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Ep. 22 Lit Bits on Walking (Mini Lit Bit)

Dec. 26, 2023

Walk this way. Talk this way. As Run DMC once said before taking their annual Boxing Day ramble to the pub. Adam 'Lit' Smyth and James 'Bits' Kidd follow suit and do their talking while they’re walking – and vice versa – tumbling out of the French House in Soho, recorder in hand.----more---- Wh…

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Ep. 21 Lit Bits on Celebration (Mini Lit Bit)

Dec. 12, 2023

In which Adam 'Lit' Smyth and James 'Bit' Kidd don the party hats, parp those funny trumpets and let it all hang out. Or very nearly. This is Lit Bits' way of asking: how do novels, plays and poems celebrate good times (come on). What is Lit Bits? Listen here... Is humanity way too down with…

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Ep. 19 Lit Bits goes Shopping (Mini Lit Bit)

Nov. 29, 2023

With Black Friday burning a hole in his tracksuit, James ‘Bits’ Kidd heads for a shopping mall in Poughkeepsie, upstate New York, to blow the entire Lit Bits expense account on a five-speed neck massager.----more---- What is Lit Bits? Listen here... As well as flashing the cash, James wonders …

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Ep. 18 Lit Bits on Mistakes (with Liane Strauss)

Aug. 28, 2023

In which Lit Bits (Adam 'Lit' Smyth and a train-delayed—but eventually present—James 'Bits' Kidd) are joined by poet Liane Strauss to discuss mistakes, slips, wanderings, and things not quite going to plan. A dash of Shakespeare; a shot of Keats; a half-pint tumbler of Wallace Stevens; and a genero…

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Ep. 17 Lit Bits on Fear (Mini Lit Bit)

Aug. 14, 2023

Lit Bits (Adam ‘Lit’ Smyth and James ‘Bit’ Kidd) ascends to a hidden portal in the London Library and finds not Thetans, but a creepily broken desk. Is this where recalcitrant members go to die? ----more---- What is Lit Bits? Listen here... Is this what happens if you write in pen in the margin…

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Ep. 16 Lit Bits on Truth (with Hallie Rubenhold and Alex von Tunzelmann)

Aug. 14, 2023

In which Lit Bits (Adam ‘Lit’ Smyth and James ‘Bits’ Kidd) – never afraid to tackle the big issues – dons its metaphysical (and metaphorical) wig, takes a deep breath, and plunges into TRUTH in films and books. Joined by historical whizzes Alex von Tunzelmann and Hallie Rubenhold, the pod wrestles …

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Ep. 15 Lit Bits on Flying (w/ Hallie Rubenhold + Alex von Tunzelmann)

July 31, 2023

It’s chocks away as Lit Bits (Adam ‘Lit’ Smyth and James ‘Bits’ Kidd) are joined, for five high-altitude minutes, by Alex von Tunzelmann and Hallie Rubenhold, to talk planes and books. Just what do you read during a flight? Why is airplane food so terrible? Why does every movie seem to star Seth Ro…

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Ep. 14 Lit Bits on Pubs (Mini Lit Bit)

July 17, 2023

Lit Bits (Adam ‘Lit’ Smyth and James ‘Bits’ Kidd) pop down the boozer for a quick 0.5. Beginning a seemingly inexhaustible fascination with recording nonsense in boozers, our intrepid pod duo battle their way out of the The Lord John Russell to chat about James Joyce and Geoffrey Chaucer. In the pr…

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Ep. 13 Lit Bits vs Larkin, Philip (Mini Lit Bit)

July 3, 2023

In which Lit Bits (Adam ‘Lit’ Smyth and James ‘Bits’ Kidd) are just raising their socks after another exhausting 45 minutes of sitting on a chair and talking nonsense when they ambush themselves with another poem: this time A Study of Reading Habits by Hull’s very own holding midfielder Philip Lark…

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