A podcast & radio show about words: writers, readers, books, poetry, lyrics, scripts, comedy, illustrators, agents & all things wordy.
We'd Like A Word
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A podcast & radio show about words: writers, readers, books, poetry, lyrics, scripts, comedy, illustrators, agents & all things wordy.
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3/30/2019
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Recent Episodes
October 20, 2025
38. Patricia Cornwell on Sharp Force & advice for authors
<p>38.<strong> Patricia Cornwell talks to We'd Like A Word co-hosts Paul Waters & Stevyn Colgan about her new thriller Sharp Force</strong>, plus how she writes, advice for new writers, the extreme lengths she goes to for research, & what she's working on next. She compares police hats with Steve & makes Paul an offer he does not refuse. </p><p>We also discuss AI, DNA. identity theft, authors Ernest Hemmingway, Chris Whitaker and Agatha Christie - & why writing is a relationship.</p><p><strong>We'd Like A Word is a podcast & radio show from authors Paul Waters & Stevyn Colgan.</strong> (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.</p><p>Paul's new book is <strong>Murder In Moonlit Square</strong>, the first in his Irish-Indian cosy crime series set in Chandni Chowk in contemporary Delhi. It's out now and published by the No Exit Press / Bedford Square Publishers & Penguin India.</p><p>We can also recommend <strong>Cockerings</strong>, the comic classic by Stevyn Colgan, and his hugely popular YouTube channel <strong>@Colganology</strong></p>
September 27, 2025
37. Winner of the IGF Archer Amish Storytellers Award
<p><strong>37. Paul Waters talks to and hears about the winner and runners-up of the 2025 India Global Forum Archer Amish Award for Storytellers - including Jeffrey Archer, Amish Tripathi, Shalini Mullick, Nitya Neelakantan, Yogesh Pandey, & Amit Roy - the editor of the Eastern Eye newspaper. </strong></p><p>Dr Shalini Mullick is the author of The Way Home. Nitya Neelakantan is the author of Navapashanam - The Quest for the Nine Magical Poisons. And Yogesh Pandey is the author of The Kill Switch.</p><p>The winner tells us about his/her writing process - the miracle of how it is fitted in to the rest of a very busy life.</p><p>Jeffrey Archer talks about what makes a page turner & his new book, the latest & likely final instalment in his William Warwick series, End Game, set at the London Olympics. He also gives an insight - courtesy of Commander Robert Broadhurst who was the Met Police Gold Commander for the 2012 Olympics - into what could have gone catastrophically wrong at the real Olympics - & why Sebastian Coe was never told. Jeffrey also explains why Stoner by John Williams is the book that has been gripping him recently. He also has another story up his sleeve which he says is better than Kane and Abel.</p><p>Amish Tripathi talks about his new book, The Chola Tigers, about a historical assassination squad, & the challenges of researching a setting so long ago. He's been reading something very up to date though - two books by Ray Kurzweil, The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology, &, The Singularity is Nearer: When We Merge with AI. </p><p>They both also explain why they've chosen who they've chosen as the winner of the inaugural IGF Archer Amish Award for Storytellers - which is incidentally sponsored by the House of Abhinandan Lodha. The IGF itself has Manoj Ladwa as Founder & Chairman.</p><p>Plus, Amit Roy of the Eastern Eye gives his insight into the divergence of south Asian and British south Asian culture & writing - & why Indian writers & filmmakers come to London, 'the capital of Greater India', for validation. AA Dhand & Satyajit Ray get a mention.</p><p><strong>We'd Like A Word is a podcast & radio show from authors Paul Waters & Stevyn Colgan.</strong> (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.</p><p>Paul is the author of a new Irish-Indian cosy crime series set in contemporary Delhi. The first in the series is <strong>Murder in Moonlit Square</strong>, which published by No Exit Press / Bedford Square Publishers & Penguin India in October 2025. Paul previously wrote the 1950s Irish border thriller <strong>Blackwatertown</strong>.</p><p>We can also recommend <strong>Cockerings</strong>, the comic classic by Stevyn Colgan, and his hugely popular YouTube channel <strong>@Colganology</strong></p>
September 20, 2025
36. Banu Mushtaq & Deepa Bhashti at Jaipur Lit Fest London + more
<p>36.<strong> International Booker prize winners, author Banu Mushtaq & translator Deepa Bhashti</strong> talk to co-hosts <strong>Paul Waters</strong> & <strong>Jonathan Kennedy</strong> on the <strong>We'd Like A Word</strong> books & authors podcast at the 2025 Jaipur Literature Festival at the British Library in London.</p><p>We talk about Banu's short story collection Heart Lamp; whether foreign language words should be italicised - Deepa says no; why Heart Lamp stands out as the first notable translation from Kannada (the language of Karnataka in southern India) into English; and the dynamic between author & translator.</p><p>We also hear from Lisa Honan of the East India Walking Tour & playwright Dr Anu Kumar, together creators of A London Lark Rising - a moving, walking, street theatre all about the East India Company which ruled large swathes of India from London. Is this tour better than reading The Anarchy by William Dalrymple or listening to the Empire Podcast hosted by William with Anita Anand? (Personally, I'd say it's complementary. You should read both Anita's & William's books.)</p><p>By the way, Lisa Honan used to be the Governor of St Helena - yup, the island to which Napoleon was banished for the second and final time. She has some stories - including about plumed hats - yes or no, and why.</p><p>And we hear from Sanjoy Roy, author and one the geniuses behind the international web of festivals known as the Jaipur Literature Festival on providing platforms for diverse conversations which are not publisher driven, focusing on the ideas behind the books, rather than the books themselves; and about it's getting more difficult these days to have free flowing varied conversations.</p><p>Plus we touch on Singaporean author Ivy Ngeow, Indian-German artistic due Himali Singh Soin & David Soin Tappeser, Anil & Kiran Agarwal & their Riverside Studios arts space in London, Catalan literature, who makes the best tea, whether only British people queue, & should seagulls eat cigarette butts?</p><p><strong>WHO IS JONATHAN KENNEDY?</strong> Jonathan was Director of Arts in India for 5 years for the British Council. He's been everywhere in India and knows everyone there involved in culture. He was also for 12 years the Executive Director of Tara Arts, looking at the world through a South Asian lens. Jonathan is doing some India & South Asian episodes of We'd Like A Word with us every now & then. </p><p><strong>We'd Like A Word is a podcast & radio show from authors Paul Waters & Stevyn Colgan.</strong> (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.</p><p>Paul is the author of a new Irish-Indian cosy crime series set in contemporary Delhi. The first in the series is <strong>Murder in Moonlit Square</strong>, which published by No Exit Press / Bedford Square Publishers & Penguin India in October 2025. Paul previously wrote the 1950s Irish border thriller <strong>Blackwatertown</strong>.</p><p>We can also recommend <strong>Cockerings</strong>, the comic classic by Stevyn Colgan, and his hugely popular YouTube channel <strong>@Colganology </strong></p>
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