Podcasts about Lucky Jim

In this season premiere of the Change Africa Podcast, we sit down with none other than James Barnor, the legendary Ghanaian photographer and photojournalist whose work has defined generations. Often referred to as the godfather of photography in Ghana, Barnor pioneered color photography and processing in the country, capturing some of the most iconic moments in Ghanaian history.At 95 years old, Grandpa James—also known as Lucky Jim—reflects on his incredible journey from being a young apprentice in Accra to becoming a globally celebrated artist with exhibitions at Tate Modern, the Victoria & Albert Museum, and beyond. He shares insights on luck, the importance of education, and the awakening of his passion for photography. Barnor discusses capturing history through ordinary lives, the significance of celebrating forgotten heroes, and the need for community engagement in the arts. He emphasizes the importance of legacy, the pioneering spirit in national development, and the impact of technological advancements in photography. Barnor expresses his desire to inspire the next generation of photographers and his vision for the future of art in Ghana.Chapters00:00 Introduction to Change Africa Podcast01:02 The Journey of James Bano04:00 Reflections on Luck and Education06:04 The Impact of Photography on History09:58 Celebrating Forgotten Heroes12:13 The Role of Community in Photography16:02 Inspiration for the Next Generation19:59 Legacy and Institutionalization of Work24:35 Pioneering Spirit in Photography and Beyond27:02 Cultural Contributions and Community Engagement30:04 Adapting to Technological Changes in Photography36:53 Reflections on Life and Future Aspirations39:04 Political Insights and National Development PlansGuest ProfileJames Barnor, born in 1929 in Accra, Ghana, is a pioneering figure in African photography. Known for introducing color processing to Ghana in the 1970s and documenting societies in transition, his work spans street and studio photography, capturing Ghana's move toward independence and London's multicultural evolution. His exhibitions at the Tate Modern and MoMA have cemented his global influence, and he has received accolades like the Order of Volta and an honorary fellowship from the Royal Photographic Society. His official website, James Barnor, offers further insights into his legacy. This podcast is a production of Nexa Media.Do you have a question for our hosts? Email us at hello@changeafricapodcast.comFollow the podcast on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn.Watch on YouTube Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Today's poem is a roller-coaster of machismo and vulnerability in that most singular of places–the poetry section of a small bookstore. Happy reading.Kingsley Amis (1922–1995) was a popular and prolific British novelist, poet, satirist, and critic. Born in suburban South London, the only child of a clerk in the office of the mustard-maker Colman's, he won an English scholarship to St John's College, Oxford, where he began a lifelong friendship with fellow student Philip Larkin. Following service in the British Army's Royal Corps of Signals during World War II, he completed his degree and joined the faculty at the University College of Swansea in Wales. Lucky Jim, his first novel, appeared in 1954 to great acclaim and won a Somerset Maugham Award. Ultimately he published twenty-four novels, including science fiction and a James Bond sequel; more than a dozen collections of poetry, short stories, and literary criticism; restaurant reviews and three books about drinking; political pamphlets and a memoir; and more. Amis received the Booker Prize for his novel The Old Devils in 1986 and was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 1990.-bio via NYRB This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit dailypoempod.substack.com/subscribe

Reading Larkin's poetry Eddie Dawes - The Trees (Aug 2022)    Graham Chesters- The First Thing (Aug 2021)  David Quantick - Days (Aug 22) Imtiaz Dharker - Broadcast (Aug 22) Martin Jennings - High Windows (Aug 24) Nominated by Graham Chesters Hans Rutten introducing and reading An April Sunday Brings the Snow in English and Dutch  (Aug 21) Richard Johnson- Sad Steps (Aug 21) Sally Button- To The Sea (Aug 21) Joe Riley - Church Going (Aug 24) Devon Allison- Cut Grass (Aug 24) Nominated by Chris Sewart Andrew Motion- The Old Fools (Aug 2024) Philip Pullen- Show Saturday (March 21) Celebrating Larkin's Contemporaries Triona Adams reads the opening paragraph of Barbara Pym's Excellent Women (April 22) Zachary Leader with Julian Henry on the writing of Lucky Jim (nominated by Daniel Vince) (April 21) Ann Thwaite reads Philip Larkin in New Orleans by Anthony Thwaite (May 24) Enjoying Larkin Conversation James Booth and Betty Mackereth- Just what did Betty make of Larkin's poems? (June 24) (Nominated by Sally Button) John Robins and Robin Allender- Captain Beefheart: Larkin fan. (March 22) Rachael Galletly and Lyn Lockwood-  A house full of Larkin (May 22) Chris Sewart and Phil Pullen- Larkin and The White Album (Nov 23) Rosie Millard and Lyn Lockwood - The wonders of Solar (Feb 24) Music: Monty Sunshine- Petit Fleur Wes Finch and the Mechanicals Band - The Horns of the Morning and The Trees Thank you to all the PLS Trustees, HVPs and members for their support and thank you to the huge support from our listeners and guests. Produced by Simon Galloway, Lyn Lockwood and Gavin Hogg.

Lords: * Tim * Chris Topics: * Noodles? * Everything and More (by DFW), the "impoverishment of the question",and free will * Choosing an integrator * https://gafferongames.com/post/integration_basics/ * Lucky Jim (old song) * https://media24.fireside.fm/file/fireside-uploads-2024/images/3/3597ddeb-e52e-4cda-a59c-c64600489fea/U7zR1RCa.png * Collaborative music as a game design problem (see: skill gap, handicaps, engagement, peripheral participation) Microtopics: * Celtic Music and Corgis. * Tim, a figure shrouded in mystery. * Topic Monologues. * Gluten-free noodle straws. * Bucatini: imagine a Red Vine but made of pasta. * Replacing food service workers with clockwork automata made of noodles that have been hardened into gears and springs. * Giant fusilli as playground equipment. * Noodleness and pastitude. * Whether gnocchi is a pasta. What about cauliflower gnocchi? * Unleavened Carrot Cake. * Indomie: the number one selling noodle on Earth. * Good spices: they can work in a broth. * Soupertaster: Jim eats soup alone while talking to a volleyball with a bloody handprint on it. * Learning math by starting with incredibly abstract unmotivated ideas. * Some Bottomless Pits are Deeper than Others. * Approaching a question by interpreting it as a question that if answerable. * The significant of the perception of free will. * How a closed system can produce multiple different outcomes. * What happens when we decide we don't have free will. * A completely deterministic system that has a sensation of free will. * Taking as much time as it takes to read a book. * Shooting the Moon (in real life) * Taking all the bad cards and winning. * Becoming disciplined about time * What a modern feature phone can do. * Dividing your day into blocks and spending them. * The period in your life when you lived in Burlingame. * Getting an incredibe amount of work done during your hour and a half commute. * Topic Lords or Plug Lords? * Something you'll be glad you did tomorrow. * Integration Basics. * Explicit Euler vs. Semi-Implicit Euler. * The pros and cons of RK4. * The physics system behind Drawn to Life. * What it takes to be an old song. * Hadestown and The Instigator. * The Hadestown Tiny Desk Concert. * How to play music with other people in a way that accounts for skill gaps. * Going to the Starry Plough to play the penny whistle. * Musicians sitting in a circle and talking until someone starts playing something and everyone else joins in. * Joining in on a song you've never heard before. * Playing Mary Had a Little Lamb at 40 BPM. * Making a slow song more interesting by adding ornamentation. * Star of the County Down. * Different ideas that come out when you play music at half speed. * Lark Camp. * The person who hands out the cheat sheet with all the popular tunes and their chord progressions. * Sorting tunes by frequnecy. * The bad things about Irish sessions, from a game design perspective. * Learning a song by reading the notation vs. learning it by playing it for 30 years. * Star Above the Garter.

For our July book of the month, the #BookCast crew reads Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis. Tune in a discussion of the novel led by Garth Casbourn featuring hosts Scott Walters, Meghan Voll, Mark Ambrogio, and special guest Helen Button! We discuss the literary format of the novel, its relation to our experiences as academics, and the historical context behind this witty work of fiction! Airing August 29 at 11am on Radio Western. Recorded on August 13, 2024 Produced by Scott Walters, Edited by Amalie Hutchinson Theme song provided by https://freebeats.io/ Produced by White Hot Audio clip from Lucky Jim (1957) - British Lion Films

Peter Swanson joins us for a fun chat about his new thriller A Talent For Murder, his love for dead authors, the Celtics, Lucky Jim, and why he could never be a teacher. Plus – Dave and Laura are puzzled by Canadian Fruit Loops and have a bear encounter. (Not at the same time.) ITUNES … Continue reading Peter Swanson Loves Dead Authors

Jo finds surprising depth to Susan Casey's The Devil's Teeth and Charlotte (8:35) fantasizes that her nonexistent celebrity romance novel is better than Robinne Lee's The Idea of You, with a brief bonus discussion of Lisa Halliday's Asymmetry. The great mind and Mobility author Lydia Kiesling (25:40) then joins to reflect on Lucky Jim and the ways our parents' book collections shape us as readers. Read Jo's review of Asymmetry from 2018 here.Lydia Kiesling is a novelist and culture writer. Her first novel, The Golden State, was a 2018 National Book Foundation “5 under 35” honoree and a finalist for the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award. Her second novel, Mobility, a national bestseller, was named a best book of 2023 by Vulture, Time, and NPR, among others. It is a finalist for the Oregon Book Award. Her essays and nonfiction have been published in outlets including The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker online, and The Cut. Send questions, requests, recommendations, and your own thoughts about any of the books discussed today to readingwriterspod at gmail dot com. Charlotte is on Instagram and Twitter as @Charoshane. She has a newsletter called Meant For You, with additional writing at charoshane.comJo co-edits The Stopgap and their writing lives at jolivingstone.com.Learn more about our producer Alex at https://www.alexsugiura.com/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

 Zachary Leader is Emeritus Professor of English Literature at the University of Roehampton. He grew up in California but has lived in Britain for over fifty years and has dual US/UK citizenship. He was educated at Northwestern University, Trinity College, Cambridge, and Harvard and is the biographer of Kingsley Amis and edited the Letters of Kingsley Amis. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and General Editor of The Oxford History of Life-Writing, a 7-volume series published by OUP. PLS Trustee Daniel Vince is a soon-to-be graduate of the University of York, where he earned his MA by Research on the post-war working class novel. He has recently started work on his PhD entitled ‘The New University in Post-War British Literature', in which Larkin and the University of Hull play a significant role – other writers include Malcolm Bradbury, David Lodge and Kingsley Amis. A trustee of The Philip Larkin Society, our e-newsletter editor and a member of our events committee,.  Today's conversation focuses on John Wain's Hurry On Down (1953) and Philip Larkin's Jill (1946). Notes and further reading and event links The Life of Saul Bellow by Zachary Leader (Cape, 2015) The Oxford Handbook of Percy Bysshe Shelley (Oxford Handbooks)  by Michael O'Neill (Editor) (Oxford Handbooks, 2017) The Life of Kingsley Amis by Zachary Leader (Vintage, 2007) The Letters of Kingsley Amis by Zachary Leader (Editor), (Harper Collins, 2001) Cultural Nationalism and Modern Manuscripts: Kingsley Amis, Saul Bellow, Franz Kafka Zachary Leader https://pure.roehampton.ac.uk/portal/en/publications/cultural-nationalism-and-modern-manuscripts-kingsley-amis-saul-be 2013 Decline and Fall by Evelyn Waugh (1928) Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis (1954) Portrait of a Lady by Henry James (1881) Jill by Philip Larkin (1946) Hurry on Down by John Wain (1953) Changing Places by David Lodge (1975) Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck (1937) The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger (1951) The Movement: English Poetry and Fiction of the 1950's by Blake Morrison (1980) The Movement Reconsidered: Essays on Larkin, Amis, Gunn, Davie and Their Contemporaries by Zachary Leader (OUP, 2011) The Importance of Philip Larkin by John Wain, The American Scholar, Vol. 55, No. 3 (Summer 1986), pp. 349-364  Interviews with Britain's Angry Young Men: Kingsley Amis, John Braine, Bill Hopkins, John Wain and Colin Wilson: 2 (Milford Series) by Dale Salwak (Borgo Press, 2007) Philip Larkin: Life, Art and Love by James Booth (2015, Bloomsbury) Philip Larkin: A Writer's Life by Andrew Motion (Faber, 1994) Philip Larkin Selected Letters ed. Anthony Thwaite (Faber and Faber, 1993) Out of Reach: The Poetry of Philip Larkin by Andrew Swarbrick (1997) Larkin poems mentioned: Livings, The Importance of Elsewhere, The Whitsun Weddings, High Windows, Absences, If, My Darling, This Be The Verse Other references: The Sun (British tabloid newspaper, founded 1964), John Braine (English novelist 1922-1986), Ben Johnson (English playwright- 1597-1637), Franz Kafka (Czech novelist, 1883- 1924) Book tickets for Chichester event here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/philip-larkin-society-members-event-at-chichester-cathedral-tickets-781230199557?aff=ebdsoporgprofile Register for schools event here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/higher-windows-post-16-english-enrichment-day-at-the-university-of-hull-tickets-737140074807?aff=ebdsoporgprofile Register for Conference 2024 here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/philip-larkin-society-conference-2024-tickets-769584597247?aff=oddtdtcreator

From Dark Academia trends inspired by Donna Tartt's “The Secret History” to other campus novels like Kingsley Amis' “Lucky Jim” and Philip Roth's “The Human Stain,” we delve into the quirks, challenges, and intrigues of university professor characters and campus settings for this week's mini. We also touch on classics like Dorothy L. Sayers' “Gaudy Night” and Mary McCarthy's “The Groves of Academe,” among others. Discussed: Donna Tartt: “The Secret History"Podcast Recommendation: "Once Upon a Time at Bennington College"Kingsley Amis: "Lucky Jim"Michael Chabon: "Wonder Boys"John Edward Williams: "Stoner"Dorothy Sayers: "Gaudy Night" (part of the Lord Peter Wimsey detective novels)Mary McCarthy: Book Mentioned: "The Groves of Academe"David Lodge: Campus Trilogy: "Changing Places,” "Small World", and "Work"“American Vandal”For episodes and show notes, visit: LostLadiesofLit.com Follow us on instagram @lostladiesoflit. Follow Kim on twitter @kaskew. Sign up for our newsletter: LostLadiesofLit.com Email us: Contact — Lost Ladies of Lit Podcast

Welcome back to Success is a System with Mike Greene! This time we carry on from where we left off last week with Retail Titan "Lucky" Jim McCarthy who from humble beginnings as a paperboy took the Poundland chain to over a billion pound turn over! Listen as Jim talks about his trials and tribulations in his endearing style of storytelling as he recounts some of the most remarkable stages of his rise in the retail sector at various national brands. Pay attention as Mike uncovers Jim's Secrets to Success in a truly remarkable, personal and frank discussion. Listen for hilarious stories and entertaining anecdotes that capture his charming personality and bold business acumen in the second part of this amazing interview! If you're in the retail sector this one is NOT to be missed!  Follow Mike on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikegreenemg/ Follow Mike on TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@sias_business_mentoring Follow Mike on Instagram- https://www.instagram.com/mikegreene_success_is_a_system/

Welcome back to Success is a System with Mike Greene! In this weeks episode Mike speaks with Retail Titan "Lucky" Jim McCarthy who from humble beginnings as a paperboy took the Poundland chain to over a billion pound turn over! Listen as Jim details his early life from childhood into his productive teenage years with his unique & endearing style of storytelling to ultimately dominating the retail sector at various national brands throughout his career. Pay attention as Mike uncovers Jim's Secrets to Success in a truly remarkable, personal and frank discussion detailing key points in his rise to the top including the up's and downs along with some hilarious stories and entertaining anecdotes that capture Jim's charming personality and bold business acumen. If you're in the retail sector this one is NOT to be missed!  Follow Mike on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikegreenemg/ Follow Mike on TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@sias_business_mentoring Follow Mike on Instagram- https://www.instagram.com/mikegreene_success_is_a_system/  

Summer Solstice Greetings Glocal Citizens! I'm fresh off of a couple of weeks of ramping up the summer in Europe where the sun was truly a superstar right alongside my guest for the next few episodes. James Barnor is a Ghanaian (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghana) photographer who has been based in London since the 1990s. His career spans six decades, and although for much of that period his work was not widely known, it has latterly been discovered by new audiences. In his street (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Street_photography) and studio photography (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Studio_photography), Barnor represents societies in transition in the 1950s and 1960s: Ghana moving toward independence (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Ghana#Independent_Ghana), and London becoming a multicultural metropolis. He has said: "I was lucky to be alive when things were happening...when Ghana was going to be independent and Ghana became independent, and when I came to England the Beatles (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beatles) were around. Things were happening in the 60s, so I call myself Lucky Jim." He was Ghana's first full-time newspaper photographer in the 1950s, and he is credited with introducing color processing (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colour_photography) to Ghana in the 1970s. It has been said: "James Barnor is to Ghana and photojournalism what Ousmane Sembène (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ousmane_Semb%C3%A8ne) was to Senegal (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senegal) and African cinema." Barnor has spoken of how his work was rediscovered in 2007 during the "Ghana at 50" jubilee season by curator Nana Oforiatta-Ayim (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nana_Oforiatta-Ayim), who organized the first exhibition of his photographs at Black Cultural Archives (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Cultural_Archives) (BCA). Appreciation of his work as a studio portraitist, photojournalist (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photojournalism) and Black lifestyle photographer has been further heightened since 2010 when a major solo retrospective exhibition of his photographs, Ever Young: James Barnor, was mounted at Rivington Place (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rivington_Place), London, followed by a series of exhibitions including in the United States and South Africa (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Africa). His photographs were collated by the non-profit agency Autograph ABP (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autograph_ABP) during a four-year project funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heritage_Lottery_Fund) and in 2011 became part of the new Archive and Research Centre for Culturally Diverse Photography. Barnor's photographs have also in recent years had showings in Ghana, South Africa, France - (Paris Photo (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_Photo) 2011, Galerie Baudoin Lebon; Galerie Clémentine de la Féronnière), The Netherlands (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Netherlands), the UK and the US. The first monograph of his work, entitled James Barnor: Ever Young, was published in 2015, including an extensive conversation between Barnor and Margaret Busby (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Busby) with Francis Hodgson. I'm honored to be able to share his story--the history, the craft, the artistry and the humor of Uncle Jim. Where to find James? On LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/james-barnor-42569b11/) On Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/james_barnor_archives/?hl=en) On Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/james.barnor/) In the New York Times (https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/30/arts/james-barnor-dia-ghana.html) What's Uncle Jim watching? America's Got Talent (https://www.youtube.com/user/americasgottalent) Britain's Got Talent (https://www.youtube.com/@BGT) Other topics of interest: About Two Coronations (https://www.bbc.com/historyofthebbc/100-voices/birth-of-tv/two-coronations/) Accra earthquake 1939 (https://www.nature.com/articles/147751a0) A brief history of housing in Ghana (https://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/A-brief-history-of-housing-in-Ghana-117756) 1942 Shipwreck (https://www.science.org/content/article/germans-torpedoed-ship-during-world-war-ii-wreck-now-revealing-secrets-about-underwater) What is Akpeteshie? (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akpeteshie) On Kodak's Baby Brownie Camera (https://www.fi.edu/en/kodak-brownie-camera#:~:text=Eastman%20Kodak%20introduced%20the%20new,by%20a%20major%20advertising%20campaign) Other Kodak cameras (https://thedarkroom.com/resurrect-old-620-film-cameras-with-120-film/) Ghana's Daily Graphic (https://corporate.graphic.com.gh/about-us/our-history.html) Letterpress vs the Next-generation Press (https://hellolovely.design/top-tip/2022/3/26/letterpress-an-endangered-and-at-risk-craft) Ghana's Prized Boxer Roy Ankrah (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Ankrah) About British Accra and the Seaview Hotel (http://www.ghanadot.com/Review.amarteifio.jamestownaccra.111015.htm) Krobo Edusei (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krobo_Edusei) World University Service - Canada (https://wusc.ca/) Drum Magazine (http://www.robertnewman.com/1950s-covers-of-south-africas-drum-africas-leading-magazine/#:~:text=Drum%20was%20a%20South%20African,anti%2Dapartheid%20protests%20and%20events) Achimota School (https://www.achimota.edu.gh/) Medway College of Arts - Kent (https://www.wearemedway.co.uk/learn/university-of-creative-arts/) Oko Kolamashie (https://www.facebook.com/FlyToGhana/photos/a.1201015243436520/1867644386773599/?type=3) Special Guest: James Barnor.

Summer Solstice Greetings Glocal Citizens! I'm fresh off of a couple of weeks of ramping up the summer in Europe where the sun was truly a superstar right alongside my guest for the next few episodes. James Barnor is a Ghanaian (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghana) photographer who has been based in London since the 1990s. His career spans six decades, and although for much of that period his work was not widely known, it has latterly been discovered by new audiences. In his street (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Street_photography) and studio photography (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Studio_photography), Barnor represents societies in transition in the 1950s and 1960s: Ghana moving toward independence (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Ghana#Independent_Ghana), and London becoming a multicultural metropolis. He has said: "I was lucky to be alive when things were happening...when Ghana was going to be independent and Ghana became independent, and when I came to England the Beatles (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beatles) were around. Things were happening in the 60s, so I call myself Lucky Jim." He was Ghana's first full-time newspaper photographer in the 1950s, and he is credited with introducing color processing (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colour_photography) to Ghana in the 1970s. It has been said: "James Barnor is to Ghana and photojournalism what Ousmane Sembène (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ousmane_Semb%C3%A8ne) was to Senegal (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senegal) and African cinema." Barnor has spoken of how his work was rediscovered in 2007 during the "Ghana at 50" jubilee season by curator Nana Oforiatta-Ayim (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nana_Oforiatta-Ayim), who organized the first exhibition of his photographs at Black Cultural Archives (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Cultural_Archives) (BCA). Appreciation of his work as a studio portraitist, photojournalist (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photojournalism) and Black lifestyle photographer has been further heightened since 2010 when a major solo retrospective exhibition of his photographs, Ever Young: James Barnor, was mounted at Rivington Place (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rivington_Place), London, followed by a series of exhibitions including in the United States and South Africa (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Africa). His photographs were collated by the non-profit agency Autograph ABP (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autograph_ABP) during a four-year project funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heritage_Lottery_Fund) and in 2011 became part of the new Archive and Research Centre for Culturally Diverse Photography. Barnor's photographs have also in recent years had showings in Ghana, South Africa, France - (Paris Photo (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_Photo) 2011, Galerie Baudoin Lebon; Galerie Clémentine de la Féronnière), The Netherlands (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Netherlands), the UK and the US. The first monograph of his work, entitled James Barnor: Ever Young, was published in 2015, including an extensive conversation between Barnor and Margaret Busby (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Busby) with Francis Hodgson. I'm honored to be able to share his story--the history, the craft, the artistry and the humor of Uncle Jim. Where to find James? On LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/james-barnor-42569b11/) On Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/james_barnor_archives/?hl=en) On Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/james.barnor/) In the New York Times (https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/30/arts/james-barnor-dia-ghana.html) What's Uncle Jim watching? America's Got Talent (https://www.youtube.com/user/americasgottalent) Britain's Got Talent (https://www.youtube.com/@BGT) Other topics of interest: About Two Coronations (https://www.bbc.com/historyofthebbc/100-voices/birth-of-tv/two-coronations/) Accra earthquake 1939 (https://www.nature.com/articles/147751a0) A brief history of housing in Ghana (https://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/A-brief-history-of-housing-in-Ghana-117756) 1942 Shipwreck (https://www.science.org/content/article/germans-torpedoed-ship-during-world-war-ii-wreck-now-revealing-secrets-about-underwater) What is Akpeteshie? (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akpeteshie) On Kodak's Baby Brownie Camera (https://www.fi.edu/en/kodak-brownie-camera#:~:text=Eastman%20Kodak%20introduced%20the%20new,by%20a%20major%20advertising%20campaign) Other Kodak cameras (https://thedarkroom.com/resurrect-old-620-film-cameras-with-120-film/) Ghana's Daily Graphic (https://corporate.graphic.com.gh/about-us/our-history.html) Letterpress vs the Next-generation Press (https://hellolovely.design/top-tip/2022/3/26/letterpress-an-endangered-and-at-risk-craft) Ghana's Prized Boxer Roy Ankrah (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Ankrah) About British Accra and the Seaview Hotel (http://www.ghanadot.com/Review.amarteifio.jamestownaccra.111015.htm) Krobo Edusei (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krobo_Edusei) World University Service - Canada (https://wusc.ca/) Drum Magazine (http://www.robertnewman.com/1950s-covers-of-south-africas-drum-africas-leading-magazine/#:~:text=Drum%20was%20a%20South%20African,anti%2Dapartheid%20protests%20and%20events) Achimota School (https://www.achimota.edu.gh/) Medway College of Arts - Kent (https://www.wearemedway.co.uk/learn/university-of-creative-arts/) Oko Kolamashie (https://www.facebook.com/FlyToGhana/photos/a.1201015243436520/1867644386773599/?type=3) Special Guest: James Barnor.

Our mini Kingsley Amis season concludes with a look at three movie adaptations of his work; one underwhelming, one whelming, and one very much overwhelming... Lucky Jim (1957) Only Two Can Play (1962) Take A Girl Like You (1970) This episode presented by: J.R. Southall With: Jon Arnold Matt Barber

Summer Solstice Greetings Glocal Citizens! I'm fresh off of a couple of weeks of ramping up the summer in Europe where the sun was truly a superstar right alongside my guest for the next few episodes. James Barnor is a Ghanaian (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghana) photographer who has been based in London since the 1990s. His career spans six decades, and although for much of that period his work was not widely known, it has latterly been discovered by new audiences. In his street (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Street_photography) and studio photography (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Studio_photography), Barnor represents societies in transition in the 1950s and 1960s: Ghana moving toward independence (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Ghana#Independent_Ghana), and London becoming a multicultural metropolis. He has said: "I was lucky to be alive when things were happening...when Ghana was going to be independent and Ghana became independent, and when I came to England the Beatles (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beatles) were around. Things were happening in the 60s, so I call myself Lucky Jim." He was Ghana's first full-time newspaper photographer in the 1950s, and he is credited with introducing color processing (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colour_photography) to Ghana in the 1970s. It has been said: "James Barnor is to Ghana and photojournalism what Ousmane Sembène (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ousmane_Semb%C3%A8ne) was to Senegal (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senegal) and African cinema." Barnor has spoken of how his work was rediscovered in 2007 during the "Ghana at 50" jubilee season by curator Nana Oforiatta-Ayim (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nana_Oforiatta-Ayim), who organized the first exhibition of his photographs at Black Cultural Archives (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Cultural_Archives) (BCA). Appreciation of his work as a studio portraitist, photojournalist (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photojournalism) and Black lifestyle photographer has been further heightened since 2010 when a major solo retrospective exhibition of his photographs, Ever Young: James Barnor, was mounted at Rivington Place (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rivington_Place), London, followed by a series of exhibitions including in the United States and South Africa (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Africa). His photographs were collated by the non-profit agency Autograph ABP (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autograph_ABP) during a four-year project funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heritage_Lottery_Fund) and in 2011 became part of the new Archive and Research Centre for Culturally Diverse Photography. Barnor's photographs have also in recent years had showings in Ghana, South Africa, France - (Paris Photo (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_Photo) 2011, Galerie Baudoin Lebon; Galerie Clémentine de la Féronnière), The Netherlands (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Netherlands), the UK and the US. The first monograph of his work, entitled James Barnor: Ever Young, was published in 2015, including an extensive conversation between Barnor and Margaret Busby (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Busby) with Francis Hodgson. I'm honored to be able to share his story--the history, the craft, the artistry and the humor of Uncle Jim. Where to find James? On LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/james-barnor-42569b11/) On Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/james_barnor_archives/?hl=en) On Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/james.barnor/) In the New York Times (https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/30/arts/james-barnor-dia-ghana.html) What's Uncle Jim watching? America's Got Talent (https://www.youtube.com/user/americasgottalent) Britain's Got Talent (https://www.youtube.com/@BGT) Other topics of interest: About Two Coronations (https://www.bbc.com/historyofthebbc/100-voices/birth-of-tv/two-coronations/) Accra earthquake 1939 (https://www.nature.com/articles/147751a0) A brief history of housing in Ghana (https://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/A-brief-history-of-housing-in-Ghana-117756) 1942 Shipwreck (https://www.science.org/content/article/germans-torpedoed-ship-during-world-war-ii-wreck-now-revealing-secrets-about-underwater) What is Akpeteshie? (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akpeteshie) On Kodak's Baby Brownie Camera (https://www.fi.edu/en/kodak-brownie-camera#:~:text=Eastman%20Kodak%20introduced%20the%20new,by%20a%20major%20advertising%20campaign) Other Kodak cameras (https://thedarkroom.com/resurrect-old-620-film-cameras-with-120-film/) Ghana's Daily Graphic (https://corporate.graphic.com.gh/about-us/our-history.html) Letterpress vs the Next-generation Press (https://hellolovely.design/top-tip/2022/3/26/letterpress-an-endangered-and-at-risk-craft) Ghana's Prized Boxer Roy Ankrah (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Ankrah) About British Accra and the Seaview Hotel (http://www.ghanadot.com/Review.amarteifio.jamestownaccra.111015.htm) Krobo Edusei (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krobo_Edusei) World University Service - Canada (https://wusc.ca/) Drum Magazine (http://www.robertnewman.com/1950s-covers-of-south-africas-drum-africas-leading-magazine/#:~:text=Drum%20was%20a%20South%20African,anti%2Dapartheid%20protests%20and%20events) Achimota School (https://www.achimota.edu.gh/) Medway College of Arts - Kent (https://www.wearemedway.co.uk/learn/university-of-creative-arts/) Oko Kolamashie (https://www.facebook.com/FlyToGhana/photos/a.1201015243436520/1867644386773599/?type=3) Special Guest: James Barnor.

This talk was given to the PLS in 2001 by Winifred Dawson. Winifred was born in London, but educated in Belfast which is where she met Larkin when they were both working at Queen's University Library. Win also went on to write herself and published a biography of Amy Audrey Locke, a muse for the poet WB Yeats. Win opens with a reflection on Larkin's love for his parents, However, the talk is mainly about Larkin's relationship with the women in his life: Ruth Bowman, Winifred, Monica Jones, Patsy Strang, Maeve Brennan (who is listening in the audience) and Betty Mackereth. Ruth, Maeve and Win went on to form a friendship, having first met at Ruth's house in 1993, 8 years after Larkin died. Maeve Brennan can be heard very briefly at the end of the talk. The talk is full of humour, and a frank account of her feelings about Larkin, as well as readings of Larkin's poetry and letters. The poetry readings were not recorded at the time of the talk, and so are instead read by members of the current Philip Larkin Society committee. We have also added the 1975 poem ‘When first we faced' after Toads Revisited as a second poem about Betty Mackereth. Books and writers mentioned: Philip Larkin: A Writer's Life by Andrew Motion(1993) Philip Larkin Selected Letters ed. Anthony Thwaite (1993) Playing the Harlot- Patsy Avis (published by Virago in 1996) Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis (1954) Peter Ackroyd, Katherine Mansfield, Flann O'Brien's At Swim-Two- Birds (1939),  The Real Charlotte by Somerville and Ross (1894), John Betjeman, Scenes from Provincial Life by William Cooper (1950) , DH Lawrence, The Porter's Daughter: The Life of Amy Audrey Locke by Winifred Dawson (Sarsen Press, 2014) Larkin's review of The Girls by Henry de Montherlant (1959) can be found in Required Writing (1983) Poems mentioned- poems which are read in the episode are in bold: Days, Faith Healing, An April Sunday Brings the Snow , Reference Back, Mother, Summer, I Wild Oats, No Road, Within the dream you said, Show Saturday, Talking in Bed, Poem About Oxford,  Latest Face,  Lines on a Young Lady's Photograph Album, At thirty-one, when some are rich He hears his beloved, Long roots, Maiden Name, Broadcast, Morning at last,  Toads Revisited, When First We Faced, To My Wife, Counting,  An Arundel Tomb References: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/aug/28/winifred-dawson Ann Thwaite's obituary of Win Dawson https://philiplarkin.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/About-Larkin-01.pdf First issue of About Larkin  Further reading: Philip Larkin, Life, Art and Love by James Booth (Bloomsbury, 2014) Thank you to Jim Orwin for the original  recording and sleeve notes. Thank you to Graham Chesters, Simon Smith, Daniel Vince, Phil Pullen, Clarissa Hard, Rachael Galletly, Alex Davis, Gavin Hogg and Julian wild for reading the poems. Produced by Lyn Lockwood and Gavin Hogg PLS Membership and information: philiplarkin.com  Theme music: 'The Horns Of The Morning' by The Mechanicals Band. Buy 'The Righteous Jazz' at their Bandcamp page: https://themechanicalsband.bandcamp.com/album/the-righteous-jazz

Treasurer Jim Chalmers has delivered the first budget surplus in 15 years, helped by the boom in jobs and commodity prices. The government has used the windfall to deliver a cost of living package targeted at the most vulnerable, but will the spending stoke inflation and prove counterproductive? Plus, the US is again facing a debt ceiling crisis and we say vale to the great Allan Gyngell AO.

All the news from Jim Chalmers' budget, with a big improvement in the forecasts, a mini-surplus -- and a risk of waking the inflation dragon. Find out more about The Front podcast here and read about this story and more on The Australian's website or search for The Australian in your app store. This episode of The Front is presented by Claire Harvey, produced by Kristen Amiet, and edited by Tiffany Dimmack. The multimedia editor is Lia Tsamoglou, and original music composed by Jasper Leak.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Charles and Graham take a look at the controversial to stop funding English National Opera, unless they move out of London - probably Manchester. Charles tries to enthuse Graham with a musical based on songs by Cher. Graham explores the contemporary resonances within Kingley Amis's classic novel, Lucky Jim and shares the joy of meeting Dave Hill, who at 76 years of age is still touring as Slade.

Den brittiske poeten Philip Larkins litteratur är läst och älskad. I brev och biografier framkommer mindre smickrande sidor, som till exempel rasism. Men när hans brev till livskamraten Monica Jones publicerades nyanserades bilden något. Jan Norming har läst. ESSÄ: Detta är en text där skribenten reflekterar över ett ämne eller ett verk. Åsikter som uttrycks är skribentens egna. Ursprungligen publicerad den 18 mars 2011.För en tid sen stod en notis i engelska The Guardian. En okänd kärleksdikt av poeten Philip Larkin hade hittats i en skokartong. Dikten låg instucken i ett gammalt, tummat internkuvert. Föremålet för Larkins ömma känslor var Betty Mackereth. Han var bibliotekarie på universitetet i Hull och hon var hans sekreterare.Till notisen fanns ett foto. Larkin sitter i sina hornbågade glasögon lutad mot en pelare av betong. Bakom honom står en cykel. Är det hans? Jag vet att han cyklade och på omslaget till diktsamlingen The Whitsun Weddings finns också en cykel. Whitsun betyder pingst. Det är en tunn bok i vitt och olivgrönt med hård pärm, jag hittade den hos Blackwells i Oxford. Den ser ut som en sådan där liten skolradioutgåva från femtiotalet.Larkin är läst och älskad i England. Föra året hade han varit död ett kvartssekel. Hans dikter är ofta rimmade bilder av engelskt liv och kynne. Jag vill fånga, tolka och bevara livet som det ter sig, skriver Larkin i ett tidigt brev till sin livskamrat Monica Jones. Kanske bevara i meningen konservera, som att lägga in frukt eller syra grönsaker, och noggrant anteckna innehållet på etiketterna.Det får mig att tänka på Tomas Tranströmers dikt Decemberkväll från 1972. Här kommer jag den osynlige mannen, kanske anställd av ett stort Minne för att leva just nuJag tänker mig att det är Larkin som kommer på sin cykel. Och samma svävande exakthet finns i hans dikter, små sakliga och gåtfulla stycken om att dricka te, åka tåg och gå i kyrkan, allt det där som finns och sen inte finns, som skingras och försvinner som rök ur våra liv. Om ingen minns åt oss.I samband med 25-årsminnet av diktarens död utkom nyligen Letters to Monica, ett urval av hans korrespondens med Monica Jones. Philip Larkin föddes 1922. Som ung bibliotekarie kom han 1946 till universitet i Leicester där jämnåriga Monica Jones föreläste i engelsk litteratur. Båda hade examen i ämnet från Oxford, han vid St Johns, hon vid St Hughes. Men i Oxford möttes de aldrig.På omslaget ser man de bägge. De är på semester. Det är mitten av femtiotalet. Hela sitt långa förhållande åker de regelbundet på semester. Tillsammans planerar de resrutter. Larkin beställer biljetterna, kollar tidtabeller och bokar hotell. Andra har äktenskap, barn, hushåll och ekonomi ihop. De har sina semestrar. Så kallade semestrar, skriver den elake Martin Amis i en anmälan av boken. Resmålen var inte alltför vidlyftiga. Hope you got my letter from Pocklington, citerar Amis.Larkin var en motvillig semesterfirare. Semestern som koncept, hävdade han, bygger på en huvudsakligen kvinnlig föreställning om att allt blir bättre i Venedig eller Frinton. Själv stannade han helst hemma. Hela sitt vuxna liv försörjde han sig som bibliotekarie, de sista trettio åren i Hull, en håla vid Nordsjön med låga moln, dis, dimma, fukt och frånlandsvind, en perfekt plats för utövare av den speciella sorts misantropi som var Larkins.Men här är de alltså på Sark, en av kanalöarna intill den franska kusten, hav och obruten horisont, ett bukoliskt landskap med bräkande får och en varm bris. Omslagets foto är svartvitt. Det är en fin dag av skuggorna att döma. I fonden ett band av kobbar och skär. Hon sitter och han står, rygg mot rygg, hon i solglasögon, han med kikaren i händerna, hon med en ryggsäck av smärting, han barfota i sandalerna, hon ser ut mot havet, han in mot land, de är så unga, redan så ensamma och så vita i solen.Kanske är semestrarna hans offer. Hennes är i så fall större. Hon vill gifta sig, kanske ha barn. Det vill inte han. Eller törs inte. Kan inte bestämma sig. Så det blir som det blir. Varje gång frågan kommer upp skyller han på sitt skrivande och hon fogar sig, han får dåligt samvete och hon förebrår sig, han tröstar henne och hon honom, prisgivna åt varandra. Red ut det, den som kan.I nästan fyrtio år försökte de, skrev och skrev, Philip skickade mer än 1 421 brev och 521 kort, inalles cirka 7 500 sidor. Hon postade säkert lika många. Någon borde ge ut dem i urval, Letters to Philip. Här finns bara några få brottstycken av Monicas brev återgivna i finstilta fotnoter.Varför har du alltid mer tid för andra än för mig, undrar hon, och ber genast om ursäkt, intill förtvivlan resonabel. I ett annat fragment framgår att hon är djupt sårad av hans affärer med andra kvinnor, särskilt när hon blir varse att han tagit med en dikt om en av dem i The Whitsun Weddings. Fast han lovat. Hennes behärskning är hjärtskärande. Samtidigt som han skrockar något om hur ogärna han ser att hon träffar en PhD i åttkantiga glasögon, någon som var i Rom förra året.Philip Larkin och Monica Jones bodde aldrig ihop, förutom hans sista år. Ett kort tag kom de att dela adress och leva i något som liknade ett äktenskap. Hon fick bältros och flyttade in efter en sjukhusvistelse. Larkin dog först. Enligt hans önskemål maldes dagböckerna ner till makulatur under överinseende av hans sekreterare. I brev till Monica hade han betackat sig för illvilliga levnadstecknare.  Hon bodde ensam kvar. På sexton år gick hon knappt utanför dörren. Efter Monicas död hittade man högarna av brev. Den digra samlingen köptes av Bodleian Library i Oxford.Deras brevväxling ger begreppet resonemangsförhållande en ny innebörd. Här avhandlas allt, också sånt som inte blir sagt när de ses, i varandras närhet är de valhänta, blyga, försagda. Det är lättare att komma till tals i breven, tonen är stundtals ömsint och kärleksfull, de leker och tumlar runt som kattungar i texten. Båda har en fäbless för Beatrix Potter och hennes sagovärld. Larkin illustrerar breven med små teckningar i trubbig blyerts. Han är sälen och hon är kaninen. Dear bun, inleder han sina depescher.De kommenterar politik och boxning, cricket och litteratur, han rådgör löpande med henne om sina dikter, hon är uppskattande men inte okritisk. Som korrekturläsare är hon omutlig och säger ifrån. Det kan gälla stilen i stort, enstaka ordval eller ett tveksamt demonstrativt pronomen. De skriver om böcker och författare, levande och döda, skvallrar och baktalar, få finner nåd inför deras ögon. Philip som redigerar Oxford Book of Twentieth Century English Verse, anförtror henne vad han tycker, att det mesta är skräp, ingen som är född efter 1930 kan skriva, Ted Hughes klarar sig med knapp nöd.Andra råkar värre ut. Who cares about asses like Blake or bores like Byron? Några duger, Thomas Hardy alltid, W. H. Auden för det mesta, John Betjeman åtminstone ibland, Kingsley Amis för gammal vänskaps skull, Barbara Pym, Shakespeare förstås, är det inte underbart att han finns och är engelsk och att vi är engelska, tänk om du var tjeck, oupphörligt knorrande, och jag en jänkare som skrev på en avhandling om vattenmetaforer hos Pound.De klagar ständigt över sakernas tillstånd, vädret, krämpor, huvudvärk, hösnuva, matsmältning, sprit, brist på pengar, Larkins morsa, tristess, tråkiga historier, grannar som grälar eller spelar fel musik för högt, något atonalt som låter som en färja på väg ut ur en pianofabrik.Med åren blev Larkin a grumpy old man enligt principen om att aldrig underskatta sanningshalten i en djupt rotad fördom, fast så värst gammal blev han inte, och sin språkliga skärpa tappade han aldrig, heller inte sin osvikliga blick för tillvarons mer absurda sidor. Han är emellanåt rätt underhållande och klarsynt i sin grinighet.Letters to Monica är en text full av koder, förkortningar, tecken, medvetna felstavningar, omskrivningar, ordlekar, ett partitur för två ensamma röster. Idag bär jag de gula strumporna du gav mig. Ikväll tog jag en stor G & T, synd på citronerna annars. De dricker för mycket, var och en på sitt håll. Åren går och man undrar hur hon har det, Monica Jones, när breven glesnar och han får medalj av drottningen, går på fest hos Faber & Faber eller träffar sina älskarinnor.When it comes to women, I fucking give you up, skrev en gång Kingsley Amis till Larkin. I Amis roman Lucky Jim från 1954 får en av figurerna, Margaret, låna drag av Monica. Det är ett infamt porträtt. Larkin slutade inte umgås med vännen för det. Föga ridderligt mot Monica kan man tycka. Om han med tiden fick svårare att fördra Amis berodde det på annat. Framför allt var det Amis obestridliga talang för ett bekymmersfritt leverne som väckte hans harm, eller möjligen förtäckta avund. Åtminstone om man får tro Marin Amis, Kingsleys son.Åtskilligt har sagts om Larkins dystra tillvaro, och om motsättningen mellan liv och dikt, de till synes vattentäta skotten. Men jag tänker att det ena hör ihop med det andra, och att det har med hans ambivalens att göra, hans vacklan, det dubbla seende som berikar hans konst men föröder hans liv.Å andra sidan, vad vet vi? Kanske njöt han i hemlighet av att skrubba skjortkragar, tvätta lakan, klippa gräs, av sina eviga stuvningar och persikor på burk, sina stunder med The Archers i radion, en halv flaska sherry till Händels Water Music, cykelturerna i Hull med omnejd, två stora gin och tonic medan Sidney Bechet snurrade på skivtallriken, kanske njöt han så skamlöst att han var tvungen att beklaga sig, och som sagt förmågan att förvandla ledan till skön dikt hade han, som i Home is so Sad, Days, Church Going och den oändligt sorgsna Take One Home for the Kiddies.Men vad vet vi? Vad vet vi om varandra, om varandras liv? Ingenting, inte ett vitten, inte ens när vi tror oss veta, inte ens när vi vet, vet vi.Jan NormingLitteratur: Larkin, Philip: Letters to Monica Edited by Anthony Thwaite, Faber and Faber och Bodleian Library Larkin, Philip: The Whitsun Weddings, Faber and Faber Larkin, Philip: Collected Poems, The Marvell Press och Faber and FaberLarkin, Philip: Döden är ett moln, dikter i urval, översättning av Olle Thörnvall, Ellerströms förlagLänkar: Diskussionssida om och med Philip Larkins nyupptäckta dikt, Dear JakeThe Poetry Archive, med inläsningar av Philip Larkin Programledare: Fredrik Pålsson  fredrik.palsson@sr.se Producent: Lena Birgersdotter  lena.birgersdotter@sr.se

John J. Miller is joined by Catherine Baab-Muguira to discuss Kingsley Amis's book, 'Lucky Jim.'

This week on the Sinica Podcast, Kaiser chats with Indiana University political scientist Jason Wu about his work on China's ideological landscape. With so many now framing the contest between the U.S. (or, more broadly, "the West") and China in terms of ideology, it makes sense to examine what "ideology" means to each party, to get a sense of what China's actual ideology consists of, and how Chinese people understand their own ideological positioning relative to concepts like "left" and "right" that are familiar in the West. Wu's research yields some very surprising results: In most countries that have been studied, the degree of ideological constraint — coherence or consistency among different issue positions — tends to be higher among people with greater knowledge of politics. But in China, as with so many other things, just the opposite appears to be true.4:23 – What is the meaning of "ideology"?15:37 – What is China's ideology?20:17 – On "The Nature of Ideology in Urban China" and the odd inverse correlation between political knowledge and ideological consistency in China40:18 – On "Categorical Confusion: Ideological Labels in China" and the meaning of "left" and "right" in ChinaA transcript of this podcast is available on SupChina.com.Recommendations:Jason: The campus novels Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis and Straight Man by Richard Russo; and the two-person board game Twilight StruggleKaiser: The Magic Mountain by Thomas MannSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Welcome back to the 1001 books the podcast. We are reviewing the 1001 books to read before you die to see if they are really worth your time. On this episode: Lucky Jim Author: Kingsley Amis Published: 1954 Follow us on: Instagram @1001bookspod Facebook @1001bookspod Twitter @1001bookspod If you have any questions or comments you can email us at 1001bookspodcast@gmail.com. We would love to hear from you.

“'Humour' is maybe the worst word in the English language” Wit Lit is a podcast about funny books - so who better to hear from than a comedian who is also a bookseller? That's right, it's only Mr BEN POPE - crowd favourite and manager at The Review Bookshop in Peckham - recommending his favourite funny books. We discuss silly book titles, writer's voices versus comedian's personas, how the brain can short-circuit ‘funny' and ‘good', and how War and Peace is just lots and lots of Tweets lined up next to each other. * How to find Ben: He runs a monthly stand-up show called FRESH CHESTNUTS at the Betsey Trotwood pub in Farringdon! You should go! He can be found talking on Twitter here. He can be found managing a bookshop here. And on his very nice website here. * Boooooks we talk about: Hera Lindsay Bird by Hera Lindsay Bird Ayoade on Ayoade by Richard Ayoade Nothing To See Here by Kevin Wilson Something Fishy by P G Wodehouse Lustre by Raven Leilani Anthropology by Dan Rhodes In addition: Stewart Lee, Tim Key, Ducks, Newburyport, and Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis May we recommend purchasing your books from an independent bookshop like, oh I don't know, The Review Bookshop. * How to find me: on Twitter @lily_lindon or on Instagram @bookymcbookface

Having branched to our first novel with All Quiet on the Western Front, the Human Action Podcast begs your indulgence for one of the works of 20th century British satire. Lucky Jim is the late Kingsley Amis's seminal send-up of campus life, and it's among your host's favorite books. The book takes place in 1951, and England is trying but failing to lose its class distinctions. The protagonist Jim Dixon is singularly unfit for the academic life he's chosen, and the opportunities for Amis to skewer both the academy and English society are manifest. Allen Mendenhall of Troy University joins the show to discuss the academic pretenses and foibles punctured by Amis, along with great insights about Amis's background and political views. If you like satire, don't miss this show or this book!

Having branched to our first novel with All Quiet on the Western Front, the Human Action Podcast begs your indulgence for one of the works of 20th century British satire. Lucky Jim is the late Kingsley Amis's seminal send-up of campus life, and it's among your host's favorite books. The book takes place in 1951, and England is trying but failing to lose its class distinctions. The protagonist Jim Dixon is singularly unfit for the academic life he's chosen, and the opportunities for Amis to skewer both the academy and English society are manifest. Allen Mendenhall of Troy University joins the show to discuss the academic pretenses and foibles punctured by Amis, along with great insights about Amis's background and political views. If you like satire, don't miss this show or this book!

Having branched to our first novel with All Quiet on the Western Front, the Human Action Podcast begs your indulgence for one of the works of 20th century British satire. Lucky Jim is the late Kingsley Amis's seminal send-up of campus life, and it's among your host's favorite books. The book takes place in 1951, and England is trying but failing to lose its class distinctions. The protagonist Jim Dixon is singularly unfit for the academic life he's chosen, and the opportunities for Amis to skewer both the academy and English society are manifest. Allen Mendenhall of Troy University joins the show to discuss the academic pretenses and foibles punctured by Amis, along with great insights about Amis's background and political views. If you like satire, don't miss this show or this book!

Having branched to our first novel with All Quiet on the Western Front, the Human Action Podcast begs your indulgence for one of the works of 20th century British satire. Lucky Jim is the late Kingsley Amis's seminal send-up of campus life, and it's among your host's favorite books. The book takes place in 1951, and England is trying but failing to lose its class distinctions. The protagonist Jim Dixon is singularly unfit for the academic life he's chosen, and the opportunities for Amis to skewer both the academy and English society are manifest. Allen Mendenhall of Troy University joins the show to discuss the academic pretenses and foibles punctured by Amis, along with great insights about Amis's background and political views. If you like satire, don't miss this show or this book!

Having branched to our first novel with All Quiet on the Western Front, the Human Action Podcast begs your indulgence for one of the works of 20th century British satire. Lucky Jim is the late Kingsley Amis's seminal send-up of campus life, and it's among your host's favorite books. The book takes place in 1951, and England is trying but failing to lose its class distinctions. The protagonist Jim Dixon is singularly unfit for the academic life he's chosen, and the opportunities for Amis to skewer both the academy and English society are manifest. Allen Mendenhall of Troy University joins the show to discuss the academic pretenses and foibles punctured by Amis, along with great insights about Amis's background and political views. If you like satire, don't miss this show or this book!]]>

From 2017- James Hart, author of a fascinating and illuminating memoir titled "Lucky Jim." He was married to singer Carly Simon for twenty years - and this book chronicles their rich but complicated relationship as well as Hart's own struggles with issues of addiction as well as troubles with coming to terms with his own sexual orientation.

Professor Zachary Leader is Professor of English Literature at the University of Roehampton. He grew up in California but has lived in Britain for over forty years. He was educated at Northwestern University, Trinity College, Cambridge and Harvard and is the author of several books including Reading Blake's Songs, Writer's Block, Revision and Romantic Authorship. In 2000 Harper Collins published his edited Letters of Kingsley Amis followed by a highly regarded biography of Amis before he turned his attention to Saul Bellow, with the second part of acclaimed two-volume biography published in 2019. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Professor Leader’s work on Amis is filled with insights into the lifelong friendship between Kingsley Amis and Philip Larkin and this is what we’ll be discussing today. References: Kingsley Amis novels; Lucky Jim (1954), Take a Girl Like You (1960), The Anti-Death League (1966), The Alteration (1976), The Old Devils (1986) Larkin poems: Church Going ( published 1954), Posterity (published 1976) Kingsley Amis poem: Drinking Song (published in The New Statesman in 1978) The Letters of Kingsley Amis, edited by Z. Leader, London: HarperCollins, 2000; New York: Talk/Miramax, 1208pp. (2001) The Life of Kingsley Amis, Hardcover, New York: Random House, 1008 pp. (2006) Presented by Lyn Lockwood and Julian Henry. Theme music: 'The Horns Of The Morning' by The Mechanicals Band. Buy 'The Righteous Jazz' at their Bandcamp page: https://themechanicalsband.bandcamp.com/album/the-righteous-jazz Audio production by Simon Galloway. Follow us and get it touch on Twitter - https://twitter.com/tiny_air Find out more about the Philip Larkin Society here - http://philiplarkin.com/

Pablo Martínez Zarracina es columnista del diario El Correo. Sus artículos siempre están llenos de ingenio, ironía y cierta perplejidad ante todo lo que le rodea. Hoy viene al Hotel a tomarse una copa y charlar sobre escribir, libros, dry martinis y coctelerías, humor inglés, el uso de la ironía, Iñaki Uriarte, Szymborska, camisas con paramecios y mucho más. Como siempre, donde siempre.Notas del podcast: Libros: - 'Es muy raro todo esto', Pablo Martínez Zarracina: https://www.pepitas.net/autor/pablo-martinez-zarracina - 'Resaca Crónica', Pablo Martínez Zarracina: https://www.pepitas.net/autor/pablo-martinez-zarracina - Cyril Connolly: https://www.todostuslibros.com/autor/cyril-connolly - Lucky Jim, Kingsley Amis: https://impedimenta.es/producto/lucky-jim - Jill, Philip Larkin: https://impedimenta.es/producto/jill Artículos: - Huérfanos del JK: https://www.elcorreo.com/bizkaia/201405/12/huerfanos-20140509190243.html - 'How to...' - The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/series/howto - 15 aforismos de Wallace Stevens: https://www.zendalibros.com/15-aforismos-de-wallace-stevens/ - El Verbolario de Rodrigo Cortés; https://mobile.twitter.com/verbolario/status/1325791675126587393 - Andy Capp: https://www.gocomics.com/andycapp/2021/04/03

Stacy Schiff on her selection: In a contest between the novelist Elizabeth Jane Howard and her third husband, Kingsley Amis, I will opt for Howard every time -- with an exception made for Amis’s 1954 Lucky Jim. As laughter seems in short supply these days, I offer up this favorite Amis set-piece, arguably among the funniest pages of 20th century English literature not written by P.G. Wodehouse. I’m going to do my best to get through them with a straight face, but know that I never have before. Our hero, who is not much of a hero, is Jim Dixon, a lecturer in medieval history at a provincial British university. He is the houseguest of his department chair, who holds Dixon’s fledgling career in his hands. You needn’t worry about the minor characters who flitter by, all of them peripheral to the central drama here, which is Dixon’s climbing into bed and out of it, many hours, several surprises, and one epic hangover later. Lucky Jim, by Kingsley Amis Music: "Shift of Currents" by Blue Dot Sessions // CC BY-NC 2.0

Toby Frost, author of the Space Captain Smith series, discusses Kingsley Amis's Lucky Jim and his own work with me.

This week we’re discussing the wild and influential Gun Club. Led by all around maniac Jeffrey Lee Pierce, the Gun Club pioneered a unique type of blues-inspired punk in the early 80s before releasing a handful of strong rock albums. Pierce, by all accounts, was a drugged up, rabid egomaniac who wailed like a legendary blues man, despite being tone deaf. Even still, the Gun Club released some wonderfully inventive and timeless albums. If Pierce’s vocals don’t scare you off, there is a lot to be had here.Closing track: “For the Love of Ivy” from Fire of Love (1981)Check out our episode playlists on Spotify! https://open.spotify.com/user/motherpuncherincMike’s Picks:Fire of Love (1981) — Best Album, Personal FavoriteDivinity (1991) — Worst AlbumAlex’s Picks:Fire of Love (1981) — Best Album, Personal FavoriteDivinity (1991) — Worst AlbumPastoral Hide and Seek (1990) — Least FavoriteAlbums we discussed this episode…Fire of Love (1981)Miami (1982)Death Party EP (1983)The Las Vegas Story (1984)Mother Juno (1987)Pastoral Hide and Seek (1990)Divinity (1991)Lucky Jim (1993)Follow Mike on Instagram @popejesseventura for show updates and @pandermonkey for original musicFollow Alex on Instagram @motherpuncher

We've got 100% Pure Newness™ on this week's Radio Active Kids episode, featuring Laurie Berkner Band, Red Yarn, Brady Rymer and the Little Band That Could & David Gibb, Teeny Tiny Stevies, artichoke, Tu Rockcito, Fans of Randy Kaplan (FORKs), Doctor Noize, The Deedle Deedle Dees, Randy & Dave, Lucky Jim, Sing Along With Tony, Muggle Mike, Dubba Chuck & Lexx and The Roadzies!!! It's AMAZING. Playlist: https://spinitron.com/WSFM/pl/11316703/Radio-Active-Kids

Clint’s poetry collection Salute the Wreckage can be found here: https://www.amazon.com/Salute-Wreckage-Clint-Margrave/dp/1630450243 His collection The Early Death of Men can be found here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Early-Death-Men-Clint-Margrave/dp/1935520601 His novel, Lying Bastard, can be found here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Lying-Bastard-Clint-Margrave/dp/1733352619 Write to Clint: https://letter.wiki/ClintMargrave/conversations Follow Clint on Twitter: @clintmargrave Further References Clint’s Areo magazine article, “Forgiving Charles Simic” can be found here: https://areomagazine.com/2019/05/02/forgiving-charles-simic/ Shaun Koo’s Areo magazine article on exploitation in academe is here: https://areomagazine.com/2020/03/27/is-capitalism-to-blame-for-exploitation-in-academia/ Clint’s poem “My Therapist Says I Should Date Myself”: http://www.theamericanjournalofpoetry.com/v2-margrave.html Kingsley Amis, Lucky Jim (1954) David Lodge, Small World: An Academic Romance (1984) Richard Russo, Straight Man (1997) John Edward Williams, Stoner (1965) Timestamps 1:47 Clint reads the sample chapter, “Prerequisites” 9:55 Why so much academic writing is bad writing 18:45 What inspired Clint’s book 22:01 The title 23:24 Influences on the novel 29:03 The culture of academe 35:33 Writing poetry vs. writing novels 37:00 Clint’s poem “My Therapist Says I Should Date Myself” 42:22 The writing process 44:44 Separating the art from the artist 54:14 Why Clint wrote the novel

It's the birthday of Kingsley Amis (London, 1922), author of “Lucky Jim” (1954), which is considered one of the funniest novels in British literature.

Lucky Jim is a 1957 film starring Ian Carmichael and based on the 1954 novel by Kingsley Amis. Mark and Sarah give their verdict on this film and if this book  deserves it's place on the list of 100 greatest novels. We also discuss whether comedy can go out of date.   

Episode 17! This week we discuss the cross section of music and books - how have they mixed in our reading journey? Marc tells us about Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis and Trevor presents "My Struggle, Vol 1" by Karl Ove Knausgard

Lydia Kiesling tricked herself into writing a novel by starting with small vignettes about her feelings as a new parent and setting them in a northern California that's rarely explored in literature. The result of tying those scenes together is her excellent debut, THE GOLDEN STATE. She and James talk about her work as editor of THE MILLIONS, spreadsheets, local newspapers, present tense, and barfing toddlers. Plus, Shuchi Saraswat from Brookline Booksmith talks about the Transnational Literature Series and book sales.  - Lydia Kiesling: http://www.lydiakiesling.com/ Lydia and James Discuss:  CAL SUNDAY MAGAZINE  Sarah Smarsh  Hamilton College  OFF COURSE by Michelle Huneven  MODOC COUNTY RECORD  David Lodge  Sarah Blackwood  LUCKY JIM by Kingsley Amis  Tobias Wolff  Brandon Taylor  THE MILLIONS  Laura van den Berg  Emily Bell  Charles Dickens  THE GRADUATE dir by Mike Nichols  C. Max Magee  THE LAST SAMURAI by Helen DeWitt  - Shuchi Saraswat: https://www.shuchisaraswat.com/ Shuchi and James discuss:  Brookline Booksmith  The Transnational Literature Series  KINGDOM OF OLIVE AND ASH ed by Chabon & Waldman  THIS IS NOT A BORDER ed by Soueif & Hamilton  Ru Freeman  Khury Petersen-Smith BEACON PRESS  Tom Hallock  HILLBILLY ELEGY by J.D. Vance  VISITATION by Jenny Erpenbeck  GO WENT GONE by Jenny Erpenbeck  Laura van den Berg  DISORIENTAL by Negar Djavadi POSO WELLS by Gabriela Aleman Coolidge Corner Theatre  PERSEPOLIS dir by Marjane Satrapi  Words Without Borders  The Forum Network  Bob Woodward  EXIT WEST by Mohsin Hamid  HOME FIRE by Kamila Shamsie  PACHINCO by Min Jin Lee  THE INCENDIARIES by R.O. Kwon  THE MARS ROOM by Rachel Kushner  CIRCE by Madeline Miller  SONG OF ACHILLES by Madeline Miller  BookScan   - http://tkpod.com / tkwithjs@gmail.com / Twitter: @JamesScottTK Instagram: tkwithjs / Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tkwithjs/

The party are confronted by a terrible monster of the Purple Planet, Lucky Jim is elevated to party leader and Tio Lizix reveals some brutal truths. But can they escape the Purple Planet alive? Who will survive, and what will be left of them? Part 3 of 3 The Players: Dave - Judge Kevin - Issac (level 1 Elf) and Roscoe (level 1 Thief) Toby - Athalan (level 1 Cleric) Haydn - Luky Jim Torrins (level 1 Warrior) Paul - Duristan Nightraker, née Weddingsword (level 1 thief) Music: Damiano Baldoni - Spellbound Hell [CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)] from freemusicarchive.org/music/Damiano_…/Lost_Dinasty/

In this episode, the party find themselves in chains, and far from home. Lucky Jim and Duristan demonstrate their respective talents--but where is Nightraker?! Part 1 of 3 The Players: Dave - Judge Kevin - Issac (level 1 Elf) and Roscoe (level 1 Thief) Toby - Athalan (level 1 Cleric) Haydn - Luky Jim Torrins (level 1 Warrior) Paul - Duristan Nightraker, née Weddingsword (level 1 thief) Music: Damiano Baldoni - Spellbound Hell [CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)] from freemusicarchive.org/music/Damiano_…/Lost_Dinasty/

Episode 1-23: Sometimes Your Words Just Hypnotize Me Wherein I review: 88. Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis 89. Don't Let Go by Harlan Coben 90. Wolf Lake (Dave Gurney #5) by John Verdon

Kendingsmelodi: Earl Bostic: Harlem NocturneHvor ikke andet er anført, er kunstneren The Gun Club –Playliste:Thåström: Ingen sjunger blues som Jeffrey Lee PierceSex Beat (1981)Ghost on the Highway (1981)She’s Like Heroin to Me (1981)Texas Serenade (1982)Mother of Earth (1982)House on Highland Ave. (1983)Walking with the Beast (1984)Eternally Is Here (1984)Jeffrey Lee Pierce: Love and Desperation (1985)Funky Junkie/Yellow Eyes (1987)Breaking Hands (1987)Lucky Jim (1993)Idiot Waltz (1993)Be My Kid Blues (1993)Iggy Pop & Nick Cave feat. Thurston Moore: Nobody’s City (2014)

Kingsley Amis's Lucky Jim and Mad Frank, the autobiography of Frankie Fraser are read for this week's South London Book Club.

In this episode, the boys look back on the life of Jim Henson, thanks to the awesome biography by Brian Jay Jones. 1:26 – We love Jim Henson: The Biography by Brian Jay Jones 3:29 – How we got into The Muppets 6:21 – A rock & roll cassette tape tangent 7:42 – Young Jim and […] The post 37 Lucky Jim appeared first on Internet Boyfriends.

Novelist Dame Penelope Lively and comedy writer and performer Will Smith talk to Harriett Gilbert about the books they love, which include A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole, Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis and Arctic Dreams by Barry Lopez. Producer Beth O'Dea

One of Mike's favorite books, which means if Tom doesn't properly love it Mike might have to punch him. Also: Britishisms, the Middle Ages, academic ambivalence, Jenga, and ballet.

This time we have Lucky Jim and Looptron, two great artists.

Kingsley Amis won the 1986 Booker Prize for his novel The Old Devils. In conversation with Michael Parkinson, he talks about his childhood in South London, the success of his first published novel Lucky Jim, which he wrote when a lecturer at Swansea University, and his subsequent career as a don at Cambridge and then as a full-time novelist.[Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs]Favourite track: Runnin' Wild by Wild Bill Davison Book: Oxford English Dictionary Luxury: Scotch whiskey

Kingsley Amis won the 1986 Booker Prize for his novel The Old Devils. In conversation with Michael Parkinson, he talks about his childhood in South London, the success of his first published novel Lucky Jim, which he wrote when a lecturer at Swansea University, and his subsequent career as a don at Cambridge and then as a full-time novelist. [Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs] Favourite track: Runnin' Wild by Wild Bill Davison Book: Oxford English Dictionary Luxury: Scotch whiskey