgar Wright
• Mission: Impossible - Fallout directed by Christopher McQuarrie
• Cockneys vs Zombies directed by Matthias Hoene
• Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels directed by Guy Ritchie
• Paddington directed by Paul King
• Bridget Jones's Diary directed by Sharon Maguire
• Snatch directed by Guy Ritcie
• James Bond Franchise