Hello again, Literally a new one for the books. The Leek Club has been banned by Lionheart Radio, which broadcasts out of Alnwick to all of Northumberland. I had a long scheduled interview with Carl Stiansen scheduled for his afternoon show, tomorrow, Friday, April 27. But Stiansen read the book and was offended by the language so he canceled the interview, which is kind of amazing on a couple of counts: The language is nothing you can't hear on the TV or at the movies every night of the week; and it's anybody's right to dislike anything but if you're a public broadcaster you let other people make up their own minds - you don't just ban any discussion of the book from the airwaves. That's plain old fashioned - and really dumb - censorship. Anyway, the reading at The Black Bull Friday night at 7.30 p.m. goes on, so if you want to hear excerpts from a banned book read by the author that's the place to come. Paul Mann.
