Radio 3: Home of The Nerd

[Frank]

Hoighty-toighty Radio 3 went into a geek frenzy this week, devoting prestigious interview slots to the lusciously coiffured Neil Gaiman and the round and shiny Joss Whedon. The Gaiman one features him talking about his childhood as a Jewish Scientologist and reveals the formative influence of both GK Chesterton and his hit biography of Duran Duran on his career as a writer. Whedon talks about his radical feminist Mom. Brigadoon (!) and attending Winchester boarding school in England. Whedon did Kermode's show this week too, talking about his anti-Avengers home made version of Much Ado About Nothing.

Truly, we are pandered to.

[Frank]

Neil Gaiman was flogging his new novel, The Ocean At The End Of The Lane on Radio Four's Open Book this afternoon. It's difficult to concentrate on what Gaiman's saying, because all the blood drains from my brain every time Mariella Frostrup opens her mouth:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b02y0wq3

You can read the first chapter of the book there too.