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John Lloyd and ‘The Meaning of Liff’

12/21/2025 • 42 min

Georgina Godwin meets John Lloyd, one of the men behind ‘The Meaning of Liff’. He shares insight on working with Douglas Adams and the impact of the humorous dictionary on its 42nd anniversary. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Play episode

Sir Michael Palin on his travels, decades-long career and finding laughter
Mitchell Kaplan, the founder of Miami Book Fair
Harlan Greene at the 2025 Charleston Literary Festival
The winner of the 2025 Booker Prize: David Szalay
Kiran Desai on loneliness, legacy and the curse of rewriting
The Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction 2025 winner: Helen Garner
Richard Armitage and the power of storytelling
Richard Lloyd Parry and the journeys within stories
Olivier Norek on courage, conflict and history
Sam Sussman on the possibility of family ties
Juhea Kim on stories woven from silence
Priyanka Mattoo on the search for home
Michael Wolff on chaos, power and America’s reckoning
R James Breiding on what small nations teach the world
Michelle de Kretser on literature and belonging
Iain Sinclair on London, literature and hidden journeys
Nick Berg on revolutions, exile and the stories that we inherit
Iris Wolff on weaving memory into words
Andrei Soldatov & Irina Borogan: Exiled voices on Russia
Karin Slaughter on banned books and the fight for truth
The women redefining literary festivals
Nick Harkaway and the legacy of Le Carré
Jean McNeil on bearing witness to a disappearing world
Guadalupe Nettel on human nature in fiction
C K Stead at the 2025 Auckland Writers Festival
Karim Kattan on writing between languages and landscapes
Michael and Matariki Bennett at the 2025 Auckland Writers Festival
Damian Le Bas on writing between worlds
Agustina Bazterrica at Hay Festival 2025
Esther Freud on family, fiction and healing
Damien Wilkins at the 2025 Auckland Writers Festival
Eliza Reid on crafting her first mystery
Meike Ziervogel on her humanitarian and literary drive
The Winners of the 2025 Women’s Prize for Fiction and Non-Fiction
Miranda Cowley Heller on what lies beneath art and memory
Ewan Morrison on AI and its side effects
Tiffany Watt Smith on female friendships
Jeremy Vine: Broadcasting and the stories that matter
Ahmed Alnaouq: the voices of Gaza beyond the headlines
Lynda La Plante and the art of crime writing
Jenny Mustard on writing literary fiction
AC Grayling and making peace in the culture wars
Rachel Shabi and the complexities of antisemitism
Stephen May’s reimagination of Victor Grayson
Natasha Brown on the effect of language
Abdulrazak Gurnah and Zanzibar’s multicultural history
Lauren Markham at the Lannan Literary Festival
Janet de Neefe’s cultural ventures in Bali
Tash Aw on writing the reality of Southeast Asia

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