Podcasts about Iain Sinclair

Iain Sinclair is one of the UK's greatest living writers. Famed for his novels, such as Downriver, and documentary prose, of which London Orbital is perhaps the best known, Sinclair began his career self-publishing his own poetry on his Albion Village Press in the 1970s. 2013 saw the publication of three books – two poetry collections and a longer book on his relationship with the Beats, American Smoke. Colin Waters travelled to Sinclair's home in Hackney, where he asked Sinclair about his Scottish roots, John Clare and his lost 1970s collection Red Eye, which was being published by Test Centre. Picture of Iain Sinclair by Luca Del Baldo.

My guest in this week's Book Club podcast is the writer, musician and editor Michael Moorcock, whose editorship of New Worlds magazine is widely credited with ushering in a 'new wave' of science fiction and developing the careers of writers like J G Ballard, Iain Sinclair, Pamela Zoline, Thomas M Disch and M John Harrison. With the release of a special edition of New Worlds, honouring the 60th anniversary of his editorship, Mike tells me about how he set out to marry the best of literary fiction with the best of the pulp tradition, how he fought off obscenity charges over Norman Spinrad's Bug Jack Barron, about his friendship with Ballard and his enmity with Kingsley Amis – and why he's determined never to lose his vulgarity.   

My guest in this week's Book Club podcast is the writer, musician and editor Michael Moorcock, whose editorship of New Worlds magazine is widely credited with ushering in a 'new wave' of science fiction and developing the careers of writers like J G Ballard, Iain Sinclair, Pamela Zoline, Thomas M Disch and M John Harrison. With the release of a special edition of New Worlds, honouring the 60th anniversary of his editorship, Mike tells me about how he set out to marry the best of literary fiction with the best of the pulp tradition, how he fought off obscenity charges over Norman Spinrad's Bug Jack Barron, about his friendship with Ballard and his enmity with Kingsley Amis – and why he's determined never to lose his vulgarity.   

During the Covid lockdown Iain Sinclair took delivery of two large yellow boxes containing fresh prints of photographs by the master-chronicler of Soho John Deakin who died, obscure and penniless, in a Brighton hotel room in 1972. Sinclair, another master-chronicler of London's hidden past, uses those and other images and memories – (‘an invaluable catalogue of artists and divas, actors, film producers, criminals and derelicts') – to bring back to life the unique artistic milieu of Bohemian London in the 50s and 60s. Iain Sinclair read from and talked about Pariah Genius (Cheerio), in conversation with memoirist, novelist and filmmaker Xiaolu Guo. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week Jack and David present Glen Dickson's Holding On! Glen Dickson is a playwright whose work has been performed on stage and on the air throughout the UK, the US and Australia. His writing runs the gamut from monologues and short plays to full-length productions and private commissions. He has written sketches for BBC shows and has devised corporate forum theatre and training events for many organisations and universities. He was incredibly pleased to have been awarded his B.A degree in Dramatic Studies, from Dame Judi Dench at his graduation ceremony at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. For 7 years, Glen was the co-curator/producer of a monthly writer's showcase (The Rum Diaries Presents), on the southside of Glasgow. In 2020, under lockdown conditions, he was invited to join his mate Iain Sinclair at Super Sound Radio Scotland, launching ‘Writer's Block Radio Hour'.  Glen also curates and engineers two geeky film and television podcasts. Trailer Trash and Cult Status.  Contact Glen at writersblockradiohour@gmail.com if you'd like to submit your brand new drama, poetry, prose, spoken word, stand up or musical piece.  Join him on FB- Writer's Block Radio Hour for more details.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week Jack and David present Glen Dickson's Holding On! Glen Dickson is a playwright whose work has been performed on stage and on the air throughout the UK, the US and Australia. His writing runs the gamut from monologues and short plays to full-length productions and private commissions. He has written sketches for BBC shows and has devised corporate forum theatre and training events for many organisations and universities. He was incredibly pleased to have been awarded his B.A degree in Dramatic Studies, from Dame Judi Dench at his graduation ceremony at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. For 7 years, Glen was the co-curator/producer of a monthly writer's showcase (The Rum Diaries Presents), on the southside of Glasgow. In 2020, under lockdown conditions, he was invited to join his mate Iain Sinclair at Super Sound Radio Scotland, launching ‘Writer's Block Radio Hour'.  Glen also curates and engineers two geeky film and television podcasts. Trailer Trash and Cult Status.  Contact Glen at writersblockradiohour@gmail.com if you'd like to submit your brand new drama, poetry, prose, spoken word, stand up or musical piece.  Join him on FB- Writer's Block Radio Hour for more details.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, We explore the fascinating world of J.G. Ballard's provocative works, what might later be known as Climate Fiction, written mostly last century. From his early novel "The Drowned World" to the controversial "Crash," we delve into how Ballard's dystopian visions have shaped the genre. We feature insights from a PBS show Hot Mess, a short BBC film Ballard appeared in 1973 exploring his experimental novel of linked short stories called “The Atrocity Exhibition,” and a 2006 South Bank Show interview. We discuss the psychological and societal impacts of Climate Fiction, and how it might inspire change in an era of environmental urgency. First we begin with a 2019 clip from Hot Mess from PBS, featuring Lindsay Ellis, of It's Lit, and Amy Brady, the editor-in-chief of The Chicago Review of Books. Hot Mess | The Rise of Climate Fiction feat. Lindsay Ellis & Amy Brady | Episode 35 | PBS https://www.pbs.org/video/the-rise-of-climate-fiction-feat-lindsay-ellis-amy-brady-2s2sxh/ The Atrocity Exhibition is J.G. Ballard's instruction manual on how to disrupt mass media and recontextualize technology in a dystopian landscape overrun with industrial waste and technological white noise. The excerpt is from a 1973 BBC film directed by Harely Cokliss and features Ballard talking about car crash fetishism and the response to the bleak modern landscapes dominated by industrial monotony and the irrational violence of the technology-infused world which would coalesce into his controversial novel Crash, published in 1973. https://youtu.be/QRxpZ142lkI?si=gh5FjzV9BrUvs-r0 The next clip is a 2006 interview of JG Ballard by Melvyn Bragg on the South Bank Show, which also features prominent British authors Will Self, Iain Sinclair, and Martin Amis. https://youtu.be/le0tW1y609w?si=2DeFYxI-wqGe-Cu8 For an extended interview and other benefits, become an EcoJustice Radio patron at https://www.patreon.com/ecojusticeradio Resources/Articles: https://wilderutopia.com/performance/literary/j-g-ballard-atrocity-exhibition-modernist-motorcar-dystopia/ James Graham Ballard who lived between 1930 and 2009 was an English novelist and short-story writer known for psychologically provocative works that explore relations between human psychology, technology, sex and mass media. Ballard's original climate fiction work from 1962 was the post-apocalyptic New Wave science fiction novel The Drowned World. He followed with the controversial 1970 short-story collection The Atrocity Exhibition, which includes the 1968 story "Why I Want to F- Ronald Reagan", and later the 1973 novel Crash (1973), a story about car-crash fetishists. In 1984, Ballard won broad critical recognition for the war novel Empire of the Sun, a semi-autobiographical story of the experiences of a British boy during the Japanese occupation of Shanghai;[4] three years later, the American film director Steven Spielberg adapted the novel into a film of the same name. From the distinct nature of the literary fiction of J. G. Ballard arose the adjective Ballardian, defined as: "resembling or suggestive of dystopian modernity, bleak man-made landscapes, and the psychological effects of technological, social or environmental developments." Jack Eidt is an urban planner, environmental journalist, and climate organizer, as well as award-winning fiction writer. He is Co-Founder of SoCal 350 Climate Action and Executive Producer of EcoJustice Radio. He is also Founder and Publisher of WilderUtopia [https://wilderutopia.com], a website dedicated to the question of Earth sustainability, finding society-level solutions to environmental, community, economic, transportation and energy needs.

Iain Sinclair is one of Australia's finest, award winning theatre directors specialising in new writing and contemporary international work. Iain established the critically acclaimed theatre company Elbow Theatre in Canberra, where he received four Critics Circle Awards. He received a Sydney Theatre Award for his production of The Seed by Kate Mulvaney and is also an AWGIE Award nominated director. He has directed a number of highly praised main stage productions in Sydney including Our Town  by Thornton Wilder for The Sydney Theatre Company, which was described as “a triumph”. His production of Arthur Miller's, All my Sons was described as “A rock solid production of a play that makes you shake your head in wonderment”.  Iain has also directed for The Melbourne Theatre Company, The Ensemble, The Queensland Theatre Company, Belvoir and Sport for Jove with celebrated productions of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? By Edward Albee, The Caretaker by Harold Pinter, A View From The Bridge by Arthur Miller, Mojo by Jez Butterworth, Blood Wedding by Federico Garcia Lorca (translation by Sinclair), The Beast by Eddie Perfect, A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare and Berlin by Joanna Murray Smith. Iain graduated with distinction from the RADA Masters Program and Kings College, London. He is the associate artist and resident dramaturge for Playwriting Australia and has been assistant director to Cate Blanchett and Max Stafford Clark. Iain was invited by Max Stafford Clark to tour the UK as a member of his company “Out of Joint” teaching principles of new play making and Max Stafford Clark's legendary process based on actioning. Iain continues his work as a dramaturge and has worked with the following companies; ASK Los Angeles, New Dramatists New York, The Traverse Scotland, The Royal Shakespeare Company, The Royal Court and The National Theatre England.Iain Sinclair is presently the Head of Acting at 16th Street Actors Studio in Melbourne, where he nurtures a new generation of actors and continues to practice and refine his magnificent craft.The STAGES podcast is available to access and subscribe from Spotify and Apple podcasts. Or from wherever you access your favourite podcasts. A conversation with creatives about craft and career. Follow socials on instagram (stagespodcast) and facebook (Stages).www.stagespodcast.com.au

Colm Tóibín's not a fan of follow-ups so why has he written a sequel to his bestseller Brooklyn, which was made into a film starring Saoirse Ronan? He talks to Tom Sutcliffe about not overwriting sex - and how Domhnall Gleeson's screen performance as a "quiet Irishman" in Brooklyn inspired him. Miranda Rutter and Rob Harbron's new folk album, Bird Tunes, is inspired by birdsong they hear in woods in the Cotswolds. They perform a track on fiddle and concertina and talk about how manipulating the sounds made by blackbirds, wrens and cuckoos helped to inspire musical phrases in different keys. Photographer John Deakin is now often overlooked, but he chronicled the artistic underbelly of mid-century Soho with iconic pictures, including those used by Francis Bacon. Iain Sinclair, whose new book Pariah/Genius revives Deakin, retraces his footsteps around town. Presenter: Tom Sutcliffe Producer: Paula McGrath

What is the meaning of Cleveland? Cartoonist Aaron Lange joins the show to talk about AIN'T IT FUN: Peter Laughner & Proto-Punk In The Secret City (Stone Church Press), his breathtaking new graphic novel that weaves together obscure records, urban legends and psychographic history. We talk about Aaron's fascination with Cleveland's punk scene, why the musician Peter Laughner stood out to him, the way Cleveland's hidden landmarks pointed him toward this massive project. We get into the research and interviews Aaron conducted for Ain't It Fun, the process of editing this work into a looping, flaneur-like, discursive (but never aimless) narrative, and the influence of Greil Marcus' Lipstick Traces, Iain Sinclair's Lud Heat, and Adam Curtis' documentaries. We also discuss post-Laughner Pere Ubu, using graphic design rather than panel-to-panel cartooning, visiting the zodiac circle by the Cleveland Museum of Art at all 4 equinoxes, chronicling the city's brutalist architecture, the constraints of the comics market on a book that defies easy description, and a lot more. Follow Aaron on Instagram and support Stone Church Press via Patreon (which doubles as Aaron's blog) • More info at our site • Support The Virtual Memories Show via Patreon or Paypal and via our e-newsletter

The ILFD podcast is back! For our final episode of 2023, as many of us head home for the winter holidays, we're listening back to Kirsty Bell discuss her book 'The Undercurrents', an exploration of the city she calls home -- Berlin. __ Kirsty Bell's 'The Undercurrents' is a story of Berlin, fusing memoir and criticism through a succession of lives and experiences grounded in one historic building by the Landwehr Canal. Both a cultural history of Berlin, and a portrait of artists that have inhabited this beguiling city, Bell's poetic work, reveals layers of history and the centrality of landscape to the human soul. A book which reflects our contemporary fascination with urban places, and explores ideas of belonging, Kirsty will be in conversation with the critic Helen Meany. __ Kirsty Bell is a British-American writer and art critic, a prolific figure in contemporary art production. She lives in Berlin. __ ‘As in other classics of urban discovery, the personal becomes universal, and the past that demands to live in the present is revealed like a shining new reef. As we return, time and again, to the solitary figure at the window'— Iain Sinclair on The Undercurrents __ Presented in association with the Goethe Institut in Ireland at the 2022 International Literature Festival Dublin.

Con Iain Sinclair. Un gran libro del colosal Sinclair, uno de los escritores actuales más brillantes y originales, auténtico mentor en la sombra de Alan Moore y adorado por escritores como William Gibson o Peter Ackroyd, entre otros. Nos formamos a nosotros mismos y, a su vez, somos formados por las paredes que nos contienen. Los edificios afectan a nuestra manera de dormir, trabajar, socializar e incluso respirar. Pueden aislarnos y ponernos en peligro, pero también curarnos. Proyectamos nuestras esperanzas y temores en los edificios, mientras ellos absorben nuestras historias.

Iain Sinclair joins Regina Botros to talk about life, theatre and Pinter. Iain Sinclair is well recognised as one of Australia's finest directors of actors in performance consistently helping them generate empowered, sophisticated and dignified work. After graduating from The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and King's College London where he specialised in directing actors and developmental dramaturgy Iain has had a rich and successful career alternating between bold new plays and the classics, he has directed celebrated major productions for state companies at STC, Belvoir, MTC and Queensland Theatre, he has directed for numerous mid level professional companies and also consistently works outside of the mainstream paradigm creating top level independent productions.  

My guest this week is James Kloda who works at the University of Kent in technical support, where he has worked since 2011. James has a background in live events (technical management) and, as we discover, cinema has always been a part of his life. James talks about how he went to the University of East Anglia to study Drama and English, where he managed to direct his own play. James reflects on the importance of film when growing up in Wolverhampton, when he used to record films off the TV. He was into horror films from the age of 11, and James talks about the joy of using the Radio Times to see what was showing and tick off the films he wanted to watch. We talk about the solitary nature of cinemagoing and our apprehension of Official Competition (Mariano Cohn & Gastón Duprat, 2021) and whether James has ever considered writing a film blog. James talks about avoiding reviews before a film as he likes ‘the shock of the new', and we talk about Marvel movies. He discusses his apprehension of Amélie (Jean-Pierre Jeunet, 2001) when it came out and how the second time around he thought very differently about it. We also talk about our respective experiences of watching The Fugitive (Andrew Davis, 1993) at the cinema in 1993. We learn that James loved listening to music when growing up and why the one sense he couldn't do without would be hearing. We learn that he and a friend also recorded the John Peel show. We learn about how James might have gone to university in Manchester and he reflects on what he enjoyed about studying at UEA. He encountered various luminaries there including Peter Ustinov and W.G. Sebald and also read Sight and Sound. He talks about getting Iain Sinclair down to Kent and we learn about James' daughter who also has a love of horror. Then, at the end of the interview we find out what the younger James would have expected he would be doing now, and he reflects on the importance of aspiration, why he wouldn't mind one day moving to Bristol, and we end with a really touching story with an intergenerational dimension around the imminent funeral of his father's best friend of nearly 60 years.

With their casts of outsiders, deviants and miscreants, the novels of John Cowper Powys explore where meaning can be found in a world without God. Very often, the answer is in semi-mystical communion with nature and landscape. Heir of both Thomas Hardy and Friedrich Nietzsche, Powys was admired by contemporaries like Iris Murdoch, and anticipated lots of the concerns of ecocritical writers and thinkers of today. But few of his books are currently in print. To mark the 150th anniversary of his birth, Matthew Sweet discusses his life and writing with Margaret Drabble, John Gray, Iain Sinclair and Kevan Manwaring. Producer: Luke Mulhall

Here we are in 2022 navigating cancel culture, Brexit, identity politics, war in Europe. How did we get here? Did we miss something? Robert Carlyle, who played the wildcard Begbie in the '90s hit Trainspotting, is here to show us that we did. That the world we live in was shaped by the forgotten decade: the 1990s. From Hong Kong to Moscow, Cool Britannia to No Frills flights, we travel back in time to key moments in the '90s that reverberate today in unexpected ways. Episode 1. Cool Britannia As government ministers promote the Levelling Up agenda, redistributing investment from London and the South East to the North and Midlands we return to the capital in the 1990s when 'Swinging London' started to become a symbol of unequal Britain. Cultural and economic forces converged as London reinvented itself in the '90s. Britpop, Young British Artists, fashion designers, gastro pups, coffee culture all propelled the capital into what Vanity Fair coined "Cool Britannia". Robert guides us through this tumultuous decade when competing visions were unleashed about what the cities and the country should become. Featuring Geoff Mulgan, Iain Sinclair and Helen McCarthy Historical Consultant Helen McCarthy Music and Sound Design Phil Channell Producer Neil McCarthy

Towards the end of the 19th century Iain Sinclair's great-grandfather Arthur made an accident-prone and largely disastrous colonial expedition to Peru. In his latest book, accompanied by his daughter, Iain Sinclair abandons his familiar London territory to follow in his ancestor's footsteps, perhaps also hoping to eclipse his shadow. What he finds makes harrowing but essential reading in a story of exploitation, colonialism and environmental devastation. Sinclair was in conversation about his journey with Gareth Evans, curator of film at the Whitechapel Gallery. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Towards the end of the 19th century Iain Sinclair's great-grandfather Arthur made an accident-prone and largely disastrous colonial expedition to Peru. In his latest book, accompanied by his daughter, Iain Sinclair abandons his familiar London territory to follow in his ancestor's footsteps, perhaps also hoping to eclipse his shadow. What he finds makes harrowing but essential reading in a story of exploitation, colonialism and environmental devastation. Sinclair was in conversation about his journey with Gareth Evans, curator of film at the Whitechapel Gallery. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Writer, film maker, poet, flaneur, metropolitan shaman, curator of lost cultures, beat aficionado, and underground poet Iain Sinclair takes us on a walk through his life in the counterculture.    We have brief encounters with Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Alan Moore, Michael Moorcock, Peter Ackroyd, J.G.Ballard and Nicholas Hawksmoor as we hear tales of the poetry underground, life working as a Hackney council gardener, blacklegging in the London docks, cigars in Clerkenwell, an epic ancestral journey from Leadenhall Market to Peru, DIY-publishing, writing, writing, writing, and of course The City, as we circle towards hearing Iain reading selections from Lud Heat, the epic 1975 piece that was destined to become the root text of London psychogeography.   For more on on Iain and his work: www.iainsinclair.org.uk   ---------- Get the Bureau's Newsletter   Support our wild endeavours   The Bureau of Lost Culture Home   Go on - follow, rate and review us - or be in touch directly bureauoflostculture@gmail.com We'd love to hear from you. -------------  

Iain Sinclair describes himself as an urban prophet: in book after book, he has walked through London, recording the graffiti, the rubbish, the electric-green scum of a canal, the things you glimpse out of the corner of your eye and perhaps would rather not see. He brings to these pilgrimages many rich layers of reading about the city, interpreting what he sees through the eyes of past writers, particularly William Blake. In fact, he seems always to be walking with ghosts. It's very hard to categorise his work, which is a rich blend of history, geography, travelogue, poetry, photography, literary criticism – sometimes all within a single book. Among dozens of publications over fifty years, he is probably best known for his walk around the M25, which became a film and a book, “London Orbital”. But in 2019, just before Covid, he embarked on an even more daring journey, to Peru. In conversation with Michael Berkeley, Iain Sinclair talks about the journeys, which have shaped his life, and about how music has inspired those wanderings. Music choices include Stravinsky's setting of the Dylan Thomas poem “Do not go gentle into that good night”; Mahler's Eighth Symphony; a song by Britten originally intended for the song-cycle Les Illuminations; and the singing of the Bakaya People from the Central African Republic. Produced by Elizabeth Burke A Loftus Media production for BBC Radio 3

The Aside Podcasts are a free resource supported by Drama Victoria - Australia's oldest Drama Association In this episode of The Aside, we talk with the Head of Acting at 16th Street Actors Studio and renowned director, Iain Sinclair. We hear how teachers might approach returning to drama classrooms after so much time away. This interview focuses on the value of play and how we might go about establishing spaces that encourage safe connection and empowered play. To listen to a longer talk given by Iain Sinclair on the purpose of play click here: https://soundcloud.com/asidepodcast/the-aside-keynote-jumpstart-2020-iain-sinclair-16th-street-actors-studio To read more about Dan Siegel go to https://drdansiegel.com/mindsight/ To hear from Patsy Rosenburgh go to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ub27yeXKUTY%20%20 or https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393354478 Please feel free to email asidepodcast@outlook.com to ask a question. We will try and answer on a future podcast.

Lucy Dallas and Michael Caines are joined by Dennis Duncan, the author of ‘Index, A History of the', to discuss how we navigate the contents between books' covers, taking in alphabets, concordances, ancient search engines and much more; What is Substack: a publishing start-up or a reboot of a nineteenth-century literary idea?; and the writer and translator Miranda France discusses a new book by the famed psychogeographer Iain Sinclair, which takes us to Peru, in the footsteps of his great-grandfather, who made a fascinating and, to us, troubling expedition to the Upper Amazon region in 1891.‘Index, A History of the' by Dennis Duncan‘The Gold Machine: In the tracks of the mule dancers' by Iain SinclairA special subscription offer for TLS podcast listeners: www.the-tls.co.uk/buy/podProducer: Ben Mitchell See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

I have always been haunted by my great great grandfather Arthur Sinclair. These podcasts are the story of a journey to the Peruvian Amazon with my father, retracing  Arthur's steps and his expedition of 1891. This journey inspired Iain Sinclair's book, "The Gold Machine" and Grant Gee's film of the same name.These are the conversations we had along the way, with each other and those we met, as we discovered the forgotten legacy of the British Peruvian Corporation, and heard first hand from the Asheninka tribes who live there still.  First episode to be uploaded on 2nd September.  Edited by Anonymous Bosch

This week Jack and David present Glen Dickson's "Holding On"! Glen Dickson is a playwright whose work has been performed on stage and on the air throughout the UK, the US and Australia. His writing runs the gamut from monologues and short plays to full length productions and private commissions. He has written sketches for BBC shows and has devised corporate forum theatre and training events for many organisations and universities. He was incredibly pleased to have been awarded his B.A degree in Dramatic Studies, from Dame Judi Dench at his graduation ceremony at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. For 7 years, Glen was the co-curator/producer of a monthly writer's showcase (The Rum Diaries Presents), on the southside of Glasgow. In 2020, under lockdown conditions, he was invited to join his mate Iain Sinclair at Super Sound Radio Scotland, launching 'Writer's Block Radio Hour'.  Glen also curates and engineers two geeky film and television podcasts. Trailer Trash and Cult Status.  Contact Glen at writersblockradiohour@gmail.com if you'd like to submit your brand new drama, poetry, prose, spoken word, stand up or musical piece.  Join him on FB- Writer's Block Radio Hour for more details.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week Jack and David present Glen Dickson's "Holding On"! Glen Dickson is a playwright whose work has been performed on stage and on the air throughout the UK, the US and Australia. His writing runs the gamut from monologues and short plays to full length productions and private commissions. He has written sketches for BBC shows and has devised corporate forum theatre and training events for many organisations and universities. He was incredibly pleased to have been awarded his B.A degree in Dramatic Studies, from Dame Judi Dench at his graduation ceremony at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. For 7 years, Glen was the co-curator/producer of a monthly writer’s showcase (The Rum Diaries Presents), on the southside of Glasgow. In 2020, under lockdown conditions, he was invited to join his mate Iain Sinclair at Super Sound Radio Scotland, launching 'Writer’s Block Radio Hour'.  Glen also curates and engineers two geeky film and television podcasts. Trailer Trash and Cult Status.  Contact Glen at writersblockradiohour@gmail.com if you'd like to submit your brand new drama, poetry, prose, spoken word, stand up or musical piece.  Join him on FB- Writer's Block Radio Hour for more details.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Daniel Goldstein, Associate Director of Tony award winning musical ‘Come From Away’ chats about the show’s return to the Comedy Theatre post-lockdown. This life-affirming true story centres on the days following the September 11 tragedy, where locals in a small Canadian town were forced to take on thousands of stranded travellers. Iain Sinclair, Director of 16th Street Actors Studio’s production of ‘Burn This’ speaks to Richard about their online rehearsal process and upcoming training opportunities at the studio. Set during the peak of the 1980’s AIDS epidemic, the play deals with poisoned romance and dangerous and irresistible desire. Finally, Castlemaine State Festival Director Glyn Roberts gives an overview of this year’s program including many live-streamed and free events. Running over 16 days, the festival showcases the best of regional Victorian arts and culture and includes Archie Roach, Die Roten Punkte and Tim Costello.

It's rare for a band's tour documentary to appeal beyond its fanbase. But with Grant Gee's documentary Meeting People is Easy, it's even more of a miracle to come near the artistic breadth of Radiohead's OK Computer, an album which has been periodically voted the greatest of all time since its release in 1997. On today's episode we talk how Gee managed to sustain the heightened style of a music video through the feature's length, using overlapping images, an emphasis on lyricism, non-sync sound, all trying to mimic not just the band's sound, but also the visual style of Thom Yorke and designer Stanley Donwood. Also: how Gee originally was called in for the original idea to make a video for each of OK Computer's songs, the thought process of putting then-unreleased songs snippets into the cut, the “amazing” unused Kid A footage he shot that was just “wrong,” writer Patricia Lockwood's thoughtful description a moment in the film, and matching the album's particular innovation of mixing digital and analogue with his own multiple visual formats like Super 8mm, 16mm Bolex, and B&W digital video.Along with Meeting People is Easy, Gee has also directed the documentary Joy Division, music videos for Radiohead, Blur, Spooky, and worked with acts ranging from Coldplay, Nick Cave, and Scott Walker. He's currently at work on the documentary The Gold Machine about Welsh writer Iain Sinclair, the third in his trilogy of feature cityscapes about writers.Meeting People is Easy is streaming for free online at Radiohead's Public Library and is also available on PAL VHS from the W.A.S.T.E. HQ.

An account - given to Iain Sinclair in 1992 and written up in his 2009 book "Hackney, that Rose-Red Empire" - by Tony Lambrianou, East End criminal and associate of the Kray twins, about the role of the Regent's Canal in the murder of Jack McVitie in 1967, and in East End crime more widely.

Der britische Autor und Filmemacher Iain Sinclair ist bekannt für seine Stadtwanderungen durch London. Dabei erfasst er die Stadt als mehrdimensionalen Raum, in den auch unsichtbare Vorgänge hineinspielen. Diesmal wandelt er auf den Spuren des romantischen Dichtes William Blake. Mit "Blakes London" wird nun die Disziplin der Psychogeographie auch in Deutschland bekannt. Sven Koch im Gespräch mit Tanya Lieske www.deutschlandfunk.de, Büchermarkt Hören bis: 19.01.2038 04:14 Direkter Link zur Audiodatei

I’ll be honest with you, I was so nervous for this interview. From the moment I met Iain in an acting class last year I knew I wanted to interview him for this podcast. Iain is an award winning director, sought after acting teacher (i’m lucky enough to call him my teacher), dramaturg, story consultant and head of acting at 16th street actors studio and if that list wasn't impressive enough, he was the assistant director to Cate Blanchett when she was Artistic Director at Sydney Theatre Company. Even if you’re not into theatre or acting i promise you’ll gain something from this episode. Iain is passionate about human behaviour and his brain is incredible. We talk story theory; and after listening to this you won’t look at Harry Potter or Star Wars the same way again! Thank you Iain for taking the time to chat, it’s a total honour to have you on this podcast!Big loveLola xFollow Lola Berry on Instagram: @yummololaberrywww.16thstreet.com.au See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Mathew Sweet with Linda Grant, Laurence Scott & Lucy Whitehead. Dickens died on June 9th 1870. In 1948, the critic FR Leavis published the Great Tradition and included only one Dickens novel but that same year saw the film of Oliver Twist by David Lean. Our panel have been re-reading novels including Bleak House, Martin Chuzzlewit and Great Expectations, looking at a form of Dickens fan fiction following his death, the changes in literary fashion and the way his work connects with the present day. Linda Grant is the author of books including A Stranger City, The Dark Circle and When I Lived in Modern Times. Laurence Scott is the author of The Four-Dimensional Human: Ways of Being in the Digital World and Picnic Comma Lightning. He is a BBC/AHRC New Generation Thinker. Lucy Whitehead is at the University of Cardiff studying biographies of Dickens and the art of Graingerising. You might be interested in this conversation about Our Mutual Friend in which Philip Dodd talks with Iain Sinclair, Sandy Welch, Rosemary Ashton & Jerry White https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/b0180f5k and a special edition of Radio 3's curated selection of Words and Music featuring readings from Dickens' diaries and letters by Sam West is being broadcast on Sunday June 14th and available for 28 days on BBC Sounds https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006x35f Producer: Robyn Read

The Aside Podcasts are a free resource supported by Drama Victoria - Australia's oldest Drama Association In this episode of The Aside we present the Keynote from JUMPSTART 2020 - Iain Sinclair from 16th Street Actors Studio. https://www.16thstreet.com.au/tutors/iain-sinclair/ Please feel free to email asidepodcast@outlook.com to ask a question. We will try to answer on a future podcast.

La chanson française aide à vivre : démonstration !Un invité choisit 10 chansons francophones qui comptent. De petites histoires en grands envoûtements : chocs personnels, découverte d'une langue, souvenirs et bribes de textes... Benjamin reçoit depuis Liège l'écrivain Philippe Marczewski, auteur du récent « Blues pour trois tombes et un fantôme » sorti chez Inculte. Avec ce récit qui rappelle Henri Calet, Jean-Paul Kauffmann (Remonter la Marne), Philippe Vasset ou le psychogéographe anglais Iain Sinclair, Philippe Marczewski dessine la géographie intime d'une ville et de ses habitants, passés et actuels.

La chanson française aide à vivre : démonstration ! Un invité choisit 10 chansons francophones qui comptent. De petites histoires en grands envoûtements : chocs personnels, découverte d'une langue, souvenirs et bribes de textes... Benjamin reçoit depuis Liège l'écrivain Philippe Marczewski, auteur du récent « Blues pour trois tombes et un fantôme » sorti chez Inculte. Avec ce récit qui rappelle Henri Calet, Jean-Paul Kauffmann (Remonter la Marne), Philippe Vasset ou le psychogéographe anglais Iain Sinclair, Philippe Marczewski dessine la géographie intime d’une ville et de ses habitants, passés et actuels.

As part of our series of events marking the 40th anniversary of the LRB, longtime contributors Rosemary Hill and Iain Sinclair talked to the LRB’s digital editor, Sam Kinchin-Smith, about London, through the lens of pieces they've written for the paper.Read more by Rosemary Hill in the LRB: lrb.me/hillpodRead more by Iain Sincliar in the LRB: lrb.me/sinclairpodSign up to the LRB's newsletter: lrb.me/acast See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Rosemary Hill and Iain Sinclair talk to the LRB's digital editor, Sam Kinchin-Smith, about their shared preoccupations with London, as written about in the London Review of Books. This was the first in a series of events celebrating the LRB's 40th anniversary. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough explores the uncanny possibilities of the In Between with the neuroscientist Dean Burnett, award-winning poet Vahni Capildeo, artist Alexandra Carr, writer and walker of London and other wastelands, Iain Sinclair, and the philosopher, Emily Thomas. How do our brains and bodies react in the In Between spaces of the airport lounge or the station platform where we're waiting to move on but temporarily in stasis and why have so many artists, writers and poets used these places to explore the uncanny, the strange and ourselves?

Dubbed the "godfather of British pop art", Eduardo Paolozzi (1924-2005) is the subject of an exhibition at London's Whitechapel Gallery. Philip Dodd and his guests art historians Richard Cork and Judith Collins, philosopher Barry Smith and writer Iain Sinclair discuss Paolozzi's legacy. Plus an interview with American philosopher Professor Daniel Dennett Co-Director Center for Cognitive Studies at Tufts University. Eduardo Paolozzi runs at the Whitechapel Gallery in London from 16 February – 14 May 2017Daniel Dennett's latest book is called From Bacteria to Bach and Back.Producer Torquil MacLeod

Recorded before an audience at the Welsh National Opera in Cardiff before the premiere of Iain Bell's opera inspired by the poem Philip Dodd presents a Landmark edition of Free Thinking devoted to David Jones' epic In Parenthesis. The discussion hears from the composer Iain Bell, the writer, Iain Sinclair, one of the librettists Emma Jenkins and Paul Hills, curator of a touring exhibition of Jones' pictures and the co-author with Ariane Bankes of the most recent book about the artist.Iain Bell's In Parenthesis is at WNO in Carcdiff from 13th May -3 June, in Birmhingham on 10 June and then at the Royal Opera House in London from 29 June -1 July It will be broadcast on BBC Radio 3 on July 2nd. David Jones's In Parenthesis is published by Faber David Jones - Vision and Memory - is at the Djanogly Gallery in Nottingham until 5 June. It was previously on show at the Pallant House Gallery in Chichester. His art is also on show at the Martin Tinney Gallery in Cardiff in May and June.

Matthew Sweet is in Cardiff to examine the role of the Left in Welsh politics and its bearing on today's debate about nationalism hearing from In Cardiff Matthew Sweet is joined by Professor Daniel Williams and Sir Deian Hopkin to discuss the role of the Left in Welsh politics and its bearing on today's debate about nationalism. He also talks about the Bardic tradition with the writers, Gwyneth Lewis and Iain Sinclair. And, takes a trip to Llandrindod Wells to sample the latest instalment in the National Theatre of Wales' Big Democracy Project.

Philip Dodd considers the enduring appeal of the film Alien and whether it's blend of intellect, suspense, technical skill and sheer bravado has ever been surpassed with guests Iain Sinclair and Linda Ruth Williams.

Matthew Sweet talks to Iain Sinclair and New Generation Thinker Dr Greg Tate about a walk to mark John Clare's death 150 years ago. Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales and Viktor Mayer-Schönberger, Professor of Internet Governance and Regulation at the Oxford Internet Institute, discuss how privacy vs expression and remembering vs forgetting clash in the internet age. Plus Cherry Potter and Daniel Bird give us an assessment of Polish filmmaker Walerian Borowczyk.

In Night Waves' second outing to London Zoo, Matthew Sweet and guests discuss Angus Wilson's 1961 novel 'The Old Men at the Zoo'. Matthew is joined by Wilson's friend and biographer Margaret Drabble, by the poet and novelist Iain Sinclair, and by Jonathan Powell and Margot Hayhoe who brought the story to TV screens in the 1983 BBC series.

Two new dystopian novels by the scientist Susan Greenfield and academic Martin Goodman give Matthew Sweet the chance to ask whether dystopias ever really go away, and even if they don't do they ever say anything constructive about the future? Henry Gee joins the discussion. Director Ben Wheatley's latest work A Field In England sits squarely in the middle of the honourable tradition in British cinema of horror films set in the country. Wheatley joins Matthew along with the writer Iain Sinclair to discuss the genre. And Matthew reviews the Royal Academy's latest exhibition 'Mexico: A Revolution in Art,1910 - 1940,' with Sarah Kent and Amanda Hopkinson.

Philip Dodd talks to psychologist Bertolt Meyer, the model for the world's first complete bionic human and recipient of a bionic arm. Opera Now Editor Ashutosh Khandekhar joins Philip to review Kasper Holten's much anticipated debut at the ROH with Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin. A new exhibition at the Natural History Museum in London looks at the positive sides of extinction and palaeontologist Norman Macleod, scientist Georgina Mace and psycho-geographer and poet Iain Sinclair discuss. And Philip speaks to the lawyer Conor Gearty about his new book Liberty and Security.

Sian Williams and Richard Coles talk to actor and writer Sanjeev Bhaskar who's appearing in a Christmas TV special of 'Outnumbered', hold a poetry prescription surgery to solicit listeners requests for poems about solitude with William Seighart the founder of National Poetry Day, hear from Derek Amato who hit his head in a swimming accident, lost part of his memory and awoke able to play the piano brilliantly, dig the furious sound of the 'fuzz box' in our regular feature 'soundsculpture', listen to the thoughts of soldiers at Headley Court Defence Medical Rehabilitation Unit who are recovering from injuries sustained on active duty, listen to Children's Laureate Julia Donaldson's Inheritance Tracks, thrill to the atmosphere of Hawksmoor Churches in East London, with John McCarthy and writer Iain Sinclair, and jump with joy to John Sessions' imagining Al Pacino at Christmas.Producer: Chris Wilson.

Andrew Marr talks to Richard Sennett about increasing urbanisation. With half the world's population living in major cities, Sennett asks why the art of designing cities has declined so drastically in the last century. Iain Sinclair turns a critical eye on the grand plans for London's 2012 Olympics, and asks what will happen when the last race is run. Kate O'Regan was appointed as a judge in the Constitutional Court in South Africa by Nelson Mandela when he became President in 1994. She reflects on the role of the judiciary in building a modern democracy. And the advertising guru, John Hegarty reveals how you sell someone something they didn't even know they wanted. Over the last four decades he has transformed brands, famously linking Vorsprung durch Technik to Audi, and in a stroke, changing the perception of a staid car. Producer: Katy Hickman.

Mariella talks to award-winning author Amitav Ghosh about River of Smoke - the second book in his Ibis Trilogy set in the waterways around Canton during the events leading up to the start of the First Opium War in 1839. In this week's Reading Clinic, author Joanna Kavenna recommends fiction in which women rise like a phoenix from the ashes. And writer and poet Iain Sinclair explains why Alexander Baron, the British novelist of the Second World War, should be rediscovered and re-read.

Britain and Ireland have always lagged far behind the rest of Western Europe in terms of second home ownership. But, MPs apart, there is a relentless upsurge in people owning more than one residence. In a new report Chris Parks has analysed the effect of the increase of home ownership on British and Irish society and compared it with other parts of the world. He discusses his findings with Susan Smith and Laurie Taylor. Also, Laurie talks to the writer Iain Sinclair about his examination of the culture of the urban cyclist. Producer: Charlie Taylor.

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the history of London. To T.S.Eliot it was the “Unreal City”, to Wordsworth “Earth has not anything to show more fair” but to Shelley, “Hell is a city much like London”. At the start of this twenty-first century the capital city covers an area of 625 square miles, is home to 7 million souls, and has an economy which at more than £115 billion is larger than that of Saudi Arabia, Ireland or Singapore. Is this modern metropolis still the place that the poets described? Can there be such a thing as a history of a city, which in each generation sucks in its communities from around the country and around the globe? In a city whose buildings have been razed, whose people have been decimated and whose borders have been dramatically redrawn, what is there that connects it to its own past?With Peter Ackroyd, author of London: The Biography; Claire Tomalin, author and biographer of Samuel Pepys; Iain Sinclair, poet, novelist and author of Liquid City and Lights Out for the Territory.