Afternoon all,
When Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett wrote a book together people asked them who had written each bit. So they agreed not to say too much about the writing process – just giving away who had written a few characters. The book, Good Omens - about the world coming to an end just after teatime on a Saturday - was a cult hit. Twenty-five years later, people still ask who wrote which bit. But Neil says the truth is they don’t really know. There are bits that they were both convinced they had written, and bits they were both convinced they hadn’t written. They spent nine weeks making long phone calls, reading their work trying to make the other laugh. Then they’d scurry off to write the next bit before the other only to come back and rewrite each other, footnote each other’s pages, sometimes even footnote each other’s footnotes.
Good Omens: How Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett wrote a bookChopin’s heart is kept in a jar in a church in Warsaw. Or maybe it isn't. Earlier this year it was investigated to determine the cause of the composer’s death. When we say investigated, it wasn’t taken out of the jar or anything. Just looked at. Rather intensely, we assume. There was some opposition to, you know, actually taking it out of the jar. Some suspect this is because a study of the DNA might reveal it isn't actually his heart at all.
The mystery of Chopin's death#Bringbackourgirls, The ice bucket challenge and Kim Kardashian’s behind were all furiously tweeted and retweeted and threetweeted* in 2014. But how much did you actually take in about these stories?
Check before you wade in to some heavy reflection over the turkey later this week:
Quiz of the year part pt 2: The year gone viralAnd if that has left you hungry for more tests of your news memory, try our quotes quiz:
Quiz of the year pt 1: Who said that?
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