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Miles Jupp investigates the Plot Device that spawned a million pulp fictions.

4 Extra Debut. Miles Jupp tests "Plotto" invented by prolific pulp writer William Wallace Cook. With Val McDermid and John Harvey. From 2015 .

How many stories are there in the world? 

According to William Wallace Cook, dime novelist and prolific producer of American pulp, there were precisely 1,462 and in Plotto, his "Master Book of All Plots", he anatomised them all in the service of struggling writers everywhere. Plotto, published in 1928, was nothing less than a manual of fictional devices, intended to sit on a writer's shelf between the dictionary and the thesaurus. 

Miles Jupp investigates the Plot Device that promises to make writing easy.

With the help of crime writers:

Val McDermid
John Harvey

Producer:  David Stenhouse

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 2015.

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