Podcasts about Fun Palaces

We hear from the ridiculously prolific Stella Duffy about loss, endings,  mortality, the value of living with a sense of our ageing instead of denying it, and the exquisite possibilities for being ‘more ourselves' that this brings. Stella is hugely generous with sharing her life experience and there are some beautifully profound moments in this interview. Stella Duffy has completed a doctorate in Existential Psychotherapy and her research is in the embodied experience of postmenopause. As well as her private psychotherapy practice, she has worked in NHS cancer psychological support and hospice bereavement support.  Alongside her therapy work, Stella is the award-winning writer of seventeen novels, over seventy short stories, and fifteen plays, and worked in theatre for over thirty-five years as an actor, director, facilitator, and improvisor. The co-founder and, for eight years, the co-director of Fun Palaces working with communities and inclusion across the UK, Stella has been active in equalities and diversity work in the arts and LGBTQ+ communities for many decades. In 2016 she was awarded the OBE for Services to the Arts. She is also a yoga teacher, leading regular workshops in yoga for writing.  We also talk about the ubiquity with which HRT is prescribed (wrongly) for all menopause ailments, often without evidence, using misogynistic and ageist language that causes immense harm.Stella's linksBlog (writing, cancer, in/fertility, politics, life): https://stelladuffy.blog/Therapy site: https://stelladuffytherapy.co.uk/Insta: @stellduffy & @stelladuffytherapyX/Twitter: @stellduffyThreads: @stellduffyPerimenopause A Call to Love weekend retreat is 27th-28th April 2024 and you can find more about it here https://www.katecodrington.co.uk/perimenopause-a-call-to-love-weekend-retreat/Soaring Child: Thriving with ADHDA place where you will learn how to address your child's ADHD symptoms naturally..Listen on: Apple Podcasts SpotifyPlease support Life An Inside Job by buying me a cuppa here https://www.buymeacoffee.com/katecodringtonMore information about KateFree resource library: https://mailchi.mp/a8a0fa08678a/resource-libraryInstagram @kate_codringtonSecond Spring: the self-care guide to menopause is available from your favourite bookshopPerimenopause Unwrapped online course: https://woman-kind.co.uk/perimenopause-unwrapped-online-course/Perimenopause Starter Kit: https://www.katecodrington.co.uk/perimenopause-starter-kit-online-course/MusicTrust Me (instrumental) by RYYZNArtworkKate's portrait by Lori Fitzdoodles

Stella Duffy is completing a doctorate training in Existential Psychotherapy and her research is in the embodied experience of postmenopause.  Alongside her therapy work, Stella is an award-winning writer of seventeen novels, over seventy short stories and fifteen plays and worked in theatre for over thirty-five years as an actor, director, facilitator and improvisor. She has been active in equalities and inclusion work in the arts, LGBTQ+ and feminist communities for many decades, and was the co-founder and co-director of the UK-wide Fun Palaces campaign for cultural democracy. She is also a yoga teacher, leading regular workshops in yoga for writing and offers creative mentoring support.    Stella has been postmenopausal since chemotherapy for her first cancer in her mid-30s, and has a special interest in life after menopause – a conversation sadly lacking in the prevalent current discourse.   In this episode we talk about Stella's journey to the PhD from a working-class background in South East London as the youngest of seven children.   Stella also talks about her experience of cancer and the therapeutic intervention that changed her perspective.   We reflect on the embodied nature of the PhD that Stella is engaged with both as a researcher and through her own lived experience of her body.   We finish with encouragement to check-in with your senses.   You can find out more about Stella's work here: stelladuffytherapy.co.uk If you would like a useful weekly email to support you on your PhD journey you can sign up for ‘Notes from the Life Raft' here:  https://mailchi.mp/f2dce91955c6/notes-from-the-life-raft

In this episode of Frankly Speaking with Lynne Franks and Friends, Lynne is joined by her friend Stella Duffy, discussing her multi-faceted career, from actor to director to author to practicing psychotherapist. They also discuss their close family connection and Stella's journey to health and personal happiness.The two share their experiences in their practise of Buddhism, how Stella created spaces for community storytelling and take a close look at post menopause - shifting the conversation from it being just purely a medical experience but also a societal, cultural, psychological and emotional experience.Stella Duffy is an award-winning writer of seventeen novels, over seventy short stories and fourteen plays. She worked in theatre for over thirty-five years as an actor, director and facilitator. She is the co-founder and until January 2021 was co-director of the Fun Palaces campaign supporting community-led connection, with over 750,000 local participants across the UK. She received the OBE for Services to the Arts in 2016. She is also a yoga teacher and runs yoga-for-writing workshops.Stella is in the third year of a doctorate training in Existential Psychotherapy, her research is in the embodied experience of postmenopausal. Alongside her private psychotherapy practice, she works in an NHS cancer support service and a low-cost community mental health service. As a campaigner Stella was on the founding steering committee of the Women's Equality Party, has worked for LGBTQ+ equalities for many decades, and is a member of Gateway Women'sChildless Elderwomen, the #NoMoCrones.Links Stella Duffy's website Follow @stellduffy on Instagram Follow @stellduffy on Twitter If you like what you hear, and want to find out more about our community of like-minded women who believe in living and working in alignment with the feminine values of collaboration, authenticity and most of all, love, you can learn more at seednetwork.com and join the community in the SEED Hub Club by visiting theseedhub.club.You can find Lynne on Instagram @lynnejfranks, Facebook @lynnefranksobe, Twitter @Lynne_Franks, and LinkedIn @Lynne Franks OBE.Music by Joolz Barker

In this podcast, we meet librarian Zoey Dixon who will tell you all about why Fun Palaces are so perfect suited to libraries.    About Fun Palaces Stella Duffy and Sarah-Jane Rawlings co-founded Fun Palaces in 2013 to create a celebration of Joan Littlewood's centenary on the 6th October 2014. As more communities, individuals and organisations across the UK asked if they could join in, it quickly became clear that it was never going to be a one-off.   Developed from Joan Littlewood and Cedric Price's never-built 1960s vision of one building for all arts and science, free to the local community of the East End, the 21st century Fun Palaces is about reclaiming public space, encouraging cultural venues to throw open their doors, shining a light on unsung community activism and supporting local people to step up to co-create their own community events. Learning from the communities that take part every year, Fun Palaces has changed and grown, and is now as varied as the people who take part.    In the UK and beyond, Fun Palaces are happening in lots of different shapes and sizes - in garden in Orkney, on streets and parks in London, on a village fence post in North Wales, a canal towpath in Sheffield, a travelling wheelbarrow in Mansfield, and even on a boat off the coast of Cornwall.    Thanks for listening to the Fun Palaces podcast. If you like what you hear please do subscribe to it and also rate and review us.    Credits:  Find out more at: www.funpalaces.co.uk Follow us on Twitter: @FunPalaces Follow us on Instagram: @FunPalaces Producer: Dan Vo  Editor: Samuel Gunn Guests: Zoe Dixon

In this fifth podcast, host Dan Vo explores Tiny Changes, one of the core aspeects of Fun Palaces.   He'll speak with Carine Osmont in Farnham and Rizia Ali from the Boundary Estate in London about the tiny changes they've seen in their communities and in themselves in their time with Fun Palaces.    About Fun Palaces Stella Duffy and Sarah-Jane Rawlings co-founded Fun Palaces in 2013 to create a celebration of Joan Littlewood's centenary on the 6th October 2014. As more communities, individuals and organisations across the UK asked if they could join in, it quickly became clear that it was never going to be a one-off.   Developed from Joan Littlewood and Cedric Price's never-built 1960s vision of one building for all arts and science, free to the local community of the East End, the 21st century Fun Palaces is about reclaiming public space, encouraging cultural venues to throw open their doors, shining a light on unsung community activism and supporting local people to step up to co-create their own community events. Learning from the communities that take part every year, Fun Palaces has changed and grown, and is now as varied as the people who take part.    This year the emphasis was on tiny Fun Palaces - safe, socially-distanced, with community connection at their heart - and how anyone can get involved - even now.    Thanks for listening to the Fun Palaces podcast. If you like what you hear please do subscribe to it and also rate and review us.    Credits:  Find out more at: www.funpalaces.co.uk Follow us on Twitter: @FunPalaces Follow us on Instagram: @FunPalaces Producer: Dan Vo  Editor: Samuel Gunn Guests: Rizia Ali and Carine Osmont

Today it's a Fun Palaces conversation between Kirsty Lothian and Makala Cheung the new co-directors of Fun Palaces. It's a podcast that pairs with the episode with Stella Duffy and Sarah-Jane Rawlings, picking up where they left off and giving us an idea of their vision for the future. But still asking, "What would Stella and Sarah-Jane do?"!    About Fun Palaces Stella Duffy and Sarah-Jane Rawlings co-founded Fun Palaces in 2013 to create a celebration of Joan Littlewood's centenary on the 6th October 2014. As more communities, individuals and organisations across the UK asked if they could join in, it quickly became clear that it was never going to be a one-off. Recently Kirsty Lothian and Makala Cheung became co-directors of the organisation.   Developed from Joan Littlewood and Cedric Price's never-built 1960s vision of one building for all arts and science, free to the local community of the East End, the 21st century Fun Palaces is about reclaiming public space, encouraging cultural venues to throw open their doors, shining a light on unsung community activism and supporting local people to step up to co-create their own community events. Learning from the communities that take part every year, Fun Palaces has changed and grown, and is now as varied as the people who take part.    This year Fun Palaces will run again in October. Get involved by registering your Fun Palaces event now.   Thanks for listening to the Fun Palaces podcast. If you like what you hear please do subscribe to it and also rate and review us.    Credits:  Find out more at: www.funpalaces.co.uk Follow us on Twitter: @FunPalaces Follow us on Instagram: @FunPalaces Producer: Dan Vo  Audio mix: Lewis Campbell Music mix: Samuel Gunn Guests: Kirsty Lothian and Makala Cheung.

It is almost twenty years since contemporary art took a ‘participation turn'. Now, just about every museum or theatre company has a participation or engagement department. It is nothing short of orthodoxy that one of art's core roles is to reach out to audiences beyond art institutions - and paradoxically it is often art institutions that mandate this function. How can we reconcile the somewhat forgotten history - and ongoing practice - of the community arts with the recent rise of participatory art, social practice, or outreach and engagement? François Matarasso speaks to Pierre d'Alancaisez about his long-term engagement in community art practice, the meanings of participation and cultural democracy, and his proposals for thinking about cultural and artistic participation as a fundamental human right. We talk about the history of the community arts movement in the UK, his influential 1997 paper Use or Ornament, ways of supporting cultural democracy through projects like Fun Palaces, and reaching peak culture. François Matarasso is a community artist, writer, and researcher, and one of the co-creators of the 2020 Rome Charter. A Restless Art is available as an open-access download here and in print here. Pierre d'Alancaisez is a contemporary art curator, cultural strategist, researcher. Sometime scientist, financial services professional. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

It is almost twenty years since contemporary art took a ‘participation turn'. Now, just about every museum or theatre company has a participation or engagement department. It is nothing short of orthodoxy that one of art's core roles is to reach out to audiences beyond art institutions - and paradoxically it is often art institutions that mandate this function. How can we reconcile the somewhat forgotten history - and ongoing practice - of the community arts with the recent rise of participatory art, social practice, or outreach and engagement? François Matarasso speaks to Pierre d'Alancaisez about his long-term engagement in community art practice, the meanings of participation and cultural democracy, and his proposals for thinking about cultural and artistic participation as a fundamental human right. We talk about the history of the community arts movement in the UK, his influential 1997 paper Use or Ornament, ways of supporting cultural democracy through projects like Fun Palaces, and reaching peak culture. François Matarasso is a community artist, writer, and researcher, and one of the co-creators of the 2020 Rome Charter. A Restless Art is available as an open-access download here and in print here. Pierre d'Alancaisez is a contemporary art curator, cultural strategist, researcher. Sometime scientist, financial services professional. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/critical-theory

A Restless Art How participation won, and why it matters François Matarasso Published by Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (open access), 2019 ISBN 978­1­903080­20­7 It is almost twenty years since contemporary art took a ‘participation turn'. Now, just about every museum or theatre company has a participation or engagement department. It is nothing short of orthodoxy that one of art's core roles is to reach out to audiences beyond art institutions – and paradoxically it is often art institutions that mandate this function. How can we reconcile the somewhat forgotten history – and ongoing practice – of the community arts with the recent rise of participatory art, social practice, or outreach and engagement? François Matarasso speaks to Pierre d'Alancaisez about his long-term engagement in community art practice, the meanings of participation and cultural democracy, and his proposals for thinking about cultural and artistic participation as a fundamental human right. We talk about the history of the community arts movement in the UK, his influential 1997 paper Use or Ornament, ways of supporting cultural democracy through projects like Fun Palaces, and reaching peak culture. François Matarasso is a community artist, writer, and researcher, and one of the co-creators of the 2020 Rome Charter.

Today it's a Fun Palaces conversation between Stella Duffy and Sarah-Jane Rawlings as they prepare to step down as co-directors and say farewell (although it's really not goodbye forever!).    About Fun Palaces Stella Duffy and Sarah-Jane Rawlings co-founded Fun Palaces in 2013 to create a celebration of Joan Littlewood's centenary on the 6th October 2014. As more communities, individuals and organisations across the UK asked if they could join in, it quickly became clear that it was never going to be a one-off.   Developed from Joan Littlewood and Cedric Price's never-built 1960s vision of one building for all arts and science, free to the local community of the East End, the 21st century Fun Palaces is about reclaiming public space, encouraging cultural venues to throw open their doors, shining a light on unsung community activism and supporting local people to step up to co-create their own community events. Learning from the communities that take part every year, Fun Palaces has changed and grown, and is now as varied as the people who take part.    This year the emphasis was on tiny Fun Palaces - safe, socially-distanced, with community connection at their heart - and how anyone can get involved - even now.    Thanks for listening to the Fun Palaces podcast. If you like what you hear please do subscribe to it and also rate and review us.    Credits:  Find out more at: www.funpalaces.co.uk Follow us on Twitter: @FunPalaces Follow us on Instagram: @FunPalaces Producer: Dan Vo  Editor: Samuel Gunn Guests: Peter Lower, Yvonne Marjo, Ruth Murray, Degna Stone. Made with help from: Stella Duffy, Sarah Jane Rawlings, Ravina Bajwa, Kirsty Lothian and Daniel King.

How can we write a life unexpected?Author of seventeen novels, fourteen plays, theatre-maker, co-director of Fun Palaces and Stonewall writer of the year Stella Duffy OBE is an inspiration of hard-won wisdom and appetite for learning new things. She joins Lucy Scholes for a conversation about living without children in a pro-natalist society, how existentialism and yoga inform her writing and the time she met Patricia Highsmith - as well as why Bridgerton is brilliant. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In this second podcast, host Dan Vo explores Tiny Connections, one of the core aspeects of Fun Palaces.   He'll speak with Degna Stone in Newcastle, Ruth Murray from New Mills and Yvonne Marjo from the Isle of Mull in Scotland about how they got involved with the Fun Palaces weekend with A Manifesto of Tiny Commitments. We also meet Peter Lower from Chippenham who we'll unwittingly take on a journey to write his own manifesto!   About Fun Palaces Stella Duffy and Sarah-Jane Rawlings co-founded Fun Palaces in 2013 to create a celebration of Joan Littlewood's centenary on the 6th October 2014. As more communities, individuals and organisations across the UK asked if they could join in, it quickly became clear that it was never going to be a one-off.   Developed from Joan Littlewood and Cedric Price's never-built 1960s vision of one building for all arts and science, free to the local community of the East End, the 21st century Fun Palaces is about reclaiming public space, encouraging cultural venues to throw open their doors, shining a light on unsung community activism and supporting local people to step up to co-create their own community events. Learning from the communities that take part every year, Fun Palaces has changed and grown, and is now as varied as the people who take part.    This year the emphasis was on tiny Fun Palaces - safe, socially-distanced, with community connection at their heart - and how anyone can get involved - even now.    Thanks for listening to the Fun Palaces podcast. If you like what you hear please do subscribe to it and also rate and review us.    Credits:  Find out more at: www.funpalaces.co.uk Follow us on Twitter: @FunPalaces Follow us on Instagram: @FunPalaces Producer: Dan Vo  Editor: Samuel Gunn Guests: Peter Lower, Yvonne Marjo, Ruth Murray, Degna Stone. Made with help from: Stella Duffy, Sarah Jane Rawlings, Ravina Bajwa, Kirsty Lothian and Daniel King.

In this first podcast, you're going to hear from Fun Palaces co-director Stella Duffy, on Fun Palaces Weekend this coming October 3rd-4th, how the original idea came about, and how this year will be about having tiny ones.   Fun Palaces Maker Lorena Hodgson will give you lots of ideas about how you can get involved with Fun Palaces this year and two Fun Palaces Ambassadors Lewis Hou and Beverley Nunn will give you some info about the Fun Palaces that are already live on the official Fun Palaces map. Also, Eddie McCleneghan drops by to read us a poem!   About Fun Palaces Stella Duffy and Sarah-Jane Rawlings co-founded Fun Palaces in 2013 to create a celebration of Joan Littlewood's centenary on the 6th October 2014. As more communities, individuals and organisations across the UK asked if they could join in, it quickly became clear that it was never going to be a one-off.   Developed from Joan Littlewood and Cedric Price's never-built 1960s vision of one building for all arts and science, free to the local community of the East End, the 21st century Fun Palaces is about reclaiming public space, encouraging cultural venues to throw open their doors, shining a light on unsung community activism and supporting local people to step up to co-create their own community events. Learning from the communities that take part every year, Fun Palaces has changed and grown, and is now as varied as the people who take part.    This year the emphasis is on tiny Fun Palaces - safe, socially-distanced, with community connection at their heart - and how anyone can get involved - even now. Usually the Fun Palaces HQ team try to visit as many Fun Palaces as they can, but this year they're staying at home and making their own and invite you to make your own tiny Fun Palaces too and put them on the map!   In the UK and beyond, Fun Palaces are happening in lots of different shapes and sizes - in garden in Orkney, on streets and parks in London, on a village fence post in North Wales, a canal towpath in Sheffield, a travelling wheelbarrow in Mansfield, and even on a boat off the coast of Cornwall - this year's Fun Palaces Makers have found ingenious ways to come together in safe and tiny ways.    Thanks for listening to the Fun Palaces podcast. If you like what you hear please do subscribe to it and also rate and review us.    Credits:  Find out more at: www.funpalaces.co.uk Follow us on Twitter: @FunPalaces Follow us on Instagram: @FunPalaces Producer: Dan Vo  Editor: Samuel Gunn Guests: Lewis Hou, Stella Duffy, Lorena Hodgson, Beverley Nunn and Eddie McCleneghan. Made with help from: Stella Duffy, Sarah Jane Rawlings, Ravina Bajwa, Kirsty Lothian and Daniel King

Stella Duffy, author and creative revolutioner joins interviewer Jenny Harris to discuss how the pandemic has impacted on culture and how important work such as Fun Palaces can help people to co-create their own cultural offering off-line. Stella Duffy in Conversation with Jenny Harris was recorded live as part of the digital HIF Weekender in July 2020. Podcast music by: Joseph McDade.

Disco legend Gloria Gaynor made headlines earlier this month when her TikTok video encouraging people to wash their hands to her hit I Will Survive went viral. She joins us from her home in South Carolina, to discuss winning a Grammy for her latest album Testimony, and how she's keeping busy in self-isolation. As galleries and art centres close their doors many organisations are turning to digital platforms to reach audiences, but what about the 5 million people in the UK that don’t have access to the internet? Front Row speaks to Stella Duffy, co-director of Fun Palaces and Sally Shaw, Director of Firstsite Gallery in Colchester about the initiatives they’re setting up to reach those that are not online. Maggie O’Farrell’s latest novel is named after Shakespeare’s only son Hamnet, who died of the Plague. It has been almost universally acclaimed as her finest work. And a new film – Vivarium – is a study in claustrophobia and enforced closeness for a young couple who have to live in a house they can’t leave. Starring Imogen Poots and Jesse Eisenberg it has an eerie resonance in the current world of social isolation and lockdown. Jenny McCartney and Barb Jungr join John to review the book and the film. And Shahidha Bari joins Front Row for our Cultural Clinic. She'll be answering questions on the cultural significance of clothes - especially when we're at home and tempted to stay in our PJs all day. Presenter: John Wilson Producer: Sarah Johnson

Hello! Here’s an episode you’ve been asking us to do for a while: we’re talking about the case for universal childcare. Susanne Garvis explains what we can learn from the childcare utopia of Sweden, where she spends more on pre-school for her puppy than her daughter. Then childcare experts Claire Harding and Jerome de Henau discuss problems with the UK system & how we could achieve universal provision. With benefits from parental employment to child development, it’s a no-brainer…ANDWriter Stella Duffy is here to talk about Fun Palaces! First dreamt up in the 1960s, Stella and her team have made the vision of culture for all, and by all, a reality. Turns out it’s not too late to set up your own for the Fun Palaces weekend coming up in October. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This episode's guest is Stella Duffy. Stella is a writer, director and performer who has written 16 novels including Room of Lost Things, State of Happiness and London Lies Beneath. She's written and devised 14 plays and over 70 short stories including several for Radio 4 and her solo show Breaststrokes was both Time Out and the Guardian's Critic's Choice. She is co-founder and co-director of Fun Palaces, an ongoing campaign for cultural democracy that promotes culture at the heart of community and community at the heart of culture. Recorded in Deptford, London.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/stevexoh)

The Fun Palace was an idea conceived originally by influential theatre maker Joan Littlewood with architect Cedric Price in the early 1960s. Their building-based idea was never built, but writer and actor Stella Duffy OBE came up with the idea to resurrect it in a different way for Littlewood’s centenary in 2014. This has become a fast-growing annual event co-directed by Stella with Sarah-Jane Rawlings and is about to celebrate its fifth anniversary. In this episode, David Chadderton talks to Stella about her realisation of the Fun Palace idea for the twenty-first century on a countrywide scale, and she also makes some provocative suggestions about theatre, culture, outreach projects and diversity. The fifth Fun Palaces event will be on 6 and 7 October 2018. For information on fun palaces near to you or details of how to create a fun palace of your own, see the Fun Palaces web site.

The Possibility Club is a movement to connect adventurers in business, culture and education. Richard Freeman's special guest this week is Stella Duffy OBE. Stella is many things. A multi-award winning author of 16 novels, spanning both literary and crime fiction, over 60 short stories and 10 plays, which have been performed at The Bush Theatre, Battersea Arts Centre, and Lyric Hammersmith amongst many others. She is a comedy improviser, theatre director, screen actress and documentary film-maker. In 2016, Stella as awarded an OBE for services to the arts. For the past 4 years, Stella has been one of the driving forces behind Fun Palaces, a massive UK-wide celebration of culture, making, science, heritage and community that takes place every October. Richard and Stella spoke in mid May 2018, chatting about what makes a Fun Palace work, childhood, inclusion, class, opportunity, risk and creativity. Useful links http://funpalaces.co.uk/ https://stelladuffy.wordpress.com/ https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2014/jul/18/fun-palaces-joan-littlewood-dream-realised-100-years-birth https://www.devotedanddisgruntled.com/ --- The Possibility Club is more than a podcast, but a peer network for adventurers who want to create, lead or innovate in the world. If you have a burning idea, project or business and want to get critical support from new friends - join for free at www.thepossibilityclub.org Richard Freeman is the host for always possible and this podcast is produced and edited by CJ Thorpe-Tracey for Lo Fi Arts.

At The Laugharne Weekend Robin sat down with the prolific and acclaimed author, writer (and broadcaster) Stella Duffy. They chat about writing crime fiction, promoting diverse storytellers, Fun Palaces and a whole lot more! Support the podcast at patreon.com/bookshambles

A show of mighty fine music and a very tired presenter. Been a very long week here, finished with a full on weekend of Fun Palaces. Tonight’s triangle feature is Iklecktik, a glorious venue in London with the rest of the show taken up with some great new releases and a couple of older tracks.   Tracklisting: Tyshawn Sorey – Contemplating Tranquility (edit) – Verisimilitude (Pi) – Buy Lawrence Casserley & Jeffrey Morgan – Martian Arts – Room 2 Room (Konnex) – Buy Colin Webster & Andrew Lisle – Live at De Singer (edit) (Raw Tonk) – Buy Sawa – Chai Chai Alay – Sawa (Two Rivers) – Buy Yazz Ahmed – Bloom – La Saboteuse (Naim) – Buy Archipelago – Let Go Of – Weightless (Self Released) – Buy Talea – #48 – Cuaderno de Prácticas 11 (Six Ensemble) – Buy Tellef Øgrim – Sit – What Is It (Simlas) – Buy Katsuya Nonaka – Nonaka – Nonaka, Kanngiesser, Ikeda, Bell Live at Iklectik (Iklectik) – Buy Edward Lucas & Elico Suzuki (Suzueri) – Two Before the Fourth (edit) (Iklectik) – Buy Machinefabriek – Live at Iklectik (edit) (Iklectik) – Buy

Simon Heffer, novelist and co-director of the Fun Palaces campaign Stella Duffy, New Generation Thinker Will Abberley and the writer and sociologist Tiffany Jenkins join Matthew Sweet and an audience at the University of Sussex to debate the ideas explored by Matthew Arnold and their resonance today. The series of periodical essays were first published in Cornhill Magazine, 1867-68, and subsequently published as a book in 1869.Arnold argued that modern life was producing a society of 'Philistines' who only cared for material possessions and hedonistic pleasure. As a medicine for this moral and spiritual degradation, Arnold prescribed 'culture', which he defined as 'the best which has been thought and said in the world', stored in Europe's great literature, philosophy and history. By engaging with this heritage, he argued, humans could develop towards a higher state of mental and moral 'perfection'.Simon Heffer is the author of books including High minds: the Victorians and the birth of modern Britain; Moral Desperado: A Life of Thomas Carlyle and Nor Shall My Sword: The Reinvention of England.Tiffany Jenkins is Culture Editor for the journal Sociology Compass. Her books include Contesting Human Remains in Museum Collections, Keeping Their Marbles and she is editor of a collection of essays from various writers called Political Culture, Soft Interventions and Nation Building. Will Abberley is a Lecturer in English at the University of Sussex and the author of English Fiction and the Evolution of Language, 1850-1914 Stella Duffy is a writer and the co-director of the Fun Palaces campaign for wider participation in all forms of arts and culture.;Producer: Fiona McLean

15 May 2017 | Presented as part of the WORD Christchurch Autumn Season in association with Auckland Writers Festival Stella Duffy has the great distinction of being asked to complete Dame Ngaio Marsh’s unfinished novel Money in the Morgue, and she is well qualified for the task. New Zealand-raised, London-based Duffy has distinguished herself as a writer of crime fiction, with two Crime Writers’ Association Dagger awards under her belt, and of historical and literary fiction. Like Marsh, she is also immersed in the theatrical world. As the co-director of Fun Palaces, she was recently awarded an OBE for Services to the Arts. Duffy talks with writer and editor Liz Grant about her latest books — crime novel The Hidden Room and historical novel London Lies Beneath – as well her creative life and her pursuit of one of the original Queens of Crime, Dame Ngaio Marsh.

In today’s What Next? podcast, Stella Duffy writer, theatre maker and driving force behind Fun Palaces talks about why she thinks ‘everyone an artist, everyone a scientist’. This summer our What Next? series returns asking questions about what the future of the arts within society might look like. We’ve invited guest speakers to give their thoughts, in a…

Phil Collins, Mike Rutherford and Tony Banks of Genesis discuss a new documentary about the band and Sarah Churchwell reviews David Mamet's Speed the Plow starring Lindsay Lohan. Also on the programme Jude Kelly and Stella Duffy explain how this weekend they're hoping to fulfil Joan Littlewood's vision of making art and science available to all through the Fun Palaces initiative and Victoria Hislop reveals the real history behind her new novel. Presenter: John Wilson Producer: Ellie Bury.

In this episode: Mark Cosgrove, Watershed Cinema Curator, talks about Watershed's upcoming season Sci Fi: Days of Fear and Wonder which boldly celebrates the ever popular genre of science fiction with re-released classics, an in depth look at Afrofuturism and an evening featuring the sound of sci-fi and a screening of Silent Running at the magnificent Eden Project. Mark is also joined by three of Watershed's Future Producers to talk about the sci fi imbued screenings and events they have created as part of the season, taking in late night screenings, a weekend of free events and a Blind Date screening as part of Fun Palaces, plus a range of family activities over October half-term.