This book comes highly recommended by the comedian and fellow author Stephen Fry. In The Meaning of Tingo - and other extraordinary words from around the world, author Adam Jacot de Bonod has trawled through the world's dictionaries to uncover words that are quirky, amusing or just downright befuddling! Here's your chance to hear the author both read extracts from and talk about the process of writing this highly amusing book. This is a follow-up podcast to one we published a few weeks ago. So great was the reaction we've rescued some new material from the editing room floor!!

John Hegley is widely known as one of the country's most innovative comic poets with seven best-selling volumes of poetry to his name. Here he talks about - and sings extracts from - his new book Uncut Confetti. It's a highly amusing recollection of his experiences in this crazy old world!

Author Jonathan Maitland is perhaps best known as TV reporter but hes also just written his fifth book called How To Survive Your Mother - a true story about his relationship with his late and very unusual mother, a woman who opened a gay hotel in deepest Surrey commuter belt back in the 70s. Warning: contains strong language. This is the second in a two part series.

Author Jonathan Maitland is perhaps best known as TV reporter but hes also just written his fifth book called How To Survive Your Mother - a true story about his relationship with his late and very unusual mother, a woman who opened a gay hotel in deepest Surrey commuter belt back in the 70s. Warning: contains strong language. This is the first in a two part series. Part two can be downloaded on Monday 29th May.

On a hot summer night in 1977, London rages around three young men who are about to learn the true meaning of friendship. Stories We Could Tell is the latest novel from the number one best selling author Tony Parsons. Here Tony talks about the real-life situations that he drew upon as inspiration for this novel set in the crazy, hedonistic world of music journalism - and also reads key extracts from the story. This is the second in a two part series.

On a hot summer night in 1977, London rages around three young men who are about to learn the true meaning of friendship. Stories We Could Tell is the latest novel from the number one best selling author Tony Parsons. Here Tony talks about the real-life situations that he drew upon as inspiration for this novel set in the crazy, hedonistic world of music journalism - and also reads key extracts from the story. This is the first in a two part series. Part two can be downloaded on Monday 15th May.

This book comes highly recommended by the comedian and fellow author Stephen Fry. In The Meaning of Tingo - and other extraordinary words from around the world, author Adam Jacot de Bonod has trawled through the world's dictionaries to uncover words that are quirky, amusing or just downright befuddling! Here's your chance to hear the author both read extracts from and talk about the process of writing this highly amusing book.