27. Peter James & Tina Payne at the Chiltern Kills crime writing festival 2024: We'd Like A Word hosts Paul Waters & Stevyn Colgan hear from Peter James, the bestselling author of the Roy Grace detective series, and also from new crime fiction sensation Tina Payne aka TM Payne. And lots more from the 2024 Chiltern Kills festival in Gerrards Cross, just 20 minutes from London Marylebone. The next Chiltern Kills will be on Saturday 4th October 2025, with all ticket sales in aid of the Centrepoint charity combatting youth homelessness. Please join us.
Peter James talks about his latest instalment, One Of Us Is Dead - number 20! - in the DS Roy Grace series - also a multi-season successful ITV series. Also about how he's written such a long running series; the dangers of bad TV adaptations; how being the writer behind a TV series can feel like being God; how actor John Simm now influences the development of the fictional Roy Grace; and how police forces now approach him to spread the word on their new crime fighting innovations.
Tina Payne talks about her Detective Sheridan Holler series, including Long Time Dead, This Ends Now, and Play With Fire. She also reveals how, after 18 years in the Norfolk police, she keeps her books authentic; and that though she didn't start the fire (Your Honour), she does have an intimate knowledge of the lyrics and plans to deploy them at the Chiltern Kills How To Murder A Song karaoke.
Also discussed in this one-part episode: writing and singing stars Mark Edwards and Ed James, thriller author and Chiltern Kills co-organiser Tony Kent, Frederick Forsyth, Victoria Christian, Jeffrey Archer, Murder in Moonlit Square, Leye Adenle, Eve Smith, Greg Mosse, Ajay Chowdhury, climate change in crime fiction, Aneysha Minocha of Quantaco, Louise Minchin, the Secret barrister, Lisa Maxwell from the Bill, comedians Phoebe Haywood and Ian Stone, witches, biscuits, Ciarán O'Keeffe, Derek Acorah, ghosts, wiccan, Celtic calendar, neo-pagan, Mark Page, Phil Jupitus, Paul Weller, Jeremy Vine, the Writers' Room, MJ Arlidge, Steph Broadribb, Julia Crouch, Lisa Hall, Hastings Green Man Festival, Morris dancing, Boss Morris and The Wad. We'd Like A Word is a podcast & radio show from authors Paul Waters & Stevyn Colgan. (And sometimes Jonathan Kennedy.) We talk with writers, readers, editors, agents, celebrities, talkers, poets, publishers, booksellers, & audiobook creators about books - fiction & non-fiction. We go out on various radio & podcast platforms. Our website is http://www.wedlikeaword.com for information on Paul, Steve & our guests. We're on Twitter @wedlikeaword & Facebook @wedlikeaword & our email is wedlikeaword@gmail.com Yes, we're embarrassed by the missing apostrophes. We like to hear from you - questions, thoughts, ideas, guest or book suggestions. Perhaps you'd like to come on We'd Like A Word to chat, review or read out passages from books. Paul is writing a new cosy mystery series set in contemporary Delhi. The first in the series is Murder in Moonlit Square, which will be published by Bedford Square publishers in 2025. He previously wrote a thriller set on the 1950s Irish border called Blackwatertown. We can also recommend Cockerings, the comic classic by Stevyn Colgan.
