Radio5 / Up All Night

[BPP]

each week the BBC Radio5 program 'up all night' adds one book to its 'virtual bookshelf' - the format is people call in, nominate a single volume (be it the Collected Works of Shakespeare or a novella) and it must be printed version. No non-existant 'best of' etc. People then text or call in in support and the total votes at the end of that night gets the book on. After 10 weeks there is then the inverse in that the discussion is which of the last ten books to take off. Very often an obscure book can get on and stay on when it has someone giving it passionate support - eg 'brewers dictionary of phrase and fable.

Thereafter the books are read in a bookclub fashion and - importantly - the list is constantly repeated each week several times.

Now... strikes me we need to get something 2000AD on there...weekly publicity, on a BBC list and eventualy read and discussed on air..

I would suggest we discuss a candidate here (be it Prog 1, Casefiles 4, America, Dante, Halo Jones..) then all get behind voting for it in the early hours of one sunday.... any takers?

[COMMANDO FORCES]

WOW, another person who listens to 'Up all night' on the forum.
Last weeks was 'A brief history of time', I think.

[Alski]

Great idea - how about "America"?

[Robin Low]

Great idea - how about "America"?

I think it's the one to go for. It's good enough to generate at least some casual interest from people who don't read 2000AD, and the three collected stories work pretty well as a complete piece of work (Halo Jones, while good, is frustratingly incomplete).

Regards

Robin