Podcast appearances and mentions of Travis Elborough

This week, Larry Wolff immerses himself in a bold operatic vision of Melville's classic; and Travis Elborough on a boosterish attempt to rescue Croydon from its knockers.'Moby-Dick', composed by Jake Heggie, Metropolitan Opera House, New York, until March 29'Croydonopolis: A Journey to the Greatest City that Never Was', by Will NobleProduced by Charlotte Pardy Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode, we get excited about three books: ‘The Christmas Party' by Georgette Heyer, ‘The Christmas Murder Game' by Alexandra Benedict, and ‘The Writer's Journey' by Travis Elborough. Then Dave shares a fantastic resource for finding the best books of the year.  The Christmas Party by Georgette Heyer The Christmas Murder Game by Alexandra Benedict The Writer's Journey: In the Footsteps of the Literary Greats by Travis Elborough Our History of the 20th Century by Travis Elborough A Traveller's Year: 365 Days of Travel Writing in Diaries, Journals, and Letters by Travis Elborough Atlas of the Unexpected by Travis Elborough Atlas of Vanishing Places by Travis Elborough Rollergirl: Totally True Tales from the Track by Melissa Joulwan The Largehearted Boy Essential and Interesting ‘Best of 2023' Book Lists The Largehearted Boy List of Online ‘Best of 2022' Book Lists Video: Gosford Park trailer Transcript of this episode The Library of Lost Time is a Strong Sense of Place Production! https://strongsenseofplace.com Do you enjoy our show? Want access to fun bonus content? Please support our work on Patreon. Every little bit helps us keep the show going and makes us feel warm and fuzzy inside - https://www.patreon.com/strongsenseofplace As always, you can find us at: Our site Instagram Patreon Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ian Nairn's Modern Buildings in London was first published in 1964 and now appears, 40 years after his death, in a new edition from Notting Hill with an introduction by Travis Elborough, ‘one of Britain's finest pop culture historians' according to the Guardian.Elborough was joined by architectural historian Gillian Darley and architect Charles Holland to discuss Nairn's life, work and enduring legacy.For more events at the Bookshop: lrb.me/eventspodBuy a copy of Modern Buildings in London: lrb.me/modernbuildingspod Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Os sete livros da semana foram:- Assim Nasceu Uma Língua, Fernando Venâncio- Atlas of Improbable Places, Travis Elborough & Alan Horsfield- Um outro atlas- Epítome de pecados e tentações, Mário de Carvalho- Varying Degrees of Success, David Lodge- Author, Author, David Lodge- Galegocalantes e Galegofalantes, Carlos CallónO livro Galiza e(m) nós está disponível aqui: https://repositorium.sdum.uminho.pt/bitstream/1822/76402/1/Galiza%20e%28m%29%20n%c3%b3s_DIGITAL_FINAL.pdf This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.pilhadelivros.pt

In this episode, we get excited about three books: 'The Christmas Party' by Georgette Heyer, 'The Christmas Murder Game' by Alexandra Benedict, and 'The Writer's Journey' by Travis Elborough. Then Dave shares a fantastic resource for finding the best books of the year.  BOOKS The Christmas Party by Georgette Heyer https://amzn.to/3VjHeUl The Christmas Murder Game by Alexandra Benedict https://bit.ly/3tXkhKR The Writer's Journey: In the Footsteps of the Literary Greats by Travis Elborough https://bit.ly/3UYd3m1 Our History of the 20th Century by Travis Elborough https://amzn.to/3i3d6OT A Traveller's Year: 365 Days of Travel Writing in Diaries, Journals, and Letters by Travis Elborough https://amzn.to/3U6QEBO Atlas of the Unexpected by Travis Elborough https://amzn.to/3VdC3oS Atlas of Vanishing Places by Travis Elborough https://bit.ly/3ESRLQU Rollergirl: Totally True Tales from the Track https://amzn.to/3AFsIhN DISTRACTION OF THE WEEK The Largehearted Boy List of Online 'Best of 2022' Book Lists https://bit.ly/3VfxSsI Gosford Park trailer https://bit.ly/3AzRyQ0 Transcript of this episode https://bit.ly/3GCiGSk The Library of Lost Time is a Strong Sense of Place Production! https://strongsenseofplace.com Do you enjoy our show? Want access to fun bonus content? Please support our work on Patreon. Every little bit helps us keep the show going and makes us feel warm and fuzzy inside - https://www.patreon.com/strongsenseofplace Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Helen Gordon discusses with Ivan six things which should be better known. Helen Gordon's books include Notes from Deep Time (Profile), Landfall (Penguin) and, with Travis Elborough, Being a Writer (Frances Lincoln). She has written about nature, science, art and books for various newspapers and magazines including the Economist's 1843 magazine, the Guardian, the TLS, Apollo and Wired UK. A former Granta magazine editor, she currently teaches creative writing at the University of Hertfordshire. Deep time https://profilebooks.com/work/notes-from-deep-time/ James Hutton https://www.edinburghgeolsoc.org/edinburghs-geology/geological-pioneers/james-hutton/ and https://www.geolsoc.org.uk/GeositesSiccarPoint Campi Flegrei https://volcano.si.edu/volcano.cfm?vn=211010 The view towards London from Farthing Downs https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/things-to-do/green-spaces/farthing-downs/visit-farthing-downs Man in the Holocene https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/Man-in-the-Holocene-by-Max-Frisch-Geoffrey-Skelton/9781564784667 Desk Set https://www.allmovie.com/movie/v13391 This podcast is powered by ZenCast.fm

Travis Elborough discusses with Ivan six things which should be better known. Described by The Guardian as “one of Britain's finest pop culture historians”, Travis Elborough has been a freelance writer, author, broadcaster and cultural commentator for two decades now. Elborough's books include Wish You Were Here: England on Sea, The Long-Player Goodbye, a hymn to vinyl records that inspired the BBC4 documentary When Albums Ruled the World, in which he also appeared, and A Walk in the Park, a loving exploration of public parks and green space. His latest, Through the Looking Glasses: The Spectacular Life of Spectacles, was published in July 2021 to immediate acclaim, saluted as "fascinating" by The Observer, while New Statesman stated, "It will make you look at specs with fresh eyes." He has also collaborated on the popular and award-winning series of Unexpected Atlases with the cartographers Alan Horsfield and Martin Brown, the most recent of which, Atlas of Vanishing Places, appeared in November 2021. The American Friend https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/3866-the-american-friend-little-lies-and-big-disasters The Colonnade Bar http://thecolonnadebrighton.co.uk/ The New York Novels of Dawn Powell https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1996/03/21/queen-of-the-golden-age/ A Secret Wish by Propaganda https://www.classicpopmag.com/2018/03/propaganda-a-secret-wish-review/ Waiting by Fun Boy Three https://www.allmusic.com/album/waiting-mw0000057846 Birkenhead Park https://birkenhead-park.org.uk/birkenhead-parks-conception-and-opening/ This podcast is powered by ZenCast.fm

If you had to name the innovations that have transformed human civilisation, you might suggest the printing press or the Internet, but the humble pair of spectacles has also revolutionised the way many of us experience the world. It's said that an astonishing three quarters of those in the US use glasses or contact lenses to correct their vision. And the World Health Organisation estimates that more than a billion people in low-and-middle income countries are living with sight problems that could be corrected by the right pair of specs. But how and when were glasses first invented? What impact have they had on societal development? And what are some of the ways we've stigmatised, or even elevated, people who wear them? Joining Rajan Datar to explore the history of spectacles are Travis Elborough, a historian of popular culture from the UK. He's recently published a book called Through The Looking Glasses: The Spectacular Life of Spectacles; Stefana Sabin, a German literary scholar and the author of In The Blink of an Eye – A Cultural History of Spectacles – which has just been translated into English; and Professor Kovin Naidoo, Senior Vice President in social impact at the French-based optics company, Essilor. He's also former CEO of the Brien Holden Vision Institute. He originally trained as an optometrist in his native South Africa. [Image: Hugh of Saint-Cher, 1351-1352. Found in the Collection of Chiesa di San Nicolò, Treviso; Credit: Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images]

The bootleg record was a phenomena that emerged in the heady days of the late 60s and survived to the early 80s - a kind of countercultural entrepreneurial activity that was rendered completely obsolete by the internet.  Bootleggers, often a cross between music fans and black marketeers, were practitioners of ‘disorganised crime' distributing music illicitly on vinyl, cassette and cd whilst being pursued by record labels around the world from Compton to Camden. In this episode (a reboot of a Soho Radio show from 2018), we are joined by cultural commentator and lover of all things vinyl, Travis Elborough, to dig deep into the wild world of the dodgy pirates, counterfeits, unsanctioned outtakes, demos and live recordings that included the music of artists from Judy Garland through to the Beatles, The Rolling Stones and Bob Dylan and from The Sex Pistols and Television and to Elliot Smith. For more on Travis  www.traviselborough.co.uk ---------- Get the Bureau's Newsletter   Support our wild endeavours   The Bureau of Lost Culture Home   Go on - follow, rate and review us - or be in touch directly bureauoflostculture@gmail.com We'd love to hear from you. -------------  

Cultural critic Travis Elborough talks to Neil about the history an cultural impact of spectacles in his latest book Through The Looking Glasses. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Images and text from an unconventional atlas by Travis Elborough capture 40 forsaken locations in varying states of decay across the globe.  

A selection of readings from diarists who have written about London across the centuries and from travel writers who came to visit.  Everything from eye witness accounts of the Fire of London and an assassination attempt on Queen Victoria, to those who hated the London fog and pickpockets and those who admired it as a city full of 'all that life has to offer'.   Useful link https://www.visitlondon.com Reading ideas The Diary of John Evelyn The Diary of Samuel Pepys The Life of Samuel Johnson by James Boswell The Blue Guide Literary Companion to London City Lit London by Heather Reyes London: An Illustrated Literary Companion by Rosemary Gray A London Year by Travis Elborough and Nick Rennison  The Traveller's Year by Travis Elborough and Nick Rennison  City Breaks: all the history and culture you'd research for yourself if you had the time! Check our website to find more episodes from our London series or to browse our back catalogue of other cities which are well worth visiting: https://www.citybreakspodcast.co.uk We love to receive your comments and suggestions!  You can e mail us at citybreaks@citybreakspodcast.co.uk And if you like what you hear, please do post comments or a review wherever you downloaded this episode.  It helps others to find us.  

Out early for Patreon people… Understated ASMR pop paragon Billie Eilish is the voice of a million teenage bedrooms, but how will her second album Happier Than Ever go down with our 45+ panel of oldies? Plus the perils of child stardom in jaw-dropping documentary The Most Beautiful Boy In The World, Prince's Vault disgorges Welcome 2 America, and ideas for what to listen to and read on that beach holiday you can't take. Travis Elborough, author of Through The Looking Glasses: The Spectacular Life of Spectacles, is this week's guest.www.patreon.com/BigmouthPodcastProduced and presented by Siân Pattenden and Andrew Harrison. Audio production by AlexRees. Bigmouth is a Podmasters production. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Travis Elborough - Through The Looking Glasses... with TRE´s Dave Hodgson

Travis Elborough, author of ‘Through the Looking Glasses', shares the curious history of sunglasses in the early 20th century.

Travis Elborough, Author of Through the Looking Glasses, joined Stefanie on the show. Listen and subscribe to Moncrieff on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts or Spotify.    Download, listen and subscribe on the Newstalk App.     You can also listen to Newstalk live on newstalk.com or on Alexa, by adding the Newstalk skill and asking: 'Alexa, play Newstalk'.

What do Morrissey, Dorothy Parker, Le Corbusier, Harold Lloyd, Janis Joplin, Andy Warhol, Alan Ginsberg, Michael Caine, Gloria Steinem, Buddy Holly, John Lennon, Jarvis Cocker have in common?   Like around 65% of the British population they needed some sort of vision correction - aka glasses.   Writer and cultural commentator  Travis Elborough returns to the Bureau to talk about his forthcoming book: 'Through the Looking Glasses: The Spectacular Life of Spectacles' (Little Brown).   We take a long look at the wonderful and wonky world of glasses from the Middle Ages to the present - along with a cast of spec. wearing monks, artisans, foppish dandies, wonks, nerds, bohemians, bands, spies and film stars as we examine the story of eyewear through the lens of the counterculture.    For more on Travis and his work https://traviselborough.co.uk   For more on Bureau of Lost Culture www.bureauoflostculture.com 

Để trở thành người viết Cuốn sách từng bước dẫn dắt bạn vào nghiệp viết và trở thành một cây viết cừ khôi. Bí ý tưởng, đờ đẫn hàng giờ trước trang giấy trắng hay màn hình máy tính. Bị từ chối bài viết, rơi vào lối mòn hoặc không tìm được phong cách viết riêng. Tất cả những khó khăn đó khiến bạn chỉ muốn tuyên bố bỏ cuộc. Nhưng hãy nhớ rằng, những nhà văn mà bạn ngưỡng mộ nhất cũng đã phải đối mặt với cùng một thứ khó khăn mà bạn đang trải qua. Đầy TRẢI NGHIỆM, THỰC TẾ và BAO QUÁT, ‘'Để trở thành người viết'' là chia sẻ từ những câu chuyện ‘'trong nghề' của các tác giả nổi tiếng thế giới như Haruki Murakami, Oscar Wilde, J.K. Rowling, Ernest Hemingway, Cuốn sách chắc chắn sẽ cung cấp cho bạn lời khuyên và kỹ năng để: > Tìm kiếm lối đi riêng và bắt tay vào công việc > Giải pháp cho những rắc rối trong quá trình viết > Làm thế nào để lựa chọn câu từ phù hợp > Cách thức hiệu quả khép lại vấn đề Bạn muốn cải thiện kỹ năng, phát triển sự nghiệp của mình trong ngành viết. Hay chỉ đơn giản là học cách diễn tả cảm xúc thành câu từ, thì đây chính là cuốn sách dành cho bạn. Hãy nhớ rằng, viết không nhất thiết phải là tài năng thiên bẩm, viết là câu chuyện của học hỏi, của rèn luyện, của nhẫn nại, Điều quan trọng là bạn có dám đương đầu với tất cả, kiên trì để trở thành người viết hay không? Hẹn gặp lại bạn ở đó, nơi bạn dũng cảm và kiên định viết nên câu chuyện của chính mình!

The great punk misfit Poly Styrene features in new documentary I Am A Cliché, showing this week on Sky Arts. Will it earn her her proper place at last? Laura Snapes of The Guardian and writer Travis Elborough join us to examine it plus the first album in 16 years by Falkirk seediness connoisseurs Arab Strap and Ridley Scott’s The Terror, AKA I’m A Character Actor, Get Me Off This Ice Floe. Plus nerd squad Mike Moran and Alex Andreou parachute in for spoiler-laden look at the WandaVision series finale. (And yes that’s Leland Philpot’s unofficial trap mix of ‘Agatha All Along’).Produced and presented by Siân Pattenden and Andrew Harrison. Audio production by Alex Rees. Bigmouth is a Podmasters production. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Who will win this week’s pop culture smackdown? The troubled peacocks of our guest Dylan Jones’s new epic work Sweet Dreams: The Story Of The New Romantics? Contemporary agit-punk shoutmongers Idles? Their spiritual forebears The Clash and other Rock Against Racism alumni, immortalised in the documentary White Riot? Or Mr Autumn Man himself Robin Pecknold, currently hermitlike sole operator of Fleet Foxes? Culture writer Travis Elborough joins Dylan Jones, Siân and Andrew for another session of nozin’ around.Produced and presented by Siân Pattenden and Andrew Harrison. Audio production by Alex Rees. Bigmouth is a Podmasters production. Get every episode of BIGMOUTH a day early when you back us on the crowdfunding platform Patreon. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In the latest programme, Mishal Husain introduces pieces from writers around the United Kingdom which reflect life as it is being led during Covid-19. Paul Moss, who reports for Radio 4's "The World Tonight" and the BBC World Service, spills the beans on how daily reporting has changed during lockdown. His story includes weirdly unprofessional backdrops, some decidedly awkward manoeuvring of equipment, bedding - and the neighbours. BBC News presenter, Tanya Beckett, has found that lockdown has meant that time has stood still in her Oxfordshire village, leaving her to reflect on a dreadful crime. It took place not far from where she now lives and, as she has learnt more about the case, it has turned out to be even closer to home than she had at first realised. Businesses across the UK are deciding how to operate as lockdown restrictions are eased. They include tarot card readers who perhaps saw what was coming. Writer and broadcaster Travis Elborough has been speaking to two Brighton tarot readers who are getting ready to meet clients again. So how is the future looking? And how's your bubble? In June, it was announced that single person and single parent households could form a "support bubble" with another household. After months alone, Jane Labous, in lockdown with her young daughter, has taken the plunge. She's been speaking to others weighing up the pros and cons of "bubbling up". Lockdown has curtailed plans to mark the 300th anniversary of the birth later this month of the household naturalist, the Reverend Gilbert White. Yet his writings, based on observations in the Hampshire village of Selborne, remain astonishingly accessible and informative today - as Andrew Green, with a special Selborne connection himself, has found. Producer: Simon Coates

In the latest programme of the monthly series, Mishal Husain introduces dispatches from journalists and writers around the United Kingdom that reflect the range of contemporary life in the country. From Dorset, Jane Labous reflects on how she coped with early isolation with her young daughter in response to Covid-19 and the lessons she is drawing as a single parent as the experience continues and develops. Culloden remains a significant moment in Scottish - and British - history which today, BBC News Special Correspondent James Naughtie has been discovering, has a life all of its own. For although, 274 years on, even the commemorations marking this epic historical event have to take account of current realities, for some there are eternal verities. Parks have become the exercise refuge for many urban dwellers in recent weeks. But this has not been without contention and controversy, with some councils temporarily closing their spaces and others setting strict conditions for their use. This hasn't surprised the leading historian of parks, Travis Elborough, who reflects on how rows and disputes have been a central part of their history. Charlotte Bailey, recently in New Malden, reveals how North Korean exiles there reflect on the irony of being in lockdown in the UK. But she also discovers how those she speaks to are getting on with the much more numerous population there originating from South Korea - and hears what the future may hold. And Adam Shaw tells the story of the leaky dam, newspaper manor, chicken of the woods and the sword of Egbedene - all of which sound like they belong to a lost chapter from Harry Potter, but in fact tell us about Bolton's environs. Producer: Simon Coates

Dreaming of travel - because we can’t actually travel - has become a lot more meaningful during lockdown and this week I really loved being on the When in Spain podcast. Paul Burge from Madrid and me in London, talking about the country we love. This week The Big Travel Podcast also hit number 1 again in the Apple Podcasts UK travel charts, number in the UAE, 5 in Spain, 3 in Belgium and charting high everywhere including number 28 in the US which is a great as its such a big country! Hello to all our new listeners, I’m so happy to have you with us. We’ve also been featured a lot in the press including articles from Wanderlust Magazine and even The Guardian.  This episode's guest is utterly fascinating and I hope you enjoy our conversation as much as I do. Searching for the quirk in the world, the places created for odd reasons and perverse town-planning, cultural commentator Travis Elborough has explored topics as diverse as the history of the Routemaster bus, vinyl records, donkeys at the British seaside and pirates in the Caribbean. He most recently collaborated with cartographer Martin Brown for The Atlas of Vanishing Places, winner of the Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards 2020 illustrated book. And for this episode we’re actually in the wonderful Stanford’s Travel Book Shop, in London’s Covent Garden just before we went into Lockdown.   On this episode we cover: Being inspired by the disappearance of The Aral Sea in Uzbekistan Captain Cook and the ‘labyrinth’ of the Great Barrier Reef Visiting the archaeological wonder of Xanadu in Mongolia The lost colony of Roanoke in what’s now North Carolina Was Helike, an ancient Greek city submerged by a tsunami, the basis for Atlantis Ancient cities such as Alexandria and its great library and lighthouse The replica Stonehenge in Maryhill, Washington State Lack Havasu being created in Arizona by a champion chill chef and Disney Land planner The Americans buying London Bridge and sticking it up in Arizona The urban myth that they thought they were getting Tower Bridge Driving Route 66 with a poet friend, how very Beatnik Spring break party towns Touring Lake Havasu with a Harley Davison gang Having a fake Trafalgar Square to go with the original London Bridge Towns disappearing under hydroelectric damns The town in Australia poking up above the water The ghost-town of Bodie North East of Yosemite in California Chan Chan, the ancient capital city on the northern coast of Peru  The Yorkshire homes disappearing into the sea at Skipsea The fastest-eroding coastline in northern Europe The tensions of what to keep and what to sacrifice The positive affects of Coronavirus stopping travel Venice being in in peril The word ‘quarantine’ coming from Venice The word ‘ghetto’ also probably coming from Venice The extraordinary basilica buildings being built on world trade The art project of bridges outside Rotterdam replicating the bridges on the back of a Euro note The forts in the Solent that were meant to protect against invasion of the French One of these being turned into a party venue Slab City squatter camp in California with a golf course Always looking for the quirk in his travels Montana’s Glacier National Park that might disappear The perverse attraction of a disused mine shaft Being intrigued by places that are created for odd reasons The crazy story of Fordlandia, henry Ford’s failed utopian village in Brazil Titusville in Pennsylvania being the birthplace of Vaseline The sunken pirate city of Port Royal in Jamaica ‘Town-Planning Perversion’ Walt Disney’s Celebration utopian village in Orlando How Kraftwerk’s Trans-Europe Express really takes on new meaning when you’re staring down long German boulevards Thanks again to Stanford’s Travel Book Shop in Covent Garden for having us! They are still open online and would love to have you visit when the physical shop reopens too www.stanfords.co.uk  

Liliana Russo in TuttoLibri presenta…Lettere che hanno cambiato il mondo di Travis Elborough.

Today we are talking to Travis Elborough, author of ATLAS OF VANISHING PLACES: THE LOST WORLDS AS THEY WERE AND AS THEY ARE TODAY.Following the international bestselling success of Atlas of Improbable Places and Atlas of the Unexpected, Travis Elborough takes you on a voyage to all corners of the world in search of the lost, disappearing and vanished. Discover ancient seats of power and long-forgotten civilizations through the Mayan city of Palenque; delve into the mystery of a disappeared Japanese islet; and uncover the incredible hidden sites like the submerged Old Adaminaby, once abandoned but slowly remerging.

In the latest programme of the monthly series, Mishal Husain introduces dispatches from journalists and writers around the United Kingdom that reflect the range of contemporary life in the country. Martin Vennard in Saltburn reveals how surfing has improbably helped revive the fortunes of the once-proud Victorian resort on Tees-side; while Travis Elborough taps a surf music beat in Worthing where a 50 year-old musical phenomenon is garnering new fans. Baby boomer Martin Gurdon, recently bereaved in late middle-age, explains how saying his final goodbye to an elderly parent was both something greater longevity had prepared him for and yet - at least initially - still left him disoriented. Emma Levine in Barnsley reports on how a strange football match saw differing contemporary Yorkshire identities on display off the pitch. And Athar Ahmad prepares to go on a solitary spiritual quest in the final days of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan. Producer: Simon Coates

An abandoned utopian town in South America founded by Henry Ford? A tribe the builds and lives on their own floating islands? A beautiful California beach totally made of trash? It all exists and discovered in Travis Elborough's new book, Atlas of the Unexpected.      Plus my colleague Michelle Rodriguez rejoins the podcast to compare our experiences in New York City. 

Celebrating the minds behind the music on the latest edition of BE THERE WITH DALI are special guests KATE MOSSMAN (Arts Editor of the New Stateman) and author and pop culture expert TRAVIS ELBOROUGH. This time: our guests listen to their favourite albums as they’ve never heard them before, on DALI’s super-detailed CALLISTO and RUBICON speakers.For Queen-loving Kate it’s their tragic masterpiece ‘The Miracle’ and for Travis it’s ‘Laughing Stock’, the under-appreciated final album by dream-pop architects Talk Talk. What will they discover about the albums they thought they knew inside out? Plus – the strangest recording techniques in studio history, and our guests choose their own personal Greatest Five Seconds In Pop History. Hear all the songs we talk about on our Tidal playlist. This podcast is an audio companion to DALI’s print magazine, also called BE THERE – get the new issue free via the DALI Facebook page.BE THERE WITH DALI is presented by Andrew Harrison with audio production by Jack Claramunt. It’s a Podmasters Production.DALI – designed, developed and produced In Admiration Of Musicdali-speakers.comDALI on Facebook@DALIspeakersDALI on YouTubeDALI on Instagram See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

We welcome back author Travis Elborough to discuss his new book ‘Atlas of the Unexpected’. Plus: film-maker Desiree Akhavan talks us through her acclaimed new teen drama ‘The Miseducation of Cameron Post’, and we discuss Canadian film-making and ‘Trench 11’ with actor Rossif Sutherland.

In the latest programme of the monthly series, Mishal Husain introduces dispatches from journalists and writers that reflect the range of contemporary life across the country. Andy Kershaw visits the most cluttered workbench he's ever seen to discover how restoration work is going on a monument to British endeavour in speed on water; Jane Labous samples libraries in two counties to assess exactly what they have to offer; Adrian Goldberg indulges his sweet tooth among the burgeoning dessert shops of Birmingham; Ruth Alexander discovers how the town that's trying to turn itself around - literally - is faring; and Travis Elborough discovers perestroika among sixty thousand tulips on the South Downs. Producer: Simon Coates

Tom Holland is joined by Dr Alice Taylor from King's College in London and the historian of pop culture, Travis Elborough. Helen Castor charts the course of the Prague Spring, that period of liberalisation in Czechoslovakia brought in when Alexander Dubcek became leader in January 1968. She hears from those who were there and those who study that period now and asks whether people had any inkling what an extraordinary year it would be. Alice Taylor introduces a new project which will celebrate the 700th anniversary of the Declaration of Arbroath in 2020. She explains how fact and fiction were brought together to create the notion of a Scottish nation and a document that would heavily influence the Constitution of the United States. French Journalist Agnes Poirier leafs through the pages of Our Island Story, the 1905 children's book that some argue not only re-imagined English history but then shaped the world-view of some of our political leaders. Fresh from the publication of his book of twentieth century diary extracts, Travis Elborough discusses if the diary is dead in the digital post-truth age. And Iszi Lawrence enlists the help of the world wide web in her search for the origins of the expression "hair of the dog". Producer: Nick Patrick A Pier production for BBC Radio 4.

This week on the pop culture podcast for the discerning flâneur, Michael Hann welcomes special guests Laura Barton and Travis Elborough to talk Bowie, rock memoirs and more. Producer Matt Hall twiddles the knobs appreciatively. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Billy Bragg’s new book reckons that skiffle was the original punk DIY explosion – is he right? Can you enjoy an album by a desperately ill star who has to be coaxed through the recording? And why did cosmic synth music sell so well in health food shops? Special guests Kate Mossman of The New Statesman and Travis Elborough join Andrew and Matt to sort it all out. Click here to listen. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Is Blondie’s new album ‘Pollinator’ a top buzz and is Deborah Harry still queen bee? Can Gorillaz exorcise Damon’s demons? And is Marvel’s soft-rock space opera fit for a second outing? Special guests Travis Elborough and Polly Birkbeck, plus special correspondents Michael Moran and Joe Muggs, join Andrew and Matt in the bunker. For the full versions of all the songs played on this podcast visit our Spotify playlist: https://open.spotify.com/user/11102554473/playlist/2Z1nBHE2qqEpX1SGRMcSkS See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Join acclaimed authors Travis Elborough (A Walk in the Park, Atlas of Improbable Places) and Malachy Tallack (60 Degrees North, The Un-Discovered Islands) as they discuss places of legend and wonder, the obscure, the beautiful and the downright odd. Expect a fascinating journey to the world’s most incredible locations – real and imagined – as … Continue reading Malachy Tallack and Travis Elborough, Improbable Places and Un-Discovered Islands // Stanfords Travel Writers Festival

Join acclaimed authors Travis Elborough (A Walk in the Park, Atlas of Improbable Places) and Malachy Tallack (60 Degrees North, The Un-Discovered Islands) as they discuss places of legend and wonder, the obscure, the beautiful and the downright odd. Expect a fascinating journey to the world's most incredible locations – real and imagined – as … Continue reading Malachy Tallack and Travis Elborough, Improbable Places and Un-Discovered Islands // Stanfords Travel Writers Festival

Travis Elborough explores the role of public parks in British life and urges us to cherish them as institutions for the people. "The best public parks, as artfully contrived areas of greenery in the midst of brick and concrete, offer the delights of nature with fewer of its downsides." Four Thought was recorded at the End of the Road Music Festival. Presenter: Mike Williams Peoducer: Sheila Cook (Photo by David X Green).

Travis Elborough is the author of four acclaimed books: The Bus We Loved, a history of the Routemaster bus; The Long Player Goodbye, which lamented the passing of vinyl; Wish You Were Here, a history of the British beside the seaside; and London Bridge in America, which tells the transatlantic story of the sale of the world's largest antique. Travis regularly appears on Radio 4 and writes for the Guardian. His latest book is A Walk in The Park: The Life and Times of a People’s Institution. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Helen Castor is joined by the architectural writer and cultural commentator Travis Elborough and garden historian Deborah Trentham. Tom Holland takes a ride on Brighton's new attraction, the British Airways i360, and is joined at 450 feet by Professor Fred Gray to gain new insight into the history of seaside attractions. Surprisingly, the new doughnut on a stick (as locals are describing it), offers similar experiences and challenges to those of the West Pier which opened 150 years ago. In Norfolk, Radio 4's organic gardening legend Bob Flowerdew gets to grips with a character who, on the face of it, is his horticultural opposite. Lancelot 'Capability' Brown was born 300 years ago and Bob visits one of his masterpieces - Kimberley Hall - to ask landscape historian Professor Tom Williamson where the neatness and order of the English country house came from and what it was supposed to do for those who lived with it. We continue our series of forgotten history heroes as food writer William Sitwell nominates the man who became famous for his pie but who also kept Britain fed during World War 2 - Lord Fred Woolton A Pier production for BBC Radio 4.

Travis Elborough has been a freelance writer, author and cultural commentator for more than a decade now. His books include The Bus We Loved, a history of the Routemaster bus; The Long Player Goodbye, a hymn to vinyl records; and Wish You Were Here, a survey of the British beside the seaside. His latest book […] See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Richard Coles and Anita Anand with Kids Company Founder Camila Batmanghelidjh, The Inheritance Tracks of Charlie Higson, JP Devlin waxing lyrical with actress Joan Collins, the willowy sound of a cricket bat being fashioned, Ben Markus who was given, maybe, 12 months to live in January 2012 on finding love and the strength to KBO ( keep battling on ), topical poetry from Luke Wright and John McCarthy is joined by London writer Travis Elborough on a trail through the capital to see the sites of sights you can't see any more. They don't see the Euston Arch, old London Bridge, Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens or Battersea Park Funfair.Producer Chris Wilson.

After a trip to the Middle East last month, Bookmarked host Ryan Van Winkle is back in the UK and ready to talk about crime, poetic inspiration and the extraordinary history of how one London landmark ended up in the Arizona desert.Highlights include:* Crime writer Sophie Hannah discussing her new book, The Carrier, motives that aren't so black-and-white and how success both helps and hinders her writing* A trip to the StAnza poetry festival in St Andrews, where Ryan talks about family and solves rhyming riddles with poet and performer John Hegley* Do you know the rhyme about London Bridge? You'll know much more than that as Ryan sits down with Travis Elborough, author London Bridge in America: The Tall Story of a Transatlantic Crossing. Travis's book tells the extraordinary story of how an American tycoon bought one of the last works of famed Scottish civil engineer John Rennie and used it as the centrepiece of a new development in Arizona.

With Mark Lawson. Some of the most famous costumes in Hollywood history, including John Travolta's suit from Saturday Night Fever and Judy Garland's ruby slippers from The Wizard of Oz, are on show in a major new exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum. Curator Deborah Nadoolman Landis and Deborah Scott, costume designer for Titanic and Avatar, discuss the collection. Three new rock documentaries are released this week, focusing on blues legend BB King, the rock group Status Quo, and the former frontman of Queen, Freddie Mercury. Music critics Rosie Swash and David Hepworth compare and contrast the films' styles and content. A vast bronze statue of a pregnant woman by the artist Damien Hirst now stands near the seafront in Ilfracombe, Devon. The 20-metre statue called Verity has been given to the seaside town by Hirst on a 20-year loan. Travis Elborough, writer of Wish You Were Here: England on Sea, went to take a look, and gives his verdict on the work, and its role in the town's life. During the 2008 election for the American Presidency, the media spotlight fell on Barack Obama's youngest half-brother, George Hussein Obama. Much was made of the difference in their lives, one running for the highest Office in the USA and the other living in poverty in Kenya. A new play based on George's life has just opened in Leicester. George Hussein Obama and the writer Kevin Fegan discuss the drama. Producer Jerome Weatherald.

John Grindrod was born in 1970 in Croydon and still lives in South London. Last year he published Shouting at the Telly, a book in which a host of comedians, actors and writers wrestle with such weighty issues as:  Is Freddie from Scooby-Doo a colossal pervert? What does Howards’ Way tell us about the eighties? How do you win America’s Next Top Model? Which programmes do you only watch when you’re off sick?  I spoke to John about the book for the Blackwell Online podcast when it came out. You can listen to it here. Here are John’s holiday reading choices: The most obviously summery book I’ve been reading has been Travis Elborough’s hilarious and hugely informative Wish You Were Here: England on Sea, a cultural history of seaside resorts and our national obsession with piers, paddling and penny arcades. Travis grew up in Worthing and his disdain for the place colours the book, but this is as much a reconciliation with his own seaside demons as it is a gloriously eccentric travelogue around England’s …

A conversation about the rise, fall and rise of the long-playing album format both technologically and artistically with journalist Travis Elborough, author of The Vinyl Countdown: The Album from LP to iPod and Back Again.