Round the Bend (novel) Round the Bend (novel) Round the Bend is a 1951 novel by Nevil Shute. It tells the story of Constantine "Connie" Shaklin, an aircraft engineer who founds a new religion transcending existing religions based on the merit of good work. It deals with racism, including the White Australia policy, and also with the importance of private enterprise. It was one of the first novels Shute wrote after emigrating from Britain to Australia in 1950. The novel, written in the first person, adopts the voice and eyes of Tom Cutter, an aircraft pilot, engineer, and entrepreneur. The novel starts with Cutter's
My Dad Wrote a Porno and is presented by television writer and director Jamie Morton, digital executive James Cooper, and BBC Radio 1 presenter Alice Levine. The three met at the University of Leeds, were all working in broadcasting, and had worked together on projects before. The podcast originated at a family gathering for Morton's sister's birthday, where Morton's father took him into the study room and handed him some chapters of a novel he had been writing under the pen name Rocky Flintstone in his garden shed (Morton claims his mother won't let his father write it in the house). Morton realised with shock