Storyshaped

Imagine you found a book that had the answers to LITERALLY EVERYTHING? A book that could help you 'cheat' your way out of all situations, no matter how puke-sastrous they are... Well, this is the reality facing Kamal, the main character in The Cheat Book, written by today's guest - the explosively energetic, fascinatingly interesting, and laugh-a-minute RAMZEE. RAMZEE joins us this week for a chat through his Storyshaped life, and it's a good one. Get rrrrrrrrready!

Special thanks to Battersea Library for making RAMZEE's appearance on the podcast possible.

Please note: this podcast episode makes very brief reference to suicidal ideation. Please listen with caution.

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Books mentioned on this week's episode include RAMZEE's own:

The Cheat Book (and sequels!)

And the stories which shaped him include:

Hound of the Baskervilles, by Arthur Conan Doyle

The Adjustment Bureau, by Philip K. Dick

Red Shift, by Alan Garner

Everything Everywhere All at Once (dir. Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, released 2022)

Hark! A Vagrant, by Kate Beaton

Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands, by Kate Beaton

High Plains Drifter (dir. Clint Eastwood, released 1973)

The work of Dapo Adeola

Planet Omar, by Zanib Mian, illustrated by Nasaya Mafaridik

How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, by Shepherd Mead

The Boy at the Back of the Class, by Onjali Rauf

The work of Melinda Gebbie (comic artist)

The work of Rod Serling

The S-Man, by Mark Caine

The Prince, by Niccolo Macchiavelli

The work of Babette Cole

Tin Tin, by Hergé

Asterix, by René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo, et al

Under My Thumb: Songs that Hate Women and the Women Who Love Them, ed. Rhian E Jones and Eli Davies

Sandman Mystery Theatre, by Matt Wagner and Stephen T. Seagle, art by Guy Davis, John Watkiss, RG Taylor, Vince Locke, Warren Pleece, Matthew Dow Smith

The Sandman, by Neil Gaiman, art by various artists incl. Sam Kieth and Mike Dringenberg

The Turbulent Term of Tyke Tyler, by Gene Kemp

Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing, by Judy Blume

Superfudge, by Judy Blume

Otherwise Known as Sheila the Great, by Judy Blume

The stories of Ramona Quimby, by Beverly Cleary

The Chronicles of Narnia, by CS Lewis

Matilda, by Roald Dahl

The Dark is Rising, by Susan Cooper

The Weirdstone of Brisingamen, by Alan Garner

Elidor, by Alan Garner

The work of the movie director Roger Corbin

JAWS (dir. Steven Spielberg, released 1975)

The work of Diana Wynne Jones

Black Hearts in Battersea, by Joan Aiken

The Wolves of Willoughby Chase, by Joan Aiken

Blade Runner (dir. Ridley Scott, released 1982)

The Godfather I and II (dir. Francis Ford Coppola, released 1972, 1974)

Jurassic Park (dir. Steven Spielberg, released 1993)

The work of George Lucas, James Cameron, Steven Spielberg

The Haunting of Hill House, by Shirley Jackson

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