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Mark Billingham guests

Crime fiction author and former stand-up Mark Billingham joins Jools Holland in the studio.

Crime fiction author and former stand-up Mark Billingham guests

Mark Billingham was born and brought up in Birmingham. Having worked for some years as an actor and more recently as a TV writer and stand-up comedian his first crime novel was published in 2001.

Sleepyhead was an instant bestseller in the UK. It has been sold widely throughout the world and was published in the USA in the summer of 2002.

The series of crime novels featuring London-based detective Tom Thorne continued with Scaredy Cat and was followed by Lazybones, The Burning Girl, Lifeless, Buried, Death Message, Bloodline, From The Dead, Good As Dead, The Dying Hours and the most recent, The Bones Beneath. Mark is also the author of the standalone novels In The Dark and Rush Of Blood, as well as a series of children's thrillers - Triskellion - written under the pseudonym Will Peterson.

57 minutes

Last on

Mon 29 Sep 2014 23:00

Music Played

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    Bam A Lam

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  • Walking With Frankie

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    • Kent Dance.
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  • How Long Blues

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  • Willie “The Lion” Smith

    The Old Stomping Ground

    • Willie 'The Lion' Smith.
    • Timeless.
    • CBC 1-012 Jazz.
  • Lionel Hampton

    HOT MALLETS

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    • BMG.
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  • Elbow

    My Sad Captains

    • The Take Off and Landing of Everything.
    • Fiction.
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  • I DID WHAT I DID FOR MARIA

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  • ALL AROUND THE WORLD

    • THE GREATEST HITS OF 1977.
    • EMI.
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  • The Smiths

    This Charming Man

    • The Smiths: Best....
    • Warner Chappell Music Ltd.
    • 450990327-2.
  • HANK WILLIAMS

    I'm So Lonesome

    • Long Gone Daddy.
    • Snapper.
    • SMDCD 381.
  • My Darling Clementine

    100,000 Words

    • How Do You Plead?.
    • Drumfire Records.
    • Unknown.

Broadcast

  • Mon 29 Sep 2014 23:00