Crime Time FM

The Crime Writers' Association Dagger Awards Night coverage, including guests speakers and the awarding of the Daggers. The most respected crime awards in Britain.
Introduction by hosts Victoria Selman and Gregg Mosse
Address of the Chair Nadine Matheson
Key Note Speech Denise Mina 
The Daggers:
The Red Herring - Fiona Veitch Smith (awarded by Nadine Matheson)
The Emerging Dagger - Michael Nikitin  (awarded by Dea Parkin & Jane Harper)
The Dagger in the Library - Tim Sullivan (awarded by Leigh Russell)
The Dagger for the best Crime Publisher - Bitter Lemon Press (awarded by DV Bishop)
The Short Story Dagger - Ambrose Parry (awarded by Chris Simmonds)
Crime Fiction in Translation - Antti Tuomainen  (awarded by Maxim Jakubowski)
The ALCS Dagger - Susannah Stapleton (awarded by Sir Brian Keith) 
The Diamond Dagger - Mark Billingham (awarded by Mick Herron)*
The Historical Dagger - Nina Allan (awarded by Morgan Witzel) 
The Whodunnit Dagger - Mel Pennant (awarded by Gytha Lodge)
The Twisted Dagger -  Sarah Pinborough (awarded by Tracy Fenton)
First Novel Dagger - Laura McCluskey (awarded by Victoria Dowd)
The Steel Dagger - SA Cosby (awarded by Amanda Douglas)
The Gold Dagger - Abigail Dean (awarded by Richard Reynolds)
Sponsors: the ALCS sponsors the Gold Dagger for non-fiction, IFP sponsors the Steel Dagger, ILS sponsors the John Creasey First Novel, Fiction in Translation is sponsored by the Jakubowski family in honour of Dolores Jakubowski, the Historical Dagger is sponsored by Morgan Witzel in memory of Dr. Marilyn Livingstone, The Emerging Author Dagger is sponsored by Fiction Feedback, KAA sponsors the Gold Dagger for fiction. * The Diamond Dagger is sponsored by Karen Baugh Menuhin.
Crime Time FM is proud to be the Official Podcast of The CWA Dagger Awards.
Thank you to all the brilliant people at the CWA who run and manage the organisation and make this such a special night.

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Crime Time

Crime Time FM is the official podcast of
Gwyl Crime Cymru Festival 2023 & 2025
CrimeFest 2023
CWA Daggers 2023-2026 & National Crime Reading Month
& Newcastle Noir 2023 and 2024
2024 Slaughterfest,

Paul Burke takes a look at the new releases for the Summer.
All Murderers Aboard by David Fennell
The End of Vodka by Oscar de Muriel
The Venetian Redemption by Philip Gwynne Jones
The Tailor by Tim Sullivan
Blood Enemy by Douglas Jackson
The Pinnacle by Abir Mukherjee
Atomic Coffin by Benedict Anning
Liar Liar by Luca Veste
The Night Stairs by Erin Kelly
The Hotel Manager's Guide to Murder by Erlandur Arason
Can You Solve the Murder: The Forest of Death by Antony Johnston
Watching the Detectives ed. Paul Burke
Blink & Shoot by Paul D. Brazill
Paul Burke is the editor of Crime Time FM. His first book Spies on Screen From Silent to Streaming will be published this year.
Produced by Junkyard Dog

Crime Time

Crime Time FM is the official podcast of
Gwyl Crime Cymru Festival 2023 & 2025
CrimeFest 2023
CWA Daggers 2023-2026 & National Crime Reading Month
& Newcastle Noir 2023 and 2024
2024 Slaughterfest,

CWA DAGGER SPECIALS - Paul Burke chats to Crime Writers Association Diamond Dagger Winner MARK BILLINGHAM, Bread & Circuses - agitprop, Maid Marian and Her Merry Men, Stand Up, TV writing, Tom Thorne, Declan Miller, taking control with fiction.
Diamond Dagger sponsored by Karen Baugh Menuhin
The most prestigious Dagger of all, awarded for a lifetime contribution to English-language crime writing.
The Shadow Step: It's Detective Miller's deadliest dance...
The Shadow Step: One taken simultaneously by a pair of dancers facing the same direction, one of them behind and slightly shifted leftwards ('in the shadow')
Typically, such a step perfectly demonstrates synchronized elegance. It showcases a couple in near telepathic harmony with one another. It does not normally end with someone stone-dead in a lake.
DS Declan Miller is a magnet for strange cases, but how can he catch a killer when the man confessing to the crime is clearly innocent? Things rapidly escalate when the murder that isn't really a murder at all attracts the unwanted attention of a drugs Queenpin, a deranged ex-squaddie and a lovesick gangland enforcer. Then a student is kidnapped...
Throw in a wobbly dog, a pair of ceramic leopards and the distracting smell from a local biscuit factory, and - if he wants to save a young man's life - Miller has little choice but to waltz all the way into the shadows.
Mark Billingham is one of the UK's most acclaimed and popular crime writers. A former actor, television writer and stand-up comedian, his series of novels featuring D.I. Tom Thorne has twice won him the Crime Novel Of The Year Award as well as the Sherlock Award for Best British Detective and been nominated for seven CWA Daggers. His standalone thriller IN THE DARK was chosen as one of the twelve best books of the year by the Times and his debut novel, SLEEPYHEAD was chosen by the Sunday Times as one of the 100 books that had shaped the decade. Each of his novels has been a Sunday Times Top Ten bestseller. A television series based on the Thorne novels was screened in Autumn 2010, starring David Morrissey as Tom Thorne and a BBC series based on the standalone thrillers IN THE DARK and TIME OF DEATH was shown in 2017. Mark is also a member of Fun Lovin' Crime Writers. Performing alongside Val McDermid, Chris Brookmyre, Stuart Neville, Doug Johnstone and Luca Veste, this band of frustrated rockers murders songs for fun at literary festivals worldwide.
Paul Burke is the editor of Crime Time FM. His first book Spies on Screen: From Silent to Streaming will be published in 2026.
Produced by Junkyard Dog

Crime Time

Crime Time FM is the official podcast of
Gwyl Crime Cymru Festival 2023 & 2025
CrimeFest 2023
CWA Daggers 2023-2026 & National Crime Reading Month
& Newcastle Noir 2023 and 2024
2024 Slaughterfest,

CWA Daggers Special: Episode One The Shortlists -Interviews with five Dagger Shortlisted authors in the run up to Awards Night announcements on 2nd July.
Nicci Cloke Her Many Faces - Twisted Dagger 
Victoria Goldman Little Secrets - Whodunnit Dagger
Rob McInroy Barvick Falls - Historical Dagger sponsored by Morgen Witzel in honour of Dr. Marilyn Livingstone.
Michael Wood Waiting Short Story Dagger
Noelle W Ihli Such Quiet Girls - The Ian Fleming Steel Dagger
Crime Time FM is the official podcast for the CWA Daggers.
Interviewer Paul Burke is the presenter of CTFM, his 1st book SPIES ON SCREEN will be published in September.
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Crime Time

Crime Time FM is the official podcast of
Gwyl Crime Cymru Festival 2023 & 2025
CrimeFest 2023
CWA Daggers 2023-2026 & National Crime Reading Month
& Newcastle Noir 2023 and 2024
2024 Slaughterfest,

Season 10. Episode 6. #OnTheSofaWithVictoria 
AMANDA PROWSE (15 Minutes) Amanda has published 45 books in a decade and discusses her unique way of writing complete stories in her head before committing a word to paper. While ELEANOR RAY [Elizabeth Mundy] (Everything is Beautiful) shares her more methodical approach to writing, particularly how having young children influences your writing style.
Recommended: The Lemony Snicket series. The Great Gatsby F Scott Fitzgerald.
Mentions: See the Stars Eleanor Ray, Will You Remember Me Amanda Prowse.
Victoria Selman is a Sunday Times and Amazon Charts #1 bestselling thriller author. She has written a number of critically acclaimed novels including the hit Ziba MacKenzie series and Truly Darkly Deeply which was a Spring 2023 Richard & Judy Book Club pick.
Victoria has been shortlisted for the ThrillZone Award, 2025, the Fingerprint Thriller of the Year Award, 2023, CWA Short Story Dagger, 2022 and CWA Debut Dagger, 2017 and longlisted for the Theakston's Crime Novel of the Year Award, 2023.
Amazon Author Page: https://amzn.to/3xmvMeS
Website for news and giveaways: http://www.victoriaselmanauthor.com
Twitter: @VictoriaSelman
Instagram: @VictoriaSelmanAuthor
Produced by Junkyard Dog

Crime Time

Crime Time FM is the official podcast of
Gwyl Crime Cymru Festival 2023 & 2025
CrimeFest 2023
CWA Daggers 2023-2026 & National Crime Reading Month
& Newcastle Noir 2023 and 2024
2024 Slaughterfest,