Podcast appearances and mentions of Will Eaves

Writer and poet Will Eaves sits down with bereavement expert Jason Davidson. In this episode, Will talks with Jason about the deaths of his friend, Eloise, and his mother, Cecily. Will also discusses the importance (or unimportance) of being with someone at the end of their life, what has helped him during grief, and the importance of making a will.You can also watch a subtitled video of the episode on YouTube.On the Marie Curie Couch aims to open up conversations about death, break down the taboo and encourage people to share their end of life plans.This podcast is made by Marie Curie – the UK's leading end of life charity. For more information about the vital work we do, head to mariecurie.org.ukOn the Marie Curie Couch is produced and edited by Marie Curie, with support from Ultimate Content. The music featured is Time Lapse by PanOceanic. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Will Eaves is a British writer, poet and professor at the University of Warwick. He began writing for the Times Literary Supplement in 1992 and joined the paper as its Arts Editor in 1995. He left in 2011 to become an Associate Professor in the Writing Programme at the University of Warwick. In 2020, he judged the Goldsmiths Prize and was a Visiting Research Fellow at Merton College, Oxford. In 2016, he was a Sassoon Visiting Fellow at the Bodleian Library. He has written five novels, two books of poetry, and one volume of literary essays. For for book Murmur, Eaves was shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize and won the Wellcome Book Prize. He has given talks, seminars and readings around the world and has appeared several times on BBC Radio 3's The Verb, with Ian Macmillan, and on BBC Radio 4's Start the Week and Open Book. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. His book The Point of Distraction is out now and you can preorder Invasion of the Polyhedrons any time. It's out at the end of October 2024 .Will Eaves is guest number 434 on My Time Capsule and chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things he'd like to put in a time capsule; four he'd like to preserve and one he'd like to bury and never have to think about again .Buy Will's book, The Point of Distraction, here - https://harpercollins.co.uk/products/the-point-of-distraction-will-eaves?variant=40755240730702Order his latest book, Invasion of the Polyhedrons, here - https://www.cbeditions.com/Eaves5.htmlFollow Will Eaves on Twitter: @WillEaves & Instagram: @tbit_niche .Follow My Time Capsule on Instagram: @mytimecapsulepodcast & Twitter & Facebook: @MyTCpod .Follow Michael Fenton Stevens on Twitter: @fentonstevens & Instagram @mikefentonstevens .Produced and edited by John Fenton-Stevens for Cast Off Productions .Music by Pass The Peas Music .Artwork by matthewboxall.com .This podcast is proud to be associated with the charity Viva! Providing theatrical opportunities for hundreds of young people . Get bonus episodes and ad-free listening by becoming a team member with Acast+! Your support will help us to keep making My Time Capsule. Join our team now! https://plus.acast.com/s/mytimecapsule. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Neuromantics Season 2 Episode 10 Why are some words funnier than others? Can you learn a theory of humour? Are the sounds we find comical just as effective in other languages? The Neuromantics – writer Will Eaves and neuroscientist Professor Sophie Scott – give funny words a thorough seeing to, asking whether it's possible to find any consensus on humour or if it's a case of each to his own. Stepping across from funny to absurd, they explore the ideas behind Edward Lear's The Jumblies, and visit a very unsettling short story by the Luxembourgeois writer Florence Sunnen. Brought to you by Tempest Productions www.tempestproductions.net Find other episodes here: soundcloud.com/user-986948053/sets/the-neuromantics Podcast copyright Will Eaves & Sophie Scott; articles and texts discussed copyright authors

The Neuromantics Season 2 Episode 9 Think you know all about testosterone? Well, you might have to think again after this episode of the Neuromantics, as Will and Sophie discuss the sex-related goings on in our brains. The relationship between testosterone and our brains is not as clear-cut as it is with our bodies, and a scientific paper elaborates on how the hormone can convert in mammal brains into a form of oestrogen. What does this mean for our understanding of masculinity and femininity and socially-determined sexual behaviours? As it's the testosterone episode, it's only fitting that they should discuss a very Freudian scene in Ian Fleming's Diamonds Are for Ever, as well as a poignant moment from James Baldwin's Giovanni's Room. With neuroscientist Professor Sophie Scott and novelist and poet Will Eaves. Brought to you by Tempest Productions www.tempestproductions.net Find other episodes here: soundcloud.com/user-986948053/sets/the-neuromantics Podcast copyright Will Eaves & Sophie Scott; articles and texts discussed copyright authors

The Neuromantics Season 2 Episode 8 Loss, survival and sympathy are the dominant themes of this episode of the Neuromantics, with Will and Sophie discussing research into the impact of maternal death on mammalian offspring. Maternal care is essential to survival and young mammals deprived of their mothers often move away from their social group, putting themselves at greater risk. But what happens in the long term? Can this trauma be passed on and affect further generations? Is there something genetic going on? Also coming under the spotlight is a short story by Andrea Levy which raises issues of belonging, class and social responsibility. With Will Eaves and Professor Sophie Scott. Brought to you by Tempest Productions www.tempestproductions.net Find other episodes here: soundcloud.com/user-986948053/sets/the-neuromantics Podcast copyright Will Eaves & Sophie Scott; articles and texts discussed copyright authors

The Neuromantics Season 2 Episode 7 The Neuromantics revisit a favourite theme: the importance of social interaction when it comes to healthy minds. This time the starting point is a study on the mental health benefits of cultural engagement. Why is looking at art in a gallery more psychologically resonant than looking at the same pictures online? And how is it that laughing along with an audience at a live show can alleviate our anxieties? Communist-era poetry, British TV comedy and the solitary writer all come bubbling to the surface of the discussion. With Professor Sophie Scott and Will Eaves. Brought to you by Tempest Productions www.tempestproductions.net Find other episodes here: soundcloud.com/user-986948053/sets/the-neuromantics Podcast copyright Will Eaves & Sophie Scott; articles and texts discussed copyright authors

The Neuromantics Season 2 Episode 6 Neuroscientist Professor Sophie Scott and writer Will Eaves - AKA the Neuromantics - suggest you might want to reconsider what you think you know about metaphors. Are they only useful for describing existing things or can they have an earlier, more constructive role in the creative process? A scientific study which asked architects to make use of metaphor at the design stage of their projects prompts questions about meaning and objectivity. This episode's literary contribution is a thought-provoking essay by the musician, artist and writer Peter Blegvad called Imagine, Observe, Remember, but the conversation – as ever – takes unexpected turns, including the imagined accuracy of the Crystal Palace dinosaurs and hearing the Beatles for the first time. Brought to you by Tempest Productions www.tempestproductions.net Find other episodes here: soundcloud.com/user-986948053/sets/the-neuromantics Podcast copyright Will Eaves & Sophie Scott; articles and texts discussed copyright authors

The Neuromantics – writer Will Eaves and neuroscientist Professor Sophie Scott – return to the theme of ageing brains, this time exploring research into why some people remain cognitively intact well into their 90s and beyond. Is it simply a case of keeping our brains busy by learning new languages and musical instruments, or is there something more lobal going on? Or even social? They discover advice on ageing – and just about everything else – in the essays of 16th Century philosopher Michel de Montaigne and reflect on the challenges and even opportunities of Tier 4 lockdown. Brought to you by Tempest Productions www.tempestproductions.net Find other episodes here: soundcloud.com/user-986948053/sets/the-neuromantics Podcast copyright Will Eaves & Sophie Scott; articles and texts discussed copyright authors

The Neuromantics Season 2 Episode 4 The grooming episode. Neuroscientist Professor Sophie Scott and writer Will Eaves talk social bonds, hierarchies and connectedness. Focusing on a paper about baboon groups in Africa, they untangle the reasons why primates thrive as social animals and come a cropper when left alone. (That's where the grooming comes in.) What can these tight baboon hierarchies usefully tell us about our own social structures and interactions? Can group activities really bring people with opposing views together? Join the Neuromantics to discuss alpha males, rogue males, child escapees (courtesy of the writer M. John Harrison) and nail bars. Brought to you by Tempest Productions www.tempestproductions.net Find other episodes here: soundcloud.com/user-986948053/sets/the-neuromantics Podcast copyright Will Eaves & Sophie Scott; articles and texts discussed copyright authors

The Neuromantics Season 2 Episode 3 This atmospheric episode of The Neuromantics is brought to you from London Zoo. Neuroscientist Professor Sophie Scott and writer Will Eaves – once they've stopped to admire the grooming macaques – discuss the plasticity of the human brain, in particular when it comes to the ageing process. Given that we're all born with the brain cells we'll need for the rest of our lives – 85bn of them to be precise – how do these cells change and grow as we move from childhood, through the challenges of adolescence, and into the altered landscape of old age? Basing their discussion on a scientific paper on the ageing brain, and moving on to Alice Munro's short story, The Bear Came Over the Mountain, they stop to consider risk-taking teenagers, dementia, the nature of romantic love and why going out into the world is the best exercise for your brain. Brought to you by Tempest Productions www.tempestproductions.net Find other episodes here: soundcloud.com/user-986948053/sets/the-neuromantics Podcast copyright Will Eaves & Sophie Scott; articles and texts discussed copyright authors

The Neuromantics Season 2 Episode 2 The Neuromantics - writer Will Eaves and neuroscientist Professor Sophie Scott - take their usual inspired and multi-disciplined approach and apply it to the theme of journeys. Helping us unravel issues of movement and travel is an enlightening scientific paper on bird navigation and two moving short stories. With plenty of ground to cover, they discover why pigeons bob their heads, why two foveas are better than one, and how the most fascinating journey we'll ever make is our own physical and mental development. Brought to you by Tempest Productions www.tempestproductions.net Find other episodes here: soundcloud.com/user-986948053/sets/the-neuromantics Podcast copyright Will Eaves & Sophie Scott; articles and texts discussed copyright authors

The Neuromantics Season 2 Episode 1 In this constantly shifting world, with its endless novel experiences and influences, one thing we can be sure of is that we're not the same person as we were at birth. Welcome to the first episode of the second season of the Neuromantics, in which writer Will Eaves and neuroscientist Professor Sophie Scott juggle ideas of human response to a changing environment. Some exquisite examples of 9th and 10th century Arabic poetry suggest that early writers were trying to pin down or preserve the world around them. Meanwhile, an academic paper on mental rotation explores the relationship between physical movement and mental perception. All this flux - how fitting for an episode recorded during the Covid lockdown. Brought to you by Tempest Productions www.tempestproductions.net Find other episodes here: soundcloud.com/user-986948053/sets/the-neuromantics Podcast copyright Will Eaves & Sophie Scott; articles and texts discussed copyright authors

The Neuromantics Season 1 Episode 10 The Neuromantics go out on a good laugh. For their season-ending episode, neuroscientist Professor Sophie Scott and writer Will Eaves explore the social function of laughter and discover that it's a surprisingly more complex facet of human behaviour than you might think. There's plenty of ground to cover: why do jokes seem funnier when other people are laughing at them? What's behind the often shocking humour among colleagues in stressful jobs? And who else here remembers Ripping Yarns? Brought to you by Tempest Productions www.tempestproductions.net Find other episodes here: soundcloud.com/user-986948053/sets/the-neuromantics Podcast copyright Will Eaves & Sophie Scott; articles and texts discussed copyright authors

The Neuromantics Season 1 Episode 9 The prof and the poet bring a beautifully meandering arc to their discussion of inner voices in this episode – starting with a poignant Old English poem about loneliness and rejection and moving on to a paper on auditory verbal hallucinations. Historically, being alone – or “friendlessness” – was a dangerous state to find yourself in. But did the interior world have its compensations? Can hearing voices actually be a thing of comfort as well as of concern? Neuroscientist Professor Sophie Scott and writer Will Eaves take apart the phenomenon of imaginary companions and explore why our brains might generate conversations that only we can hear. Brought to you by Tempest Productions www.tempestproductions.net Find other episodes here: soundcloud.com/user-986948053/sets/the-neuromantics Podcast copyright Will Eaves & Sophie Scott; articles and texts discussed copyright authors

The Neuromantics Season 1 Episode 8 The pleasure of making and listening to music. Is it universal? Or is it a very varied experience? The Neuromantics – author Will Eaves and neuroscientist Professor Sophie Scott – explore our neurological responses to music and ask how these may have changed over the years and with technological developments. What role has ritual to play? How does music help us communicate? And why should taste and culture be such strong influences on our listening habits? As ever the professor and the writer share their scientific and literary offerings and veer off into some eye-opening asides (the surprisingly strict rules of polyamorous engagement and rubber clubbing gear among them.) Brought to you by Tempest Productions www.tempestproductions.net Find other episodes here: soundcloud.com/user-986948053/sets/the-neuromantics Podcast copyright Will Eaves & Sophie Scott; articles and texts discussed copyright authors

The Neuromantics Season 1 Episode 7 In the 90s, the psychology community was tying itself in knots over whether forgotten traumas could or should be recovered through therapy. In this episode of the Neuromantics, writer Will Eaves and neuroscientist Professor Sophie Scott revisit the so-called memory wars, and discuss the controversial issue of repressed memory (now rebranded as dissociative amnesia). If the brain has gone to all the trouble of suppressing trauma, is it beneficial to retrieve these past experiences? Can they be used reliably in criminal trials? And what has all this got to do with axolotls? Brought to you by Tempest Productions www.tempestproductions.net Find other episodes here: soundcloud.com/user-986948053/sets/the-neuromantics Podcast copyright Will Eaves & Sophie Scott; articles and texts discussed copyright authors

The Neuromantics Season 1 Episode 6 In this episode, the Neuromantics take apart the sound of music, the scientific phenomenon that is. Writer and poet Will Eaves and neuroscientist Professor Sophie Scott discuss how the human ear processes musical sound, focusing in particular on pitch and timbre. Visiting, as ever, a scientific paper and a literary offering, they revel in the soaring possibilities of the voice – that exceptional musical instrument which we're all handed at birth. Brought to you by Tempest Productions www.tempestproductions.net Find other episodes here: soundcloud.com/user-986948053/sets/the-neuromantics Podcast copyright Will Eaves & Sophie Scott; articles and texts discussed copyright authors

The Neuromantics Season 1 Episode 5 The Neuromantics – writer Will Eaves and neuroscientist Professor Sophie Scott – delve deeply into emotions in this episode, and explore how our feelings are recalled and expressed. Taking as their starting point a poignant poem about the memory of illness, they move onto a Finnish scientific paper on the bodily mapping of emotional responses. But they save their most trenchant discussion for our most commonly encountered non-verbal vocalisation - also known as laughter. Brought to you by Tempest Productions www.tempestproductions.net Find other episodes here: soundcloud.com/user-986948053/sets/the-neuromantics Podcast copyright Will Eaves & Sophie Scott; articles and texts discussed copyright authors

The Neuromantics Season 1 Episode 3 “Remember me when I am gone away.” The opening line of Christina Rossetti's celebrated poem marks the starting point to a discussion of death in this episode of The Neuromantics. Exploring new research into death rites among primates, neuroscientist Professor Sophie Scott and writer Will Eaves ask whether our brains are really capable of grasping our own demise. As ever, they make some fascinating detours along the way, this time contemplating the relationship between smell and mortality, the phenomenon of the “voice from beyond” in English literature and the shocking extensiveness of meerkat infanticide. Brought to you by Tempest Productions www.tempestproductions.net Find other episodes here: soundcloud.com/user-986948053/sets/the-neuromantics Podcast copyright Will Eaves & Sophie Scott; articles and texts discussed copyright authors

The Neuromantics Season 1 Episode 3 What are we actually seeing when we visualise the world? How could the blind Milton have recreated such a sumptuously colourful Eden? And why do babies use their mouths as the first means of ‘seeing' objects? In episode 3 of The Neuromantics, writer Will Eaves and neuroscientist Professor Sophie Scott explore what happens when our brains recreate external images, stopping off to discuss aphantasia, how primate brains compute colour and how the writer Saki constructed a child's world view in his deliciously dark short story, The Lumber Room. Brought to you by Tempest Productions www.tempestproductions.net Find other episodes here: soundcloud.com/user-986948053/sets/the-neuromantics Podcast copyright Will Eaves & Sophie Scott; articles and texts discussed copyright authors

The Neuromantics Season 1 Episode 2 What's happening in our brains when we have that Proustian moment? Writer Will Eaves and neuroscientist Professor Sophie Scott explore autobiographical memory in their on-going quest to find the common ground between their two disciplines. In this lively and thought-provoking episode they marvel at the special immediacy of smell, discuss the social value of gossip and call on Shakespeare to help them understand the slippery nature of accurate recall. Brought to you by Tempest Productions www.tempestproductions.net Find other episodes here: https://soundcloud.com/user-986948053/sets/the-neuromantics Podcast copyright Will Eaves & Sophie Scott; articles and texts discussed copyright authors

The Neuromantics Season 1 Episode 1 Is it possible for one mind to speak to another? Get ready for a journey into your brain with Will Eaves and Professor Sophie Scott. In this ground-breaking podcast series, a writer and a neuroscientist come together to find the common threads linking their two disciplines. The result is a fascinating exploration of communication and expression. In this first episode Will and Sophie lay the foundations for their approach, stopping off to discuss phonetics, impressions of Paul McCartney, the musicality of voices, Yorkshire sheepdogs in Judea and how sign language can mimic personality. Brought to you by Tempest Productions www.tempestproductions.net Find all the episodes here: https://soundcloud.com/user-986948053/sets/the-neuromantics Podcast copyright Will Eaves & Sophie Scott; articles and texts discussed copyright authors

Imagine a microphone swinging unseen above a crowded platform, picking up passing thoughts and random memories, tuning into lost moments and conversations. This beautifully-realised audio adaptation of Will Eaves' Goldsmith's Prize-shortlisted book, The Absent Therapist, will take you on a uniquely strange and delightful journey of unexpected encounters. It's an earphones-in, eyes-shut, ready-for-anything experience. Read by Will Eaves with music composed and performed by the author. Sound engineering by Mark Lingwood. Part of Tempest's Singular series of stand-alone dramas and stories by contemporary authors. The Absent Therapist is published by CB Editions. www.tempestproductions.net

Composers Neil Luck, India Jordan and David Austin Grey share their music and thoughts on the place of distractions in the process of creating music – are distractions bad or are they necessary? We listen to the sounds of a dream, hear the power of music to heal, and dive into what it means to create music during lockdown. Join our CEO Susanna Eastburn MBE and writer Will Eaves for a unique insight into composing.  Our recommendation at the end is the album Watch Out! by India Jordan.  In this episode, you listened to the following music and sounds:    Neil Luck  Phantasy (2020), by Chihiro Ono and Neil Luck  Severed Heads (2021) from the album Downturn Fantasies released by Entr'acte.   India Jordan  Dear Nan King and Emotional Melodical (2020) from the album For You released by Local Action Records  And Groove and Feierabend (2021) from the album Watch Out! released by Ninjatune in May 2021   David Austin Grey  Over Seas and Out of Reach (2020), a commission by Stoney Lane Records, performed by David Austin Grey (piano, electronics), Mike Fletcher (clarinet, flute) and David Duffy (double bass, electric bass)   A Dark Place to Nest (2019), a work developed at Snape Maltings    Our heartfelt thanks to the record labels, performers, composers and organisations who allowed us to include excerpts of these recordings on the podcast. This podcast was produced by Michael Umney (Resonance FM) and mixed by Chris Bartholomew, with our theme tune composed by Rob Bentall.

From a ballet stream to Homer's wine-dark sea. Thea Lenarduzzi and Lucy Dallas are joined by the historian and critic Judith Flanders to review the return of dance with new offerings from the Akram Khan Company and the Royal Ballet, and the novelist and poet Will Eaves returns to the Odyssey to explore the nature of memory. Back on Stage – The Royal Ballet, available online until November 8thThe Silent Burn Project – Akram Khan CompanyMichael Clark: Cosmic Dancer – Barbican, until January 2021, then at the V&A Dundee See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The TLS’s philosophy editor Tim Crane guides us through a selection of reviews and essays from this week’s issue, including on the future of AI and what Thomas Hobbes, Susan Sontag, Montaigne and the trolley problem can tell us about our present predicament; the novelist Will Eaves re-reads Daniel Defoe’s A Journal of the Plague Year, “a caravan of episodes, made up of people going through the same horror in different ways”, and ponders a big-screen adaptation… See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Robin is once again joined by guest co-host Bec Hill and their special guest this week is Wellcome Book Prize winner Will Eaves. They chat about Will's award winning novel Murmur plus Alan Turing, Montaigne, Andy Stanton and the role of mirrors in fiction... Support the podcast and everything at the CSN by pledging as little as a dollar a month at patreon.com/bookshambles Robin's tour dates at robinince.com, CSN events at cosmicshambles.com and Bec's at www.bechillcomedian.com Murmur is available wherever you buy books.

Anna and Annie discuss the Miles Franklin winner, Too Much Lip by Melissa Lucashenko. Our book of the week is Murmur by Will Eaves, inspired by the life of  Alan Turing. Shortlisted for the 2018 Goldsmiths Prize and winner of the 2019 Wellcome Book Prize, this is a beautifully written, challenging novel that puts you in the mind of Alan Turing during his enforced chemical castration. We can see why it was a 'Book of the Year' for the Guardian, Australian Book Review, New Scientist and Times Literary Supplement. Next week, Anna and Amanda will be speaking with Stephanie Wood about her book Fake. Follow us! Facebook: Books On The Go Email: booksonthegopodcast@gmail.com Instagram: @abailliekaras and @mr_annie Twitter: @abailliekaras and @mister_annie Litsy: @abailliekaras and @mr_annie Credits Artwork: Sascha Wilkosz

Welcome to The Neuromantics, a monthly look-twice-both-ways at the crossroads of neuroscience and literature. In this fourth episode, Will Eaves and Professor Sophie Scott consider death and the different ways in which humans and primates respond to a loss of agency. Topics whispered and bewailed include ghostly voices in English poetry, the uses of the corpse in primate groupings, smell and decay, the relationship between high sociability and infanticide, Penelope Fitzgerald's “hieroglyphic” view of human relations, and the ritual divestment of body and life in Mesopotamian epic. All in less than the time it takes to boil ten eggs (one after the other).The three publications under discussion are: “Remember” (1849, published 1862) by Christina Rossetti (https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45000/remember-56d224509b7ae), “Death Among Primates: A critical review of non-human primate interactions towards their dead and dying”, 2019, by André Gonçalves and Susana Carvalho (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/brv.12512), and the first chapter of The Bookshop (1978) by Penelope Fitzgerald (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Bookshop-Penelope-Fitzgerald/dp/0006543545).

Will Eaves discusses Murmur, his award-winning novel about Alan Turing

Will Eaves is the author of four novels and two collections of poetry. He was Arts Editor of the Times Literary Supplement from 1995 to 2011, and now teaches at the University of Warwick. His shortlisted book, Murmur, takes its cue from the arrest and legally enforced chemical castration of the mathematician Alan Turing. Murmur is the account of a man who responds to intolerable physical and mental stress with love, honour and a rigorous, unsentimental curiosity about the ways in which we perceive ourselves and the world. Recorded live at Wilton's Music Hall London in April 2019 at a special event celebrating the Wellcome Book Prize Shortlist 2019. The Wellcome Book Prize is an annual award, open to new works of fiction or non-fiction. To be eligible for entry, a book should have a central theme that engages with some aspect of medicine, health or illness. 5x15 brings together five outstanding individuals to tell of their lives, passions and inspirations. There are only two rules - no scripts and only 15 minutes each. Learn more about 5x15 events: 5x15stories.com Twitter: www.twitter.com/5x15stories Facebook: www.facebook.com/5x15stories Instagram: www.instagram.com/5x15stories ‏

Welcome to the third Neuromantics podcast, brought to you by Sophie Scott and Will Eaves. In this month's edition, we're looking at visual representation, mental imagery, and the relationship between sensory awareness in humans and the cultivated idea of an “inner world”. Topics covered, uncovered, and discovered, include the gulf between visual and spatial recognition, how visualisation is linked to making things, the proximity of aesthetics to task specialisation, Impressionism, Milton's blindness, and watching and acting in the work of the gay writer Saki (H. H. Munro).The two publications under discussion are: “The Blind Mind: No Sensory Visual Imagery in Aphantasia”, by Rebecca Keogh and Joel Pearson, (Cortex 105, 2018, 53–60: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0010945217303581?via%3Dihub) and “The Lumber Room” (1914), by Saki (http://www.eastoftheweb.com/short-stories/UBooks/LumRoo.shtml).

We hosted the shortlisted authors for the Republic of Consciousness Prize 2019 in an evening of readings at the London Review Bookshop. Rewarding the most exciting and interesting literature published by small presses in the UK and Ireland, the Republic of Consciousness Prize has previously been awarded to John Keene (Counternarratives, Fitzcarraldo Editions) and Eley Williams (Attrib. and other stories, Influx Press). This year’s shortlist of six is: Daša Drndić for Doppelgänger, (Istros), Will Eaves for Murmur (CB Editions), Wendy Erskine for Sweet Home (Stinging Fly), Anthony Joseph for Kitch (Peepal Tree), Chris McCabe for Dedalus (Henningham Family Press) and Alex Pheby for Lucia (Galley Beggar). Sadly, Daša Drndić died last year, but was represented at the readings by her publisher and translator. See the full shortlist here. The readings were introduced by the prize’s founder, Neil Griffiths. The Republic of Consciousness Prize was set up in 2017, and is given yearly to a book published by a small press in the UK & Ireland. It is the only prize that awards money to both the publisher and the author of the winning title. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, Will Eaves discusses with Ivan Wise six things which he thinks should be better known. The Gigue from Handel’s Suite No 1 in A major, for Harpsichord www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUAspawKf2w The Walled Garden in Brockwell Park https://plewsgardendesign.co.uk/garden-visits-brockwell-park-walled-garden/ The paintings and drawings of Danny Markey www.redfern-gallery.com/artists/41-danny-markey/#/works/ The kindness and wisdom of my friend Bridget https://philosophynow.org/issues/126/Aristotle_on_Forming_Friendships Erwin Schrodinger‘s Tanner lectures on Mind and Matter (1956) http://strangebeautiful.com/other-texts/schrodinger-what-is-life-mind-matter-auto-sketches.pdf The novels Moon’s Ottery by Patricia Beer’s Moon’s Ottery and Sophie and the Sibyl by her niece Patricia Duncker www.theguardian.com/news/1999/aug/19/guardianobituaries.johnmullan This podcast is powered by ZenCast.fm

Will Eaves is a novelist, poet and teacher. He was Arts Editor of the Times Literary Supplement and is Associate Professor in the Writing Programme at the University of Warwick.

Join John Wilson for a celebration of the power and possibilities of the short story as Chair of Judges Joanna Trollope announces the winner of the 2017 BBC National Short Story Award live from the Radio Theatre. The judging panel Eimear McBride, Jon McGregor and Sunjeev Sahota discuss the merits of the entries from the shortlisted authors. In contention for the £15,000 prize are Helen Oyeyemi, Benjamin Markovits, Cynan Jones, Jenni Fagan and Will Eaves.Radio 1 presenter Alice Levine will also announce the winner of the BBC Young Writers' Award and consider the strengths and emerging themes of the stories with fellow judge, the best-selling author Holly Bourne. The BBC National Short Story Award is presented in conjunction with BookTrust.Presenter : John Wilson Producer : Dymphna Flynn.

Benedict Cumberbatch on bringing Ian McEwan's novel The Child in Time to BBC1, playing a children's writer whose marriage breaks down following the disappearance of his daughter.Giles Coren talks about the new Front Row television programme which begins this Saturday, and discusses his recent remarks about theatre which caused controversy in the press. Sports journalist Eleanor Oldroyd reviews Borg vs McEnroe, a feature film about the intense 1980's rivalry between the two tennis superstars. BBC National Short Story Award shortlisted author Will Eaves discusses his story, Murmur. Presenter: John Wilson Producer: Timothy Prosser.

The privacy and tranquility of creative retreats provide a haven for artists and writers. Joining Clare Balding to discuss this topic is the writer Will Eaves and Clare Barlow, Assistant Curator at Tate Britain, who has curated the exhibition 'Queer British Art'. E-J Scott visits Bucks Mills Cabin in Devon, once home to the renowned artists Judith Ackland and Mary Stella Edwards. Reading by Miriam Margolyes See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

We’re thrilled to be celebrating one of the most consistently innovative and interesting of independent publishers, CB Editions. Guests will include Will Eaves, Beverley Bie Brahic, Lara Pawson and publisher, Charles Boyle.

May-Lan Tan and Will Eaves joined us at the Bookshop for the launch of their respective books, Things to Make and Break (since shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award) and The Absent Therapist (since shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize), both published by CB Editions. The authors treated us to a selection of passages from their work, featuring night-schools, spanking clubs and ex-girlfriends. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Andrew Marr talks to Colm Toibin about the ways writers write about families, and also the impact of their own often dysfunctional relationships - from Thomas Mann and WB Yeats, to the nightmares of John Cheever's journals. In her novel, The Children's Book, AS Byatt explored how far a writing mother can harm her children, and yet she argues that she'd prefer to know nothing about a writer's private life. The novelist Will Eaves mined his own family background for his latest book, but insists it's more a work of imagination, than memoir. And it's these relationships, and culture, that are the key to the success of our species, rather than consciousness, language and intelligence, according to the evolutionary biologist Mark Pagel. Producer: Katy Hickman.