Conway Hall

Drawing on Harlan's new book, Plot Twist, they explore what makes and creates thriller, how to keep an audience guessing, and the strange mix of self-doubt, confidence, obsession, and discipline that goes into creating a best-selling story.

This conversation was recorded live at Conway Hall in London, and we hope you enjoy it.

Now let's go to the episode.

Calm down.

Kenny Ball from Barber, Ball & Bilk in 1993 and the 1919 March.

Then Humphrey Littleton from a very lovely 1969 album called 21 Years On, live at the Conway Hall.

And the track I played was C'est Monsieur Qui Parle.

Now, though, we come towards the end of the first hour with Tony Devon, Bolton Radio's broadcast.com and the jazz session, and I'm going to play out with, I suppose, first the request someone asked for operatic jazz, and you can't get much better than this, the London Vocal Project from the Vital Spark album, Music of Kenny Wheeler, made in 2026, and Vital Spark itself, the title track, followed by some more Kenny Wheeler, with a John Dankwith orchestra, this time from Windmill Tilter, The Story of Don Quixote, made in 1969, and I'm going to play Bachelor Sam.

And he's just got a new book come out.

So I'm going to hear him talk at Conway Hall.

So after this, I'm darting into London, which is very exciting.

I feel like I'm a bit naughty taking Monday afternoon off.

And a brief content warning for this discussion, which contains some explicit language and discussions of sexual and domestic violence.

Now let's return to the conversation, live at Conway Hall in London.

So much of this conversation is being had online at the moment.

And I guess my question, not to you, Joanna, because I know you don't want to talk about tech, but are social media platforms, do you think, amplifying misogyny? Or are they actually actively reshaping attitudes to women?