Podcasts about Mervyn Peake

This week, part 2 of our recap of ‘Titus Groan'.Smoke! Ribbons! A Picnic!Find us on the internet:BlueSky: @makeyefretpod.bsky.socialInstagram: @TheTruthShallMakeYeFretFacebook: @TheTruthShallMakeYeFretEmail: thetruthshallmakeyefretpod@gmail.comPatreon: www.patreon.com/thetruthshallmakeyefretDiscord: https://discord.gg/29wMyuDHGP Want to follow your hosts and their internet doings? Follow Joanna on BlueSky @2hatsjo and follow Francine @francibambi Things we blathered on about:Announcing the Discworld Graphic Novel Universe - Terry Pratchett Genre Creators for Trans Rights in the UK and SA - 32 AuctionsThe Last of Us: S2, E1 - "Future Days" - A Storm of Spoilers on Audioboom ADUMBRATE Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster The Crowborough Players event tickets from TicketSource Music: Chris Collins, indiemusicbox.com  

Quand on y pense, le succès de Haruki Murakami a quelque chose d'étonnant. Prenez son dernier livre, La cité aux murs incertains, par exemple. Un sacré pavé de 550 pages, une narration contemplative qui laisse la part belle à la description, une intrigue sans queue ni tête où on doit laisser tomber toutes nos certitudes, des thèmes déjà travaillés à foison dans le reste de l'oeuvre de l'auteur… Comment l'écrivain japonais a-t-il réussi à charmer un lectorat international avec une oeuvre tout de même pas des plus accessibles ? C'est la question à laquelle Léa et Juliette de Torchon tentent de répondre dans cet épisode. Nous avons eu deux lectures différentes : quand Juliette connaît bien l'oeuvre de Murakami et y revient avec beaucoup de plaisir, Léa découvre totalement son univers. Mais on en ressort (pour une fois !) avec une critique globalement positive. Peut-être que notre goût pour les univers parallèles et le réalisme magique nous perdra… En tout cas, si un jour un fantôme décide de nous contacter, nous sommes prêtes ! Oeuvres citées :1Q84, Haruki Murakami, 2009, 10-18La trilogie de Gormenghast, Mervyn Peake, 2006 - 2024, Phébus et Christian Bourgois EditeurQuartier lointain, Jirô Taniguchi, 1998, Casterman écritures Yellow Submarine, 1968, George DunningTwin Peaks, 1990, David Lynch Mon voisin Totoro, 1999, Hayao Miyazaki Habillage sonore : Saâne Torchon, c'est le podcast qui traite de l'actualité littéraire en lisant des livres pour que vous n'ayez pas à le faire. On est une bande de copain pas du tout critiques littéraires de profession, et pour chaque épisode on se retrouve en mode "club de lecture de l'extrême" et nous lisons un livre qui a fait l'actualité pour vous dire si c'est une bonne surprise ou bien un vrai torchon. Et restez jusqu'à la fin pour nos recommandations littéraires et culture ! Distribué par Audiomeans. Visitez audiomeans.fr/politique-de-confidentialite pour plus d'informations.

The Truth Shall Make Ye Fret is a podcast in which your hosts, Joanna Hagan and Francine Carrel have emerged from Discworld and are now exploring the worlds of speculative fiction.This week, we enter Gormenghast with Part 1 of our recap of Mervyn Peake's ‘Titus Groan'...Ribs! Sunlight! Slowly-Growing Insanity! Find us on the internet:BlueSky: @makeyefretpod.bsky.social (not Twitter any more - included in outro through force of habit)Instagram: @TheTruthShallMakeYeFretFacebook: @TheTruthShallMakeYeFretEmail: thetruthshallmakeyefretpod@gmail.comPatreon: www.patreon.com/thetruthshallmakeyefretDiscord: https://discord.gg/29wMyuDHGP Want to follow your hosts and their internet doings? Follow Joanna on BlueSky @2hatsjo and follow Francine @francibambi Things we blathered on about:Apotropaic magic - WikipediaThe Rectory in Red - FolkLandsPeake Studies [Peter Winnington]Collected Articles on Mervyn Peake [Peter Winnington] An Excellence of Peake - Fantastic Metropolis [Michael Moorcock's article] A profusion of Peake – { feuilleton }  Tolkien vs Lewis: Allegory - R.E. Parrish Comics on tumblr Steerpike illustration by Mervyn PeakeFuschia illustration by Mervyn Peake  Radial Symmetry ("The Hottest Guy on Campus") - R. E. Parrish Comics on tumblr  Music: Chris Collins, indiemusicbox.com

That's right, dear listeners. We're back from hiatus, embarking on a brand-new journey and we can't wait for you to join us! Find us on the internet:Twitter/Bluesky: @MakeYeFretPodInstagram: @TheTruthShallMakeYeFretFacebook: @TheTruthShallMakeYeFretEmail: thetruthshallmakeyefretpod@gmail.comPatreon: www.patreon.com/thetruthshallmakeyefretDiscord: https://discord.gg/29wMyuDHGP 

Join hosts J.D. Barker, Christine Daigle, Jena Brown, and Kevin Tumlinson as they discuss the week's entertainment news, including stories about Kindle, Yorkies, and James Bond. Then, stick around for a chat with Adrian Tchaikovsky!AdrianTchaikovsky was born in Lincolnshire and studied zoology and psychology at Reading before becoming a professional author in 2007. He is a keen role-player and board gamer and is trained in stage-fighting. His literary influences include Gene Wolfe, Mervyn Peake, China Miéville, Steven Erikson, Naomi Novak, Scott Lynch and Alan Campbell.Adrian primarily explores deep themes, such as artificial intelligence and alien awareness within epic galactic and fantastical settings.He has a deep interest in the animal world specifically insects from his studies in Zoology and has a particular penchant for spiders.

The Drunk Guys's beer drinking peake's this week when they read Titus Groan by Mervyn Peake. They also have the merve to drink: As the World Burns by KCBC and 120 Minute IPA by Dogfish Head. Join the Drunk Guys on Tuesday for Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut. The

The Drunk Guys have big cans this week when they read Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner. They spy on: Delicate Genius by Threes Brewing, Forbidden Pumpkin by Abomination Brewing, and Keep it Casual by Sand City. Join the Drunk Guys on Tuesday for Titus Groan by Mervyn Peake. The Drunk

My guest today is the writer Charlie Higson, author of On His Majesty's Secret Service, the latest Bond continuation novel. Written to coincide with King Charles's coronation and the 60th anniversary of On Her Majesty's Secret Service, the book brings Bond into the modern era in a narrative that identifies very real geopolitical threats with some good old Bondian adventure.  For those of you to whom the name Charlie Higson his familiar, that's because he was one of the writers and performers of The Fast Show, a cult British comedy show from the mid-90s. In this episode, Charlie and I discuss his literary tastes through the four books that have shaped his work, as well as his creative practices, and of course the way to achieve a new rendition of the world's most fabulous spy. Modern Bond is less anchored in mid-Century wartime solemnity, and more attuned to the nuanced global landscape of 2024, which made for a really refreshing read. From his diverse reading selections to his personal take on the character, Charlie's insights were both enriching and hilarious. Whether you're a Bond enthusiast or just generally a lover of literary discussions, this episode is an absolute treasure trove of insight and inspiration – and not one to be missed! Lit with Charles loves reviews. If you enjoyed this episode, I'd be so grateful if you could leave a review of your own, and follow me on Instagram at @litwithcharles. Let's get more people listening – and reading! Charlie's four books were: Gormenghast, Mervyn Peake (1946-59) Pop 1280, Jim Thompson (1964) The Watcher, Charles Maclean (1982) From Russia with Love, Ian Fleming (1957)

"Les inconnus connus" d'Éric Russon : La musique sonne mieux avec toi. Les réalisateurs verviétois Jérémy Parotte et Quentin Noirfalisse pour le docu. "Après la Pluie", qui sort le 5 juin partout en Wallonie et Bruxelles. C'est l'histoire d'une crue. C'est l'histoire d'une crise. La balafre laissée par les inondations de 2021 dans les vallées de la Vesdre et de l'Ourthe est encore bien là. Quand il pleut, les gouttes rappellent les morts et les gravats. Comment se reconstruire ? Du quotidien de sinistrés suivis au long cours aux visions d'avenir d'urbanistes chargés de proposer des solutions, « Après la pluie » raconte les lendemains de la catastrophe climatique la plus meurtrière de l'histoire récente de la Belgique. Le réalisateur belge Sonam Larcin pour son docu. "Ce qui nous lie", à voir le 11 juin à 19h00 au Palace à Bruxelles, en partenariat avec la Rainbow House et le 18/09 en soirée à la Maison Arc-en-Ciel à Liège. Dans un monde où l'envie de devenir parent se heurte aux défis liés aux couples de même sexe, le réalisateur explore le lien de parentalité, tout en entreprenant une odyssée personnelle pour réparer ses liens avec son propre père. En plongeant dans l'essence du désir parental, le film pose des questions fondamentales : Qu'est-ce qui alimente notre quête de la parentalité ? Quelle est la force des liens biologiques dans l'attachement ? Dans un mélange singulier de narrations, le film retrace non seulement le trajet d'une exploration de ces questions, mais dépeint également une émouvante réconciliation. Des profondeurs de l'impossibilité naît alors un champ inattendu de possibles. Polar et littérature de genre avec Michel Dufranne : Deux auteurs morts dont les chefs-d'œuvre sont à redécouvrir car (enfin) bien republiés : - Un polar : Don Tracy, La Bête qui sommeille, Gallimard/Série Noire - Une fresque "fantasy" : Mervyn Peake, Le Cycle de Gormenghast, Christian Bourgois/Chimères Le talk-show culturel de Jérôme Colin. Avec, dès 11h30, La Bagarre dans la Discothèque, un jeu musical complétement décalé où la créativité et la mauvaise foi font loi. À partir de midi, avec une belle bande de chroniqueurs, ils explorent ensemble tous les pans de la culture belge et internationale sans sacralisation, pour découvrir avec simplicité, passion et humour. Merci pour votre écoute Entrez sans Frapper c'est également en direct tous les jours de la semaine de 11h30 à 13h sur www.rtbf.be/lapremiere Retrouvez tous les épisodes de Entrez sans Frapper sur notre plateforme Auvio.be : https://auvio.rtbf.be/emission/8521 Et si vous avez apprécié ce podcast, n'hésitez pas à nous donner des étoiles ou des commentaires, cela nous aide à le faire connaître plus largement.

Bentornati in Bookatini - il podcast per chi è ghiotto di libri. L'episodio 74 è dedicato ai luoghi come protagonisti.   Nell'episodio di oggi abbiamo chiacchierato approfonditamente di questi libri   -       Gli invisibili, di Roy Jacobsen, Iperborea editore      Gormenghast. La trilogia, di Mervyn Peake, Adelphi editore  Abbiamo anche citato questi libri, che abbiamo ma non abbiamo letto:      Bacino 13, di Jon McGregor, Guanda editore      A Tokyo con Murakami, di Sallusti Giorgia, Perrone editore      Ritrovarsi a Parigi, di Gajto Gazdanov, Fazi editore      L'isola dei battiti del cuore, di Laura Imai Messina, Pickwick editore    Potete contattarci, scrivere commenti, suggerimenti, domande e condividete con noi le vostre letture su questo tema contattandoci nella pagina Instagram Bookatini_podcast, dove potete trovare anche le nostre live, in onda di mercoledìSe volete sostenerci e godere di contenuti aggiuntivi, potete unirvi a 4 possibili livelli di Patreon che trovate al link: https://www.patreon.com/bookatiniLa sigla di Bookatini è scritta e suonata da Andrea Cerea

Tabitha Potts and Martin Nathan interview the lead curator and guest curator of the British Library's blockbuster exhibition, Fantasy: Realms of Imagination, Tanya Kirk and Matthew Sangster. The exhibition runs until 25th February 2024 and tickets can be booked here. The exhibition has been critically acclaimed with a five star review in The Telegraph, ‘a visually captivating treat', and has been featured in The Guardian, The I Newspaper, Apollo Magazine and BBC Radio 4: Front Row to name a few. We interviewed both curators about the process of assembling an exhibition featuring over 100 objects that spans the breadth of a genre as varied as Fantasy, from its roots in epics and mythology to contemporary writers like Neil Gaiman and Susanna Clarke. Tanya Kirk, Lead Curator, Printed Heritage Collections 1601-1900, has worked at the British Library for 16 years, currently as the leading expert on 300 years of the Library's printed collections. She has curated six major exhibitions on topics including Gothic fiction, Shakespeare in performance, the British landscape in literature, science fiction and most recently, Fantasy: Realms of Imagination. She is the editor of four Christmas-themed collections of short stories in the British Library's Tales of the Weird series. With Matthew, she co-edited Realms of Imagination: Essays from the Wide Worlds of Fantasy (2023). Matthew Sangster joined the University of Glasgow in 2016 and was promoted to Professor of Romantic Studies, Fantasy and Cultural History in 2022. Prior to that Matthew worked at the British Library cataloguing the archive of the Royal Literary Fund and contributing to the exhibitions The Worlds of Mervyn Peake in 2011 and Writing Britain: Wastelands to Wonderlands in 2012. Matthew is the author of Living as an Author in the Romantic Period (2021) and An Introduction to Fantasy (2023); co-director of Glasgow's Centre for Fantasy and the Fantastic (with Dimitra Fimi); and a founding co-editor (with Brian Attebery and Dimitra Fimi) of the Bloomsbury Perspectives on Fantasy series. This episode was produced by Martin Nathan. Martin Nathan's short fiction and poetry has appeared in a range of journals and his novel – A Place of Safety is published by Salt Publishing. His dramatic writing has been shortlisted for the Nick Darke award and the Woodward International Prize. Episode cover image adapted from Carceri Etchings, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, (17501761) © British Library Board 

Despite being fairly well-versed in 20th-century fantasy, Mervyn Peake and his Gormenghast series has flown completely under our radar until now. It's a strange, florid, disjointed book with some fascinating character portraits, and also the most detailed description of a dude taking a bite of a pear that we have ever read.This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at betterhelp.com/overdue and get on your way to being your best self.Our theme music was composed by Nick Lerangis.Advertise on OverdueSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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ADRIAN TCHAIKOVSKY was born in Lincolnshire and studied zoology and psychology at Reading, before practising law in Leeds. He is a keen live role-player and occasional amateur actor and is trained in stage-fighting. His literary influences include Gene Wolfe, Mervyn Peake, China Miéville, Mary Gently, Steven Erikson, Naomi Novak, Scott Lynch and Alan Campbell.Learn more at: adriantchaikovsky.com

It's Coronation Day! Well, not quite. But in the UK we are steadily approaching the moment when the king, Charles III, formally takes the Oath and is crowned. This month we're tackling Mervyn Peake's Titus Groan, the first book in the seminal Gormenghast series. Titus follows the birth of the titular character and the first eighteen months of his life, which culminates in a very strange, ersatz coronation of its own. Joining Pete and me as we clamber across the rooftops and sneak through the dungeons of Gormenghast is the author Toby Frost, best known for his the Space Captain Smith novels, Dark Renaissance fantasy series, and Straken from the Warhammer 40K universe.We consider the sprawling castle-state of Gormenghast and it means when the old and new clash head-on, and specifically what it means when the ossified state, for so long indulged in its own wilful blindness and ritualised behaviour, comes into contact with the shock of the new, especially when the "new" - in this case, the kitchen boy Steerpike) is violent, psychopathic, and ruthless. We consider the utterly bizarre and grotesque cast of characters, from the wilfully blind, Prospero-like Earl Sepulchrave, who ostensibly rules the castle, to the ensemble of witless, violent, and occasionally noble people who live beneath his crumbling sovereignty. And we consider Titus himself, a marginalised titular character if ever there was one, who only appears as a baby, and yet whose coronation the book slowly builds to.Elsewhere, The Judge considers the coronation as a way of revivifying the state, just as we mentioned when discussing Excalibur last month). She considers the Crown Jewels, the Coronation Oath, and how the relationship between the Crown and its subjects has changed over the centuries. To see how a real monarchy like the House of Windsor can stop itself from becoming a fossilised version of itself a la Gormenghast, The Judge shows how the coronation is a living, shifting thing, where rituals, symbols and laws either change or stay the same to maintain a crucial balance between antiquity and modernity.Though Bean is away this month he's still here in spirit as he won the 75 word challenge this March with his entry The Death Of Ageing, and The Martian Space Force find unexpected kindred spirits in the crazy, smelly, stupid inhabitants of Gormenghast.Next monthNext month we'll be joined by the winner of the British Fantasy Award and one of the brightest lights of modern fantasy, the author RJ Barker, who will be talking with us about one of his greatest loves, Richard Adams's Watership Down.Index[0:00:00 - 56:42] Interview Part 1[0:56:43 - 0:59:59] Skit[1:00:00 - 1:15:05] The Judge's Corner[1:15:06 - 1:16:21] Challenge Winner[1:16:22 - 1:55:25] Interview Part 2[1:55:26 - 2:00:40] Credits and close

When Chronscast was originally set up I wanted different co-host folks for different co-host strokes. I wanted my guest today, the blogger Peat Long, to contribute to the podcast particularly in the area of fantasy fiction, in all its guises and possibilities. For various reasons he couldn't commit at the start of the venture, but I'm pleased to say that Peat has agreed to be an occasional co-host with me in the future.Today Peat and I are having a short conversation to introduce him, his thoughts on genre fiction, his prolific blog, and his own writing habits and capacities. Pete will be joining us later in the spring to discuss books such as Mervyn Peake's Titus Groan, and Stephen Donaldson's Lord Foul's Bane.Links Peat Long's BlogNext Episode Our next full episode will see Bean and I joined by the inimitable Bryan Wigmore, who'll be telling us how to make like Michael Jackson and heal the world with the sword pulled from the stone in John Boorman's 1981 Arthurian epic, Excalibur.

In questa puntata vi parleremo di quell'opera incredibile, magnifica e straniante che è "Gormenghast" di Mervyn Peake, completa dei suo 3 libri, "Tito di Gormenghast" del 1946, "Gormenghast" del 1950 e "Via da Gormenghast" del 1959. In Italia l'opera è edita da Adelphi che ha recentemente pubblicato un volume che comprende tutta la trilogia. Link Amazon: https://www.amazon.it/Gormenghast-trilogia-Mervyn-Peake/dp/8845937453/ref=sr_1_1?__mk_it_IT=%C3%85M%C3%85%C5%BD%C3%95%C3%91&crid=3IMSB40HSX8XT&keywords=gormenghast&qid=1675424890&sprefix=gormenghast%2Caps%2C156&sr=8-1 Canale Telegram: https://t.me/blablafantas Pagina Instagram https://www.instagram.com/bla.blafantasy/ Pagina Facebook https://www.facebook.com/blablafantasy/ Youtube: https://youtu.be/btiiR1HJY_c Un ringraziamento a Riccardo per la traccia musicale in sottofondo https://campsite.bio/spinaaqm https://www.fiverr.com/riccardos17?source=gig_cards&referrer_gig_slug=do-an-amazing-and-chill-lo-fi-soundtrack-for-your-video&ref_ctx_id=6ed784fb0bae92f95938a321774d6e9d --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/blablafantasy/message

This month we're joined by the author fantasy author Juliet E. McKenna, creator of several epic series including The Tales of Einarinn, The Aldabreshin Compass sequence, The Chronicles of the Lescari Revolution, and The Hadrumal Crisis trilogy. Juliet talks to us about one of the very first examples of what we might term "modern fantasy" - Hope Mirrlees' 192 novel Lud In The Mist. Juliet and I talk about where Lud sits in the canon of fantasy - we compare it to Tolkien, for example, and Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast books, as well as other modernist literature from the post-WW1 years of the 1920s. There is talk about borders, the liminal spaces between spaces, and the reconciliation of our own prejudices and biases, as well as of silly names and Mirrlees's "interesting" approach to worldbuilding. Juliet talks to us about her own writing experiences, with particular reference to English folklore, myth, and the countryside, which is prevalent throughout her work and none more so than her current Green Man cycle of novels and her forthcoming Arthurian novel The Cleaving. We also discuss fantasy emerging from other cultures and parts of the world, and how writers should approach the writing and representation of other cultures. Elsewhere, The Judge takes a break from her advisory talks and gives her own opinion and analysis of Lud In The Mist, which places the idea of laws, frameworks, and legal structures at the heart of the novel. We have two writing challenge winners in Doug Van Aarten and Jo Zebedee. Lastly, to coincide with the 40th anniversary release of Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Khan, Captain Kirk is having trouble getting hold of the Division 4 football results, and lays the blame squarely on a certain green-blooded, pointy-eared crew member. Next Month In October we'll be joined by the author Steven Hall to discuss his smash hit debut novel The Raw Shark Texts. Index [00:00 - 43:53] Juliet E McKenna interview Part 1 [43:53 - 45:17] Voicemail 1 [45:17 - 1:01:13] The Judge's Corner [1:01:13 - 1:02:24] Voicemail 2 [1:02:24 - 1:05:47] Writing Challenge Winners [1:05:7 - 1:07:09] Voicemail 3 [1:07:09 - 1:48:55] Juliet E McKenna interview part 2 [1:48:55 - 1:51:01] Credits and close

Joanne Harris (OBE, FRSL) was born in Barnsley in 1964, of a French mother and an English father. She studied Modern and Mediaeval Languages at Cambridge and was a teacher for fifteen years, during which time she published three novels, including Chocolat (1999), which was made into an Oscar-nominated film starring Juliette Binoche. Since then, she has written 19 more novels, plus novellas, short stories, game scripts, the libretti for two short operas, several screenplays, a stage musical (with Howard Goodall) and three cookbooks. Her books are now published in over 50 countries and have won a number of British and international awards. She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2022. She is a passionate advocate for authors' rights, and is currently the Chair of the Society of Authors (SOA), and member of the Board of the Authors' Licensing and Collecting Society (ALCS). Joanne's ChoicesSomething Wicked This Way Comes by Ray BradburyGormenghast by Mervyn PeakeThe Haunting of Hill House by Shirley JacksonMadame Bovary by Gustave FlaubertNights at the Circus by Angela CarterOther books and media mentionedChocolat by Joanne HarrisGentlemen and Players by Joanne HarrisFive Quarters of the Orange by Joanne HarrisBacklisted Podcast (Joanne Harris/Gormenghast episode)You can buy books mentioned in this episode on our Bookshop.org Affiliate page. (UK Only). By purchasing here, you support both small bookshops AND our podcast. Julia mentioned using MidJourney to create fantastic character studies and visualisations as writers and readers. She's written a thorough “how-to” blog post on our website. Keep  in touchWe love our listeners, and we want to hear from you. Please leave a review on one of our podcast platforms and chat with us on social media: Twitter: @twolitchicks Instagram: @two_lit_chicks TikTok: @two_lit_chicks Email: hello@twolitchicks.orgIf you do one thing today, sign up to our newsletter so we can keep you updated with all our news.Thank you so much for listening. Listeners, we love you. Two Lit Chicks Podcast is recorded and produced by Your Voice HereSupport the show

TITUS GROAN by Mervyn Peake / THE SOUTHERN BOOK CLUB'S GUIDE TO SLAYING VAMPIRES by Grady Hendrix. Genre books unite! This time on the pod Toby wades back into a book that already defeated him once, the formidably slow TITUS GROAN by Mervyn Peake, and Bailey indulges in a treat from one of her favorite contemporary authors, THE SOUTHERN BOOK CLUB'S GUIDE TO SLAYING VAMPIRES by Grady Hendrix. Plus we rate Andrew's wedding out of five stars, learn about Bailey's Birthday Request, and mention the pop-punk princes Sum 41 way, way too many times.

Novelist Joanne Harris (Chocolat, A Narrow Door) is our guest for a celebration of Titus Groan (1946), Gormenghast (1950) and Titus Alone (1959) by Mervyn Peake, three novels which are often referred to, erroneously, as the Gormenghast Trilogy. With Joanne's expert guidance, John and Andy revisit Peake's visionary work for the first time in decades and are surprised and delighted by what they discover. Also in this episode, Andy marks the belated UK publication of Maud Martha, the sole novel by poet Gwendolyn Brooks (Faber); while John enjoys Geoff Dyer's new book about tennis and much more, The Last Days of Roger Federer: And Other Endings (Canongate). Timings: 07:49 - Maud Martha by Gwendolyn Brooks 13:55 - The Last Days of Roger Federer: And Other Endings by Geoff Dyer 18:07 - The Gormenghast series of books by Mervyn Peake For more information on everything discussed in this episode visit https://www.backlisted.fm You can support us and unlock bonus material at https://www.patreon.com/backlisted All books mentioned in the show are available to purchase at https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/backlisted

Following a two-year investigation into bullying, abuse and discrimination the Whyte Review into British Gymnastics is finally published. We hear from ex-gymnast Claire Heafford, co-founder and campaign director of Gymnasts 4 Change, and Sarah Moore, lawyer and partner at Hausfeld who are acting on behalf of 38 former elite gymnasts against British Gymnastics in relation to allegations of abuse. In her prize-winning memoir, Free: Coming of Age at the End of History, Lea Ypi describes what it was like to grow up in Albania under a strict communist regime. Lea joins us to talk about her extraordinary coming-of-age story in Europe's last Stalinist outpost. Rosie Kinchen explains how horticultural therapy helped her overcome depression after having her second child. She discusses finding solace in a community garden. Her newspaper only launched 14 weeks before the outbreak of war in Ukraine, but the Kyiv Independent now has over two million followers on Twitter, and has been described by Time Magazine as: "The world's primary source for reliable English-language journalism on the war." We speak to the Editor of the newspaper, Olga Rudenko. A new film, Below the Belt, documents the reality of living with endometriosis. We hear from director Shannon Cone. Listener Christian Peake inherited a huge stack of canvasses painted by her grandmother, the artist Maeve Gilmore, whose artistic work had been over-shadowed by her more famous husband Mervyn Peake. As time went on though she became increasingly determined to get Maeve's work the recognition she feels it deserves. Her grandmother's first exhibition is now on at Studio Voltaire in Clapham, London. Presenter: Anita Rani Producer: Lucy Wai Editor: Lucinda Montefiore

Last week, Prime Minister Boris Johnson unveiled his "benefits to bricks" plan to tackle the UK housing crisis - the chronic shortage of homes to rent and buy and climbing property prices. According to the charity Shelter at present across the UK there are currently 17.5 million adults without safe, secure or stable homes. If you include children in this number – it is 1 in 3. A new book Tenants is about people on the frontline of Britain's housing emergency – and describes particularly how a shortage of homes is affecting women. The author is journalist Vicky Spratt, housing correspondent for the I newspaper, and she joins Emma in the studio. Covid rates appear to be rising again and some experts are predicting a new wave of the virus over the summer. In the week to 2nd June, 1 in 65 people in the UK were testing positive – up from 1 in 70 the previous week. But do we actually need to worry about it – and if so, what should we be should we be doing to protect ourselves? Emma will be getting the thoughts of Professor Devi Sridhar, who's chair of global public health at Edinburgh University, and sits on the Scottish Government Covid-19 Advisory Group. Listener Christian Peake was given a huge stack of canvasses painted by her grandmother the artist Maeve Gilmore who had died when Christian was 11 and whose artistic work had been over-shadowed by her more famous husband Mervyn Peake. A busy teacher and mother, Christian didn't really know what to do with them. As time went on though she became increasingly determined to get Maeve's work the recognition she feels it deserves. She has created an online gallery at maeve_gilmore_archive on Instagram and her grandmother's first exhibition is currently on at Studio Voltaire in Clapham, London. A new report by healthcare charity Doctors of the World reveals that some migrant women have been charged up to £14,000 for NHS maternity services in England. The survey of 257 migrant women - including undocumented, refugee and asylum seeking women - shows that over a third have received a bill for maternity care. The bills range from £296 to £14,000 with half of those receiving a bill being charged more than £7000. To discuss the findings Emma is joined by Anna Miller, Head of Policy and Advocacy at Doctors of the World, and we hear from Kemi, who received a bill for £4900 after having an emergency caesarean section. Apparently, the naked dress is in - catwalk models and celebrities have been wearing dresses with depictions of the female form on them - some have gilded sculpted breasts with prominent nipples. Fashion journalist, Letty Cole gives her thoughts on this eye-catching new fashion trend.

Patrick Stuart joins us to discuss Mervyn Peake's "Titus Groan”, oral traditions, lush prose, taking pride in working as a servant, the sun as an old cake bun, Peake's popularity, Cormac McCarthy, Gormenghast as a demiplane, maintaining status quo as a party goal, the court of Melniboné, physical differences as "monstrous traits", going back in time to support expired Kickstarters, and much more!

Estoy viviendo en el recuerdo de una ventana. Donde quiera que esconda la ventana, estarán esperando. 🖋️Un relato escrito por China Miéville, narrado por Olga Paraíso y producido por Historias para ser leídas. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CHINA MIÉVILLE (Inglaterra, 1972) es escritor, político y profesor. Nació en Norwich, aunque creció en Willesden, un barrio de clase trabajadora al noroeste de Londres, donde reside desde su infancia. Está considerado uno de los fundadores de la corriente de la literatura fantástica conocida como new weird, caracterizada por no seguir las estrictas reglas de la ciencia ficción y mezclar cultura pop, magia, steampunk y monstruos mitológicos. Ha recibido los galardones más prestigiosos dentro del género fantástico como el Hugo o el Locus. Ha ganado tres veces el premio Arthur C. Clarke y dos veces el British Fantasy y, desde 2015, es miembro de la Real Sociedad de Literatura británica. Puedes comprar sus libros en Amazon: https://www.amazon.es/China-Mi%25C3%25A9ville/e/B001IQUN20?ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1&qid=1627039269&sr=1-1 📘Influencias literarias: Su trabajo puede describirse como fantástico por sus mundos y escenarios sobrenaturales. Se ha discutido su trabajo en relación a las categorías de ciencia ficción, fantasía y "surrealismo urbano"12​. El estilo de Miéville se reconoce influenciado por la ciencia ficción pulp de los años 20, tanto de series de televisión como de películas, así como por diversos escritores de terror y fantasía. Destaca la influencia de M. John Harrison, Michael Moorcock, Thomas M. Disch, y J.G. Ballard, a los que considera prácticamente como sus ídolos; pero también son importantes otros autores como H.P. Lovecraft, Mervyn Peake, y Gene Wolfe. También ha admitido que sus libros contienen referencias a escritores rusos, incluyendo a Andrei Platonov, Arkady y Boris Strugatsky, Evgeny Voiskunsky y Isai Lukodyanov. Twitter Historias para ser leídas https://twitter.com/HLeidas 📌Síguenos en nuestro canal informativo de Telegram: https://t.me/historiasparaserleidas Suscríbete a nuestra Newsletter: https://www.getrevue.co/profile/historiasparaserleidas 🛑BIO Olga Paraíso: https://instabio.cc/Hleidas Música en este audio: Epidemic Sound licencia autorizada Escucha el episodio completo en la app de iVoox, o descubre todo el catálogo de iVoox Originals

In this episode we take a wide-angle view on dreams and dreaming, and consider the significance of dreams that just keep coming back: the importance of personal notebooks; Mervyn Peake and the awakening of my imagination; the creation of reality from imagination; sharing the vision; the Gormenghast books: their possible roots in biographical influences, and the paradoxical realism of Peake's fantasy; Peake's impact on my dream-life; spontaneous recall of dreams during meditation; how dreams are experienced largely through memory; not "remembering" but "coming back"; an experience of a recurrence of dreams about demons; the puzzling nature of these experiences; the tendency to view dreams as individual, isolated events; the timelessness of dreams; the fallacy of "the present moment"; the idea that some dreams might return because we are always dreaming them; the element of déjà vu in these experiences as a possible indication of an encounter with the timeless; "the present moment" as unfindable; embracing the eternal "then"; recurring dreams as a possible compensation for an exclusive focus on the "now"; the various uses of dreams in magick; the tendency here also to regard dreams as isolated events; the possibility of taking a wider view; going beyond the "now"; an example: a dream of the two cemeteries; how the dream varies, but the underlying structure is the same; distinguishing these dreams from recurring dreams in trauma: "cannot understand" versus "needing to understand"; an outline of the structure of the dream of the two cemeteries; the horrors and dangers of the old and semi-buried; possible biographical elements in the dream; the failure to find a specific interpretation of the dream; the cessation of the dream as a possible clue to its nature; dreams of this type as long-term processes; fallow periods on the magical path and some advice on this; the concept in Buddhism of "near-enemies"; art as the "near-enemy" of magick; distinguishing between magick and art; the status of the artefact; the creation of Liber Somnia and its methodology; arrival at a list of the dreams I am always dreaming; the dreams as a possible map of the soul's long-term processes; two categories of themes, and the themes therein; "Baltimore in the early morning": Lacan's metaphor for the unconscious; dreams that keep coming back as a recurrence of thoughts that have no thinker; the "double whammy" when a gifted artist performs magick; how a "hypersigil" is not the result of a working. Joe Hunt (2013). "The Dark Side of Positive Emotions Is Hidden in Plain Sight", https://tinyurl.com/y8fbhhmu (medium.com). Jacques Lacan (1966). "Of Structure as an Inmixing of an Otherness Prerequisite to Any Subject Whatever", https://tinyurl.com/sw66tdk5 (blogspot.com). Mervyn Peake (1999). The Gormenghast Trilogy. London: Vintage.

Today Catherine reviews Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast trilogy - with extra illustrations.

Susanna Clarke, Adam Scovell, Lucy Arnold and Anton Bakker are Matthew Sweet's guests. Susanna Clarke talks about the inspiration behind the follow up to her best-selling first novel, Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell. Piranesi is the springboard for a discussion about haunted spaces and mind-bending architecture in film, fiction and art from MC Escher to Christopher Nolan's Inception, Shirley Jackson to Mervyn Peake. The print maker Giovanni Battista Piranesi, who was born 300 years ago on Oct 4th 1720, became known for his etchings of Rome and images of imagined prisons. Piranesi drawings: visions of antiquity is an exhibition planned by the British Museum now due to open early in 2021. Susanna Clarke's novel Piranesi is out now. Adam Scovell writes on film for Sight and Sound and is the author of books including Folk Horror: Hours Dreadful and Things Strange and two novellas: Mothlight and How Pale the Winter Has Made Us. Dr Lucy Arnold researches contemporary literature at the University of Worcester and is the author of Reading Hilary Mantel: Haunted Decades. Anton Bakker's virtual exhibition Alternative Perspective at the National Museum of Mathematics in NYC can be visited via the MoMath website. Producer: Torquil MacLeod

This week, Lisa and Tim review two classic novels: Catch-22 by Joseph Heller, and Mervyn Peake's Titus Groan!

British singer-songwriter Jack Penate gets spiritual with soul and mysticism, and throws down raw emotion with pop polish. He reflects about his decade of hiatus and cites his inspirations: Turkish and Iranian psychedelic music as well as the influence of powerful classic gospel by the Chicago Pastor T. L. Barrett and his youth-focused ministry. Also, he talks about scouting the dramatic cliffs, stone quarry, and cave in Dorset as part of the video shoot for "Murder," and poetry by his grandfather, Mervyn Peake. Jack Penate plays stripped-down arrangements of songs from his latest record, in-studio. - Caryn Havlik

In their new sub-series, Appendicitis, Barney and Andy Goodman of Expedition to the Grizzly Peaks discuss works NOT on the infamous AD&D Appendix N. They begin with Mervyn Peake’s Gormenghast. They discuss how it might be of use in roleplay games, ending with a discussion of the campaign Andy created based on it, followed by a digression into Cthulhu. Look out for Appendicitis as and when. Thanks!

Writing my first campaign and going off the deep end. Narrative vs Emergent game play. Mervyn Peake, Lewis Carroll, and Gary Gygax. Plus call ins from some old friends. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/andy-goodman8/message

"Die Zeuginnen". Gilead revisited - 34 Jahre nach "Der Report der Magd" setzt Margaret Atwood ihre Dystopie um den Frauenunterdrücker-Staat fort. Gespräch mit der Übersetzerin Monika Baark. / "Wir sind das Klima". Jonathan Safran Foer hat ein einfaches Rezept, um die Erde zu retten - weniger Tiere essen. / Phantastik-Kolumne. Mit Rob Hart: "Der Store", Richard Morgan: "Mars Override", Paul Tremblay: "Das Haus am Ende der Welt", Stephen King: "Das Institut", Oliver Plaschka: "Der Wächter der Winde", Mervyn Peake, "Der Junge im Dunklen" / "Angst vor Lyrik". Vor Spinnen, vor Terror, vor Smalltalk, vor Lyrik - Moritz Hürtgen inventarisiert unsere Ängste in Reimform. Hörbuch, gelesen von Bjarne Mädel und Katharina Marie Schubert. / "Kintsugi". Miku Sophie Kühmel steckt vier langjährig Befreundete für ein Wochenende in ein Haus am See. Ihr Debut steht auf der Longlist des Deutschen Buchpreises. Gespräch mit der Autorin. / Das literarische Rätsel. Wunschbuch zu gewinnen - wer ist zu Gast bei Solomon Buk? Moderation und Redaktion: Judith Heitkamp

Episode 28! We play another round of "First In, Last Out" - Trevor read F Scott Fitzgerald's shorts in "Flappers & Philosophers" and Marc reveals his secret passion for "Titus Groan" by Mervyn Peake

The great American thinker William James knew well that no intellectual pursuit is purely intellectual. His interest in the "supernormal," whether it take the form of spiritual apparition or extrasensory perception, was rooted in a personal desire to uncover the miraculous in the mundane. Indeed, the early members of the British Society for Psychical Research and its American counterpart (which James co-founded in 1884) were united in this conviction that certain phenomena which most scientists of their day considered unworthy of their attention were in fact the frontier of a new world, an avenue for humanity's deepest aspirations. In this episode, JF and Phil discuss two papers that James wrote about the first phase in the history of these research societies. James lays bare his conclusions about the reality of psychical phenomena and its scientific significance. The bizarre fact that psychical research has made little progress since its inception lays the ground for an engaging discussion on the limits of the knowable. REFERENCES Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment Frederic W. H. Myers (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederic_W._H._Myers), theorist of the "subliminal self" Weird Studies, Episode 37: Entities (https://www.weirdstudies.com/37) Thomas Henry Huxley (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Henry_Huxley), aka "Darwin's Bulldog" Patrick Harpur, Daimonic Reality: A Field Guide to the Otherworld (https://www.amazon.com/Daimonic-Reality-Field-Guide-Otherworld/dp/0937663093) Mervyn Peake, The Gormenghast Trilogy (https://www.amazon.com/Illustrated-Gormenghast-Trilogy-Mervyn-Peake-ebook/dp/B0056GJI5Q/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=The+_Gormenghast_+Trilogy&qid=1554906043&s=books&sr=1-1) Thomas Kuhn, [The Structure of Scientific Revolutions](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TheStructureofScientificRevolutions) James Randi (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Randi), professional skeptic Dean Radin, Real Magic (https://www.amazon.com/Real-Magic-Ancient-Science-Universe/dp/1524758825) Eric Wargo, Time Loops: Precognition, Retrocausation, and the Unconscious (https://www.amazon.com/Time-Loops-Precognition-Retrocausation-Unconscious/dp/1938398920) Lionel Snell a.k.a. Ramsey Dukes (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lionel_Snell), British magician [Changeling: The Lost](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Changeling:TheLost) tabletop roleplaying game Rupert Sheldrake's morphic resonance (https://www.sheldrake.org/research/morphic-resonance) Quentin Meillassoux, After Finitude: An Essay on the Necessity of Contingenc (https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/after-finitude-9781441173836/)y Joshua Ramey, "Contingency Without Unreason: Speculation After Meillassoux ("Contingency Without Unreason: Speculation After Meillassoux")" C.G. Jung, Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle (https://www.amazon.com/Synchronicity-Connecting-Principle-Collected-Extracts/dp/0691150508)

Karen and Louisa celebrate nonsense literature, the most delightful genre of all, from the works of its grand old men Edward Lear and Lewis Carroll to those of the more contemporary Mervyn Peake and John Lennon. Read more on the Auckland Libraries blog: https://aucklandlibrariesblog.blogspot.com/2018/06/books-and-beyond-nonsense-literature.html Auckland Libraries' radio show Books and Beyond explores the world of books with guest authors, recommended reads, gems from the Central City Library basement and… beyond. Catch us on Planet FM 104.6, Sundays at 9.35pm. This episode originally aired on Planet FM 104.6 on 24 June 2018.

Comedian Lucy Porter and writer Frank Cottrell-Boyce talk to Harriett Gilbert about their favourite books. Lucy Porter's voice will be well-known to Radio 4 listeners as a regular on the News Quiz, the Now Show and The Unbelievable Truth. On TV she has appeared on Live at the Apollo, QI, Mock the Week, Have I Got News For You and Never Mind the Buzzcocks. She is also a successful comedy writer. Frank Cottrell-Boyce's credits as screenwriter include Welcome to Sarajevo, Hilary and Jackie and 24 Hour Party People. He is also an award-winning author of novels for children, including Millions, Framed and Cosmic. Their good reads are Letters from a Lost Uncle by Mervyn Peake, Truckers by Terry Pratchett and Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett. Producer: Mair Bosworth.

Mike Leigh's film Peterloo is his biggest budget film. 200 years ago mounted yeomanry massacred unarmed protesters in Manchester who had gathered to demand their rights. The story is not often taught in schools and this film aims to increase public awareness of the barbarity and indifference of the authorities. We're reviewing 2 illustrated story books; Booker Prize winner George Saunders follows up Lincoln In The Bardo with a story apparently written by a fox. Also Posy Simmonds "Cassandra Darke" about love and dark machinations in world of fine art trading. Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele were near-contemporaries on the Viennese art scene if the late 1800s. A new exhibition at London's Royal Academy shows a selection of their drawings; erotic, tender, explicit, ethereal, beautiful and intimate Olivier and BAFTA award-winning playwright debbie tucker green's new play at The Royal Court Theatre in London is ear for eye, described as "a play about protest and the black body in the UK and US today” containing “snapshots of some experiences of protest; violence versus non-violence, direct action versus demonstrations”. Doing Money is a one-off drama for BBC TV about sex trafficking of Eastern European women. The writer Gwyneth Hughes also recently adapted Vanity Fair; the contrast could hardly be greater. Tom Sutcliffe's guests are Ayesha Hazarika, Liz Jensen and Robert Hanks. The producer is Oliver Jones Podcast Extra selections: Liz recommends The British Library's selection of Mervyn Peake's manuscripts Ayesha recommends Tunng Robert recommends Day Of The Outlaw Tom recommends Room 237

This week we get acquainted with the power of language via the medium of Sean Penn’s debut novel Bob Honey Who Just Do Stuff, after which we find that an unnamed male author has claimed that he’s living proof that men can write believable female characters (we’re confused as well, but that claim has led to a rather hilarious Twitter challenge). In other news, Neil Gaiman is going to produce a new TV adaptation of Mervyn Peake’s Gormenghast novels, and Choose Your Own Adventure books make something of a comeback. After that we let Producer Rob loose so he can … erm … get some things about Ready Player One off his chest before Andrew regales us with a dramatic reading of an Ernest Cline poem. #LiteraryLoitering #TheGeekShow #Books #Novels #TheArts #Theatre #News #Reviews #Podcasts #CulturalAnarchy #Culture #SeanPenn #BobHoneyWhoJustDoStuff #MervynPeake #Gormenghast #NeilGaiman #ReadyPlayerOne #Movies #Films #Nostalgia #80s #StevenSpielberg #ErnestCline #NerdPornAuteur #Surreal #Comedy

A Poem a Day Keeps the Darkness at Bay - each day I read a poem, and give a brief amount of information on the poet. This is episode 01 on Mervyn Peake.

Philosophical discussion abounds this week as Robin and Josie are joined by author of, amongst many great books, ‘At the Existentialist Café’, Sarah Bakewell. They wander through the work of Bertrand Russell, Albert Camus, Mervyn Peake and many more besides before arriving at the conclusion that basically we should just all reread ‘The Great Gatsby’ more often than we do.

Jules Horne lives in the Scottish Borders and is an Associate Lecturer at Open University. She writes plays for stage and radio, and fiction with a Scottish gothic flavour. She’s inspired by Angela Carter and Mervyn Peake (of Gormenghast fame). Today, we chat about the tension between creativity and risk, the role of Indie publishers as influencers, and learning from our mistakes. Throw in offshoots on deadlines, daily goals and the Pomodoro Technique and things start to get interesting. Jules is a true creative and lives what she believes. The Scottish Borders may be isolated geographically, but academically, Jules is at the forefront. These are exciting times and even a brief chat with Jules has me excited for the possibilities for new ways of learning. You can find out more about Jules and her writing http://www.texthouse.co.uk/ (here) and http://www.juleshorne.com/ (here.) Read Full Transcript Jules Horne [01:03:25] Melinda: It's welcome to another episode of Writer on the Road. I am traveling around the world again today and I'm really, really excited to be in the Scottish boarders, now how beautiful and exotic does that sound? So I'm here with a beautiful lady by the name of Jules Horne and Jules welcome to Writer on the Road. Jules Horne: Hello Melinda, thanks for me having me on the show. Melinda: Not a problem at all. Jules put a wonderful little picture on her Facebook profile there earlier tonight and it's of this little hedgerow road that I remember from my days in Ireland, it's so romantic over there. I know you probably don't think it's exotic but to us over here in sunny Queensland it is certainly romantic and coming into winter where you get all your snug fires and red wine. But let's go back and talk writing. Jules Horne: I have to say also I've been looking with great envy of your shots of just wonderful sunshine and you wearing your hat and looking like you're having glorious sun. So the romance has its limits and I do envy you your sun as well. Melinda: For all our listeners I did a Facebook live cross yesterday from Circus Paradise on the Gold Coast here on the east coast of Australia and I did this lovely pan of what I thought was the beach, but all it was the sky. So I'm going to practice my panning everybody so I actually get into the shots what I thought I was, there was no beach there at, it looked really silly. But I'll keep practicing and I'll keep trying. Now over to Jules, would you like to introduce yourself and tell us a little bit about the writing that you do? Jules Horne: I'm a hybrid writer, I do lots of different kinds of writing. I started off as fiction and then I kind of made migrated into drama. So I'm actually mainly a playwright these days and I've written for stage and radio and I also have a background in journalism. I used to work in radio. So I have a bit of a mixed background, so I pull in lots of different kinds of writing techniques from different angles. But the main thing I suppose is working with drama which means working with actors and directors so it's collaborative and that's a really different prospect from the fiction and the really kind of tight inner focus of fiction. So it's a more, perhaps more people oriented, more collaborative kind of writing. Melinda: Jules and I were a little bit of a conversation just briefly before we started and as happens with a lot of my guests I had to stay stop, stop, stop, we'll have our interview over before we even press the record button. But Jules has linked up with another guest who we've had on our Writer on the Road and she was very, very popular and you'll all remember Sherrie and Sherrie was very exuberant and very, very popular too I might add. I had people from all over the world, Sherrie was our beautiful motorbike rider and jumped on a motorbike after a week and wrote all these books about it. Now she's writing, just about to release I believe or very close to releasing her first fiction novel. Jules...

[...] fascinée par la splendide majesté de l’Argentine, la Salle 101 parle de Mervyn Peake (sa vie, son oeuvre) et de Philippe Bollondi (Ariane dans le labyrinthe). Alors, ça te calme ? « Des fois, je pense à Jacques Chirac », soupire Patrick B.

[…] fascinée par la splendide majesté de l'Argentine, la Salle 101 parle de Mervyn Peake (sa vie, son oeuvre) et de Philippe Bollondi (Ariane dans le labyrinthe). Alors, ça te calme ? « Des fois, je pense à Jacques Chirac », soupire Patrick B.

Welcome to The Coode Street Podcast, an informal weekly discussion about science fiction and fantasy featuring award-winning critics and editors Jonathan Strahan and Gary K. Wolfe.  The Coode Street Podcast debuted in 2010 and has been nominated for the Hugo, British Science Fiction, and Aurealis awards. This week Jonathan and Gary talk to old friend  Chris Brown,  and very special guest  William Gibson , in a discussion that ranges from William's recent novel The Peripheral to the influences of writers as diverse as Mervyn Peake, Philip K. Dick, Alfred Bester, and Avram Davidson and the question of what it means to write in and out of genre. We hope you find it as interesting as we all did recording it.  Coode Street, Episode 220 (1hr 17mins) The Coode Street Podcast is published by The Coode Street Press and Gary K. Wolfe, and is syndicated by Tor.com.

Is a long cardboard chain and anchor really a deep message on immigration? What is the difference between artificial pussy willows and an escalator? Are postmodern artists just having a laugh? Jonathan drags Andrew Cody through last March's Nuit blanche and wonders if his attitude of derision is rational or not. Enter Eric Weichel, instructor in art history at Concordia University, and one of the liveliest conversations on the podcast ensues. Can we evaluate art rationally? Jonathan and Eric talk gnomes, Cormac McCarthy, and four-year-old geniuses. No panel discussion this month, but plenty of links! - Le Corbusier, modernist architect (http://www.greatbuildings.com/architects/Le_Corbusier.html) - Charles Moore, postmodern architect (http://www.greatbuildings.com/buildings/Sea_Ranch_Condominium.html) - Judith Butler (http://www.egs.edu/faculty/judith-butler/biography/) - Kent Monkman, contemporary Aboriginal painter (http://www.mason-studio.com/journal/2012/03/kent-monkman-sexuality-of-miss-chief/) - How to Speak and Write Postmodern by Stephen Katz (http://thepaperthinhymn.com/2010/01/26/how-to-speak-post-modernism/) - Jacques Derrida, deconstructionist philosopher (http://www.iep.utm.edu/derrida/) - The Rothko Chapel (http://www.rothkochapel.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=11&Itemid=14) - A Reader's Manifesto by B.R. Myers - Cormac McCarthy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cormac_McCarthy) - Gayatri Spivak, postcolonial critic (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gayatri_Chakravorty_Spivak) - The Gormenghast Trilogy by Mervyn Peake (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gormenghast_(series)) - The Fallen by Andy Moss and Jamie Wardley (http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/andy-moss-jamie-wardley-the-fallen) - Docking by Sophie Cardin (http://www.artsouterrain.com/en/sophie-cardin/) 20/20 segment transcript (http://abcnews.go.com/2020/GiveMeABreak/story?id=563146) Postmodern artists Eric Weichel finds inspiring: Kerri Flanagan Takashi Murakami (http://www.theguardian.com/world/gallery/2010/sep/10/takashi-murakami-palace-versailles) Shary Boyle (http://www.sharyboyle.com) Patricia Piccinini (http://www.patriciapiccinini.net) Yayoi Kusama (http://www.yayoi-kusama.jp/e/information/)

Is a long cardboard chain and anchor really a deep message on immigration? What is the difference between artificial pussy willows and an escalator? Are postmodern artists just having a laugh? Jonathan drags Andrew Cody through last March's Nuit blanche and wonders if his attitude of derision is rational or not. Enter Eric Weichel, instructor in art history at Concordia University, and one of the liveliest conversations on the podcast ensues. Can we evaluate art rationally? Jonathan and Eric talk gnomes, Cormac McCarthy, and four-year-old geniuses. No panel discussion this month, but plenty of links! - Le Corbusier, modernist architect (http://www.greatbuildings.com/architects/Le_Corbusier.html) - Charles Moore, postmodern architect (http://www.greatbuildings.com/buildings/Sea_Ranch_Condominium.html) - Judith Butler (http://www.egs.edu/faculty/judith-butler/biography/) - Kent Monkman, contemporary Aboriginal painter (http://www.mason-studio.com/journal/2012/03/kent-monkman-sexuality-of-miss-chief/) - How to Speak and Write Postmodern by Stephen Katz (http://thepaperthinhymn.com/2010/01/26/how-to-speak-post-modernism/) - Jacques Derrida, deconstructionist philosopher (http://www.iep.utm.edu/derrida/) - The Rothko Chapel (http://www.rothkochapel.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=11&Itemid=14) - A Reader's Manifesto by B.R. Myers - Cormac McCarthy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cormac_McCarthy) - Gayatri Spivak, postcolonial critic (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gayatri_Chakravorty_Spivak) - The Gormenghast Trilogy by Mervyn Peake (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gormenghast_(series)) - The Fallen by Andy Moss and Jamie Wardley (http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/andy-moss-jamie-wardley-the-fallen) - Docking by Sophie Cardin (http://www.artsouterrain.com/en/sophie-cardin/) 20/20 segment transcript (http://abcnews.go.com/2020/GiveMeABreak/story?id=563146) Postmodern artists Eric Weichel finds inspiring: Kerri Flanagan Takashi Murakami (http://www.theguardian.com/world/gallery/2010/sep/10/takashi-murakami-palace-versailles) Shary Boyle (http://www.sharyboyle.com) Patricia Piccinini (http://www.patriciapiccinini.net) Yayoi Kusama (http://www.yayoi-kusama.jp/e/information/)

John Gray draws on the novels of Mervyn Peake to argue it's a mistake to imagine that modernity marks a fundamental change in human experience. "The modern world is founded on the belief that it's possible for human beings to shape a future that's better than anything in the past. If the Gormenghast novels have any continuing theme, it's that this modern belief is an illusion." Producer: Sheila Cook.

Often described as the ultimate Renaissance Man, Mervyn Peake was just eight when his father, a medical doctor, arranged for a Mandarin expert in calligraphy, to teach him the art. Soon he was able to form many of the six hundred plus characters that make up the language. At the age of twelve, Mervyn left the Orient for his boarding school in England, where his talent at drawing was noticed by his art master, and frequently in demand from fellow pupils. The Royal Academy followed a short period at Croydon School of Art, and from his early twenties onwards was producing illustrations for magazines and other publications. The decade that followed the end of the war, was perhaps the greatest period of artistic power, and while living on Sark in the Channel Islands from 1946 until 1949 produced a non-ending stream of illustrations to many of the classics. These included: Treasure Island, The Hunting of the Snark, The Ancient Mariner, Grimm's Household Tales, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass. As well as these commissions he was also writing and illustrating his own books at the same time. From 1950, an interest in the theatre developed with several plays being written some of which were staged, but mostly not. It is only now that this less well-known area of his eclecticism is gaining audiences, in staged productions. His painting and drawings can be seen at many institutions across Britain, including the National Portrait Gallery, the British Library, Imperial War Museum, Manchester City Art Gallery, the Wordsworth Trust (Dove Cottage) Cumbria, the Guernsey Museum and Art Gallery, and several others. Mervyn Peake died near Oxford after a long illness in November 1968 and is buried in the graveyard of the 11th century St Mary the Virgin church at Burpham, near Arundel in Sussex.

This week Libby Purves is joined by guests including Princess Campbell, Simon Day, Clare Peake and Henry Winkler. Princess Campbell was one of the first black ward sisters working in the NHS; she was one of a pioneering group of African-Caribbean workers who began to challenge barriers of prejudice. Her uniform goes on display at M-Shed, Bristol's new city museum in the old 1950s transit sheds at Prince's Wharf on the historic waterfront. Simon Day is the actor and stand-up comedian, probably best known from 'The Fast Show'. He publishes his memoir, 'Comedy and Error' in which he writes about his life as a celebrity as well as his childhood growing up in SE London, being sent to borstal for petty thieving, and about his addiction to drugs, money and success. 'Comedy and Error' is published by Simon & Schuster. Clare Peake is the daughter of the writer Mervyn Peake, author of the Gormenghast series of novels. Her memoir, 'Under a Canvas Sky', tells of her bohemian childhood and the impact of her father's Parkinson's disease on her life. Radio 4 is broadcasting several programmes about Mervyn Peake and Gormenghast: 'A Hundred Years of Mervyn Peake' and 'The History of Titus Groan' in the classic serial slot. 'Under a Canvas Sky' is published by Constable. Henry Winkler is the American actor, director and children's author, best known for playing 'The Fonz' in television's 'Happy Days'. He is in the UK and will be touring the country visiting schools with 'First News', the national newspaper for children, on the My Way! Tour. He'll be introducing British schoolchildren to his Hank Zipzer stories (published by Walker Books), which focus on a ten year-old boy with dyslexia and are based on his own past experiences.

American libertarians would be particularly interested in Peake's great novel, since the perspective on the individual and society that pervades it is very libertarian in the broadest sense of that word...Most people who know about this work don't think of it as a single novel. They think of it as three novels — a trilogy — and they call it "the Gormenghast Trilogy."

In this second podcast, presented by the Bristol Festival of Ideas, George Miller looks back at some of the highlights of the 2008 Festival of Ideas. Historian, Adrian Tinniswood, presents the second Museum of Bristol Lecture: 'The Historian and the City'. As regional chair of the Heritage Lottery Fund, Adrian has been involved in many Bristol heritage projects, and now, in the lead-up to the opening of the Museum of Bristol in 2010, he reflects on his own work as a historian, looks at ways in which historians have defined the city in the past, and outlines the vital role that history has in shaping Bristol's future. Jean Moorcroft Wilson talks about the life and work of Bristol-born war poet, Isaac Rosenberg. Author of the first biography of Rosenberg for 30 years, she looks back at his childhood in Bristol and the Jewish East End of London, his time at the Slade School of Art where he met David Bomberg, Mark Gertler and Stanley Spencer, and his harrowing life as a private in the British Army. Sebastian Peake, son of Mervyn Peake, speaks about his father's life and work with reference to drawings, paintings and designs presented in his new book: 'Mervyn Peake: The Man and His Art'. This podcast is 30 minutes long (26MB), and is the second in a series that will be issued each month from now until autumn. If you would like to hear more interviews with selected speakers from this year's Festival, please visit our website at: www.ideasfestival.co.uk/audio.html. Presented by George Miller for the Bristol Festival of Ideas (www.ideasfestival.co.uk).