Podcast appearances and mentions of richard beard

In this episode I am once again joined by Piers Cross, ex-Buddhist monk, coach, and creator of the documentary “Boarding on Insanity”. Piers explains the British boarding school system, examines its history and social context, and reveals how and why boarding school attendance is seen by many as a pathway to power. Piers recalls his own boarding school experience, the trauma and subsequent breakdown it caused, and describes the dynamic of the “privilege double-bind”. Piers recounts his years as a Buddhist monk, how he navigated suicide attempts and self harm with meditation and community support, and the powerful mystical experiences he encountered during his religious practice. Piers lists over two dozen leading figures in the arts, business, and politics who attended boarding school and reflects on the possibility of a leadership class affected by abandonment and dissociation by elite educational institutions. … Video version: https://www.guruviking.com/podcast/ep297-boarding-on-insanity-piers-cross Also available on Youtube, iTunes, & Spotify – search ‘Guru Viking Podcast'.
 … Topics include: 00:00 - Intro 01:05 - Military family upbringing and alcoholic father 03:42 - Going to boarding school at 11 years old 05:36 - History of British boarding schools 08:23 - Pathway to power 10:19 - Oxbridge emphasis 11:37 - The old boys network and breaking parental attachment 14:42 - Is the education better? 17:48 - IQ vs emotional intelligence 20:31 - A typical day at boarding school 23:30 - Piers' boarding school trauma and learning to dissociate 27:07 - Suicide of Piers' best friend 29:37 - Resilience vs dissociation and avoidant attachment 32:48 - Resurfacing trauma in the 30s and 40s 33:28 - Richard Branson, David Cameron, Bear Grylls, and John Peel 34:36 - Trauma of neglect 36:53 - Idealisation, cover up, and not listening to children 41:45 - The privilege double-bind 47:32 - After boarding school & city career 51:03 - Depression and breakdown 53:07 - Laughed at by the doctor 54:31 - Death of Piers' father and work in Africa 56:41 - 3.5 years in a Buddhist monastery 59:37 - A sense of coming home 01:02:22 - Taking the 8 precepts 01:03:30 - Ordination, self harm, and suicidal ideation 01:06:31 - The support and kindness of the other monks 01:09:26 - Struggles with meditation 01:12:03 - Reading scriptures and other Buddhist books 01:14:00 - Tastes of transcendence 01:14:55 - Profound experience of childlike mind 01:16:35 - Healing avoidant attachment 01:20:10 - Working with dreams 01:21:10 - Tears and connecting to emotion 01:22:41 - Buddhist doctrine about suicide and hell 01:25:14 - The power of initiation 01:27:13 - Leaving the monastery 01:28:08 - Piers shows his journal 01:29:33 - After the monastery and work with board school survivors 01:33:15 - “Boarding on Insanity” documentary 01:33:28 - Tony Blair, Boris Johnson, Justin Welby 01:37:05 - Cover ups and a societal flip 01:39:30 - Prince Charles, Stephen Fry, Ranulph Fiennes, Gabriel Byrne, Roald Dahl, Harry Windsor, 01:41:00 - JFK, Princess Diana, Charles Spencer, Aldous Huxley, Richard Beard, Jeremy Paxman, 01:41:26 - Elon Musk, Mini Driver, Eddie Izzard, Princess Catherine, Rupert Murdoch, 01:44:46 - Piers' 3hr daily practice 01:46:44 - Taoist Tantric Arts 01:47:59 - Piers' advice for taking on new practices 01:49:37 - Piers' meditation practice 01:51:02 - Closing remarks and advice for ex-boarders … To find our more about Piers Cross, visit: - https://www.youtube.com/@pierscross - https://www.piers-cross.com/ - https://www.boardingoninsanity.com/ … 
For more interviews, videos, and more visit: - www.guruviking.com … Music ‘Deva Dasi' by Steve James

Why do some of our political, business, and societal leaders seem to have such disdain and in some cases almost hatred for the everyday person?Where might these attitudes come from?Where does the sense of entitlement, and even looking down on those that they serve arise from?I was reading Jeremy Paxman's autobiography A Life in Questions last night. I came across a passage where he talks about his prep boarding school.He sees the headmaster's son set light to the moors. Once the police come the son blames the local “teddy” boys 'who were blamed for just about everything that went wrong in the school.'As George Orwell wrote in The Road to Wigan Pier: 'Common people seemed almost subhuman.'In today's video I share about some of my own similar experiences at boarding school. How we looked down upon the porters, the cleaners and saw them as less than human.I also talk about Nick Duffell from Wounded Leaders asking: 'Could it be that the British working class as an entire group have been suffering from projective identification from the upper classes?''Have they been standing in for the stupid, messy, incompetent children the latter wish to distance themselves from in their own collective psyche?'I also share some of Richard Beard's thoughts from Sad Little Men.#workingclass #disdain #leadersTake care,Piers--- Piers is an author and a men's transformational coach and therapist who works mainly with trauma, boarding school issues, addictions and relationship problems. He also runs online men's groups for ex-boarders, retreats and a podcast called An Evolving Man. He is also the author of How to Survive and Thrive in Challenging Times. To purchase Piers first book: https://www.amazon.co.uk/How-Survive-Thrive-Challenging-Times/dp/B088T5L251/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=piers+cross&qid=1609869608&sr=8-1 For more videos please visit: http://youtube.com/pierscross For FB: https://www.facebook.com/pierscrosspublic For Piers' website and a free training How To Find Peace In Everyday Life: https://www.piers-cross.com/community Many blessings, Piers Cross http://piers-cross.com/

In today's video I talk about how important it was for us to be liked at boarding school.If we weren't liked, we were often sent to coventry. We were banished.Richard Beard in his book Sad Little Men, talks about how on any given year group there was alway one 'custos' - the outcast.If you couldn't see the 'custos' then it was you.I talk about compliers and people pleasers.And how dangerous it was not to be liked at boarding school.We couldn't just go home at the end of the day. If we weren't liked it followed us everywhere.I talk about how controlling we can become as adults, following the rules that we learned at school.If we are in politics or the bar or the corporate this often works as these systems were modelled on the boarding school world.But in family life this can cause chaos.I talk about what you can do to heal this.Take care,PiersTo support the new film: https://www.piers-cross.com/boarding-school-film For the last podcast #96 about Trauma and Illness and the path to recovery: https://youtu.be/Uda5CTZTn1Q --- Piers is an author and a men's transformational coach and therapist who works mainly with trauma, boarding school issues, addictions and relationship problems. He also runs online men's groups for ex-boarders, retreats and a podcast called An Evolving Man. He is also the author of How to Survive and Thrive in Challenging Times. To purchase Piers first book: https://www.amazon.co.uk/How-Survive-Thrive-Challenging-Times/dp/B088T5L251/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=piers+cross&qid=1609869608&sr=8-1 For more videos please visit: http://youtube.com/pierscross For FB: https://www.facebook.com/pierscrosspublic For Piers' website and a free training How To Find Peace In Everyday Life: https://www.piers-cross.com/community Many blessings, Piers Cross http://piers-cross.com/

Rae talks to Richard Beard about science teaching, examinations and whether science classes should be set.

With Paul Collingwood and Richard Beard

Inspired by Richard Beard's 2021 book, Sad Little Men: Private Schools and the Ruin of England, is Australian private education, like its British ancestor, simply a vehicle for the privileged and wealthy to hold on to their privilege and wealth? All this and more on this episode of Unrepresentative Swill! If you would like to support the podcast, rate and review us on Apple Podcasts and follow us on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook! On Instagram ⁠@unrepresentative_swill_podcast⁠ On Facebook as ⁠Unrepresentative Swill Podcast⁠ On Twitter ⁠@swill_podcast⁠

Britain is unique in the way that public schools (that’s private schools to anyone outside of Britain) have a stranglehold on the establishment. Alumni of these schools are massively overrepresented in the upper echelons of society – so is it any wonder that the media, the judicial system and the political class treat normal people […]

Join Tuesday and Tim as they reflect on their "Authors Series" - interviews with writers Zaid Hassan, Cyndi Suarez and Richard Beard - who are each trying to change the world in wildly different ways. In this episode, they explore what provoked them and the various different angles each of these "big brained" guests brought into privilege and into the scale, scope and depth of the work that we're trying to do in the world. For detailed show notes, links and resources, please visit: https://www.findtheoutside.com/podcast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Tuesday and Tim are joined by Richard Beard, author of Sad Little Men - Private Schools and the Ruin of England, where they deep dive into his book and the systemic impacts of leaders, trained in boarding schools, on our systems, services, structures, programs and infrastructure.For detailed show notes, links and resources, please visit: https://www.findtheoutside.com/podcast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Day That Went Missing by Richard Beard is the choice for this month's Church Times Book Club. On the podcast this week, he talks to Sarah Meyrick, who has written this month's Book Club essay about the memoir. The book, which won the 2018 PEN Ackerley Award for literary autobiography, is published by Vintage and is available from the Church Times Bookshop for £8.99. The Church Times Book Club is run in association with the Festival of Faith and Literature. Tickets are now on sale for the next Festival, which takes place in Winchester in February. For more information and to buy tickets, visit https://faithandliterature.hymnsam.co.uk/ Sign up to receive the free Book Club email once a month. Featuring discussion questions, podcasts and discounts on each book: https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/newsletter-signup Discuss this month's book at https://www.facebook.com/groups/churchtimesbookclub Music for the podcast is by Twisterium. Try 10 issues of the Church Times for £10 or get two months access to our website and apps, also for £10. Go to churchtimes.co.uk/new-reader

The Greensboro Sports Foundation is the local organizing committee for the major sports events at the Greensboro Coliseum Complex and throughout Greensboro. We're talking ACC, NCAA, U.S. Figure Skating, USA Swimming, USA Gymnastics, AAU and much more. Our guest today is Richard Beard, he is the new CEO for the organization. https://greensborosf.com/

In this episode we speak to writer Richard Beard. Richard's six novels include Lazarus is Dead, Dry Bones and Damascus, which was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. His novel Acts of the Assassins was shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize, and he is the author of five works of narrative non-fiction. His memoir The Day That Went Missing won the 2018 PEN Ackerley Award for literary autobiography and in the US was a National Book Critics Circle finalist. His latest memoir/polemic is Sad Little Men. Subjects covered include: tricking yourself into starting a writing project, how Richard's approach has changed over the course of nearly a dozen books (is 11 'a writer's dozen?'), youthful experimentation with squared paper, and knowing if the proportions of a novel feel right at the end of the first draft. Richard has a website: https://www.richardbeard.info/ And he's on Twitter: https://twitter.com/BeardRichard Richards's books are available through Bookshop: https://uk.bookshop.org/contributors/richard-beard - or your local bricks and mortar book shop... Find us on Twitter: @UnsoundMethods - @JaimieBatchan - @LochlanBloom Jaimie's Instagram is: @jaimie_batchan We have a store page on Bookshop, where you can find our books, as well as those of previous guests: https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/unsoundmethods Thanks for listening, please like, subscribe and rate Unsound Methods wherever you get your podcasts. Our website is: https://unsoundmethods.co.uk/ We have loosely teamed up with the Institute of English Studies at the School of Advanced Study, University of London. You can find out about the IES here: https://ies.sas.ac.uk/

Gary Shteyngart's tragic comedy set in lockdown, Richard Beard on Time, East Side Voices

Tessa Hadley, Richard Beard on Time and two pioneering female book sellers.

Adrian Goldberg scrolls through a year's worth of Byline Times podcasts to create a profile of Boris Johnson. Contributors include journalist Peter Oborne; Richard Beard, author of Sad Little Men; writer Otto English; haulier Laura Salt; Dr Cathy Gardner; Conservative MP Andrew Mitchell; Bekki Ashmore from Plan International UK. Produced in Birmingham by Adrian Goldberg

Adrian Goldberg scrolls through a year's worth of Byline Times podcasts to create a profile of Boris Johnson. Contributors include journalist Peter Oborne; Richard Beard, author of Sad Little Men; writer Otto English; haulier Laura Salt; Dr Cathy Gardner; Conservative MP Andrew Mitchell; Bekki Ashmore from Plan International UK. Produced in Birmingham by Adrian Goldberg

Adrian Goldberg scrolls through a year's worth of Byline Times podcasts to create a profile of Boris Johnson.Contributors include journalist Peter Oborne; Richard Beard, author of Sad Little Men; writer Otto English; haulier Laura Salt; Dr Cathy Gardner; Conservative MP Andrew Mitchell; Bekki Ashmore from Plan International UK.Produced in Birmingham by Adrian Goldberg See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The wealth and power of Britain's public schools go under the microscope in this edition of the Byline Times podcast, presented by Adrian Goldberg.We hear from Iain Overton, leader of the Byline Intelligence Team about the huge growth in assets of these elite educational establishments; and Richard Beard, author of Sad Little Men: Private Schools And The Ruin of England.Produced in Birmingham UK by Adrian Goldberg and Harvey White.Funded by subscriptions to the Byline Times. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The wealth and power of Britain's public schools go under the microscope in this edition of the Byline Times podcast, presented by Adrian Goldberg. We hear from Iain Overton, leader of the Byline Intelligence Team about the huge growth in assets of these elite educational establishments; and Richard Beard, author of Sad Little Men: Private Schools And The Ruin of England. Produced in Birmingham UK by Adrian Goldberg and Harvey White. Funded by subscriptions to the Byline Times.

Richard Beard describes his experiences at boarding school and considers how the emotionally bleak culture represses empathy. The reward is a pathway to a lucrative career. Richard Beard's six novels include Damascus, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, and Acts of the Assassins which was shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize. His memoir, The Day That Went Missing, won the 2018 PEN Ackerley Award for literary autobiography. His new book, Sad Little Men, is about his experiences of boarding school from an early age .

Should we feel more compassion towards men who are send to public schools? And what do boarding school books reveal about the emotions of society's elites? With fellow students like Boris Johnson and David Cameron, Richard Beard's latest book, Sad Little Men, explores his time at school. He tells Ros Taylor why private school only gives kids a partial education, how sexist attitudes linger beyond the school gates…and why years of emotional suppression makes private school boys very good spies.“You're supposed to leave your time at school behind and go on and be successful.”“When you arrive as a small child, your instinct is to run away back home.”“There is a conflict between what adults are telling you is good for you, and your emotional experience.”“This confidence applies to a limited area of life - but one where power resides.” “It was male opinion that mattered to us, and it remained so when we left school.” “Parents and children are drawn into this delusion that boarding school is for the best.”Presented by Ros Taylor. Produced by Andrew Harrison. Assistant producers: Jelena Sofronijevic and Jacob Archbold. Music by Kenny Dickinson. Audio production by Alex Rees. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Productionhttps://www.hive.co.uk/Product/Richard-Beard/Sad-Little-Men--Private-Schools-and-the-Ruin-of-England/25942336 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

What is private education? Who goes in and who comes out? Like Peter, Richard Beard experienced such an education and writes about its impact and how it has shaped modern government in his latest book Sad Little Men: Private Schools and the Ruin of England. He and Peter get into private education's history, the breeding ground of power and its positives and negatives. Richard's website is - www.richardbeard.info - were you can find out more about Sad Little Men: Private Schools and the Ruin of England and his other works. Peter can be found on Twitter via @peterfrankopan. Produced, edited and mixed by @producerneil

Welcome to the second part of this deep look into Afghanistan. Peter speaks to Professor Sumit Ganguly who provides the history and background of the Taliban's origins, and Professor Amira Jadoon one of the world's foremost experts on ISIS-K. You can find Professor Amira Jadoon on Twitter - @AmiraJadoon - and her website is www.amirajadoon.net Further reading by Professor Sumit Ganguly is available on his website www.sumitganguly.com Still to come on I've Been Thinking episodes with Vincent Brown, Professor of American History and Professor of African and African American Studies at Harvard, and author of Sad Little Men: Private Schools and the Ruin of England, Richard Beard, so please do subscribe or follow the podcast from where you listen. Produced, edited and mixed by @producerneil

Richard Beard is a successful author. He is also an ex-public schoolboy who was torn from his family at a tender age and packed off to the brutal environment of Radley College. He joined me to explain the long-lasting impact on his mental health.Read more about Richard's story in his new book Sad Little Men - Private Schools and The Ruin Of England. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Richard Beard is a successful author. He is also an ex-public schoolboy who was torn from his family at a tender age and packed off to the brutal environment of Radley College. He joined me to explain the long-lasting impact on his mental health.Read more about Richard’s story in his new book Sad Little Men - Private Schools and The Ruin Of England. This is a public episode. Get access to private episodes at samdelaney.substack.com/subscribe

Richard Beard: Sad little men... with TRE's Bill Padley

David Grossman, Richard Beard, The Sea Library

Chris Power talks to author of The Country of Others. Plus nonfiction books on motherhood

Richard Beard, a luthier on the Blue Ridge Craft Trails, is never away from music for very long. When he’s not building instruments in his Rutherfordton shop, he’s often playing music. And when he’s not playing or building, he can be heard hosting the radio show “Celtic Winds” on WNCW FM. Richard Beard’s family has been in Western North Carolina since the 1700s. His early years were spent in Southern California and New Jersey, but he returned to North Carolina for college at UNC Asheville then Guilford College.

Richard Beard, a luthier on the Blue Ridge Craft Trails, is never away from music for very long. When he’s not building instruments in his Rutherfordton shop, he’s often playing music. And when he’s not playing or building, he can be heard hosting the radio show “Celtic Winds” on WNCW FM. Richard Beard’s family has been in Western North Carolina since the 1700s. His early years were spent in Southern California and New Jersey, but he returned to North Carolina for college at UNC Asheville then Guilford College.

This week Cariad talks to writer Richard Beard (The Day That Went Missing, Lazarus) about his brother, Nicky, who drowned on a family holiday when he was eleven years old. As ever they talk grief, narrative + how the body remembers.You can follow Richard on twitter @beardrichard and his books are available to buy now.. You can follow the Griefcast on twitter and instagram @thegriefcast.Griefcast won Gold (always believe in your soul) in Best Entertainment, Best Interview + also Podcast of the Year 2018 at the British Podcast Awards and Best Podcast at the ARIA's. It is hosted by Cariad Lloyd, edited by Kate Holland, recorded at Whistledown Studios and the music is provided by The Glue Ensemble. And remember, you are not alone. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

On this week's episode of The Teatulia Podcast, it's the fourth of our collaborations with Granta magazine. This time, Rosalind Porter talks to the writer Richard Beard about his book The Day That Went missing and how his ideas about grief and memory are shaped by the death of his brother. Interview by Rosalind Porter and presented by Ed Cumming. Produced by Nick Hilton for Podot. Visit https://teatuliabar.com/ to find more information about Teatulia, or visit the shop at 36 Neal Street in Covent Garden.

On a family summer holiday in Cornwall in 1978, Nicholas and his brother Richard are jumping in the waves. Suddenly, Nicholas is out of his depth. He isn’t, and then he is. He drowns. Richard and his other brothers don’t attend the funeral, and incredibly the family return to their cottage to complete the holiday. They soon stop speaking of the catastrophe and their epic act of collective denial writes Nicky out of the family memory. Nearly 40 years later, Richard Beard is haunted by the missing grief of his childhood but doesn’t know the date of the accident or the name of the beach. So he sets out on a pain-staking investigation to rebuild Nicky’s life, and ultimately to recreate the precise events on the day of the accident. Who was Nicky? Why did the family react as they did? And what actually happened? Peter Francis interviews Richard about this heart-rending and personal tragedy, and explores questions of faith and doubt.

Your hosts Eric Balkman and David A. Gerczak broadcast the 2018 Fantasy Football Players Championship (FFPC) Pros Vs. Joes League #3 Rudy Does It Again draft. Forming the Pros tonight are Dan Sainio and Kevin O'Brien from Dynasty League Football, The Quant Edge's Eliot Crist, Sigmund Bloom from Footballguys, Rotoworld's Rich Hribar and Josh Hornsby from Fantasy Insiders. Those Pros will battle tonight's Joes field of 2018 FFPC Main Event players Steven Michaud, Derek Brinkman, Richard Beard, Caleb Acorn and Sean Isaacs, Chad Castorina and Don Ezzell. Catch the live draft board at YouTube.com/HighStakesFantasyFootball. Plus, Balky and Dave answer your calls, emails, tweets and more all on The High Stakes Fantasy Football Hour!

Sarah Dillon and novelist Richard Beard on narrative voices in literature

In the January 2018 episode, Juliet is joined by Jonathan Coe (author of 'Like a Fiery Elephant: The Story of B.S. Johnson' and many other works) and Jennifer Hodgson (editor of 'The Unmapped Country', a collection of stories and fragments by Ann Quin). They discuss Britain's fertile post-war 'experimental' literary scene: its cultural contexts, its successes and failures, and its legacy. WORKS REFERENCED NOVELS Paul Ableman – I Hear Voices (1958) Kingsley Amis – Lucky Jim (1954) Francis Booth - Amongst Those Left: The British Experimental Novel 1940-1980 (1982) John Braine – Room at the Top (1957) Alan Burns – The Angry Brigade: A Documentary Novel (1974) Robert Burton – The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621) Jonathan Coe – An Accidental Woman (1987) Jonathan Coe – Like a Fiery Elephant: The Story of B. S. Johnson (2004) Jonathan Coe – What a Carve-Up! (1994) Henry Green - Caught (1943) Rayner Heppenstall – The Blaze of Noon (1939) Rayner Heppenstall – Four Absentees (1960) Rayner Heppenstall – The Fourfold Tradition (1961) Rayner Heppenstall – The Lesser Infortune (1953) Rayner Heppenstall – Saturnine (1943) Rayner Heppenstall & Michael Innes – Three Tales of Hamlet (1950) B. S. Johnson – Aren’t You Rather Young to be Writing Your Memoirs? (1973) B. S. Johnson – Christie Malry’s Own Double-Entry (1971) B. S. Johnson – See the Old Lady Decently (1973) B. S. Johnson – Travelling People (1963) B. S. Johnson – The Unfortunates (1969) Anna Kavan – Ice (1967) D. H. Lawrence – Lady Chatterley’s Lover (1928) Rosamund Lehmann – The Echoing Grove (1953) Iris Murdoch – Under the Net (1954) George Orwell – Animal Farm (1945) John Osborne – Look Back in Anger (1956) Ann Quin – Berg (1964) Ann Quin – Passages (1969) Ann Quin – Three (1966) Ann Quin – Tripticks (1972) Ann Quin – The Unmapped Country (edited by Jennifer Hodgson, 2018) Alan Sillitoe – Raw Material (1972) Alan Sillitoe – Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1958) Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1759-1766) David Storey – This Sporting Life (1960) Philip Tew, B. S. Johnson: A Critical Reading (2001) John Wain – Hurry On Down (1953) Colin Wilson – The Outsider (1956) AUTHORS (a selection) J. G. Ballard, Richard Beard, Samuel Beckett, Rosalind Belben, John Berger, Claire-Louise Bennett, Christine Brooke-Rose, Elizabeth Bowen, Anthony Burgess, William S. Burroughs, John Calder, Angela Carter, Ivy Compton-Burnett, Robert Creeley, Marguerite Duras, Eva Figes, Patrick Hamilton, Wilson Harris, James Joyce, Chris Kraus, Hari Kunzru, David Lodge, Eimear McBride, Nicholas Mosley, Thomas Nash, Jeff Nuttall, Robert Nye, Flann O'Brien, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Nathalie Sarraute, Will Self, Penelope Shuttle, Claude Simon, Stevie Smith, Zadie Smith, Jonathan Swift, Emma Tennant, Philip Toynbee, Alexander Trocchi, John Wheway, Heathcote Williams FILMS/TV B. S. Johnson on Samuel Johnson (London Weekend Television programme, 1971) Calling Mr. Smith (dir. Franciszka & Stefan Themerson, 1943) Christie Malry’s Own Double-Entry (dir. Paul Tickell, 2001) The Eye and the Ear (dir. Franciszka & Stefan Themerson, 1944) Last Year in Marienbad (dir. Alain Resnais, 1961) London Film-Makers' Co-operative Peter Whitehead Independent Group (British Pop Art collective, 1952-55) ARTICLES Hélène Cixous, ‘Le roman experimental de Grand-Bretagne’ (Le Monde, 1967)

Richard Beard and Bella Pollen discuss their memoirs and a discussion on George Eliot.

We have a show with a selection of audio from participants who took part in the 8-day, 400km Cape Wrath Ultra (Ita Marzotto, Jenny Davis, Louise Watson, Luke Robertson, Richard Beard and Ted Kristensson)and the 190-mile, single stage, Northern Traverse (Angela White, Clare Turton and Eoin Keith). We have the news and Niandi Carmont co-hosts.

A Book at Lunchtime discussion of Iain Pears' interactive novel Arcadia “The Arcadia App is one of the most substantial and interesting works of interactive fiction released last year” begins Emily Short. In this Book at Lunchtime event for the TORCH Humanities in the Digital Age series, the writer Iain Pears, with the academic Sophie Ratcliffe and cross-media authors Alex Butterworth, Emily Short and Richard Beard, discussed his new novel, Arcadia, which takes the form of a print book and an interactive app: offering a range of ways into an adventure story set in 1960s Oxford and the fantasy Anterworld. In this video, the panel talks about the book’s place within a growing corpus of hypertext and digital forms of fiction which are allowing writers to experiment with narrative and narrators, ideas of time, world-building, the experience of reading, and the role of the reader.

Mariella is joined by author Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor, who discusses her acclaimed debut novel Dust, about a splintered family in her native Kenya. Richard Beard, whose new book Acts of the Assassins, combines the story of the Crucifixion with a modern day detective novel, and Naomi Alderman, author of The Liars' Gospel, discuss the ways they, and others, have re-imagined Bible stories in their fiction. And Dr Sarah Dillon continues her series of Close Readings by examining a short extract from Katherine Mansfield's The Garden Party.

Sam Holcroft's new play, Rules For Living, at The National's Dorfman Theatre shows a family full of traits and ticks that define their relationships. How do we react when we're under pressure with our nearest and dearest? The Norwegian film Blind plays around with perception. The lead character loses her sight and has to reassess her relationship with the world and especially those around her. We've been watching Channel 4's coverage of the re-internment of Richard III. How fascinating can many hours of television devoted to the burying of a 500 year old corpse be? The Acts of the Assassins by Richard Beard could be boiled down to a police procedural about the deaths of Christ's apostles, but it is set simultaneously in the 1st and 21st centuries Defining Beauty; The Body in Ancient Greek Art at The British Museum looks at the development and influence of Greek sculpture, drawing on their permanent collection and many rarely-loaned works from overseas Tom Sutcliffe's guests are Kamila Shamsie, Emma Woolf and Nicholas Lezard. The producer is Oliver Jones.