Podcast appearances and mentions of joanna quinn

L.M. Montgomery scholar Maryam Khorasani joins us for a discussion of Rainbow Valley itself as both a physical place and a state of mind, drawing on our own childhood experiences and analyzing the characters' interactions with the natural world. We also discuss themes of childhood, imagination, friendship, and the transition to adulthood and are inspired by books with strong senses of place and third spaces.   Inspired by: Ragon is inspired by A Kind Of Paradise by Amy Rebecca Tan and by The Whalebone Theater by Joanna Quinn. Kelly is inspired by The Eyes And The Impossible by Dave Eggers. Maryam is inspired by The Fall Of The House Of Usher by Edgar Allen Poe. You can find our guest, Maryam Khorasani on instagram as Maryam9756 or through her email at ma.khorasani@ufl.edu  If you want to get a free logo sticker from us, either leave us a review on Apple Podcasts or share your love for the pod on social media!  Send us a photo of your share or review at either our email: kindredspirits.bookclub@gmail.com or on our KindredSpirits.BookClub Instagram. 

On this episode of Currently Reading, Kaytee and Meredith are discussing: Bookish Moments: following us on Instagram and new bookish lego sets Current Reads: all the great, interesting, and/or terrible stuff we've been reading lately Deep Dive: we are bossing more TBRs! The Fountain: we visit our perfect fountain to make wishes about our reading lives Show notes are time-stamped below for your convenience. Read the transcript of the episode (this link only works on the main site) .  .  .  .  1:24 - Ad For Ourselves 1:37 - Currently Reading Patreon 5:02 - Our Bookish Moments Of The Week 5:44 - @currentlyreadingpodcast on Instagram 9:40 - Books Are My Passion Lego 12:23 - Our Current Reads 12:39 - The Hollow by Agatha Christie (Meredith) 16:41 - Appointment with Death by Agatha Christie 16:43 - Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie 17:26 - A Pirate's Life for Tea by Rebecca Thorne (Kaytee) 18:52 - Can't Spell Treason without Tea by Rebecca Thorne 20:15 - @megs.tea.room on Instagram 20:21 - Legends and Lattes by Travis Baldree 21:09 - Daily Rituals by Mason Currey (Meredith) 26:27 - On Writing by Stephen King  27:07 - What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty (Kaytee) 27:14 - CR Season 7: Episode 7 31:40 - 17 Years Later by J.P. Pomare (Meredith) 36:53 - Sandwich by Catherine Newman (Kaytee) 40:00 - @thewilltoread on Instagram 41:40 - Boss My TBR From Morgan N. 42:35 - The Art Thief by Michael Finkle 42:37 - Hyde by Craig Russell 42:39 - Diavola by Jennifer Thorne 42:41 - The Bright Sword by Lev Grossman 42:43 - Slewfoot by Brom 42:50 - The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas 42:52 - The Examiner by Janice Hallett From Katie P. 46:42- Making It So by Patrick Stewart 46:50 - The Dry by Jane Harper 46:52 - Blood & Sugar by Laura Shepherd-Robinson (amazon link) 47:02 - The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal 47:06 - The Whalebone Theatre by Joanna Quinn 47:24 - This Motherless Land by Nikki May 47:27 - Fang Fiction by Kate Stayman-London 50:55 - Meet Us At The Fountain 51:30 - I wish books would have shorter chapters. (Meredith) 51:03 - Shadow of Night by Deborah Harkness 51:11 - A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness 53:13 - @currentlyreadingpodcast on Instagram (Meredith's wish #2 is to follow us!!) 53:24 - I wish to press Taste by Stanley Tucci into everybody's hands. (Kaytee) 53:24 - Taste by Stanley Tucci Support Us: Become a Bookish Friend | Grab Some Merch Shop Bookshop dot org | Shop Amazon Bookish Friends Receive: The Indie Press List with a curated list of five books hand sold by the indie of the month. November's IPL comes to us from Charter Books in Newport, Rhode Island! Love and Chili Peppers with Kaytee and Rebekah - romance lovers get their due with this special episode focused entirely on the best selling genre fiction in the business.  All Things Murderful with Meredith and Elizabeth - special content for the scary-lovers, brought to you with the behind-the-scenes insights of an independent bookseller From the Editor's Desk with Kaytee and Bunmi Ishola - a quarterly peek behind the curtain at the publishing industry The Bookish Friends Facebook Group - where you can build community with bookish friends from around the globe as well as our hosts Connect With Us: The Show: Instagram | Website | Email | Threads The Hosts and Regulars: Meredith | Kaytee | Mary | Roxanna Production and Editing: Megan Phouthavong Evans Affiliate Disclosure: All affiliate links go to Bookshop unless otherwise noted. Shopping here helps keep the lights on and benefits indie bookstores. Thanks for your support!

In this podcast episode, Jon Eckert interviews Deani Van Pelt, who leads an association of independent Christian schools in Ontario, Canada. They discuss trends in education, including increased parental engagement and the growth of alternative forms of education. They also touch on the work of Cardus, a think tank focused on education for the common good, and the importance of using industry best practices in education. Van Pelt highlights the ideas of Charlotte Mason, an educator from the early 20th century, who emphasized the importance of relationships and the development of the whole person in education. They also discuss the role of empathy and narration in learning, and the challenges and opportunities facing education today. To learn more, order Jon's book, Just Teaching: Feedback, Engagement, and Well-Being for Each Student.   The Just Schools Podcast is brought to you by the Baylor Center for School Leadership. Each week, we'll talk to catalytic educators who are doing amazing work.   Be encouraged. Connect with us: Baylor MA in School Leadership Baylor Doctorate in Education Jon Eckert: @eckertjon Center for School Leadership at Baylor University: @baylorcsl   Mentioned: Understanding by Design: Professional Development Workbook by Jay McTighe, Grant Wiggins From Strength to Strength: Finding Success, Happiness, and Deep Purpose in the Second Half of Life by Arthur Brooks The Whalebone Theatre: A Read with Jenna Pick by Joanna Quinn   Jon Eckert: Welcome back to The Just Schools Podcast. Today we're here with good friend Deani Van Pelt, another friend from Canada. We've had some great insights from educators in Canada. So first of all, welcome, Deani. It's great to have you. And just tell us a little bit about what you do now and how you got to what you do right now. And then we'll jump into some trends that we're seeing and some cool ideas and how to better engage students. Deani Van Pelt: Great to be here, Jon. Always good to be in conversation with you. And greetings from Canada. I'm sitting here in a nice icy weather just outside of Toronto. Currently, I lead an association of independent Christian schools here in Ontario. We've got almost 100 private Christian schools that are part of our association. So many dynamic committed leaders and educators within the network, within there's about 20,000 students whose lives we're privileged to be part of through the work that we do in our association. We do some on learning, some on leadership, some on government advocacy and a lot of work on school support. Just helping schools to be the absolute best they can be, most professional, most effective in our times. So it's fantastic to be able to serve the independent school sector here in Canada in that way. We do lots of work as you know John, that's how you and I met, with leaders in Christian education across Canada but also across North America and across the pond with the UK and other countries. And we've just learned so much from each other as we network and connect with one another. We're soon going to be bringing a whole cohort of Christian school leaders from Canada over to the UK. And just find that our optimism, our focus, our leadership abilities really increased through these engagements and just so privileged to be part of that. Jon Eckert: That's great. No, I was going to say I love what you do through Advance. And then we also get to overlap through Cardus as senior fellows because they're all looking at education for the common good. And what does that mean? To educate in ways that serve the public because sometimes, at least in the US, we think of public schools as obviously being for the public good. We want to do that. I spent 12 years teaching in public schools, but then how do other schools contribute to that public good? And so, Cardus is a think tank that does a lot of good work in one section is education, that's where we overlap. So just talk a little bit about your work there, how that ties into Advance and some of the cool things that you get to do, where you see some of that work going. Deani Van Pelt: One of my favorite short statements about education comes from Cardus and they say all education is public education. It doesn't matter where it's happening, it's all for the common good. It's all the education of the public for the common good. And for some it's government schools, for others it's in an independent school. And now we're seeing all of these out of system types or forms of education that are starting up. It's all education is public education. So along those lines, Cardus does a lot of work as looking at the independent school sector. They're really interested in the good that can come out of non-government schooling. So you and I we're both so privileged to be part of these research teams, looking at so many different aspects of the independent school sector. There's quite a few senior fellows at Cardus on the education file. And together with each one of us with our different areas of expertise, the whole school of thought out of Cardus is becoming increasingly sophisticated. And if your listeners haven't taken a look lately at Cardus' education research, I highly recommend it. I scrolled through again yesterday. It's fantastic the number of studies that are coming out of Cardus through the collaboration across quite a few researchers. Jon Eckert: Well, and Cardus was great. They were able to publish a collective leadership paper that looks at what collective leadership looks like in independent schools that I had worked on. And I really appreciated them putting that white paper out. But they do have a number of amazing white papers. And then we survey educational outcomes for people 24 to 39. And I guess Cardus has been doing that for 13 years. I've been a part of it now for the last few. And we have that data. We just did another data collection that will be coming out with results from that relatively soon where we can just take an open-minded, even-handed look at what the data is showing for what kinds of outcomes we're getting from all of these kinds of education that contribute to the common good, which I think is important. And I think those are really useful conversations to have. So with that said, what are some of the trends you're seeing in education in Canada they get you excited, and maybe some of the trends that you're a little more concerned about as you look ahead at what's coming? Since you get to work with so many different school leaders, you obviously have that and you place some in the policy space. So what are some trends you're excited about and maybe some you're concerned about? Deani Van Pelt: Yeah, so I would say the biggest trend is that parents are really dialed into their kids' education. COVID gave people a glimpse as to what was going on, and I think more and more parents started being involved, started asking questions. Some were pretty satisfied with what they saw and they were really contributing, some not so satisfied and started asking some other questions. But the point is, parents are probably more engaged in their kids' education than we've seen in quite a few decades. So that's a key trend and a number are making different choices for their children schooling. But it isn't just on that we call the demand side of choosing something different. It's also the provision, John, so many new independent or other sorts of out of system forms of education are starting up. And that is a significant trend, particularly here in the province of Ontario where I am. A couple of 100 independent schools have opened just in the last two years in this province. That kind of growth it hasn't been seen before. So also growth in homeschooling, but homeschooling isn't what it used to be. It now takes this kind of hybrid form where there's a few days where you might be at home and then a few days of the week where you're out in a more group setting. Perhaps you're registered as part of a school, maybe it's delivered through hybrid means so you're part of a school but it's a virtual school. So just the diversity, the categories, I would say the trend in the categories no longer being so distinct, public school, independent school, homeschool, that's changing. And that's really fun. I love entrepreneurs. I love an entrepreneurial spirit. And you've heard the new word, entrepreneur, and I think that's exactly these are the days of entrepreneurship. And it's really exciting to see people with very high capacity individuals but also communities coming together and saying, "I think we can do this differently. We can do this better." And giving it a try, that's a fantastic trend and that's global. Jon Eckert: Yeah, I would agree that that is definitely pervasive. And as you see that, do you see any challenges or headwinds for education that give you pause, or that you feel like we really need to be focusing on to overcome? Deani Van Pelt: Yeah, exactly. There are a lot of industry standards as you and I know. There are best practices, there are some fantastic insights that we know about how children learn, about what optimal teaching and learning environments can be, that these entrepreneurs really should be considering. So at Advance, for example, we help schools with their operations. It's basic. You need these certain types of policies, all right, here they are. Take a look at all of these. Make sure you're at very minimum doing all of these things. You want to operate a safe, healthy school that follows whatever the requirements are, the legislative requirements are for the jurisdiction in which you find yourself. So get up to speed, find the organizations that can help you to operate safely and well. So don't try to do it all on your own, I guess is what I'm trying to say. And good entrepreneurs know that as well to use industry best standards, best practices. So that would be a challenge but the solution's available. There are fantastic associations like ours and other supports across every educational jurisdiction, and I think folks just want to seek those out. Jon Eckert: That's good. I like that your challenges even offer some hope and some ways forward. Well, one of the things that I think is interesting is you talk about these shifts that have been happening fairly rapidly since COVID. One of your deep passions is based on Charlotte Mason who was born in 1842. So has some timeless truths in some of the ways that she approached education and a liberal education, and what that means to really educate whole people. She is well known in some circles. And then many people that are listening may not have heard of Charlotte Mason. So tell us a little bit about where you find hope in Charlotte Mason for where we're at now as we have these, as you use the term entrepreneurs. As we think about that, well, how do we stick to these timeless truths with all these different delivery mechanisms and ways we can deliver education? Where do you see those things overlapping? Deani Van Pelt: Yeah, great question. And indeed, she died just over 100 years ago, so what on earth are we doing talking about a person... How on earth? The turn of the 20th century but indeed there are some timeless principles. And I love Charlotte Mason's idea about education being about relations, relationships or education being the science of relations. If you think of that as a metaphor for what it is we're actually trying to do as educators, it's a fruitful notion. So if you think about the purpose of education is to build relationships as Charlotte Mason would say, in four different areas. So relationship with self, relationship with others, so others being people who lived in the past, people who live now in other places maybe than your own context, but also your own context and thinking about people who'll live in the future. You say, "Oh yeah, this makes sense." Well, and then the third type of relationship, relationship with the universe. Well, what's that? Nature, all of the aspects of the universe, science around us. And then fourthly, relationships with God, relationship with the divine. Understanding that the child has the whole person, does include the spiritual, the emotional, the intellectual aspects. So if you think about all of what we do under this umbrella of relationship building and that all of education is about, it has this relational feeling, that makes sense. But then on top of it, Mason says, "Students, people, children are born persons." And she doesn't say they're born individuals, she says they're born persons. So her anthropology talks about personhood. And I did some digging a little while ago because that just started bothering me, what does she mean by this? Why is this so revolutionary? In Canada women were declared persons in 1929. Okay, so legally we became persons less than 100 years ago. Is that- Jon Eckert: That's good to know, major jump. Deani Van Pelt: But it wasn't just that legal definition, it was more than that. What is personhood? If you hold that view of the human being that they are persons, it means that you hold to the fact that they are born into and born for relationship. So the idea is that the child as a person isn't an individual, lonely, isolated, autonomous, even just self-centered and sort of almost free floating. We can start getting pretty negative if we use the sense of the child as an individual. But if we think about the child as a person, they're born into something already preexisting. They're in a certain time and place, born into certain relationships, and then born for relationship. That's what I love about Mason. If you say your education philosophy is for a certain thing and then it's rooted in your anthropology or understanding of the human person, it's a pretty coherent philosophy. I like that. I love as well that it's got that whole theological side and well-rounded side. So obviously it has some practical implications. What does a relational education look like? Jon Eckert: Well, and I love that piece about it being relational. And when we think about the highest form of understanding in the US, Wiggins and McTighe wrote the book Understanding by Design. And they put at the top level of understanding empathy. And it makes a lot of sense because in order to understand anything, you have to understand yourself and your place in it. But to be able to understand the perspective of someone else, you understand the concept well enough that you can actually understand it from the perspective of another person, that feels like a timeless truth about what it is to truly understand and very much grounded in Charlotte Mason. One other thing that came to mind when you shared that is Arthur Brooks' book From Strength to Strength. He ends his book with this, basically this is his life motto, and it is to use things, love others and worship the divine. That's it. He's like, we don't use people, we use things. We don't love things, we love others. And ultimately our goal is to worship the divine. That feels like that would fit pretty nicely with Charlotte Mason, would you agree? Deani Van Pelt: Oh, absolutely. And then to go back to the first point that you made about empathy, Charlotte Mason would say, especially when you're introducing a subject to a child, teach it through literature, teach it through what she called living books. Textbooks are great. You want to drill down and learn more about a certain topic, but don't introduce it. Use living books, use a story, beautiful language to pull a child into a setting, a time, a place, build that empathy. And we've learned that if the amygdala is stimulated, learning's going to be more solid. So stimulate the emotions, draw the child into a topic area. And I just love that sense like that and many good educators use that practice. Of course, as you say, it's a timeless idea. Use the story, use great books, living books to bring a child into caring about ideas and things. So the other aspect to build the full person, because you did talk about Arthur Brooks saying use things, is that education will happen by books and things. The child does have that intellectual, the emotional but they also have the physical. And if we include in our education, a lot of use of our hands, building, creating, making, that helps build another aspect of the personhood and creates obviously a certain kind of confidence and an engagement with the world that has many levels to it. So books and things as a full education in Charlotte Mason's approach. And I was looking at what some of your definitions are for engaged learning. I love your book, Just Teaching, and just so happy to be able to refer back to it. But you talk about the consolidation and creation as being part of being engaged. And Mason has this notion called narration. So let's say think of a child early in their education, we read a living book, we read the story and then the child tells back. So verbally telling back what they just heard, retelling. And we've learned that narration it's not a test to see if you caught what was in the story, but it's by that very act of giving back you are consolidating the ideas, you're making them your own, you're verbalizing. So now we're developing oracy. And so the thoughts become the child's own, that is the process of learning. It's not the test but narration is the way of consolidating. Then the creation side is, okay, how do we verbally explain later on a child's education? Their narration will take written forms, but it can also take other forms. They create items that are ways of narrating their learning. So love your definition of engagement. And I think it does draw on timeless principles that Mason brought up Jon Eckert: Well, and so I would totally agree with that. And I say it's the four Cs. You got to have content. Kids have to be able to consolidate. They need to be able to collaborate with peers, with teachers. And then the creation piece, what I love about the narration piece and how it relates to creation is when you're narrating you're bringing yourself to it. And you're understanding fully the concepts that you're narrating. It's like a kid who reads Shakespeare and doesn't understand it. It's just reading words and phonemes and putting them together with no sense making. But that narration, they're creating meaning in the way they do the narration. So it's not summarization, it's not just a regurgitation, it's actual the way you just described it according to Mason, it is creation. And I always say in the book, it's feedback, engagement and wellbeing. To get to interesting feedback where you're giving purpose-driven wisdom for growth, that's how I define feedback, you've got to have that deep engagement. Otherwise, what are you giving feedback on? If it's just surface level learning, it's not very interesting to give feedback on. You can't give very much. And so ultimately that kind of narration and creation of meaning as we pursue truth together becomes this powerful interchange between teacher and student. And I think is why most of us that love teaching keep coming back to it because that's the meaningful part. So yeah, I don't know if you'd add anything there because if you want to have a final thought on that, go ahead and then we'll jump into our lightning round to wrap things up. Deani Van Pelt: Well, that's fantastic. But Charlotte Mason did say, in the end, it's not how much a child knows it is how much they care. And building these relationships, building this care for many orders of things opens a full life for the child. And you talked about that. Charlotte Mason recommends a liberal education, a full liberal arts education. Some young children are having up to 20 subjects a day, just small amounts, beautiful poetry, some beautiful music, engagement with a variety of literature that touches a whole bunch of subjects, history, art, geography. So you keep the feast, the banquet is full, you engage a lot of ideas in really rich ways and that does open doors of not only knowledge but also care. And I just think that is a full education along the lines of what exactly what you talk about. Jon Eckert: Well, that's a perfect transition to the lightning round because I think in our TikTok generation, we may need to rethink how do we give kids bits and pieces in small amounts so that they can be drawn in and then they can develop the cognitive endurance. So for the lightning round, we're just going to give bits and pieces of what would be big answers, but we keep these to a word phrase or a sentence or so. We'll test your ability to do that and I'm terrible at this one. But first question, maybe an easy one, I know you read a lot. What's been your favorite book? It could be education related, doesn't have to be, but favorite book you've read in the last year? Deani Van Pelt: I have spent the last six months reading a lot of novels. And a girlfriend and I sat on a dock this past summer, and she was just sharing, "Deani, you don't read enough literature." So I made a decision to read a lot of contemporary literature that come recommended. So in the last few weeks I have read, it's not necessarily my favorite book but it's caught my attention. It's called the Whalebone Theater. And recently published, I'm blanking on the author, children raised in sort of unusual circumstances in an English manor house, but they love Shakespeare. And it's these children, there are all three half siblings. And how Shakespeare and their own navigation of the world leads to some really courageous acts during World War 11. Jon Eckert: All right. Well, that's Joanna Quinn is the author. Does that sound right to you? Deani Van Pelt: Yeah. Jon Eckert: Typically, I spend 95% of my time reading nonfiction, but I've been increasingly convicted that fiction and reading novels really builds empathy because it allows you to get in the heads of different characters. And so I have been encouraged to read more literature. My problem with that is I get so sucked into the story that I become a bad father, I become a bad husband, I become a bad employee. All I want to do is read the book. So I read nonfiction somewhat protectively because I can set that down. A good story, oh, it is rough. All right, well, that's good. Good recommendation. I'll file that one away. So if you were to say in a word, phrase, or sentence, what you see is the biggest challenge facing education right now, what would it be? Deani Van Pelt: Jon, I wish you would've asked me what the biggest hope is for education. Jon Eckert: Well, that's next. We can start with hope if you want, we can end with challenge. I usually like to start with the challenge first, but you can go with hope first and then we can talk about a challenge. Deani Van Pelt: The biggest hope that we have for education is that so many actors are caring about it right now. So many new providers, teachers, community members, thinking about... They're asking the question, could this be different? And if so, can we do it? And their answer is yes. Jon Eckert: Okay. So if you're struggling with the challenge, if that is the biggest opportunity, I would say the potential biggest challenge with that is how do you find coherence and how do you have any type of connectivity? Or is it just 1000 flowers blooming and you just see what it is. But I could see there being challenges. It's great to have that many people interested, that many people with ideas of what could work. But how do you try to make sure that there is quality in that and what would that look like? Do you see that as a challenge or are you just kind of like, let's just see what happens? Deani Van Pelt: So I love the let's see what happens, but we need to quickly get a balance. As our friend from Boston University, Charlie Glenn would say, "We've got to balance freedom, autonomy, and accountability in education." So I love pluralism in education. It is not a one size fits all. Thank you world for finally realizing we've got a wide diversity of needs and challenges, but let's balance the freedom, the autonomy with accountability. Are we going to get the accountability right? What does that look like state by state, jurisdiction by jurisdiction? That could be our biggest challenge. Jon Eckert: Yeah. No, I like that. And that's a great place to wrap up in that tension. So Deani, thank you for spending time with us today. Love the work you're doing. Really appreciate you taking the time and I'll let you contribute. Deani Van Pelt: Thanks for having me, Jon. It's great to be here.  

Laura via IG says she "needs historical somewhat fictional adventure" and in Episode 46 the booksellers delivered some great ideas. Emma discussed Hildand Menewood by Nicola Griffith. Jen, subbing for Allie, recommends Washington Black by Esi Edugyan and 100 Years of Solitude  to either read again or for the first time if you have not yet done so. And, Kari wants you to read Whalebone Theatre by Joanna Quinn.Shelf Help is a collaboration between the Book Jam, a nonprofit designed to inspire readers; CATV Upper Valley media community (NOW LOCATED AT JAM, Junction Arts & Media); three Upper Valley bookstores: Yankee Bookshop in Woodstock, VT; the Norwich Bookstore in Norwich, VT; and Still North Books & Bar in Hanover, NH.

Joanna Quinn: Das Theater am Strand (Roman) | Übers.: Wibke Kuhn | C. Bertelsmann Verlag 2023 | Preis: 23 Euro

Joanna Quinn, „Vaalaluu teater“. Tõlkinud Riina Jesmin. Postimehe kirjastuselt. Loeb Kristi Aule. Selle nädala järjejutuks olev New York Timesi bestseller „Vaalaluu teater“ on lugu armastusest, perekonnast, vaprusest, kaotatud süütusest ja eneseleidmisest.

Joanna Quinn's debut novel, The Whalebone Theatre, is historical fiction at its finest. We are transported to southern England off the coast of Dorset, where we meet three unlikely heroes--Cristabel, Flossie, and Digby. They are siblings who grow up against the backdrop of the second world war. Their childhood consists of little supervision, and jaunts to the seaside where they discover a washed up whale, and turn its carcass into a local theatre. The theme of overcoming trial, heartache, and loss through the escape of art is prominent. Two of the heroes become spies for England during the war, and discover their true grit. The writing is mesmerizingly beautiful. Join us for this book club chat as we discuss the merits and memorable moments of this wonderfully weaved tale.

Joanna Quinn, „Vaalaluu teater“. Tõlkinud Riina Jesmin. Postimehe kirjastuselt. Loeb Kristi Aule. Selle nädala järjejutuks olev New York Timesi bestseller „Vaalaluu teater“ on lugu armastusest, perekonnast, vaprusest, kaotatud süütusest ja eneseleidmisest.

Here is the NLS annotation: The whalebone theatre DB 110521 Quinn, Joanna. Reading time 18 hours, 25 minutes. Read by Olivia Vinall. A production of National Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled, Library of Congress. Subjects: Historical Fiction Description: "One blustery night in 1928, a whale washes up on the shores of the English Channel. By law, it belongs to the King, but twelve-year-old orphan Cristabel Seagrave has other plans. She and the rest of the household—her sister, Flossie; her brother, Digby, long-awaited heir to Chilcombe Manor; Maudie Kitcat, kitchen maid; Taras, visiting artist—build a theatre from the beast's skeletal rib cage. Within the Whalebone Theatre, Cristabel can escape her feckless stepparents and brisk governesses, and her imagination comes to life. As Cristabel grows into a headstrong young woman, World War II rears its head. She and Digby become British secret agents on separate missions in Nazi-occupied France—a more dangerous kind of playacting, it turns out, and one that threatens to tear the family apart." -- Provided by publisher. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. The Fiction Old and New book group will be discussing "The Whalebone Theater" DB 110521 by Joanna Quinn on Friday, April 7, 2023 at 8:00 p.m. Our facilitator for this group is Michelle Bernstein (hamletsweetlady@gmail.com).

The first chapter can make or break a reader's engagement with a story. We as writers must craft brilliant opening pages in order to hook those picky readers, so let's study the stories of others to see how they do it! We return to historical drama in Joanna Quinn's The Whalebone Theatre, and know what? I don't mind. The story is geared to follow Cristabel Seagrave from toddlerhood to adulthood spying on Nazis in France, so our first impression of the protagonist is her impish, defiant nature. Oh, this kid is great fun, and I wouldn't mind following the toddler Cristabel around for a whole novel. Quinn does marvelous work as a writer in keeping the prose vivid and active, while also throwing in the occasional childish term like "nothingy." It's a lovely balance for adult readers who may not appreciate the quirky language of a child, while also sounding true as a voice for a young character. We watch Cristabel meet her stepmother for the first time, and this occasion clearly marks a strained relationship for the future--any stepmother who refers to a child as "it" is not all that keen on children, to be sure! So while we didn't see the whalebones just yet, I enjoyed seeing much of Cristabel's personality and imagination shine through so much in this opening scene. Those are the character traits an author wants to establish early so that the protagonist's later choices not only propel the story forward, but also ring true to the character we're happy to know. And what will you learn from these opening pages? Let's find out! Cheers!

Few of us need reminding that childhood can be a difficult and challenging time; but it can also be a magical one. That duality is at the heart of The Whalebone Theater, the best-selling debut novel of Joana Quinn. Childhood is central, also, to Frances Hodgson Burnett's 1911 classic novel, The Secret Garden, in which a group of three young children discover the transformative magic of nature during the course of three seasons in a remote house in the Yorkshire moors. It is one of two books that Quinn has chosen for Shelf Life. The other is Michael Ondaatje's prize-winning novel, The English Patient, a deeply poetic story of love and betrayal, identity and class that takes place in an abandoned Italian villa in the waning days of the Second World War. 

Kirsty Capes, author of the Women's Prize long-listed CARELESS, the story of Bess a young woman who discovers she is pregnant while living in care, and LOVE ME, LOVE ME NOT, which deals with discovering your adoption as an adult, both published by Orion.Kirsty chats about:the three writing degrees that let her believe that writing was something she could do professionallybalancing publicising your book with wanting to protect your privacywriting characters with experience of carewhat her experience in working in publishing taught her about her own book being publishedthe epic sci-fi dystopia that is yet to see the light of day.Guest: Kirsty Capes Twitter: @kirstycapes IG: @kirstycapes.author Books by Kirsty: Careless by Kirsty Capes, Love Me, Love Me Not by Kirsty CapesHosted by Kate Sawyer Twitter: @katesawyer IG: @mskatesawyer Books by Kate: The Stranding by Kate Sawyer , This Family (coming May 2023. Available to pre-order now!)Kirsty's reading recommendations:A book for fan's of Kirsty's work: My Name is Why by Lemn SissayA book Kirsty has always loved: All My Puny Sorrows by Miriam TowesA book that's been published recently or is coming soon: Yellowface by Rebecca F KwangOther books discussed in this episode: The Brief Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz, A Complicated Kindness by Miriam Towes, Women Talking by Mirian Towes, The Brother of The More Famous Jack by Barbara Trapido, The Power by Naomi Alderman, The Whalebone Theatre by Joanna Quinn, Junk by Melvin Burgess, Babel by RF Kwang.All books recommended and discussed in this episode are available to be purchased from the Novel Experience Bookshop.Org ShopIf you enjoyed this show please do rate, review and share with anyone you think will enjoy it: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/novel-experience/id1615429783Novel Experience with Kate Sawyer is recorded and produced by Kate Sawyer - GET IN TOUCHTo receive transcripts and news from Kate to your inbox please SIGN UP FOR MY NEWSLETTER or visit https://www.mskatesawyer.com/novelexperiencepodcast for more information.Thanks for listening!Kate xHosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Comment la chanteuse américaine, avec la complicité du producteur Jack Antonoff, y signe-t-elle un morceau de plus de sept minutes ? Pourquoi la minisérie documentaire « Jeunesse volée » donne-t-elle froid dans le dos ? Quelles sont les influences du pianiste français Riopy et qui lui a offert son premier piano ? Pourquoi faut-il redécouvrir « Ca s'est passé en plein jour », polar suisse des années 50 ? Quelle chanteuse anglaise se produit sous le nom de Hyd ? Parmi les invitées du festival ANIMA qui démarre vendredi, pourquoi faut-il saluer le retour de la réalisatrice Joanna Quinn ? Quelle musique pratiquent les Hollandais du groupe Loupe ? Toutes les réponses sont dans La Semaine des 5 heures de ce jeudi 16 février

PopaHALLics #94 "Pop Across the Pond"How did those folks on the other side of the Atlantic get to be such great storytellers?  Dad and daughter  discuss the silly BBC-style mockumentary "Cunk on Earth," the Irish drama/black comedy "Bad Sisters," and a sprawling novel about a dysfunctional family that begins on the English Coast, "The Whalebone Theatre."  'Course, we talk about some stuff made in 'merica too.Streaming:"Cunk on Earth," Netflix. The ill-informed, irreverent Philomena Cunk (Diane Morgan) sets out to document the highlights of human history by visiting exotic locales and asking silly questions of experts. Pretty funny."Bad Sisters," Apple +. Scheming, manipulative John Paul (Danish actor Claes Bang) is a piece of work. But when he dies unexpectedly, which one of the Garvey sisters killed him? And can the quarreling sisters stay one step ahead of the dogged, if hapless, insurance investigator trying to avoid a big payout to the widow? This smart drama with plenty of black comedy features a terrific Irish cast headlined by Sharon Horgan ("Catastrophe")."Poker Face," Peacock. In this limited character-based mystery series from "Knives Out" creator Rian Johnson, Natasha Lyonne ("Russian Doll") plays down-on-her-luck, foulmouthed Charlie, who can immediately tell if someone's lying. This peculiar gift soon has her fleeing across America, trying to outrun the mob while solving mysteries along the way. Books:"The Cloisters," by Katy Hays. In this bestselling novel, a circle of researchers uncover a mysterious deck of tarot cards and shocking secrets in New York's famed Met Cloisters. Kate says it's perfect for mystery fans who like a touch of the supernatural."The Whalebone Theatre," by Joanna Quinn. This acclaimed novel follows its heroine from putting on shows as a child with her siblings in a theater made of whale bones to covert operations in World War Two."Project Hail Mary," by Andy Weir. The author of "The Martian" returns with another sci-fi adventure about a man alone in space. This time he's a nerdy junior high science teacher (!), the sole survivor of a mission to save Earth from another ice age."Razzamatazz," by Christopher Moore. In this sequel to the zany thriller "Noir," bartender Sammy Tiffin, his girlfriend the Cheese, and the rest of the Cookie's Coffee irregulars get swept up in madcap antics involving murder, a moon-man, and a magical dragon statute in 1947 San Francisco.Click through the links above to watch and read what we're talking about.

When we first meet Cristabel, the heroine of Joanna Quinn's debut novel, “The Whalebone Theatre,” she is only three. But she is already sure of herself, in the pure and defiant way that young children often are. She knows she was born to be a leader. But how does she get there? That's the story at the heart of Quinn's delightful book, which follows Cristabel and her half-siblings as they grow up on the family's lush estate in 1920s England. The grownups are dizzy with relief that World War I has ended, so they mostly exist in a haze of alcohol and amusements. The children are mostly left to themselves. That's how they end up staging their own theater, in the skeleton of a beached whale, which provides a backdrop and a direction to their young lives. When World War II breaks out, Cristabel and her siblings, now grown, find themselves in a more serious production: playing roles in the allied military effort. And they don't know how this story ends. Quinn's novel takes us from seaside England to occupied Paris, from the height of luxury to the horrors of war. “The Whalebone Theatre” was an instant best seller in the U.K., and a New York Times best seller. This week, on Big Books and Bold Ideas, she joined host Kerri Miller to talk about the insightfulness of children, how art helps us to recognize ourselves, and why — despite the glamour — she would not want to live in 1920s England. Guest: Joanna Quinn is as fiction writer with a background in journalism. “The Whalebone Theatre” is her first novel. She lives in Dorset, England, where her book is set. To listen to the full conversation you can use the audio player above.  Subscribe to the MPR News with Kerri Miller podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts or RSS. Subscribe to the Thread newsletter for the latest book and author news and must-read recommendations. 

Louise and Virginia have been reading some books by debut writers as well as a charming re-release from the 1960s. These are all great books which they enjoyed enormously. They also discuss a few other non-bookish things they've been diving into. BooksA Helping Hand by Celia DaleDirt Town by Hayley ScrivenorLessons in Chemistry by Bonnie GarmusThe Whalebone Theatre by Joanna Quinn TVMarriage with Nicola Walker and Sean BeanAnnika with Nicola Walker BBC RadioAnnika Stranded PodcastOff Air with Jane Garvey and Fi Glover

Joanna Quinn is an educator, author, and the founder of Super Empowered One, an organization dedicated to building confidence in kids. October is National Bullying Prevention Month, although bullying is an action whose attention must take precedent year-round. It does give us the opportunity to discuss this activity, especially in the early months of school. Keeping lines of communication is critical, to learn for ourselves, and for our kids. Joanna speaks to Kate this week to discuss the need for confident communication. www.joannaquinn.com www.superempoweredone.com

Justin Sylvester brings us some big headlines with the latest scoop. Plus, Alan Cumming visits the studio to discuss reprising his role in “The Good Fight.”  And, Jenna Bush Hager discusses her latest book club pick, The Whalebone Theater, with author Joanna Quinn.

In this episode, we get excited about two new books: 'The Whalebone Theatre' by  Joanna Quinn and 'The Hero of This Book' by Elizabeth McCracken. Then Mel shares her enthusiasm for cookies made by cloistered nuns in Spain.  BOOKS The Whalebone Theatre by Joanna Quinn https://bit.ly/3CZWvDD The Hero of This Book by Elizabeth McCracken https://bit.ly/3g9nx28 The Giant's House by Elizabeth McCracken https://bit.ly/3TjaLwv DISTRACTION OF THE WEEK Cloistered Cookies Video  https://youtu.be/WbmUdXTSAGs Boing Boing article about Nun Cookies https://bit.ly/2CdeuHs Strong Sense of Place on Instagram https://bit.ly/3EHsbyF Transcript of this episode https://bit.ly/3MLK7KN The Library of Lost Time is a Strong Sense of Place Production! https://strongsenseofplace.com Do you enjoy our show? Want access to fun bonus content? Please support our work on Patreon. Every little bit helps us keep the show going and makes us feel warm and fuzzy inside - https://www.patreon.com/strongsenseofplace As always, you can follow us at: Our web site at Strong Sense of Place Patreon Twitter  Instagram Facebook

Bookseller, publisher, Dissenter and dinner-party host, Joseph Johnson was a great enabler in the late 18th-century literary landscape . . . Daisy Hay is the author of Dinner with Joseph Johnson: Books and Friendship in a Revolutionary Age and Associate Professor of English Literature at the University of Exeter, and Kathryn Sutherland is the author of Why Modern Manuscript Matters and Senior Research Fellow in English at the University of Oxford. Together they join the Slightly Foxed editors to discuss Joseph Johnson's life and work at St Paul's Churchyard, the heart of England's book trade since medieval times.   We listen to the conversation around Johnson's dining-table as Coleridge and Wordsworth, Joseph Priestley and Benjamin Franklin, Mary Wollstonecraft and William Blake debate the great issues of the day. And we watch as Johnson embarks on a career that will become the foundation stone of modern publishing. We hear how he takes on Olaudah Equiano's memoir of enslavement and champions Anna Barbauld's books for children, how he argues with William Cowper over copyright and how he falls foul of bookshop spies and is sent to prison. From Johnson's St Paul's we then travel to Mayfair, where John Murray II is hosting literary salons with Lord Byron and Sir Walter Scott, and taking a chance on Jane Austen. To complete our tour, we glimpse the anatomy experiments in the basement of Benjamin Franklin's house by the Strand. Our round-up of book recommendations includes Konstantin Paustovsky's The Story of a Life which begins in Ukraine, Winifred Holtby's conversations with Wollstonecraft and Woolf, a fresh look at Jane Austen's Emma and an evocation of the Aldeburgh coast as we visit Ronald Blythe for tea. Books Mentioned We may be able to get hold of second-hand copies of the out-of-print titles listed below. Please get in touch with Jess in the Slightly Foxed office for more information. Colin Clark, The Prince, the Showgirl and Me, Slightly Foxed Edition No. 61 (1:23) Edward Ardizzone, The Young Ardizzone, Plain Foxed Edition (2:01) Daisy Hay, Dinner with Joseph Johnson: Books and Friendship in a Revolutionary Age (2:52) Kathryn Sutherland, Why Modern Manuscripts Matter William Cowper, The Task (15:46) William Godwin, Memoirs of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman is out of print (24:09) John Knowles, The Life and Writing of Henry Fuseli is out of print (24:12) Mary Scott, The Female Advocate; a poem occasioned by reading Mr. Duncombe's Feminead is out of print (27:36) Slightly Foxed Cubs series of children's books (31:52) Olaudah Equiano, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano (35:53) Maria Rundell, Mrs Rundell's Domestic Cookery is out of print (46:01) Konstantin Paustovsky, The Story of a Life, translated by Douglas Smith (50:52) Joanna Quinn, The Whalebone Theatre (52:40) Jane Austen, Emma (53:16) Winifred Holtby, Women and a Changing Civilisation is out of print (54:07) Winifred Holtby, Virginia Woolf: A Critical Memoir is out of print (54:44) Winifred Holtby, South Riding (55:46) Ronald Blythe, The Time by the Sea (56:46) Related Slightly Foxed Articles Letters from the Heart, Daisy Hay on Mary Wollstonecraft, Letters Written in Sweden, Norway and Denmark, Issue 51 Just Getting on with It, A. F. Harrold on William Cowper, Selected Poems, Issue 23 The Abyss Beyond the Orchard, Alexandra Harris on William Cowper, The Centenary Letters, Issue 53 ‘By God, I'm going to spin', Paul Routledge on the novels of Winifred Holtby, Issue 32 Other Links Henry Fuseli's The Nightmare (11:42) Dr Johnson's House, City of London (49:52) Benjamin Franklin House, Charing Cross, London (49:56) Opening music: Preludio from Violin Partita No.3 in E Major by Bach The Slightly Foxed Podcast is hosted by Philippa Lamb and produced by Podcastable

On this episode of Marginalia, an author describes her new novel, which features barely-parented children in a crumbling English manor.

Sunday Times bestselling debut author Joanna Quinn. Author of THE WHALEBONE THEATRE, a family saga set over the course of WW2.Joanna chats about:her journey to being published via journalism, an MA, motherhood, a PHD and a pandemicbeing inspired by what you knowwhale bonesthe perils of book promotion for introverted authorsGuest: Joanna Quinn IG: @joannabquinn Books: The Whalebone Theatre by Joanna Quinn Host: Kate Sawyer Twitter: @katesawyer IG: @mskatesawyer Books: The Stranding by Kate Sawyer & This Family by Kate Sawyer Joanna's recommendations: Books for fans of The Whalebone Theatre: The Cazalet Chronicles by Elizabeth Jane Howard, I Capture The Castle by Dodie Smith, Charlotte Gray by Sebastian Faulks, Life After Life by Kate Atkinson A book Joanna has always loved: Wolf Hall Trilogy by Hilary Mantel A book coming soon or recently released that Joanna recommends: Super-Infinite by Katherine Rundell Other books/things that came up during our chat: Arvon Writing Courses, The Village That Died For England by Patrick Wright, The Child That Books Built by Francis Spufford , Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy , The Wreckers by Bella Bathurst Novel Experience with Kate Sawyer is recorded and produced by Kate Sawyer - GET IN TOUCHTo receive transcripts and news from Kate to your inbox please SIGN UP FOR MY NEWSLETTER or visit https://www.mskatesawyer.com/novelexperiencepodcast for more information.

The Whalebone Theatre by Joanna Quinn: An epic, absorbing novel which follows three free spirited children from an unconventional, dysfunctional family estate in Dorset in the years leading up to and during WW2. It's a multi-layered story about the power of drama, of the bonds between siblings and the disparity of class; war work, espionage and making a life, and the compromises made on the way. I couldn't put it down. Counterfeit by Kirstin Chen. This has been compared to Crazy Rich Asians. Ava is a rule-abiding lawyer who has ticked all of life's boxes. She's married to a successful surgeon and has just taken an indefinite career break to raise her adorable toddler. A picture-perfect life. Meet Winnie: Ava's old college roommate. Once awkward, quiet and apparently academically challenged, she left Stanford in a shroud of scandal. But now, she is charismatic, wealthy and has returned to town dripping in designer accessories. An actual perfect life. When the two women bump into one another at a local coffee shop, it seems like fate has intervened: Winnie's new-found success is courtesy of a shady business and she needs a favour; Ava is realising she is not built for the stay-at-home life. But what starts as one favour turns into two, then three, and soon Ava is in far deeper than she ever imagined. Now Ava has to make the ultimate decision: cut and run, or risk it all? 

Carole Beu of the Women's Bookshop in Ponsonby reviews The Whalebone Theatre by Joanna Quinn, published by Penguin Random House UK.

Welcome back to another edition of The AFA Podcast Interview series! Today, continuing our interviews with the filmmakers behind this year's Oscar-nominated short animated films, Evan Vernon spoke with UK animation legend Joanna Quinn and her regular writing and producing partner Les Mills, the duo behind the acclaimed Affairs Of The Art. They discuss how their working partnership first began, their earlier work which includes the multiple award-winning short Girls Night Out and the Charmin commercials, as well as their latest film. It's a really fascinating and in-depth interview with discussions about their process and much more. If you enjoy the show, why not leave us a review or a 5-star rating? It can really help others discover the show. If you have any ideas for future shows, questions for us to answer or any other enquiries, feel free to email us here. You can also now leave us a voice message on our Anchor page. GET EPISODES EARLY AND AD-FREE BY BECOMING A PATRON or make a donation to help run the site and the show. See all our Episodes here SHOW NOTES Afairs Of The Art on New York Times Screening Room ( US and Canada only) Beryl Productions National Film Board Of Canada Shorts TV Presents 2022 Oscar Nominated Shorts Theatrical Screenings British Animation Awards 2022 --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/animation-for-adults/message

This week we cover all five of the Oscar Nominated Animated Short Films. We begin with "Robin Robin" by Daniel Ojari & Michael Please, then Hugo Covarrubias' "Bestia" (Beast), then "BoxBallet" by Anton Dyakov, followed by "Affairs of the Art" by Joanna Quinn, and finishing with "The Windshield Wiper" by Alberto Mielgo.  After we discuss each short at length, we each pair each short with another film.  At least 25 movies are discussed, also "House of Gucci."  Thanks for listening!Created by Spike Alkire & Jake KelleyTheme Song by Breck McGough

In our latest Skwigly Animation Podcast special we round up the winners of the 2022 edition of the biennial British Animation Awards that took place at London's BFI Southbank last week. This episode features exclusive post-ceremony chats with event director Helen Brunsdon and producer Kieran Argo as well as some of the awarded attendees: Joanna Quinn and Les Mills (director and writer of "Affairs of the Art", winner of Best Short Film, Writers Award and Best Voice Performance) Jeroen Jaspaert and Matt Tea (Showrunner and director of "Pip & Posy", winner of Best Children's Pre-School) Grant Berry and Dane Winn (directors of "The Beast", winner of Best Immersive Animation) Adrian Rhodes (Sound designer of "Zog and the Flying Doctors", winner of Best Use of Sound) Julie Lockhart (producer of "Ron's Gone Wrong", winner of Best Long Form) Produced and edited by Steve Henderson Music by Ben Mitchell

In this episode of Old School Lane Interviews, Patricia interviews animation director Joanna Quinn and writer Les Mills from Beryl Productions about their newest animated short film Affairs of the Art, the fourth one featuring a 59-year-old woman named Beryl Thomas. They talk about their inspirations for art, writing, the three shorts featuring Beryl, how they based their characters and stories from real life interactions and experiences, and their thoughts of Affairs of the Art being nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Short and being the only female out of 12 animation directors to be nominated. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/old-school-lane/support

We are excited to be joined by Joanna Quinn and Les Mills, director and writer of the Oscar-nominated animated short, Affairs of The Art, who join us to discuss their film and the nomination. We also have reviews of Uncharted, Death on The Nile and Marry Me.

Monochrome is having a moment at this year's awards season in films such as Belfast, The Tragedy of Macbeth and C'mon C'mon. To discuss the comeback of black and white and its enduring appeal, Tom Sutcliffe is joined by Edu Grau, Director of Photography for Passing and Ellen Kuras, who won the Cinematography Award at Sundance for her debut feature film, Swoon, shot in black and white in 1992. She's since become the first woman to receive the American Society of Cinematographers' Lifetime Achievement Award and is about to embark on Lee, a biopic of the black and white photographer, Lee Miller. As the 2022 Oscar nominees are announced, we talk to Maggie Gyllenhaal who is nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay with The Lost Daughter, the actor's directorial debut, as well as Andrew Garfield, who bagged a best actor nomination for musical tick, tick... BOOM! Husband and wife animation team Les Mills and Joanna Quinn, writer and director respectively about their Best Animated Film-nominated Affairs of the Art also join us. Film critics Larushka Ivan-Zadeh and Leila Latif provide analysis. And we discuss a new experimental drama for Radio 4, An Artificially Intelligent Guide to Love, which sees writer Hannah Silva collaborate with a machine-learning algorithm to create an audio guide to romance. Presenter: Tom Sutcliffe Producer: Simon Richardson Production co-ordinator: Lizzy Harris Photo: Ruth Negga as Clare Bellew and Tessa Thompson as Irene "Reenie” Redfield in the film Passing Credit: Netflix

Joanna Quinn is an educator and advocate and an author of 'Greta Grace". Joanna is a former middle school teacher and the founder of Super Empowered One, an organization dedicated to building confidence in kids. October is national Bullying Prevention Month, although bullying is an action that needs attention at all times. It does give us the opportunity to discuss this activity especially in the early months of school, and learn for our own information and to help our kids. Keeping lines of communication is critical. www.joannaquinn.com www.superempoweredone.com

Presenting episode 102 of the Skwigly Animation Podcast! In this episode we review and discuss highlights from this year's Annecy International Animated Film Festival, including standout shorts in competition, Mikey Please and Dan Ojari's upcoming Aardman/Netflix special 'Robin Robin', Erick Oh's immersive short 'Namoo', Marq Evans's Will Vinton documentary 'ClayDream', Alberto Vázquez's 'Unicorn Wars', Jorge Gutierrez's 'Maya and the Three', Netflix's adult animation slate including the stop-motion anthology series 'The House'. We also welcome the legendary filmmaking team of Joanna Quinn and Les Mills to discuss their filmography and working history including their latest short 'Affairs of the Art', which received the Special Jury Distinction for Direction at Annecy. Also discussed this episode: Reflections on ten years of Skwigly for Ben and Steve, the announcement of Robert Morgan's feature film debut 'Stopmotion', the fiddly UX of online animation festivals and the Manchester Animation Festival's current call-for-entries. Presented by Ben Mitchell and Steve Henderson Interview conducted and edited by Steve Henderson Edited and produced by Ben Mitchell Music by Ben Mitchell

Guest artist KAREN McLEAN joins Elizabeth Fullerton to chat about her work via Colson Whitehead's 2016 novel 'The Underground Railroad' published by Doubleday. The historical fiction tells of 19th century slaves Cora and Caesar and their attempts to escape to freedom in America's south west.   Starting with her intensely researched art practice, Karen McLean and Elizabeth explore stories of rebellion and suffering amongst individuals and the collective, including female power, body ownership, intergenerational identity, mental illness and a vast knowledge of plants used as a method of resistance. They also delve into the structural legacies created by the sugar, cotton and indigo industries; colonialism, covert operations, syncretic religions, and the rise of the blue devil.   (This episode is co-produced by Jillian Knipe and Elizabeth Fullerton with music by Griffin Knipe and image by Joanna Quinn of Beryl Productions)   KAREN McLEAN instagram karenmclean_art karenmclean.co.uk 'Blue Power' 2021 Block 336 'Ar'n't I A Woman' 2021 Block 336 'The Precariat' 2017 Lewisham Arthouse ARTISTS Anish Kapoor Donald Judd Doris Salcedo El Anatsui Eva Hesse 'Contingent' 1968 Gees Bend Quiltmakers, Alabama Ibrahim Mahama Joseph Beuys Kara Walker Louise Bourgeois Paul Goodwin Sheila Gowda Teresa Margolles Theaster Gates Tracey Emin BOOKS ACTIVISTS THEORISTS Alan Krell 'The Devil's Rope: A Cultural History of Barbed Wire' 2002 Alice Walker 'Everyday Use' 1973 Bell Hooks 'Ain't I A Woman: Black Women and Feminism' 1981 Deborah Grey White 'Ar'n't I A Woman' 1985 Edward Said (Professor of Literature, Columbia University) Emily Zobel Marshall 'Anansi's Journey: A Story of Jamaican Cultural Resistance' 2012 Harriet Tubman, 'Harriet' film 2019 Hilary Beckles 'Natural Rebels' 1989 Homi Bhabha 'Of Mimicry and Man: The Ambivalence of Colonial Discourse' 1984 Jacques Lacan (psychoanalyst) Sojourner Truth (abolotionist, women's rights activist) 'Ain't I A Woman' speech 1851 Toni Morrison 'Beloved' 1987 GALLERIES LOCATIONS RESOURCES Afterprojects, Julie Bentley Birmingham City University Black Cultural Archives, Brixton UK Block 336, Brixton UK Gees Bend Quilting Retreat Goldsmiths University of London UK King's Cross Station, London UK Shakespeare's House, Stratford UK The Gale Plantation, Jamaica, Caribbean The New Art Gallery, Walsall UK The Steamhouse, Birmingham UK Trinidad & Tobago, Caribbean    

Guest artist DEAN KENNING joins me to chat about his work via John Maxwell Coetzee's 2013 allegorical novel 'The Childhood of Jesus'. The story revolves around five year old David with his father-by-default Símon, on their quest to find a mother for the boy and a better life for the three of them.  Winner of this year's prestigious Mark Tanner Sculpture Award, Dean Kenning, and I go on to discuss his clunky sculptures, social body-mind maps and his philosophical mish mash 'Metallurgy of the Subject'. We delve into the cracks between the flatness to explore ideas around satire, proliferation, bad infinity, socialist utopia, universal modes of seeing the world, common language, allegorical imagery, the importance of the father, avoidance of composition, a dislike for kinetic work, redundant technology, history as a bloody struggle and poo in sausages.   (This episode is produced by Jillian Knipe with music by Griffin Knipe and image by Joanna Quinn of Beryl Productions)   DEAN KENNING deankenning.com instagram Dean Kenning notfairbear 'The Origin of Life' 2019 'Psychobotanical' 2019 Matt's Gallery 'Renaissance Man' 2017 'Metallurgy of the Subject' ongoing   ARTISTS Antony Gormley 'Angel of the North' 1998 David Bowie (musician) Emma Cousin 'Chats in Lockdown' podcast English Heretic (musicians) Hieronymus Bosch Kiki Smith 'Her Memory' Fundació Joan Miró Leonardo da Vinci 'Vitruvian Man' Paul McCarthy 'Painter' 1995   BOOKS & THEORISTS Benjamin Markovits (writer) C L R James 'The Black Jacobins' 1938 Colm Tóibín 'The Testament of Mary' 2012 Franz Schubert (composer) Immanuel Kant (philosopher) J M Coetzee 'Disgrace' 1999 J M Coetzee 'Waiting for the Barbarians' 1980 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 'Erlkönig' 1782 Jacques Lacan (psychoanalyist) Jean Fisher (professor, art critic, writer) Jean-Luc Nancy 'The Inoperative Community' 1986 John Roberts (philosopher) 'Dean Kenning's Kinetics' 2019 Jorge Luis Borges 'Three Versions of Judas' 1944 Joyce Carol Oates 'My Life as a Rat' 2019 Karl Marx Kazuo Ishiguro 'The Buried Giant' 2015 Plato 'Republic' 375BC Russell Hoban 'Riddley Walker' 1980 Susan Buck-Morss (professor, philosopher, historian) William Burrows (writer) William Morris 'Useful Work versus Useless Toil' 1885 Walter Benjamin (philosopher) William Playfair (engineer)   TELEVISION 'Day of the Triffids' from 1981  'Dr Who' from 1963 Kenny Everett  

Guest artist KATE MccGWIRE joins Elizabeth Fullerton to chat about her work via American wildlife scientist Delia Owens' 2018 novel 'Where the Crawdads Sing'. In an ode to the beauty and violence of nature, the story centres around wild "marsh girl" Kya Clark. Abandoned and isolated from childhood, young Kya relies on nature to teach her the basics of survival as well as deluding her that one day she will be rescued. Interaction with other humans provides a whole different set of support and threatening challenges.    Identifying with Kya's barefoot 'n' wild soul, Kate MccGwire and Elizabeth Fullerton share stories of herons, crows, eagles, magpies, blackbirds, turkeys, pheasants, tropicbirds and the confounding snobbiness around pigeons and doves who are both part of the Columbidae family. They go on to explore snakes, oozing, gushing, skin, bones, intestines and scrotum' as well as darkness, resilience, rapture, seductions, repulsion, calm, turbulence, obsessiveness, working intensely, choir singing and Kate achieving a distinction for her dissertation at the Royal College despite being dyslexic.    (This episode is co-produced by Jillian Knipe and Elizabeth Fullerton with music by Griffin Knipe and image by Joanna Quinn of Beryl Productions)   KATE MccGWIRE katemccgwire.com instagram kate_mccgwire 'Cavort' 2020 'Sluice' 2009 'Sominal' 2019   ARTISTS & DESIGNERS & PERFORMERS Akram Khan Berlinde de Bruyckere Doris Salcedo Eva Hesse Helen Chadwick Helmut Lang Hermès Lancelot 'Capability' Brown Mona Hatoum Robert Adam  Thomas Chippendale   BOOKS Annie Proulx 'Barkskins' 2016 Douglas Stuart 'Shuggie Bain' 2020 Khaled Hosseini 'A Thousand Splendid Suns' 2007 Margaret Atwood 'Dearly: Poems' 2020 Tim Winton 'The Shepherd's Hut' 2018   GALLERIES & ART DESTINATIONS Galerie Les Filles du Calvaire  Grand Palais Éphémère 'Art Paris' 2021 contemporary art fair Harewood House, Leeds The Lowry, Manchester   SERIES 'It's a Sin' written by Russel T Davies   MUSIC Benjamin Britten 'Peter Grimes' 1945 Henry Purcell 'Hear my prayer, O Lord' 1682 Henry Purcell 'Lord, How Long Wilt Thou Be Angry'      

Guest artist FIONA CURRAN    joins me to chat about her work via Esther Kinsky's 2020 novel 'Grove : A Field Guide'. The story is directed by a narrator who takes a trip to a village on the outskirts of Rome which was supposed to be an adventure with her recently deceased partner.  Fiona and I go on to discuss how the work of her current solo exhibition developed during lockdown and a nasty bout of covid, as well as an earlier, major outdoor installation. We expand on landscape as a character, contemporary poetry, a balance of bleak and beauty, loss of identity through grief, looking for solace in the landscape, loving everything Italian, beyond the optical, seduction of the screen, the colour blue, extreme fatigue, memory flooding into the present, sanitisation of nature, resurfacing, fragmentation, aimlessness, hovering, disorientation and losing a sense of self.    (This episode is produced by Jillian Knipe with music by Griffin Knipe and image by Joanna Quinn of Beryl Productions)   FIONA CURRAN  fionacurran.co.uk instagram fiona_curran 'Jump Cut, Still Life' solo exhibition at Broadway Gallery 'Your Sweetest Empire is to Please' outdoor installation at Gibson Estate   ARTISTS Anna Maria Garthwaite Anni Albers Florence Peake Fra Angelico Gunta Stöltzl Hannah Luxton Hélio Oticica Henri Matisse Lindsay Seers Lygia Clark Lygia Pape Mary Heilman Raoul De Keyser Sonia Delaunay   BOOKS Anne Truitt 'Daybook : The Journal of an Artist' 1982 Esther Kinsky 'River' 2014 Jeremy Cooper 'Bolt from the Blue' 2021 Joanne Kyger 'The Japan and India Journals 1960-1964' 1981 Linda J Lear 'Rachel Carson : Witness for Nature' 1994 Rachel Carson 'Silent Spring' 1962 Rebecca Solnit 'A Field Guide to Getting Lost' 2005   GALLERIES Bosse & Baum Broadway Gallery, Letchworth   THEORISTS & BOTANY Gibside Estate Kew Gardens Mary Eleanor Bows 1749-1800 Mary Wollstonecroft 1759-1797 Paul Virilio 1932-2018   FILM Michelangelo Antonioni 'Red Desert' 1964 starring Monica Vitti Pier Paolo Pasolini 'The Hawks and the Sparrows' 1966 'Notes Towards and African Orestes' 1970

Presenting the first episode of 'Intimate Animation' season 4, brought to you by the online animation magazine skwigly.com Join Skwigly's Ben Mitchell and Laura-Beth Cowley as they explore, discuss and interview the talents behind animation that deals with adult themes of love, relationships and sexuality. In this episode we meet Shoko Hara, whose film 'Just A Guy' offers unique and unusual insights into the relationship between serial killer Richard Ramirez and his female devotees – including his long time girlfriend Eva O – through testimonials as well as the director’s own personal correspondences. The film’s raw visuals and agile animation style, combined with elements of collage and archive footage, create a rich visualisation of the fascinating world of death row relationships and the women who nurture them. With festival selections including Annecy, ITFS Stuttgart, OIAF, Interfilm Berlin, Animafest Zagreb (winner of the Grand Prix) and Krakow Film Festival (winner of Best Short Film), the film handles the duality of ethics, emotions and love in the most unlikely of places. Also discussed in this episode: Short film highlights from recent and upcoming festivals including new work by Joanna Quinn, Marcel Barelli and Martina Scarpelli; inscrutable European TV offerings such as 'John Dillermand' and 'Monsieur Flap'; the return of 'Big Mouth'; and the unusual sexual politics of the new 'Space Jam' movie. Presented by Ben Mitchell and Laura-Beth Cowley Interview conducted by Laura-Beth Cowley Produced and edited by Ben Mitchell

Guest artist LINDSAY SEERS    joins Elizabeth Fullerton to chat about her work via Russell Hoban's 1980 novel 'Riddley Walker'. A child of sorts in a futurist, post-nuclear explosion setting which harks back to the iron age, far from walking, the narrator Riddley is on the run. His patriarchal heritage has deemed him 'connexion man' and alongside his role of puppeteer, interpreter and propaganda pusher, Riddley begins to uncover the truth of past cleverness which is officially prohibited under religious conjecture. He throws himself to the dogs and together they journey through danger and forbidden knowledge in a story held together by a fragmented new language.   Layering ideas and various time zones, Lindsay Seers and Elizabeth Fullerton explore imposter syndrome, hunger for power, problems with articulation, excess of language, confusion, the puppet who overwhelms the puppetmaster, the search for new forms of artwork, becoming a camera, character instability, non normative brains, compassion, discomfort, connections, coincidences, blips, misunderstandings, signs, traces, unknown causes, unknown effects, mass hallucination, states of becoming, constant evolution, multitude of narratives, grand historical narratives, personal history, quantum theory, quantum biology, metaphysics, unified consciousness, the impossibility of identifying origin, and eye gouging.   (This episode is co-produced by Jillian Knipe and Elizabeth Fullerton with music by Griffin Knipe and image by Joanna Quinn of Beryl Productions)   LINDSAY SEERS lindsayseers.info instagram lindsayseers1 'Entangled' 'Every Thought There Ever Was' 'Nowhere Less Now'    The following references are mentioned on Podcast Episode 22 or suggested by guest artist Lindsay Seers :    AUTHORS & BOOKS  Anthony Burgess 'A Clockwork Orange' 1962 Arto Paasilinna Brian Massumi 'What Animals Teach Us About Politics' 2017 EE Cummings Frances Yates Gerard Manley Hopkins James Joyce Jim Al-KKhalili & Johnjoe McFadden 'Life on the Edge : The Coming of Age of Quantum Biology' 2014 Jeremy Cooper 'Bolt From the Blue' 2021 Kevin Breathnach 'Tunnel Vision' 2019 Lindsay Seers 'Human Camera' 2007 T S Eliot Virginia Woolf   THEORISTS Benjamin Libet - Libet's Clock Carl Jung, psychiatrist Giles Deuleuze Henri Bergson Jacques Lacan, psychoanalyst John Dee Maurice Merleau-Ponty Samuel Barclay Beckett, novelist and playwright   ARTISTS & GALLERIES & ART ORGS Artangel Derek Jarman 'Jubilee' 1978 Ewerk, Berlin Fabrica Gallery, Brighton UK Focal Point Gallery, Southend-on-Sea UK Hospitalfield Gallery, Arbroath, Scotland UK Ikon Gallery, Birmingham UK John Hansard Gallery, Southampton UK MONA (Tasmania), Australia Nine Elms site, Matt's Gallery, London UK Robin Klassnik, Matt's Gallery, London UK Sharha Art Foundation, UAE Sursock Museum, Lebanon Tate, London UK   TELEVISION & FILM Everything by Adam Curtis (English documentary filmaker) 'The Bridge' series 2011 'The Fly' film series 'The Quartermass Experiment' series 1953 'Twin Peaks' series 1990 'Twin Peaks : The Return' series 2020    

Guest artist LIZ ELTON joins me to chat about her work via Max Porter's 2019 novel 'Lanny'. The story revolves around a young boy named Lanny and his disappearance in the setting of an English village bordered by a forest. Little lad Lanny is as captivating as his author's ability to envelope us deep within the seams of the village's social and ecological networks, where Dead Papa Toothwort oversees all, over all time.    Bouncing off nature and infinite ephemerality, Liz and I go on to discuss her work selected for the John Moores Painting Prize as well as her upcoming residency with the Mark Rothko Memorial Trust. We talk of the constant state of becoming, nourishment, self care, delicate touch, bruising, translucency, landscape, lightness, mortality, composting, ritual, recycling, equality, silk thread, internal shadows, wastage, potential, breakdown, food labour and that fragile layer of soil on which all life depends connecting with our own skin.   (This episode is co-produced by Jillian Knipe and Elizabeth Fullerton with music by Griffin Knipe and image by Joanna Quinn of Beryl Productions)   LIZ ELTON  lizelton.com instagram liz_elton 'John Moores Painting Prize' exhibition at Walker Art Gallery 'Flowers of Romance' group exhibition at White Conduit Projects   ARTISTS Alice McCabe Allyson Keehan, curator Angela de la Cruz Dillwyn Smith Din Q Lê 'The Colony' 2016 Eliza Bennett Elizabeth Murton Eric Ravilious Francisco Goya Jem Finer 'Longplayer' at Trinity Buoy Wharf, longplayer.org Johannes Vermeer 'Girl with a Pearl Earring' 1665 Julie F Hill Katharina Grosse Mark Rothko Michael Landy 'Breakdown' 2001 Michelangelo 'Pieta' ('The Pity') 1498-1499 Paul Bramley, curator Sam Gilliam Sarah Pager William Dyce 'Pegwell Bay, Kent - a Recollection of October 5th 1858' 1858 Yves Klein   AUTHORS & BOOKS Anna Souter 'Vegetate Project' Anna Tsing 'The Mushroom at the end of the World' 2015 Charlotte Higgins on Michael Landy, 'The Guardian' 27 Jan 2021 Clive King 'Stig of the Dump' 1963 Donna Haraway Frances Hodgson Burnett 'The Secret Garden' 1911 Jane Bennett 'Vibrant Matter : A Political Ecology of Things' 2009 Merlin Sheldrake 'Entangled Life : How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures' 2020  Norman Bryson 'Looking at the Overlooked' 1990 Robin Wall Kimmerer Steven Connor 'The Book of Skin' 2004 Sue Stuart-Smith 'The Well Gardened Mind' 2020 T S Eliot 'Burnt Norton' 1935 Thomas Hardy Thomas Piketty 'Capital in the Twenty-First Century' 2013 Tim Dee 'Landfill' 2018 Timothy Morton 'Being Ecological' 2018 Tracy Chevalier 'Girl with a Pearl Earring' 1999   GALLERIES 163 Gallery, London, juliebentley.co.uk South London Gallery Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool White Conduit Projects, London   FILM & TELEVISION & RADIO 'Girl with a Pearl Earring' 2003, director Peter Webber 'Princess Mononoke' 2001, director Hayao Miyazaki 'The Archers' 1950-ongoing BBC Radio 4   PLACES Belarus Chew Valley Lake, Somerset UK Harris, Outer Hebrides Scotland UK Latvia Lithuania Maeshowe, Orkney Scotland UK Pegwell Bay, UK Ring of Brodgar, Orkney Scotland UK St Kilda, archipelago off Scotland UK   OTHER A P Fitzpatrick Fine Art Materials Artangel  Mark Rothko Memorial Fund Maye E Bruce, inventor of 'Quick Return' compost system 1935 Slade School of Fine Art Wimbledon School of Art

Guest artist MILLY PECK joins me to chat about her work via Alan Ayckbourn's play 'Taking Steps - A Farce'. Published in 1981 by Haydonning Ltd and first performed at Stephen Joseph Theatre in 1979, the story revolves around a Victorian manor house in faltering disrepair. While the characters upstairs and downstairs their way around three storeys, the play is actually performed on only one floor so that various scenes interact simultaneously. It's then a cacophony of mishaps, misunderstandings and misdirections. Elizabeth wants to leave Roland. Roland wants to buy this tremendous house from Leslie for Elizabeth. Mark wants to marry Kitty. Kitty wants to leave Mark. Tristram, the junior solicitor, is just utterly confused about what's happening and where and by whom, and if all those strange noises are thanks to a resident ghost.    Milly and I go on to discuss her solo exhibitions, most recently at Vitrine Gallery in Basel, her upcoming residency at British School at Rome and all the work inbetween. Mentions go to foley sound production, the physicality of the stage, playing with dimensions, scale, collage, flattening, inflating, puppeteers, backstage antics, confusing performance with reality, implicating the audience, dark elements shrouded in comedy, hands in gloves, hand in black and hands holding celery.    (This episode is co-produced by Jillian Knipe and Elizabeth Fullerton with music by Griffin Knipe and image by Joanna Quinn of Beryl Productions)   MILLY PECK millypeck.com instagram millypeck 'A Matter of Routine' Vitrine Gallery Basel solo exhibition  'Loud Knock' Matts Gallery solo exhibition 'Pressure Head' Assembly Point solo exhibition Works mentioned: 'Alight', 'Moquette', 'The Unforgiving Hour', 'Straphangers'   ARTISTS Amelia Barrett (performer at Milly's solo exhibition at Assembly Point) Andrea Montagne Art Green Edward Hopper Emma Cousin ('Chats in Lockdown' podcast host) Jordan Baseman (Royal College tutor and Art Fictions Episode 10) Konrad Klapheck Nick Mauss Steve McQueen ('Deadpan' 1997) William Hogarth ('A Rake's Progress' 1732-1734)   ACTORS & DIRECTORS Bong Joon-ho (South Korean director, screenwriter, producer) Buster Keaton (silent movies) Charlie Kaufman (American screenwriter, producer, director, novelist) David Thewlis Imelda Staunton  Mark Ruffalo Robin Herford (British Theatre Director) Sir Matthew Bourne OBE (choreographer) Toby Jones    GALLERIES & THEATRES Assembly Point, London  Goldsmiths CCA, London ('Solos' 2020, 'How! Chicago Imagists' 2019) Kunsthalle, Basel Switzerland Little Angel Theatre, Islington London Matt's Gallery, London National Theatre Archives Royal Shakespeare Company, Stratford UK Sir John Soane's Museum, London Stephen Joseph Theatre in the Round, Scarborough UK Vitrine Gallery, London and Basel Switzerland   PLAYS 'A Chorus of Disapproval' 'Fantastic Mr Fox' 'House and Garden' (Alan Ayckbourn dyptich) 'Mr What Not' (Alan Ayckbourn, where the central character does not speak and, otherwise, there is speech and sound) 'Noises Off' 'Relatively Speaking' (Alan Ayckbourn) 'The Red Shoes'   BOOKS & MAGAZINES 'American Zoo: A Sociological Safari' 2015 David Grazien 'Frieze' magazine (review by Kito Nedo 2 Dec 2020) 'Feel Free' 2018 Zadie Smith   FILMS 'Anomalisa' 2015 'Berbarian Sound Studio' 2012 (also performed at Donmar Warehouse) 'Birdman: The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance' 2014  'Dark Waters' 2019 'Snowpiercer' 2013 (based on French graphic novel 'Le Transperceneige' by Jacques Lob, Benjamin Legrand and Jean-Marc Rochette) 'Steamboat Bill Junior' 1928  

Presenting episode 20 of the Skwigly Animation Film Club! In our twentieth episode we press play on the 1998-2000 serialised animated adaptation of Geoffrey Chaucer's "The Canterbury Tales", written and directed by Jonathan Myerson with segments by Aida Zyablikova, Ashley Potter, Dave Antrobus Mic Graves, Joanna Quinn, Valeri Ugarov, Sergei Olifirenko, Damian Gascoigne, Iain Gardner and Deiniol Morris. Presented by Ben Mitchell, Steve Henderson and Laura-Beth Cowley Produced by Ben Mitchell

Lockdown has given the unharmed among us, opportunities, doubts and challenges in equal measure. The first 'Art Fictions' series, using a mixed bag of equipment, is a buzzing start to a down-to-earth podcast exploring creative connections between fiction and fine art. Each artist shares insights and inspirations around fictional themes and teenage dreams, and this podcast would not be possible without their imagination and their work. Thanks to them. And thanks to you for listening. Episode 1 is a brief overview of how the podcast is constructed. Design and illustration are by Joanna Quinn at Beryl Studios. The music is written and performed by Griffin Knipe.   (Shout out to Matt at The Tennis Podcast and Steve at Animation Magazine for their recording tips!)

Presenting the sixth episode of 'Intimate Animation' season 2, brought to you by the online animation magazine skwigly.com Join Skwigly's Ben Mitchell and Laura-Beth Cowley as they explore, discuss and interview the talents behind animation that deals with adult themes of love, relationships and sexuality. In this episode we welcome Veljko Popović of Lemonade 3D, whose short film "Cyclists" has picked up numerous awards during its festival run and will screen at Bristol's Encounters Festival later in the month. Also discussed in this episode: The Society for Animation Studies' conference highlights, Sex education through animation and the body-positive work of Joanna Quinn and Anna Ginsburg. Presented by Ben Mitchell and Laura-Beth Cowley Produced and edited by Ben Mitchell Music by Ben Mitchell

In the second in a short series of very special episodes of Spoiler, Andy is given free rein to wax rhapsodic about the medium of animation and interview some of his heroes from the animation community. In this episode Andy talks to British animator Joanna Quinn, creator of the formidable Welsh housewife Beryl and director of Channel 4’s Oscar-nominated Christmas classic ‘Famous Fred’. Joanna share her experiences of the differences between commercial and personal animation and between animating for adults and children. She also recalls the surreal experience of hearing you’ve been nominated for an Oscar and extols the importance of redressing the gender imbalance in animated films. Joanna also explains the origin of her satirical masterpiece ‘Britannia’ and how it has had a resurgence of popularity in the current political climate, and provides a tantalising glimpse of her top secret new Beryl film. You can find out more about Joanna and her work at her website Berylproductions.co.uk. You can also check out Andy’s list of 1001 Animated Shorts You Must See at andystoons.wordpress.com.

Day 2 of Skwigly's Bradford Animation Festival coverage, in which Ben Mitchell interviews Joanna Quinn on her work for the BAF 20th Anniversary ident.