Andrew Marr's Paperback Heroes

I have just watched a fascinating programme on TV  -  BBC 4 at 9pm  
(Monday 17 October 2016)

It is called "Sleuths, spies and Sorcerers:  Andrew Marr's Paperback 
Heroes"  (Part one of three)

Each week he is examining a genre of Fiction.  Tonight's was the 
Detective Novel.  He traced the history of the genre and the conventions 
that have developed re format, plot and characters and how historical 
events have changed how they have been written.  He talks about/or 
interviews Sherlock Holmes. Agatha Christie, in Ruth Rendell, Dashiell 
Hammitt, Ian Rankin and Anthony Horrovitz. He then goes on to talk about 
how Scandinavian detective series have changed the genre.

Next week's programme is about fantasy fiction and week 3 is on the 
spy/espionage novel.

Tonight's programme is being repeated on Wednesday evening at 10pm.

There is also a website - BBC.co.uk/paperbackheroes, which is linked to 
the Open University and has further advice on how to write these types 
of fiction. For the OU article on this issue, visit this page.

Elizabeth Vousden

Festival of Local Writing in Cullompton

On the 14th-15th October, The Walronds is hosting this interesting event consisting of an evening of three superb short plays staged by Patterns Theatre Company and includes an opportunity to feed back your views to the writers and directors. The plays are The Digital Age by Christine Hardy, Letting Go by John Somers, and The Wrong Apples, a comedy by our member Elizabeth Vousden. Will you miss it?

Tickets are £7 and can be obtained calling 07885 475943. The venue address is 6 Fore Street, Cullompton, EX15 1JL. Doors open at 7 pm for a 7.30 pm start and we are told there will be a bar available.

And don't forget our next meeting will take place on the 20th October at the Old Chapel Room in St Sidwells Community Centre. See you there!