Podcasts about flann o'brien

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In recent weeks and months we have covered some of the most significant historical anniversaries here in Ireland, mostly centenaries of the acts around the time of Ireland’s Independence. But the struggle for independence aside, there is another perhaps unknown anniversay that can be celebrated too. An Beal Bocht or 'The Poor Mouth' - a savage parody of the Gaelteacht island autobiography, was published 80 years ago this year borne in the mind of Myles na gCopaleen, aka Flann O’Brien, aka Brian O’Nolan - a Civil Servant writing under a wide variety of pen-names, and sometimes even maintaining a dialogue with himself in the letter pages of The Irish Times. In this weeks episode of Hidden Histories, Gavan is joined by Donal Fallon to discuss. Listen and subscribe to On The Record with Gavan Reilly on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts and Spotify.      Download, listen and subscribe on the Newstalk App.     You can also listen to Newstalk live on newstalk.com or on Alexa, by adding the Newstalk skill and asking: 'Alexa, play Newstalk'.

3 Mile Pubs, why public servants don’t get business, why cashflow is King, the Grantocracy, Hydraulic economics, and what Flann O’ Brien had to say about PhDs See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

iIrish: Songs, Stories & Shenanigans, Podcast13: And all at once Summer collapsed into Fall,” - Oscar Wilde   When you want to know, where to go, what to do, to be seen, to make a difference, you come here, to iIrish: the Truth & the Pulse of the Irish   On Wednesday, the October print of the OhioIANews will be available at 400 locations in and around Ohio, and the Interactive issue will also be online, with music and dance and friends and fun, plus November Save the Date events.   Just for a minute, we’re going to move From the Present to the Past: Let’s take a look at On This Day in Irish History: 1 October 1761 - The first major outbreak of violence by the “Whiteboys” begins in Tipperary and spreads through Munster and West Leinster.   3 October 1971 - Sean O’Riada (40), composer, notably of the music for the historical documentary Mise Eire (misha airah) I am Ireland (1959) and arranger for The Chieftains, dies. 5 October 1911 - Brian O’Nolan, alias Flann O’Brien and Myles na gCopaleen, nah g ah po leen (Myles of the Small or little Horses) wit, novelist and Irish Times columnist, is born in Strabane, Co. Tyrone.   6 October 1891 - Death of Charles Stewart Parnell, champion of tenant’s rights and co-founder of the Land League.   Moving to the present: What’s the News, What’s the News? What’s the top news we have to talk about today:   John Myers wrote a nice piece on things going on in our community from Lake Erie to Irish Eire, called Donnybrook The Supremes Two strong Irish names will be on the ballot for The Ohio Supreme Court this November, John P. O’Donnell and Sharon Kennedy. Kennedy hails from Butler County and attended Northwest High School and the University of Cincinnati. O’Donnell is from Cuyahoga County and attended St. Joseph High School and Miami University. O’Donnell ‘s Irish roots are from County Mayo whose family tree includes Ohioans Fr. Jim O’Donnell and Sr. Ignatia Gavin, the co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous. Whitehouse 2020 “Northeast Pennsylvania will be written on my heart. But Ireland will be written on my soul,” said Joe Biden on one of his visits to the Emerald Isle. The Veep’s great grandfather was born in Ballina, County Mayo (The sister city to Scranton, Pa) and his Ma, Katie Finnegan’s family is from County Louth. While the 2020 race will be a true “Donnybrook” with the outcome likely razor close, we do know that come January, either Trump or Biden will be living in a house designed and built by an Irishman, James Hoban, a native of Dublin. Erin Go Braugh. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Palace on Fleet Street has remained much the same through the decades, despite the streets around it being transformed several times over. The pub is forever associated with names like Flann O'Brien, R.M Smylie and Harry Kernoff, but what was it about this pub that attracted such literary minds- and where were the women? Donal is joined by Willie Ahern of The Palace. Support TCB: www.patreon.com/threecastlesburning Love Pints, Hate Covid.  

Poet Brendan Kennelly on Myles na gCopaleen, pseudonym of Brian O'Nolan. His 1941 darkly comic novel An Béal Bocht, translated as The Poor Mouth by Flann O'Brien, is equally a satire on the Irish as it is about the universal awfulness of being poor. From the 1975/76 'Pleasure of Gaelic Literature' series.

Flann O'Brien (also known as Myles na gCopaleen), brought his uproarious adaptations of Goethe's Faust and the Čapek brothers' Insect Play, along with his own inimitable sketch Thirst, to the Dublin stage in 1942-43. Join Birkbeck’s Joseph Brooker and Tobias Harris and reader extraordinaire Hugh Wilde to explore these rarely heard plays.

On this weeks episode (99) of FNI Wrapchat, Paul Webster is joined by Director Maurice Sweeney For the last ten years, Maurice has been regarded as one of Ireland’s leading documentary filmmakers. In more recent years he has also begun to focus on fiction. His Doc Trial of the Century, a historical drama series for Treasure Films was a critical hit for, Loose Horse and TV3. Other work includes drama documentary series Barbarians Rising for the History Channel and October Films. Having worked on diverse films from drama documentary Cromwell In Ireland to creative portraits of Irish writers Flann O’ Brien and Brendan Behan and crime writer John Connolly, Maurice also recently directed his first major drama feature, Saving The Titanic, to wide critical acclaim. The film has been sold throughout the world, including America, Canada and Britain with Channel 4 and has been watched by an estimated 10 million people. It was selected for the British Independent Film Festival, where it has just won three awards, including Best Director. It has also just won Best Feature at the Celtic Media Festival in Swansea. Saving The Titanic also won a prestigious Gold World Medal award at the New York Festivals, and the Award of Excellence in a Feature Film at the Accolade Competition in California. As a Director, Maurice has won four IFTAS. In 2010, he filmed and directed the widely acclaimed __The Forgotten Irish_, dealing with the emigration to Britain in the 1950′s. Always returning to his love of sport, Maurice has made lasting portraits of his heroes Michael O Muircheartaigh and Vincent O Brien. Other credits include the follow up to Forgotten Irish with Ireland’s Forgotten Voices. Penance, TV Series, Blood (TV Series, Virgin Media TV) I-Dolours (Documentary) NEXT UP*** FNI @ HOME is an online networking event

‘He was writing in the way that I speak. He was talking about country roads that I know….it was me.’ Author and podcaster Blindboy tells us about the writing that made him: The Third Policeman (written in 1939 and published in 1967) by Brian O'Nolan, writing under the pseudonym Flann O'Brien. Contains plot spoilers and some profanity.

Episode 41! We play another fun round of "What If...?" where we speculate wildly about our favorite writers - Marc wants Flann O'Brien to be his favorite author with "At Swim Two Birds" and Trevor reconciles with mortality in "The Death of Ivan Ilych" by Leo Tolstoy

Stump special with Kev Hopper in conversation with David Eastaugh Stump were an Anglo-Irish indie/experimental/rock group featuring former Microdisney membersMick Lynch (vocals) and Rob McKahey (drums), along with Kev Hopper (bass) and Chris Salmon (guitar). They formed in London in 1983. The original vocalist was Nick Hobbs, who left early on to form The Shrubs. Their first release was a four track EP Mud on a Colon issued in 1986 through the Ron Johnson record label. This was followed by a self released mini album Quirk Out produced by Hugh Jones which included their cult hit "Buffalo". "Buffalo" appeared on NME's influential C86 compilation and a video was made by Channel 4which was shown on The Tube. Continuous UK touring, regular coverage in the UK music press - including cover features in both the NME and Melody Maker, and a return to The Tube for a live performance of "Tupperware Stripper", ensured that Quirk Out stayed in the UK Indie Charts for 26 weeks, peaking at number 2. A session for the John Peel radio show recorded in February 1986 was released as a Peel Session EP on Strange Fruit Records in 1987. Following these successes the band were signed to Ensign Records. Their only full-length release, A Fierce Pancake (named after a term meaning 'deep conundrum' in The Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien) released in 1988 was recorded in Berlin and London produced by Holger Hiller with assistance from Stephen Street and was mixed by Hugh Jones after an unsuccessful session with US producer John Robie. The recording process was, however, often fraught with arguments amongst the band as to the sound and direction of the album.[4] However, the group were pleased with the finished results and three singles were released from the album: "Chaos", "Charlton Heston" (which reached number 72 in the UK Singles Chart in August 1988 and therefore became their only national chart success) and a re-released "Buffalo" (the latter only featuring on the US edition of the album). The album did not bring the crossover success the label had hoped for and, after recording a few b-sides and some demos, they split up at the end of the year. Stump's persistent and growing cult following prompted the release of A Fierce Pancake on iTunes; Hopper had previously reported on his website that their entire catalogue had been out of print since 1990. The "Pancake" download prompted the release of a 3-CD set containing Mud on a Colon, Quirk Out and A Fierce Pancake as well as the group's post-"Pancake" b-sides and demos and their compilation appearance, "Big End". This was released by Sanctuary Records in 2008 under the title The Complete Anthology. Mick Lynch died in December 2015.

Michael broke his teeth as Financial Controller for Palace Productions working on such projects as Neil Jordan's The Company of Wolves and The Crying Game, and Michael Caton-Jones' Scandal. In 1995 he produced This is the Sea starring Richard Harris and Gabriel Byrne for Overseas Film Group. He later produced Accelerator which was screened at Cannes and Montreal. His company Grand Pictures was established in early 2000 and has produced the award-winning TV series Paths to Freedom and Fergus's Wedding with Michael as producer. Spin the Bottle, produced by Michael and based on the cult hero of Paths to Freedom, was a domestic box office hit, won a number of IFTAs and also won Best Feature at the Boston Irish Film Festival. In 2006 Michael produced Puffball and in 2008 he produced The Race, an Irish/German co-production. Michael is also developing a slate of projects including I'll Take Care of It by Andrew Meehan and Dark Lies The Island by Kevin Barry, both to be directed by Ian FitzGibbon, and The Dead Spit of Kelly from a story by Flann O'Brien. Michael's other work includes, an Irish-German co-production shot in Ireland starring Andy Serkis and Thomas Brodie Sangster entitled Death of a Superhero, Michael also executive produced Titanic – Blood and Steel, a co-production with the Italian company DAP. His latest release "Dark Lies the Island" just recently won the audience award for best feature at the 2019 Dingle Film Festival.

A handful of TLS editors gather for the yearly process of picking through contributors' Books of the Year selections, and nominate their own books to remember; Serhii Plokhy, the winner of this year's Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction for 'Chernobyl: The history of a nuclear catastrophe', speaks to the TLS's History editor David HorspoolSelected booksThe Western Wind by Samantha HarveyCharles de Gaulle: A certain idea of France by Julian JacksonNormal People by Sally RooneyMurmur by Will EavesCirce by Madeline MillerTalking To Women by Nell DunnGhost Wall by Sarah MossThe Collected Letters of Flann O’Brien, edited by Maebh LongGrant by Ron Chernow See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

A link to The Fox & The Fish on Amazon> http://amzn.eu/d/hgGz49V "...only the truly intelligent can enjoy the sumptuous good humour of this book..." 'Titus A. Phorskin' (Tailor to The Emperor) "...prose as rare as a Yorkshire Banjax..." (Donegal Heritage Museum) "...if you don't laugh out loud at this, you need a stent fitted in your Humerus..." NHS Humour Resources Dept. And now the REAL reviews: "...the writing is so original and the dialogue so inventive and funny it cracks me up. It's brilliant, clever and lyrical. You have one hell of a talent..." (Clem Cairns, Originator of the International Fish Prize for Literature.) "...We're told we're in an amorphous corner of an imagined Ireland, but we're never far at all from the likes of Flann O'Brien, Joyce, Milligan, etc.. Julius McEarly fancies Ruby, but he's having to wait… and then there's Anarchy, Freedom, Love and Immortality in the air… and there are buses and coffins… and more intellectual business than you can shake a shillelagh at… The laugh-aloud gag to me was about the kid called Cnut, but there are sly jokes everywhere - the paint stains… all the academic stuff… the chapter titles… the pawned watch. This book is sexy, and kind, and playful. It gave me weird dreams; it is a weird dream..." (Rony Robinson: Author, Playwright and Sony/Radio Academy Award winning presenter of BBC Radio Sheffield’s Morning Show)

 John Lynn is a comedian, actor, writer and voiceover artist.  As a comedian his television credits include The Liffey Laugh (RTE), One Night Stand (BBC), Stand and Deliver (RTE), Republic of Telly (RTE), Podge and Rodge (RTE), The Apprentice: Your Fired (TV3) and The Craig Doyle Show (RTE ONE). He also co-starred with Tommy Tiernan in the Third Policeman’s Ball, a tribute to Flann O’Brien.  He has performed at the prestigious invite only Montreal Just for Laughs Comedy Festival, while being a regular at the Kilkenny Cat Laughs and Iveagh Gardens Comedy Carnival. He made his debut at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2011 with his first solo show Social Networking. In 2012 and 2013 he was invited to join Tom Stade as a special guest on his nationwide UK tours playing to packed houses across the UK. I chatted to John during his run the Edinburgh Fringe festival.

The breakthrough star of Irish twitter in 2018 must surely be @ruthiefizz – while other tweeters have hurled poorly-cogitated stock arguments at each other, her “Other Ireland” account has used the possibilities of the format to explore important ideas like consent, misogyny and mental health while also sharing informative and fancy facts about (and pictures of) wildlife. What her thousands of followers may not know, however, is that Ruth Fitzpatrick has a solid academic background in Celtic Civilisation and a special interest in Breton, medieval Welsh and Manx Gaeilge. In this week’s episode, Ruthie and Motherfoclóir regular Peadar terrorise Darach has he tries to do a serious interview about these serious topics in an absurdist subversion of the authorial voice worthy of Flann O’Brien himself. Having said that, there are still some animal names in Irish and insights into being sound and changing minds in an online world full of berks. Find cute animal names in Irish here: https://twitter.com/i/moments/796746870123102208 --- Contact the show at https://twitter.com/motherfocloir or email us at motherfocloir@headstuff.org.

Panel: Laura Lovejoy | University College Dublin Laura completed her PhD at University College Dublin in 2016. Her dissertation explored how a collection of modernist novels published in the 1930s by James Joyce, Flann O’Brien, Samuel Beckett and Elizabeth Bowen engaged with ideas of cultural degeneration as they were manifest in the politics of the Irish Free State. Kieron Fairweather | Northumbria University Kieron is in his second year of PhD studies in English Literature at Northumbria University. His research focuses on the works of Jean Rhys and Djuna Barnes and looks to rework practices of flânerie and psychogeography through the scope of affect studies. Matilda Blackwell | University of Birmingham Matilda is in the first year of her PhD in English Literature at the University of Birmingham, funded by the Midlands3Cities doctoral training partnership. Her research focuses on the bathroom as a performative/political/hygienic space in early twentieth- century British literature, particularly as it intersects with themes of queerness and the materiality of the body. Elizabeth O’Connor | University of Birmingham Elizabeth is a third year PhD student at the University of Birmingham, researching the presence and significance of shore imagery in the poetry and prose of H.D. Her research interests are in modern poetry, modernism, ecocriticism, ecofeminism and nature-writing. She is Book Review Editor for the postgraduate research publication The Birmingham Journal of Literature and Language, and her recent publications include ‘”Pushing on Through Transparencies”: H.D.’s Shores and the Creation of New Space’, antae 3.1 (April 2016): 36-46

Who is the man Myles na gCopaleen? Brian O'Nolan was regarded as a major figure in twentieth century Irish literature. His novelswere written under the pen name Flann O'Brien, whilst his satirical columns were written under Myles na gCopaleen. Various friends and colleagues remember different aspects of the man. Produced by John Skehan.

Host Darach and Motherfoclóir regular Siún share many obsessions, but the one they discuss on today's show is the writer Flann O'Brien… also known as Myles na gCopeleen… also known as Brian O'Nolan. As a displaced Northerner, O'Nolan was an outsider in the Irish language word in the Free State, belonging to neither the official Gaeltachts nor the bourgeois Dublin revivalists. This - as well as the restrictions placed on published writings by civil servants - contributed to a body of writing that is broadly hilarious and subtly subversive, darkly bitter and wildly imaginative. Darach and Siún consider his lasting appeal, how he was the 1930s equivalent of a Twitter superstar and how parts of his journalism predict today's world of social networks. You can check out Siún's fab as Gaeilge podcast Beo Ar Éigean at https://www.rte.ie/gaeilge/beo-ar-eigean/ --- Contact the show at https://twitter.com/motherfocloir or email us at motherfocloir@headstuff.org.

Materials engineer and presenter Mark Miodownik and Diana Henry, the food writer for the Sunday Telegraph, tell Harriett Gilbert about the books they love. Books tossed into the discussion are: The Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien, Blood, Bones & Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef by Gabrielle Hamilton and The Soul of Kindness by Elizabeth Taylor. Producer Beth O'Dea.

In the January 2018 episode, Juliet is joined by Jonathan Coe (author of 'Like a Fiery Elephant: The Story of B.S. Johnson' and many other works) and Jennifer Hodgson (editor of 'The Unmapped Country', a collection of stories and fragments by Ann Quin). They discuss Britain's fertile post-war 'experimental' literary scene: its cultural contexts, its successes and failures, and its legacy. WORKS REFERENCED NOVELS Paul Ableman – I Hear Voices (1958) Kingsley Amis – Lucky Jim (1954) Francis Booth - Amongst Those Left: The British Experimental Novel 1940-1980 (1982) John Braine – Room at the Top (1957) Alan Burns – The Angry Brigade: A Documentary Novel (1974) Robert Burton – The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621) Jonathan Coe – An Accidental Woman (1987) Jonathan Coe – Like a Fiery Elephant: The Story of B. S. Johnson (2004) Jonathan Coe – What a Carve-Up! (1994) Henry Green - Caught (1943) Rayner Heppenstall – The Blaze of Noon (1939) Rayner Heppenstall – Four Absentees (1960) Rayner Heppenstall – The Fourfold Tradition (1961) Rayner Heppenstall – The Lesser Infortune (1953) Rayner Heppenstall – Saturnine (1943) Rayner Heppenstall & Michael Innes – Three Tales of Hamlet (1950) B. S. Johnson – Aren’t You Rather Young to be Writing Your Memoirs? (1973) B. S. Johnson – Christie Malry’s Own Double-Entry (1971) B. S. Johnson – See the Old Lady Decently (1973) B. S. Johnson – Travelling People (1963) B. S. Johnson – The Unfortunates (1969) Anna Kavan – Ice (1967) D. H. Lawrence – Lady Chatterley’s Lover (1928) Rosamund Lehmann – The Echoing Grove (1953) Iris Murdoch – Under the Net (1954) George Orwell – Animal Farm (1945) John Osborne – Look Back in Anger (1956) Ann Quin – Berg (1964) Ann Quin – Passages (1969) Ann Quin – Three (1966) Ann Quin – Tripticks (1972) Ann Quin – The Unmapped Country (edited by Jennifer Hodgson, 2018) Alan Sillitoe – Raw Material (1972) Alan Sillitoe – Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1958) Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1759-1766) David Storey – This Sporting Life (1960) Philip Tew, B. S. Johnson: A Critical Reading (2001) John Wain – Hurry On Down (1953) Colin Wilson – The Outsider (1956) AUTHORS (a selection) J. G. Ballard, Richard Beard, Samuel Beckett, Rosalind Belben, John Berger, Claire-Louise Bennett, Christine Brooke-Rose, Elizabeth Bowen, Anthony Burgess, William S. Burroughs, John Calder, Angela Carter, Ivy Compton-Burnett, Robert Creeley, Marguerite Duras, Eva Figes, Patrick Hamilton, Wilson Harris, James Joyce, Chris Kraus, Hari Kunzru, David Lodge, Eimear McBride, Nicholas Mosley, Thomas Nash, Jeff Nuttall, Robert Nye, Flann O'Brien, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Nathalie Sarraute, Will Self, Penelope Shuttle, Claude Simon, Stevie Smith, Zadie Smith, Jonathan Swift, Emma Tennant, Philip Toynbee, Alexander Trocchi, John Wheway, Heathcote Williams FILMS/TV B. S. Johnson on Samuel Johnson (London Weekend Television programme, 1971) Calling Mr. Smith (dir. Franciszka & Stefan Themerson, 1943) Christie Malry’s Own Double-Entry (dir. Paul Tickell, 2001) The Eye and the Ear (dir. Franciszka & Stefan Themerson, 1944) Last Year in Marienbad (dir. Alain Resnais, 1961) London Film-Makers' Co-operative Peter Whitehead Independent Group (British Pop Art collective, 1952-55) ARTICLES Hélène Cixous, ‘Le roman experimental de Grand-Bretagne’ (Le Monde, 1967)

Goldfrapp's Will Gregory is centre-stage at the Colston Hall in Bristol to tell Matthew Parris why he feels a kinship with Irish writer Flann O'Brien whose books 'At Swim-Two-Birds' and 'The Third Policeman' are now hailed as literary masterpieces but which only came to prominence after the author's death. Carol Taaffe, who has written about Flann, helps make sense of the man who wrote under three pseudonyms - Brian O'Nolan, Flann O'Brien, and Myles na gCopaleen. They look more closely at the novels and newspaper column he wrote alongside his job in the Civil Service, whilst maintaining a steady presence in Dublin's pubs. Will reads extracts he believes illustrate the brilliance with which O'Brien slips between realism and surrealism, and Carol sheds light on who said that 'At Swim-Two-Birds' "....was just the book to give your Sister if she's a loud dirty boozy girl." Producer: Toby Field.

Panel: Jennifer Janechek | University of Iowa Dr. Jennifer Janechek is a Visiting Assistant Professor of English at the University of Iowa. Her dissertation and now book project, “‘A Machine to Hear for Them’: Telephony, Modernism, and the Mother Tongue,” traces a new aurality in British literary modernism that emerged in response to contemporary advances in communication engineering, particularly those related to telephony. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Texas Studies in Literature and Language, The Conradian, Dickens Studies Annual, The Victorian, Literature/Film Quarterly, and Nineteenth-Century Disability: Cultures & Contexts. She is also the recipient of the Bruce Harkness Young Conrad Scholar Award from the Joseph Conrad Society of America. Tamara Radak | University of Vienna Tamara Radak is a lecturer and PhD candidate at the University of Vienna. She is currently preparing a monograph on anti-closural narratives in the novels of James Joyce, Flann O’Brien, Virginia Woolf, and Ernest Hemingway, titled No(n)Sense of an Ending? Modernist Aporias of Closure. She was the host organiser of Irish Modernisms: Gaps, Conjectures, Possibilities (University of Vienna, 2016) and has published in James Joyce Quarterly, European Joyce Studies, James Joyce Literary Supplement, and the Flann O’Brien-themed The Parish Review. Her most recent essay, forthcoming in Flann O’Brien: Problems with Authority (Cork UP, 2017), applies hypertext and possible worlds theory to Flann O’Brien’s The Third Policeman. Leonie Thomas | University of Bristol Leonie Thomas is an AHRC funded PhD student, co-supervised at the Universities of Exeter and Bristol. Her doctoral project, entitled “Wireless Women: Listening-In to Forgotten Female Voices at the BBC, 1922-1955”, explores the influence of a diverse range of female writers on the cultural output of the BBC. She has presented at The Space Between Society’s annual conference in McGill in 2016, as well as at the “Radio Modernisms” conference hosted by the British Library in June 2016. She has a forthcoming article, entitled “Making Waves: Una Marson at the BBC”, in Media History and she has been invited to speak as part of Kings College London’s celebration of the BBC World Service in October 2018.

In the first of the episodes we recorded at this year’s Fringe Festival, Josie and Robin are joined by writer and performer Erin McGathy (Community, HarmonQuest) who is in Edinburgh with her solo show MurderTown. As such there’s much talk of murder mystery novels rom the likes of Agatha Christie and Jim Thompson. Plus books on rituals, self help, James Joyce, Flann O’Brien and the great American classics Erin read at high school. To hear an extended version of this, and other episodes, plus bonus interviews, videos and more become a supporter of the show at patreon.com/bookshambles

Following the political turbulence of the last 12 months, Birkbeck’s 2017 Arts Week programme tackles some of the most topical issues facing society today through theatre, literature, poetry, photography, cinema and debate. Running from Monday 15 to Friday 19 May, the annual celebration of arts and culture will feature more than 50 free events for the public to attend. In this podcast we give listeners a taster of the thought-provoking and intriguing topics that they will encounter during Arts Week. Dr Leslie Topp talks about political landscapes in Bengal, Nazi Germany and New York City, while Dr Joseph Brooker describes the fantastical work, The Third Policeman, by Flann O'Brien as "Alice in Wonderland meets Kafka, in Ireland". Arts Week - www.bbk.ac.uk/artsweek

This week Josie and Robin are joined by writer, performer and comedian Noel Fielding. There's talk of Richard Braughtigan, Flann O'Brien and everyone's favourite pop-up books. Also lots of stuff we had to bleep out so we didn't get sued...