Leicester City Council’s lack of preparedness for a zombie invasion was recently uncovered by a bizarre Freedom of Information request.
Now the incident has featured on this evening’s topical satire The Now Show on Radio 4.
You should be able to listen to it via the BBC iPlayer or the Friday Night Comedy Podcast
Iain M. Banks
I went to my first ever book signing on Friday. Iain M. Banks was at the Phoenix Square in Leicester as part of a mini-tour to launch the paperback of his novel Surface Detail.
It was great timinng for me as I’d finished the book a few days ago, just as a friend alerted me to the event on Facebook. I love most of Iain M. Banks’ science fiction novels and keep meaning to read more of his non-science fiction work.
The evening, organised by alt.fiction included a reading from the novel by Iain followed by a Q & A session. He came across as a personable and engaging speaker and it was interesting to hear his responses to various questions about the Culture, science fiction and writing in general.
You can listen to a podcast of the evening thanks to the nice people at Un:Bound.
How did you do in the Olympics tickets lottery? Did you get all that you applied for, some or none?
An online survey is being used to gather data on who has tickets to see if the distribution was even-handed. Initial results seemed to indicate that you had to apply for around £1500 worth of tickets to have a chance of getting any. However, I have no information on the survey stats behind this figure.
The survey is being publicised via the Twitter Account @ticketingfiasco. On Thursday both this and one other twitter account criticising the London 2012 Olympic ticket lottery were suspended. The suspension was lifted on Friday.
I don’t know if the suspension was linked to the content of the tweets on the accounts. If is was then there is some irony that Twitter is relaxed about being a medium to break super injunctions but woe betide you if you try and do some research into the mysteries of Olympic ticketing.
