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Featuring: Richard Osman, Mark Billingham, Laura Lippman and Martyn Waites.

Please note this episode features adult content and strong language.

Star of TV’s Pointless, Richard Osman is an avid crime reader and September will see the release of his debut crime novel. In this light-hearted, late-night event, he teams up with bestsellers Martyn Waites, Laura Lippman and Mark Billingham to discuss the tics, tropes and tiresome clichés of crime fiction that really cheese them off. What will end up consigned to their criminal Room 101? Will it be mysteries solved by cats? Overly fiendish serial killers? Belgian detectives with ridiculous moustaches? Surely not!

Richard and his guests will each take a good, hard look at the things that get on their nerves as well as talking on topics that have particularly annoyed members of the audience. If there’s one thing better than a panel of experts, it’s a panel of experts who are also highly opinionated and extremely gobby, so whether you agree with them or not, you can expect a full-on exchange of verbal fisticuffs and plenty of laughs.

Richard Osman's Room 101 Of Crime was recorded live at Harrogate International Festivals' Theakston Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival in July 2018.

Podcast music by Joseph McDade.

Featuring: Stella Duffy, Jane Harper, Vanda Symon, Christian White and Chair Craig Sisterson.

Slap on the sunscreen. You’ll need it for the glare of the hottest crime wave. Down Under authors are on top of the world, marching to a different beat under the midday heat.

Take a long-haul flight with writer and theatre-maker, Stella Duffy, torchbearer of the legendary Ngaio Marsh. Jane Harper makes mouths dry with anticipation, a force of nature on the bestseller lists. Vanda Symon is

behind the #1 New Zealand bestselling Sam Shephard series. Christian White is the dynamo from down under with his award-winning debut, The Nowhere Child.

Kiwi Journalist Craig Sisterson keeps it cool as Chair.

Antipodean Noir was recorded live at Harrogate International Festivals' Theakston Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival in July 2019.

Jane Harper's book The Lost Man has been shortlisted for the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel Of The Year 2020. Vote for The Lost Man, and discover the full shortlist at www.harrogatetheakstoncrimeaward.com

Podcast music by Joseph McDade.

From teaching FBI agents how to detect and recover human remains to separating and identifying commingled body parts in her Montreal lab, as one of only seventy-seven forensic anthropologists ever certified by the American Board of Forensic Anthropology, Dr Kathy Reichs has brought her own dramatic work experience to her mesmerising forensic thrillers. Kathy has travelled to Rwanda to testify at the UN Tribunal on Genocide, and helped exhume a mass grave in Guatemala. She has also worked on the identification of war dead from World War II, Korea and Southeast Asia.

Her novel Déjà Dead catapulted her to fame when it became a New York Times bestseller. She is also a producer of the chilling hit TV series Bones. Kathy has written seventeen bestsellers featuring Dr Temperance Brennan, the most recent being Bones Never Lie. She has also written four bestsellers featuring Tory Brennan: Virals, Seizure, Code and Exposure.

Kathy is interviewed by Jeremy Vine, host of the Jeremy Vine Show on BBC Radio 2, Points Of View and Eggheads.

Special Guest: Kathy Reichs Interviewed by Jeremy Vine was recorded live at Harrogate International Festivals' Theakston Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival in July 2017.

Podcast music by Joseph McDade.

Welcome to our #TheakstonAward podcast ‘lites’, a series of interviews with the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of The Year Award, Longlisted authors. Here to talk about her novel 'Worst Case Scenario’ is Helen Fitzgerald, interviewed by Joe Haddow.

The Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel Of The Year Award is the most wanted award in crime fiction, curated and produced by Harrogate International Festivals, in partnership with Theakston Old Peculier, The Express and WHSmiths.

To find out more about each of the 18 books on the longlist, to buy your copy or to vote for your favourite to make the shortlist please visit: https://harrogatetheakstoncrimeaward.com/

Welcome to our #TheakstonAward podcast ‘lites’, a series of interviews with the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of The Year Award, Longlisted authors. Here to talk about her novel ‘How The Dead Speak’ is Val McDermid, interviewed by Joe Haddow.

The Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel Of The Year Award is the most wanted award in crime fiction, curated and produced by Harrogate International Festivals, in partnership with Theakston Old Peculier, The Express and WHSmiths.

To find out more about each of the 18 books on the longlist, to buy your copy or to vote for your favourite to make the shortlist please visit: https://harrogatetheakstoncrimeaward.com/

Welcome to our #TheakstonAward podcast ‘lites’, a series of interviews with the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of The Year Award, Longlisted authors. Here to talk about her novel ‘Blood & Sugar’ is Laura Shepherd-Robinson, interviewed by Joe Haddow.

The Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel Of The Year Award is the most wanted award in crime fiction, curated and produced by Harrogate International Festivals, in partnership with Theakston Old Peculier, The Express and WHSmiths.

To find out more about each of the 18 books on the longlist, to buy your copy or to vote for your favourite to make the shortlist please visit: https://harrogatetheakstoncrimeaward.com/

Welcome to our #TheakstonAward podcast ‘lites’, a series of interviews with the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of The Year Award, Longlisted authors. Here to talk about her novel ‘Platform Seven’ is Louise Doughty, interviewed by Joe Haddow.

The Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel Of The Year Award is the most wanted award in crime fiction, curated and produced by Harrogate International Festivals, in partnership with Theakston Old Peculier, The Express and WHSmiths.

To find out more about each of the 18 books on the longlist, to buy your copy or to vote for your favourite to make the shortlist please visit: https://harrogatetheakstoncrimeaward.com/

Welcome to our #TheakstonAward podcast ‘lites’, a series of interviews with the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of The Year Award, Longlisted authors. Here to talk about her novel ‘Conviction’ is Denise Mina, interviewed by Joe Haddow.

The Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel Of The Year Award is the most wanted award in crime fiction, curated and produced by Harrogate International Festivals, in partnership with Theakston Old Peculier, The Express and WHSmiths.

To find out more about each of the 18 books on the longlist, to buy your copy or to vote for your favourite to make the shortlist please visit: https://harrogatetheakstoncrimeaward.com/

Welcome to our #TheakstonAward podcast ‘lites’, a series of interviews with the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of The Year Award, Longlisted authors. Here to talk about her novel ‘Blood Orange’ is Harriet Tyce, interviewed by Joe Haddow.

The Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel Of The Year Award is the most wanted award in crime fiction, curated and produced by Harrogate International Festivals, in partnership with Theakston Old Peculier, The Express and WHSmiths.

To find out more about each of the 18 books on the longlist, to buy your copy or to vote for your favourite to make the shortlist please visit: https://harrogatetheakstoncrimeaward.com/

Welcome to our #TheakstonAward podcast ‘lites’, a series of interviews with the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of The Year Award, Longlisted authors. Here to talk about her novel ‘Cruel Acts’ is Jane Casey, interviewed by Joe Haddow.

The Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel Of The Year Award is the most wanted award in crime fiction, curated and produced by Harrogate International Festivals, in partnership with Theakston Old Peculier, The Express and WHSmiths.

To find out more about each of the 18 books on the longlist, to buy your copy or to vote for your favourite to make the shortlist please visit: https://harrogatetheakstoncrimeaward.com/