My Dad Wrote a Pornos creator says the hit podcast has helped him reconnect with his dad The i Paper

I wanted to fold myself into the pages and inhabit this fictional landscape where women were “ravishing”, everyone was accomplished, every orgasm ecstatic, bad people got their just deserts and love always won. Some 25 years later, I’m still devoted and her most recent novel, Tackle! The band’s fascination with Russian prison songs of the 1930s onwards is augmented by their use of accordion, double bass, xylophone, balalaikas, singing saws and a sizeable brass section, which blast out reinvigorated versions. «The same as any British band doesn’t try to sound Russian, we, existing in the context of our culture, feel like a fish in the right water, the way we are,» Shnur says. Which might explain why they have such empathy with their fans. «Stage and audience, one big performance. But as to who is the more drunk… I still have to think about that.»

However, to dismiss these tales as posh porno on a page is reductive. Sure, the smut is what hooked me (and thousands of other schoolgirls), but what made me a lifelong devotee to these novels is their humanity. Known virgin and loather of all sexual activity, Harry Styles sent One Direction fans into a FRENZY this weekend as some keen Twitter-stalkers noticed that he’d ‘favourited’ a pornographic image back in May. ’It’s a ridiculous amount, so even when they’re written after the podcast, it was kind of before it really became what it is.

The podcast, now in its third series, already has an impressive roster of celebrity fans, some of whom have appeared on the series. Jamie, Alice and James read out a different chapter every week and, over the course of season one, the podcast became a bit of a cult hit. It’s been listened to by three million people, Elijah Wood included. The podcast is presented by three pals, Jamie, James and Alice (Levine of Radio 1 fame) and revolves around one simple idea; namely that Jamie’s dad wrote a porno. «Dad’s got big plans for the Belinda Blinked series. I’m not sure how far along that road we can go along with him… But we are going to do a series two. I just don’t want to be reading my dad’s porn every week of the year.» The author’s way with words is just as compelling, with comparisons of breasts to pomegranates and other body parts to rivets on the «fateful» Titanic.

The show is presented by Jamie Morton, his friend and colleague James Cooper, and Radio 1 DJ Alice Levine. The trio met while at university in Leeds and alongside their careers in television and radio, have worked on creative projects together and separately since. If you’ve taken public transport lately and noticed the person opposite you cringing, looking disgusted, or trying their hardest to stifle raucous laughter, there’s no need to be alarmed. They’re probably just listening to My Dad Wrote a Porno, the latest podcast to gather a cultish following among Londoners.

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This is what endears Leningrad to common people and intellectuals alike. Shnur thinks the new album’s title is one of Leningrad’s most dubious. «The interpretation buy drugs comes from the sacred Christian rite of communion,» he says, explaining no more. Schnur, who has been described as reclusive, is not a man to waste too much time on long sentences. I mean, this man has probably got a career, he’s probably got children. He came just in this and he just sat in the audience and we got sent lots of pictures.

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• Sure, the smut is what hooked me (and thousands of other schoolgirls), but what made me a lifelong devotee to these novels is their humanity.

Harry Styles favourites a porno-tweet. Everyone freaks out.

What Sick Boy forgets is that he’s a product of Old Leith, and there’s more than a touch of the minger about him. As evidenced by his decision to build on his experience as a minor pimp and become a fully-qualified flesh bandit. Lincoln in the pivotal Last House on the Left role of Fred ‘Weasel’ Podowski. Adding that Craven told Ashley West that he “edited ‘tens’ of XXX films in the early to mid-’70s”, but most are lost under a secretive pseudonym. Thus, it would seem that between The Last House on the Left and The Hills Have Eyes, the star director tackled the hidden underbelly of suburbia and its repression of sin in the most bare-naked sense with erotica.

I love that city so much – it’s just so alive with culture, history and passion. If I didn’t live in London, I think I’d have to be a Parisian. One of my favourite people to follow is my friend Klein – @kleingypsyeyes. He’s a bit of a photography magician and his photos of London are pretty epic. My friends Jessica Boshier and Kylie Babbington (plus Kylie’s bro Joel, who co-writes and directs) are a comedy sketch duo called Bosh and Babbs. London SketchFest called them the new French & Saunders and they’re hysterically funny and so clever with their sketches.

Leningrad take the art of swearing to a new level, helped by the fact that Russian swear-words are a language in themselves. Based on a linguistic system called Mat, it provides a wealth of caustic combinations, of which Shnur is a master. He tends to use them to add force to subjects such as corruption, poverty or prison conditions, or even just getting drunk and having a good time.