Red Hot Chilli Writers

Red Hot Chilli Writers

44 episodes

Joined each episode by special guests, British Asian authors, Vaseem Khan and Abir Mukherjee take a wry look at the world of books, writing, and the creative arts, tackling everything from bestsellers to pop culture and Big Fat Asian Weddings. Insightful, funny, packed with stellar interviews – Dean Koontz, Val McDermid, Ann Cleeves, Mike Gayle, to name a few – and the odd dose of cross-cultural confusion, they dare to explore the parts other podcasts cannot reach. Find out more: www.redhotchilliwriters.com

Podcasts

Episode 117 - Chris Hammer, Scrublands, Funnel-Web Spiders, and New Year Gut Health

Published: Jan. 15, 2024, 4 a.m.
Duration: 45 minutes 52 seconds

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Episode 116 - Fenton's ten best novels of 2023, dodgy Xmas parties, and Micky Mouse set free

Published: Jan. 1, 2024, 4 a.m.
Duration: 33 minutes 19 seconds

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Episode 115 - Andrew Lycett and The Worlds of Sherlock Holmes - with added Cucumber Sherlock.

Published: Dec. 18, 2023, 4 a.m.
Duration: 33 minutes 6 seconds

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Episode 114 - Imran Mahmood and Finding Sophie, author winterwear, and the most famous tea party in fiction

Published: Dec. 4, 2023, 4 a.m.
Duration: 30 minutes 32 seconds

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Episode 113 - Susi Holliday, female serial killers, and the meaning of Diwali

Published: Nov. 20, 2023, 4 a.m.
Duration: 30 minutes 23 seconds

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Episode 112 - Fiona Cummins, meeting George Clooney, cats' facial expressions, and the Aussie mushroom poisoning

Published: Nov. 6, 2023, 4 a.m.
Duration: 32 minutes 33 seconds

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Episode 111 - Suk Pannu, The Kumars at No 10, and the unstoppability of Indian aunties

Published: Oct. 23, 2023, 3 a.m.
Duration: 30 minutes 38 seconds

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Episode 110 - Nev March, the Bombay Clocktower deaths, and the secret to happiness in orangutans

Published: Oct. 9, 2023, 3 a.m.
Duration: 41 minutes 38 seconds

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Episode 108 - AJ West, greatest ever ghost stories, Big Brother, and the saucy ghost ape of Dorset

Published: Sept. 11, 2023, 3 a.m.
Duration: 46 minutes 5 seconds

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Episode 107 - Evil Under the Sun, India's Moon Landing, and Hercule Poirot's bottom

Published: Aug. 28, 2023, 3 a.m.
Duration: 38 minutes 49 seconds

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Episode 106 - Simon Toyne, St Hilda's Crime, Bute rap battle, and how to avoid being eaten by a tiger

Published: Aug. 14, 2023, 3 a.m.
Duration: 42 minutes 19 seconds

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Episode 102 - Mark Billingham and The Last Dance, Hitler's Nazi playground in Blackpool, and 'Broken Arse-gate'

Published: June 19, 2023, 3 a.m.
Duration: 31 minutes 33 seconds

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Episode 101 - MOTIVE festival in Canada, the Joffe Books Prize, Harini Nagendra, and male trees v female trees

Published: June 5, 2023, 8 a.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 33 seconds

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Episode 100 - Robert Dugoni, the British Book Awards, and appropriate behaviour at literary festivals

Published: May 22, 2023, 3 a.m.
Duration: 53 minutes 30 seconds

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Episode 98 - Sophie Hannah, Hercule Poirots Silent Night, and continuing the legacy of iconic characters

Published: April 24, 2023, 3 a.m.
Duration: 47 minutes 27 seconds

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Episode 97 - Graham Bartlett, the world's oldest police forces, corrupt cops, and in the footsteps of Napoleon

Published: April 10, 2023, 3 a.m.
Duration: 46 minutes 37 seconds

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Episode 96 - Alis Hawkins, A Bitter Remedy, The Rebecca Riots, and history's most infamous poisoners

Published: March 27, 2023, 3 a.m.
Duration: 44 minutes 33 seconds

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Episode 94 - Andrew Taylor, Restoration England, Poe in London, and TV crime show 'Ozark'

Published: Feb. 27, 2023, 4 a.m.
Duration: 53 minutes 28 seconds

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Episode 93 - Laura Wilson, Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival, French publishing

Published: Feb. 13, 2023, 4 a.m.
Duration: 38 minutes 46 seconds

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Episode 92 - Peter May, crime fiction meets climate change, Friday the 13th

Published: Jan. 30, 2023, 4 a.m.
Duration: 41 minutes 29 seconds

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Episode 91 - Helen Fields, The Institution, Prince Andrew's autobiography, and the best biographies of all time

Published: Jan. 16, 2023, 4 a.m.
Duration: 45 minutes 33 seconds

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Episode 90 - Lisa Jewell, New Year's resolutions, books to look out for in 2023, and 101 recipes using chickpeas

Published: Jan. 2, 2023, 4 a.m.
Duration: 48 minutes 50 seconds

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Episode 89 - Jane Harper, The Dry, Outback Noir, and sexy Christmas underwear

Published: Dec. 19, 2022, 4 a.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 9 seconds

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Episode 88 - Peter Hains, wildlife poaching, apartheid protests, and the different forms of meditation

Published: Dec. 5, 2022, 4 a.m.
Duration: 40 minutes 43 seconds

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Episode 86 - Kellye Garrett, why women should rule the world, and strange laws in small town America

Published: Nov. 7, 2022, 4 a.m.
Duration: 41 minutes 48 seconds

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Episode 85 - Claire McGowan, David Beckler, The Booker Prize, and Ireland's 'vanishing triangle' disappearances

Published: Oct. 24, 2022, 3 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 34 seconds

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Episode 84 - Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall, medieval owl cures, and the Declaration of Arbroath

Published: Oct. 10, 2022, 3 a.m.
Duration: 30 minutes 23 seconds

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Episode 83 - Erin Kelly, The Skeleton Key, the Queue, and professional mourners

Published: Sept. 26, 2022, 3 a.m.
Duration: 40 minutes 4 seconds

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Episode 80 - Nadine Matheson, intimacy co-ordinators, hamsters in space, and fun facts about Grease

Published: Aug. 15, 2022, 3 a.m.
Duration: 34 minutes 20 seconds

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Episode 78 - Luca Veste, Victoria Selman, the meaning of Scouse, and plagiarising C.S. Lewis

Published: July 18, 2022, 3 a.m.
Duration: 51 minutes 23 seconds

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Episode 74 - Stephanie Merritt & S.J. Parris, Storm and Giordano Bruno, and the world's worst teachers

Published: May 23, 2022, 3 a.m.
Duration: 29 minutes 13 seconds

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Episode 73 - Lord Jeffrey Archer, the Domesday Book, and the village of Great Snoring

Published: May 9, 2022, 3 a.m.
Duration: 52 minutes 48 seconds

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Episode 72 - British Book Awards special with Val McDermid, Ian Rankin, Abigail Dean ... and Mahatma Gandhi

Published: April 25, 2022, 3 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 1 minute 49 seconds

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Episode 71 - David Baldacci and Dream Town, orang-utan blues, and the slap heard around the world

Published: April 11, 2022, 3 a.m.
Duration: 49 minutes 22 seconds

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Episode 69 - Maxim Jakubowski, The Perfect Crime, the "bad review", and 100 Shades of Brown

Published: March 14, 2022, 4 a.m.
Duration: 45 minutes 41 seconds

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Episode 68 - Anna Mazzola and The Clockwork Girl, war in Ukraine, and pole-dancing geckoes

Published: Feb. 28, 2022, 4 a.m.
Duration: 33 minutes 56 seconds

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Episode 66 - Dean Koontz and Quicksilver, dude ranches, dogs in literature, and a canine quiz

Published: Jan. 31, 2022, 4 a.m.
Duration: 44 minutes 39 seconds

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Episode 65 - Craig Robertson and Amy McCulloch, cleaning up after dead bodies and climbing into the "death zone"

Published: Jan. 17, 2022, 4 a.m.
Duration: 51 minutes 14 seconds

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Episode 64 - A look back at 2021, a look forward to 2022, and a crime-writer's teapot

Published: Jan. 3, 2022, 4 a.m.
Duration: 34 minutes 11 seconds

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Episode 63 - Antti Tuomainen and Finnish noir, Fenton's Faves, and the world pillow fighting championships

Published: Dec. 20, 2021, 4 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 55 seconds

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Episode 61 - Mikhail Sen and an actor's life, The Shadows of Men, and the Hollywood great quotes quiz

Published: Nov. 22, 2021, 4 a.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 56 seconds

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Episode 60 - Charles Cumming and spy fiction, Bay Tales, and how to reduce your carbon footprint

Published: Nov. 8, 2021, 4 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 48 seconds

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Episode 59 - Clare Whitfield, Jack the Ripper, the PG Tips tea chimps, and awkward plurals

Published: Oct. 25, 2021, 3 a.m.
Duration: 38 minutes 57 seconds

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Episode 58 - Elodie Harper, The Wolf Den, ancient Pompeii, French literature and Abir's French junket

Published: Oct. 11, 2021, 3 a.m.
Duration: 36 minutes 16 seconds

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Episode 55 - Orenda Books special with Karen Sullivan, Awais Khan, Will Carver and Lilja Sigurdardottir

Published: Aug. 30, 2021, 3 a.m.
Duration: 50 minutes 46 seconds

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Episode 52 - The Dying Day, racism in sports films, and Fenton's Favourites

Published: July 19, 2021, 3 a.m.
Duration: 41 minutes 36 seconds

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Episode 51 - Amit Dhand, the horrors of Partition, Tariq Ashkanani, and the Capital Crime New Voices

Published: July 5, 2021, 3 a.m.
Duration: 47 minutes 5 seconds

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Episode 50 - Alex Michaelides, The Maidens, Imran Mahmood, I Know What I Saw, and judges with a sense of humour

Published: June 21, 2021, 3 a.m.
Duration: 49 minutes 8 seconds

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Episode 48 - Richard Osman & The Thursday Murder Club, Rahul Raina & How to Kidnap the Rich, Ajay Chowdhury & The Waiter

Published: May 24, 2021, 3 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 12 minutes 55 seconds

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Episode 47 - British Book Awards special with Lee Child & Andrew Child, Ian Rankin, Oyinkan Braithwaite, and Joy Ellis

Published: May 10, 2021, 3 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 12 minutes 31 seconds

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Episode 46 - Mike Gayle, The British Book Awards and Count Binface

Published: April 26, 2021, 3 a.m.
Duration: 56 minutes 5 seconds

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Episode 45 - Felicia Yap, Godzilla v King Kong, a race report bombshell, and talking apes

Published: April 12, 2021, 3 a.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 11 seconds

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Episode 43 - Saima Mir, The Khan, royal shenanigans, Craig Sisterson, Australian & NZ crime fiction

Published: March 15, 2021, 4 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 7 minutes 27 seconds

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Episode 42 - Chris Brookmyre, weird titles, the celeb writer phenomenon, and sci-fi film trivia

Published: March 1, 2021, 4 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 6 minutes 52 seconds

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Episode 41 - Val McDermid, busted boilers, the Tebbit test, and the Great Scottish-India quiz-off

Published: Feb. 15, 2021, 4 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 2 minutes 29 seconds

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Episode 40 - Ausma Zehanat Khan, the Bosnian conflict, human rights law, and the strange animal facts quiz

Published: Feb. 1, 2021, 4 a.m.
Duration: 52 minutes 57 seconds

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Episode 39 - Frank Zafiro, American crime, Idi Amin and other coups, and ruined sleep cycles

Published: Jan. 18, 2021, 4 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 38 seconds

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Episode 38 - New Year 2021, Putting 2020 on trial, Calendars from around the world and New Years resolutions,

Published: Jan. 4, 2021, 4 a.m.
Duration: 47 minutes 21 seconds

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Episode 37 - Sadsacks Assemble, Books and TV of the year, and Brown Christmas shenanigans

Published: Dec. 21, 2020, 4 a.m.
Duration: 50 minutes 24 seconds

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Episode 35 - Ragnar Jonasson, Icelandic crime fiction, fun facts about Iceland, and political chicanery on screen

Published: Nov. 23, 2020, 4 a.m.
Duration: 55 minutes 39 seconds

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Episode 34 - Dan Smith, a political scandal from the sixties, How to Tame a Lion, and a tribute to Sean Connery

Published: Nov. 9, 2020, 4 a.m.
Duration: 46 minutes 26 seconds

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Episode 33 - C.J. Tudor, The Chalk Man, In the Heat of the Night, and the greatest ever movie quotes

Published: Oct. 26, 2020, 4 a.m.
Duration: 49 minutes 37 seconds

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Episode 31 - Lucy Foley and The Guest List, David Headley and Goldsboro Books, This Green and Pleasant Land

Published: Sept. 28, 2020, 3 a.m.
Duration: 59 minutes 40 seconds

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Episode 29 - Tracy Fenton, The Book Club, great historical fiction, Waverley, Wolf Hall, & Shogun

Published: Aug. 31, 2020, 3 a.m.
Duration: 57 minutes 53 seconds

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Episode 28 - Sanjida Kay, Naked Lunch, how to catch bees, and the world's worst poet

Published: Aug. 17, 2020, 3 a.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 18 seconds

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Episode 25 - Mark Edwards, writing great screenplays, Trumbo, Casablanca, The Usual Suspects and Seven.

Published: July 6, 2020, 3 a.m.
Duration: 51 minutes 26 seconds

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Episode 22 - Antony Johnston, mental health awareness week, books featuring mental illness, and Sigmund Freud on trial

Published: May 30, 2020, 7:36 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 2 minutes 29 seconds

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Episode 20 - Stephanie Scott, books about long walks, John Lennon on trial, Alex Hawley, online bookfest

Published: April 27, 2020, 3 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 6 minutes 26 seconds

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Episode 18 - Will Dean, post apocalyptic pandemic fiction, how to survive working at home

Published: March 30, 2020, 3 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 18 seconds

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Episode 17 - Kia Abdullah, political thrillers, John le Carre, and turmeric - the cure for all ills

Published: March 16, 2020, 4 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 1 minute 13 seconds

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Episode 16 - Tony Kent, dodgy boxers, the broken legal system, virtue signalling, and democracy on trial.

Published: March 2, 2020, 4 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 35 seconds

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Episode 15 - Amer Anwar, diversity initiatives on trial, Black Frankenstein, diversity in romance fiction

Published: Feb. 17, 2020, 4 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 11 minutes 48 seconds

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Episode 14 - Onjali Rauf, children's fiction from around the world, Lewis Carroll's jabberwocky words

Published: Feb. 3, 2020, 4 a.m.
Duration: 53 minutes 57 seconds

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Episode 13 - Barry Forshaw, BBCs new Dracula adaptation, gothic fiction, and Count Duckula.

Published: Jan. 20, 2020, 4 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 9 minutes 8 seconds

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Episode 2 - Ruth Ware, Theakston's Old Peculiar Crime Festival, Rudyard Kipling on trial, and a play called Sweat

Published: Sept. 2, 2019, 6 a.m.
Duration: 59 minutes 58 seconds

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Episode 1 - Ann Cleeves, Shakespeare on trial, Reality TV and the world's unluckiest parrot

Published: Sept. 2, 2019, 6 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 1 minute 33 seconds

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Introduction to the Red Hot Chilli Writers podcast

Published: July 31, 2019, 11:05 p.m.
Duration: 2 minutes

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