Podcast appearances and mentions of Will Self

In this episode, Gordon Frost, Mercer's Global Rewards Solution Leader, emphasizes the importance of using data to improve pay fairness and transparency within organizations. He is joined by Deena Harvanek, Change and Communication Leader at Mercer, and Will Self, Workforce Strategy and Analytics Leader at Mercer. Together, they discuss the rising awareness of pay disparities, recent legislative changes requiring pay transparency, and the growing employee expectations for fairness and clarity in compensation. They also explore how proactively utilizing data for informed decision-making and effective communication can help create a positive workplace culture.

Anna and Geoff react to the 2025 Booker International Longlist. Our book of the week is EUROTRASH by Christian Kracht translated by Daniel Bowles. A middle-aged man goes on a dubious road trip through Switzerland with his 80-year old mother, recently discharged from a mental institution. Blackly comic and written as autofiction, this was the Financial Times Best Translated Book of 2024 and a Time best book of 2024 and has been longlisted for the 2025 Booker International Prize. Other books discussed: THE QUANTITY THEORY OF INSANITY by Will Self (the story THE NORTH LONDON BOOK OF THE DEAD) DR FISCHER OF GENEVA by Graham Greene FRENCH EXIT by Patrick deWitt Follow us! Email: booksonthegopodcast@gmail.com Instagram: @abailliekaras Substack: Books On The Go  Credits Artwork: Sascha Wilkosz

For today's episode we're revisiting our debate from January 2020, "There's Not Much Great About Britain". Our panel of top speakers battle it out over whether Brits should be proud or ashamed of their country. Is the phrase 'Great Britain' an oxymoron, or is Britain one of the world's most free, open and tolerant societies, therefore making it the best place to live in the world? Listen to this debate, hear the arguments and make up your mind. Speaking for the motion we had journalist and broadcaster Peter Hitchens alongside Will Self, the novelist, broadcaster, and literary critic. Speaking against the motion were Kate Hoey, the former Labour MP for Vauxhall and alongside Sayeeda Warsi, the lawyer, politician, and former co-chairwoman of the Conservative Party. -------- If you'd like to become a Member and get access to all our full ad free conversations, plus all of our Members-only content, just visit intelligencesquared.com/membership to find out more. For £4.99 per month you'll also receive: - Full-length and ad-free Intelligence Squared episodes, wherever you get your podcasts - Bonus Intelligence Squared podcasts, curated feeds and members exclusive series - 15% discount on livestreams and in-person tickets for all Intelligence Squared events  ...  Or Subscribe on Apple for £4.99: - Full-length and ad-free Intelligence Squared podcasts - Bonus Intelligence Squared podcasts, curated feeds and members exclusive series … Already a subscriber? Thank you for supporting our mission to foster honest debate and compelling conversations! Visit intelligencesquared.com to explore all your benefits including ad-free podcasts, exclusive bonus content and early access. … Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This week, Sally has been reflecting on her ‘orphan power', a phrase once applied to her by Will Self, and her relationship with orphaned literary characters such as Jane Eyre. Listen for a meditation on isolation, belonging, and the communities that art can provide. The extracts performed here involving Jane Eyre and Miss Marple are from Sally's first coming of age novel, Girl with Dove (William Collins, 2018). The wonderful piano music in the opening section is 'Rain', by Paul Sebastian. This episode was partially inspired by Sally being asked to speak at a symposium on ‘The Impact of Lived Experience on Care Associated Research by Care Experienced Researchers', convened by Dr Annie Skinner, a Visiting Research Fellow at Oxford Brookes University. More information on Dr Skinner's work can be found here. This episode was edited and produced by James Bowen. Special thanks to Andrew Smith, Violet Henderson, Kris Dyer, and Maeve Magnus.    

In this episode, We explore the fascinating world of J.G. Ballard's provocative works, what might later be known as Climate Fiction, written mostly last century. From his early novel "The Drowned World" to the controversial "Crash," we delve into how Ballard's dystopian visions have shaped the genre. We feature insights from a PBS show Hot Mess, a short BBC film Ballard appeared in 1973 exploring his experimental novel of linked short stories called “The Atrocity Exhibition,” and a 2006 South Bank Show interview. We discuss the psychological and societal impacts of Climate Fiction, and how it might inspire change in an era of environmental urgency. First we begin with a 2019 clip from Hot Mess from PBS, featuring Lindsay Ellis, of It's Lit, and Amy Brady, the editor-in-chief of The Chicago Review of Books. Hot Mess | The Rise of Climate Fiction feat. Lindsay Ellis & Amy Brady | Episode 35 | PBS https://www.pbs.org/video/the-rise-of-climate-fiction-feat-lindsay-ellis-amy-brady-2s2sxh/ The Atrocity Exhibition is J.G. Ballard's instruction manual on how to disrupt mass media and recontextualize technology in a dystopian landscape overrun with industrial waste and technological white noise. The excerpt is from a 1973 BBC film directed by Harely Cokliss and features Ballard talking about car crash fetishism and the response to the bleak modern landscapes dominated by industrial monotony and the irrational violence of the technology-infused world which would coalesce into his controversial novel Crash, published in 1973. https://youtu.be/QRxpZ142lkI?si=gh5FjzV9BrUvs-r0 The next clip is a 2006 interview of JG Ballard by Melvyn Bragg on the South Bank Show, which also features prominent British authors Will Self, Iain Sinclair, and Martin Amis. https://youtu.be/le0tW1y609w?si=2DeFYxI-wqGe-Cu8 For an extended interview and other benefits, become an EcoJustice Radio patron at https://www.patreon.com/ecojusticeradio Resources/Articles: https://wilderutopia.com/performance/literary/j-g-ballard-atrocity-exhibition-modernist-motorcar-dystopia/ James Graham Ballard who lived between 1930 and 2009 was an English novelist and short-story writer known for psychologically provocative works that explore relations between human psychology, technology, sex and mass media. Ballard's original climate fiction work from 1962 was the post-apocalyptic New Wave science fiction novel The Drowned World. He followed with the controversial 1970 short-story collection The Atrocity Exhibition, which includes the 1968 story "Why I Want to F- Ronald Reagan", and later the 1973 novel Crash (1973), a story about car-crash fetishists. In 1984, Ballard won broad critical recognition for the war novel Empire of the Sun, a semi-autobiographical story of the experiences of a British boy during the Japanese occupation of Shanghai;[4] three years later, the American film director Steven Spielberg adapted the novel into a film of the same name. From the distinct nature of the literary fiction of J. G. Ballard arose the adjective Ballardian, defined as: "resembling or suggestive of dystopian modernity, bleak man-made landscapes, and the psychological effects of technological, social or environmental developments." Jack Eidt is an urban planner, environmental journalist, and climate organizer, as well as award-winning fiction writer. He is Co-Founder of SoCal 350 Climate Action and Executive Producer of EcoJustice Radio. He is also Founder and Publisher of WilderUtopia [https://wilderutopia.com], a website dedicated to the question of Earth sustainability, finding society-level solutions to environmental, community, economic, transportation and energy needs.

Will Self muses on change as he prepares for a stem cell transplant, an operation 'which will result in the greatest change in what has been a notably changeable life.' And he discusses the preparations he's making which he believes put him 'in pole position to race with this ...devilish adversary.'He concludes that the art of living is about recognizing that 'life is in continual flux - and our vacillating wills and changeable natures, psychic and physical alike, are just part of the cosmic churn - nothing in fact endures, but change itself.' Producer: Adele Armstrong Sound: Peter Bosher Production coordinator: Gemma Ashman Editor: Tom Bigwood

In this episode with Joe Carlasare, we discuss: Can you ever truly 'possess' Bitcoin? How Bitcoin possession plays out in court with exchanges, miners Can stablecoins solve debt crisis? Dollar milkshake theory and hyperinflation End game is in the bond market Why is Bitcoin's price chopping sideways and is that bullish or bearish? Will Self-custody be protected under rule of law? ---- Coin Stories is powered by Bitdeer Technologies Group (NASDAQ: BTDR), a publicly-traded leader in Bitcoin mining that stands alone as the only vertically-integrated, technology-focused Bitcoin mining company. Learn more at www.bitdeer.com.  ---- Natalie's Promotional Links:  Bitcoin Nashville is July 25-27th! Join me for my 3rd Annual Women of Bitcoin Brunch! Get 10% off your conference passes using the code HODL: https://b.tc/conference.  Buy Bitcoin, secure it through multisig collaborative custody, start a Bitcoin IRA or take out a Bitcoin loan with UNCHAINED: https://shorturl.at/jmW29 promo code Natalie  Never wait or pay high fees for making Bitcoin payments. Use Speed Lightning Wallet to instantly send and receive Bitcoin: https://speedbtcwallet.onelink.me/cGph/coinstories   Safely self-custody your Bitcoin with Coinkite and the ColdCard Wallet. Get 5% off: https://shorturl.at/apsLU  Master your Bitcoin self-custody with 1-on-1 help and gain peace of mind with the help of The Bitcoin Way: https://www.thebitcoinway.com/partners/natalie-brunell  Protect yourself from SIM Swaps that can hack your accounts and steal your Bitcoin. Join America's most secure mobile service, trusted by CEOs, VIPs and top corporations: https://www.efani.com/natalie  Don't waste hundreds of dollars per month on fiat health insurance. Join me at CrowdHealth, a large community of Bitcoiners passionate about health who crowdfund each other's care: www.crowdhealth.com/natalie   Connect with Bitcoiners and Bitcoin merchants wherever you live and travel on the Orange Pill App: https://shorturl.at/gvxS3 ---- This podcast is for educational purposes and should not be construed as official investment advice. ---- VALUE FOR VALUE — SUPPORT NATALIE'S SHOWS Strike ID https://strike.me/coinstoriesnat/ Cash App $CoinStories   #money #Bitcoin #investing

Patients care apps - which give patients unprecedented access to their health records - are being rolled out by NHS trusts across the country. You might imagine, says Will Self, that 'this previously unimaginable access to such a wealth of medical data should empower me, make me feel I have a choice, and enable me to assist those treating me by being what every conscientious statistic wants to become: a good patient.' Will argues that, on the contrary, this 'revolution in healthcare' only makes us more impotent, reduces patients to the status of customers and undermines the authority and expertise of medical professionals. Producer: Adele Armstrong Sound: Peter Bosher Production coordinator: Liam Morrey Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith

Will Self believes we are reaching a state of 'peak envy'. 'Is it any surprise,' Will writes, 'that in this, arguably the second century of self, when for the most part humans see nothing around them but images of those better off than themselves, envy should be quite so epidemic: a greenish toxin - the very mustard gas of modernity.'Producer: Adele Armstrong Sound: Peter Bosher Production coordinator: Gemma Ashman Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith

Today Revd reflects on the Christmas story and Will Self's recent Points of View on BBC Radio 4. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes Revd Em is the Priest in Charge of St Jude on the Hill, Hampstead Garden suburb, London, UK.Find out more about St Jude's and Inspire at www.stjudeonthehill.comMusic by www.medieavalbaebes.com 

In a pew in Edwin Lutyens' ecclesiastical masterpiece, St Jude on the Hill in North London, Will Self ponders the contemporary power of the sermon.'Dearly Beloved,' he begins, as he explains the appeal of a good sermon! And he reminds us that 'the sermon was instituted, in part, to correct the fake news of an age before the media that now disseminate it.'Producer: Adele Armstrong Sound: Peter Bosher Production coordinator: Gemma Ashman Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith

This week, Graydon Carter takes us inside a special edition of Air Mail that is all about London, and he shares the places he loves there. Then the acclaimed writer Will Self will share his version of “the Knowledge”—London cabbies' ability to navigate their streets without a map—by sharing treasures he's discovered over a lifetime of walking his native city. And speaking of knowledge, Stuart Heritage tells us about his afternoon with the gentleman who is often called “the best-connected man in Britain.” And finally, it's been said that the U.S. and the U.K. are “two nations divided by a common language.” Well, Hannah Betts swings by to discuss the four-letter word beloved by Brits but hated by Americans that validates this divide more than any other. And let's just say it's a word that we can't even bring ourselves to utter. All this and more make it a show you won't want to miss.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Will Self on why - for the past eight weeks - he's lived an almost entirely news-free existence. After a lifetime of keeping up with events and - in recent years - obsessively toggling between news apps 'with all the real cogitation of a commuter playing Candy Crush,' Will has decided to stop paying attention to the news. 'I realised I'd been reading about - and listening to - politicians and pundits for quite possibly months of my life, without really caring one jot or tittle about them.' He reflects on how the British became the news consumers par excellence in the 19th and 20th Centuries and on growing up in a household where following the daily go-round of news constituted a 'civic virtue.' In the aftermath of events in the Middle East, Will has a new guiding principle for his news consumption. Producer: Adele Armstrong Sound: Peter Bosher Production coordinator: Gemma Ashman Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith

Will Self reflects on the spread of the craze for so-called 'bucket lists'. He argues that 'far from introducing the ecstatic into our necessarily ephemeral existence, the bucket list reimposes the clock-watching go-round most of us have endured for most of our lives'. 'What gives life to life is death - nothing else,' he writes, 'while to live that life to the full is to realize this fully'. Producer: Adele Armstrong Editor: Bridget Harney

This is the second half of the chat between Sally and Will Self, held at Blackwell's Bookshop in Oxford, in which they discuss the German emigré writer WG Sebald, their reading and writing habits, parenthood, children and eccentric families. Sally is hosting another evening of literary chat with friends and fellow writers Joanna Kavenna and Elizabeth Lowry, also at Blackwell's Bookshop in Oxford, from 6pm on September 5th. They will discuss many of the themes of the podcast; reading, writing and the intersection with life and living - and it's free to attend! More details here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/s-bayley-e-lowry-and-j-kavenna-a-reading-life-a-writing-life-tickets-688044298017 Our thanks to Will Self and to Blackwell's Bookshop. You can find out more about Will Self's book here: https://will-self.com/why-read/  

This is the second part of a two-part episode. It's the issue that's more polarising than politics. The world is full of animal lovers but we can't agree on which pet is more worthy of our love – the loyal, obedient dog, or the inscrutable, capricious cat. In this episode philosopher John Gray goes up against writer Will Self to debate the age old question of which animal is superior. The debate was chaired by writer, academic and broadcaster Shahidha Bari. We'd love to hear your feedback and what you think we should talk about next, who we should have on and what our future debates should be.  Send us an email or voice note with your thoughts to podcasts@intelligencesquared.com or Tweet us @intelligence2.  And if you'd like to get ad-free access to all Intelligence Squared podcasts, including exclusive bonus content, early access to new episodes and much more, become a supporter of Intelligence Squared today for just £4.99, or the equivalent in your local currency .  Just visit intelligencesquared.com/membership to find out more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's the issue that's more polarising than politics. The world is full of animal lovers but we can't agree on which pet is more worthy of our love – the loyal, obedient dog, or the inscrutable, capricious cat. In this episode philosopher John Gray goes up against writer Will Self to debate the age old question of which animal is superior. The debate was chaired by writer, academic and broadcaster Shahidha Bari. We'd love to hear your feedback and what you think we should talk about next, who we should have on and what our future debates should be.  Send us an email or voice note with your thoughts to podcasts@intelligencesquared.com or Tweet us @intelligence2.  And if you'd like to get ad-free access to all Intelligence Squared podcasts, including exclusive bonus content, early access to new episodes and much more, become a supporter of Intelligence Squared today for just £4.99, or the equivalent in your local currency .  Just visit intelligencesquared.com/membership to find out more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Something different for this episode - Sally interviews writer Will Self about his latest book of essays, Why Read. They discuss not just why we read, but how we read; digital reading versus physical books; and Will discusses the writers who had a formative effect on him, including Lewis Carroll, Franz Kafka and W.G. Sebald. The event took place at Blackwell's Bookshop in Oxford. Our thanks to Will and to Blackwell's. You can find out more about Will Self's book here: https://will-self.com/why-read/    

Will Self reflects on mirrors, past and present. 'The imperfect mirrors of the past', he writes, 'were objectified metaphors of human imperfection, rather than the perfect ones that give contemporary humans the delusion that they too can achieve such earthly perfection.' Producer: Adele Armstrong Sound: Graham Puddifoot Editor: Penny Murphy

Put through the boil-wash of enquiry and hung upon the washing line of truth this week you'll find the following one-size-fits-all garments … … which acts are fading from memory and who'll be remembered in 50 years' time? … how Paul Simon, Leonard Cohen and Warren Zevon addressed mortality – (‘My Ride's Here', ‘Enjoy Every Sandwich' ...). … actors who've made albums. … the photo that changed the perception of Johnny Cash. … why you should watch the Pet Shop Boys' new BBC interview, Reel Stories. … the prog star who stage-invaded Jacob Rees Mogg's speech at the Conservative conference. … “Nothing will ever beat the first time you hear yourself on the radio”: Sting and the law of diminishing returns. .. how Will Self capsized his own career. … how Shakespeare and Robert Johnson's reputations were both made by a ‘Greatest Hits'. … Brian Jones's fall from grace. ... who invented the term ‘goth'? .. and the genius of Andy Rourke.Tickets for Word In The Park in London on June 3rd here!: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/576193870377 Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Put through the boil-wash of enquiry and hung upon the washing line of truth this week you'll find the following one-size-fits-all garments … … which acts are fading from memory and who'll be remembered in 50 years' time? … how Paul Simon, Leonard Cohen and Warren Zevon addressed mortality – (‘My Ride's Here', ‘Enjoy Every Sandwich' ...). … actors who've made albums. … the photo that changed the perception of Johnny Cash. … why you should watch the Pet Shop Boys' new BBC interview, Reel Stories. … the prog star who stage-invaded Jacob Rees Mogg's speech at the Conservative conference. … “Nothing will ever beat the first time you hear yourself on the radio”: Sting and the law of diminishing returns. .. how Will Self capsized his own career. … how Shakespeare and Robert Johnson's reputations were both made by a ‘Greatest Hits'. … Brian Jones's fall from grace. ... who invented the term ‘goth'? .. and the genius of Andy Rourke.Tickets for Word In The Park in London on June 3rd here!: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/576193870377 Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Put through the boil-wash of enquiry and hung upon the washing line of truth this week you'll find the following one-size-fits-all garments … … which acts are fading from memory and who'll be remembered in 50 years' time? … how Paul Simon, Leonard Cohen and Warren Zevon addressed mortality – (‘My Ride's Here', ‘Enjoy Every Sandwich' ...). … actors who've made albums. … the photo that changed the perception of Johnny Cash. … why you should watch the Pet Shop Boys' new BBC interview, Reel Stories. … the prog star who stage-invaded Jacob Rees Mogg's speech at the Conservative conference. … “Nothing will ever beat the first time you hear yourself on the radio”: Sting and the law of diminishing returns. .. how Will Self capsized his own career. … how Shakespeare and Robert Johnson's reputations were both made by a ‘Greatest Hits'. … Brian Jones's fall from grace. ... who invented the term ‘goth'? .. and the genius of Andy Rourke.Tickets for Word In The Park in London on June 3rd here!: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/576193870377 Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

After the recent passing of Martin Amis, we dug out this sizzling conversation between him and Will Self at our festival in 2010. All of Amis's brilliance, wit and thoughtfulness is on show. Enjoy! Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The philosopher Michel de Certeau characterised space as ‘the practice of place', Will Self argues that, in order to appreciate the places we inhabit, we have to indulge in 'that most unfashionable and unproductive of things: abide". 'To be in a place', he writes, 'is not to be distracted by the possibility of other places, but absorbed by the particularity of the one you're in.' Producer: Adele Armstrong Sound: Peter Bosher Production coordinator: Helena Warwick-Cross Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith

Will Self is the author of many novels and books of nonfiction, including How the Dead Live, which was shortlisted for the Whitbread Novel of the Year; The Butt, winner of the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction; and Umbrella, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. His latest work is Why Read: Selected Writings 2001-2021. 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

Will Self on the pleasure of walking without purpose, with no final destination in mind, and the freedom that comes from getting lost once in a while. He reflects on the rising perception that our public spaces are becoming ever more threatening - especially for women. 'Our movements about this wide and wonderful world are for the most part painfully constrained,' he writes. 'Comfort zones have become more and more constricted'. He argues that there are many reasons for this, including the grim revelations in recent years about the criminal activities of police officers. Producer: Adele Armstrong Sound: Peter Bosher Production coordinator: Helena Warwick-Cross Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith

In this special, double-length episode, Sally leaves her boat to seek refuge at a friend's house on another island in Oxford, as the rains have flooded the meadow of her narrowboat community. Returning to the boat as the waters subside, she reads a poem by Elizabeth Bishop, then settles down to study a collection of essays by Will Self. The essays lead Sally to reread a chilling short story by the surrealist writer Franz Kafka - and a striking phrase reminds her of one of her favourite sentences in all of modernist literature. Sally's musings are interrupted by a visitation from her seven-year-old neighbour, Maeve Magnus. They discuss why we read, the value of sad stories, and reminisce about trips to a local café for communal reading and ice cream. Sally's reading makes her think of her own medical treatment, and she announces plans for the future of the podcast. Further Reading: Elizabeth Bishop (1911 –1979) was an American poet and short-story writer. She was effectively orphaned in early childhood and suffered all her life from ill health. In reaction to the then-prevalent confessional style of American poetry, her works reveal very little of her private life. She published the poem Crusoe in England in her collection, Geography III, in 1979. In the poem, Crusoe has left his famous desert island to return to his home island, but ironically feels more displaced and lonely than when he was a castaway. Robinson Crusoe is of course the hero of Daniel Defoe's 1719 eponymous book,  often claimed to be the first novel published in English. It's probably based at least in part on the story of the real-life castaway Alexander Selkirk, and was a huge success in its day, with many readers initially fooled into believing that it was a work of factual autobiography. Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886) lived most of her life in virtual seclusion. She wrote deeply private, radically experimental poems, which she hid in her room and were never published in her lifetime. After her death, her sister found her cache of poems and she's now considered one of the greatest poets in the English language The Dickinson poem which Sally riffs on was published posthumously in 1891 in a collection entitled Poems, Series 2. The poem seems to celebrate her position in life, estranged from society and fame, finding communality with similar outsider figures. It reads in full: I'm Nobody! Who are you? Are you – Nobody – too? Then there's a pair of us! Don't tell! they'd advertise – you know! How dreary – to be – Somebody! How public – like a Frog – To tell one's name – the livelong June – To an admiring Bog! Will Self's collection of essays, entitled Why Read: Selected Writings 2001 – 2021, was published in November 2022 by Grove Press UK. It's packed with advice for readers - what to read, how to read, and discusses why we read; it also features insights into some of his favourite writers, including Virginia Woolf, Franz Kafka, George Orwell, Joseph Conrad, W.G. Sebald and William S Burroughs. A Country Doctor was written in 1917 by the German-speaking Czech writer Franz Kafka. Kafka was born in Prague in 1883 and died in 1924. His best known works are The Metamorphosis, The Trial and The Castle; his writings are frequently surrealistic, bizarre and unsettling, exploring themes of  existentialism, absurdity, alienation and guilt. To The Lighthouse was written by Virginia Woolf in 1927 and is perhaps her most highly regarded and radically innovative novel. It deals with loss, subjectivity, the encroachments and damages of time, the nature of art and the problems of perception. The sentence Sally discusses is a pivotal moment in the middle section of the book, as Woolf speeds up her account of her characters' lives as if they are caught in a fast-forward film; so the death of Mrs Ramsey, a central character, is dealt with in one almost-throwaway sentence. Maeve Magnus is reading Michael Morpurgo's collection of short stories, Best Mates, published in 2015, which includes the story The Silver Swan. Beware spoilers! Ronald Stuart Thomas (1913 - 2000), published as R. S. Thomas, was a Welsh poet and priest. Throughout his life, he moved to increasingly isolated parishes to escape what he considered to be the materialism of the modern world and the creeping influence of English culture. Throughout his life, he wrote poems of breathtaking spirituality and insight, combining a love for the Welsh landscape with a grittily realistic portrayal of the people who inhabited the landscape.  The Sick Rose is a "poem of experience" which William Blake published in his extraordinary collection, Songs of Innocence and of Experience. Blake (1757 – 1827) was born into the London working classes and worked as a printmaker, set apart from the literary establishment of the time, composing, creating, illustrating and printing his works himself. A visionary and wholly unique figure, considered by some to be verging on the insane, he was largely unrecognised in his life, but is now seen as a trail-blazing figure in the Romantic movement, celebrated both for his poetry and his visual art. The producer of the podcast is Andrew Smith: https://www.fleetingyearfilms.com The extra voice in this episode is Emma Fielding. We are currently raising funds to pay to keep the podcast going. If you would like to support us, please visit - https://gofund.me/d5bef397 Thanks to everyone who has supported us so far. Special thanks go to Violet Henderson, Kris Dyer, and Maeve Magnus, who makes her debut appearance in this episode.  

A host of New European contributors share their highlights and lowlights of 2022 and their hopes and wild predictions for 2023. With Bonnie Greer, Will Self, Lionel Barber, Tanit Koch, Jonty Bloom, Eleanor-Longman Rood, Matt Withers and more. Producer: John Dakin

Will Self says there are distinct downsides to being tall. At six foot, four and a half inches, Will ponders the drawbacks of a lofty stature. 'The very ideal of beauty is the small', writes Will, 'so how awful it is to realise that you will never fulfil this artistic ideal with your enormous person which, far from being an artwork, is simply a scale model of gigantism!' Producer: Adele Armstrong Sound: Peter Bosher Production coordinator: Iona Hammond Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith

"Creative daring" is the quality rewarded by the Goldsmiths Prize, now in its tenth year. What does it mean for an artist or writer to be daring and experimental? Shahidha Bari is joined by this year's winners Natasha Soobramanien and Luke Williams who have co-written their novel Diego Garcia, composer Matthew Herbert whose latest project is making music from the skeleton of a horse, and poet Stephen Sexton who has written a poetry collection structured round every level of the 90s video game Super Mario World. Producer in Salford: Ruth Thomson. The Goldsmiths Prize of £10,000 is awarded to "a book that is deemed genuinely novel and which embodies the spirit of invention that characterises the genre at its best" https://www.gold.ac.uk/goldsmiths-prize/prize2022/ Matthew Herbert's new piece for the Estuary Sound Ark will have its interactive world premiere at the Gulbenkian Arts Centre in Canterbury on Sunday 27th November at 3pm before being archived and left untampered with in a carefully selected location for 100 years. https://thegulbenkian.co.uk/events/estuary-sound-ark/ He has also published a novel The Music: An Album in Words Stephen Sexton won the Forward Prize for Best First Collection in 2019 for If All the World and Love Were Young. This year he is judging the prize You can find a collection of discussions exploring Prose and Poetry on the Free Thinking programme website including a discussion of mould-breaking writing featuring Max Porter and Chloe Aridjis, poet Will Harris and academic Xine Yao https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000pxn0 and a series of episodes exploring modernism hearing from Will Self and Alexandra Harris and looking at Mrs Dalloway, Finnegans Wake, Dada and Wittgenstein https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p07p3nxh

Will Self ponders the close connection between man and dog, as his dog nears the end of his life. He reflects on lessons learnt: 'You've taught me such a lot these past fifteen years, I wonder, old friend, what you have to teach me now that you're dying?' Producer: Adele Armstrong Sound: Peter Bosher Production coordinator: Iona Hammond Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith

Thomas de Quincey & William S. Burroughs in Soho. The novelist Will Self joins Henry in London to explore the opium dreams and heroin nightmares of Thomas de Quincey's Confessions of an English Opium Eater and William S. Burrough's Junky. They walk from Oxford Street to Covent Garden, and along the way they also discuss The Diary of a Drug Fiend by Aleister Crowley and Will's own 2019 drugs memoir, Will. 2022 is the 200th anniversary of the book publication of Confessions of an English Opium Eater. Penguin Classics edition of Confessions of an English Opium Eater by Thomas de Quinceyhttps://www.penguin.co.uk/books/34581/confessions-of-an-english-opium-eater-by-thomas-de-quincey-ed--barry-milligan/9780140439014https://apple.co/3SDKmZI Naxos audiobook of Confessions of an English Opium Eater, read by Gunnar Cautheryhttps://naxosaudiobooks.com/confessions-of-an-english-opium-eater-unabridged/https://apple.co/3SgGjTB Penguin Modern Classics edition of Junky by William S. Burroughshttps://www.penguin.co.uk/books/57608/junky-by-william-s-burroughs-intro-oliver-harris/9780141189826https://apple.co/3UIuIOz W. F. Howes audiobook of Junky read by Mark Nelsonhttps://www.wfhowes.co.uk/title-details/9781471212291https://apple.co/3ReJ3zt Will Selfhttps://will-self.com/ Will by Will Selfhttps://www.penguin.co.uk/books/176727/will-by-self-will/9780141046402https://apple.co/3r89gVZ W. F. Howes audiobook of Will, read by Will Selfhttps://www.wfhowes.co.uk/title-details/9781528888219https://apple.co/3r8QZrh The Colony Room Club – in pictureshttps://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2020/sep/13/from-francis-bacon-to-tracey-emin-soho-historic-colony-room-club-in-pictures William S. Burroughs and the Moka Barhttps://www.openculture.com/2014/12/how-william-s-burroughs-shut-down-londons-first-espresso-bar-1972.html Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Daniele Petruccioli"L'ultimo atto del signor Beckett"Maylis BesserieVoland Edizionhttps://www.voland.it/A Parigi, nel XIV arrondissement, in rue Rémy-Dumoncel, c'è un palazzo bianco, la casa di riposo Le Tiers-Temps. Tra gli ospiti, un signore dal volto cupo e gli occhi penetranti che gioca con i ricordi, mescolando due lingue, l'inglese della sua Irlanda e il francese dell'esilio letterario. Si tratta di Samuel Beckett, Premio Nobel per la letteratura nel 1969. Il racconto alterna in maniera suggestiva fatti realmente accaduti e immaginazione, flashback e monologhi interiori: circondato dai suoi fantasmi, afflitto dal dolore per la perdita dell'amata moglie Suzanne, l'ottantenne Beckett rievoca la vitalità del passato mentre assiste all'inesorabile cedimento delle proprie forze. Con una massiccia dose di humour e di tenerezza, Maylis Besserie ci rivela uno stupefacente Beckett in attesa del suo finale di partita. Un'emozione sempre più forte si impadronisce del lettore, man mano che il romanzo accompagna il grande irlandese verso l'ultimo dei suoi silenzi.Nata nel 1982 a Bordeaux, Maylis Besserie è una scrittrice e produttrice radiofonica francese. I diritti dell'Ultimo atto del signor Beckett (titolo originale Le tiers temps) – suo romanzo d'esordio, vincitore del Premio Goncourt 2020 opera prima – sono stati venduti in tutto il mondo, in Cina, Giappone, Inghilterra, Spagna, Portogallo, Turchia, Grecia, Serbia e in molti altri paesi.Daniele Petruccioli traduce da portoghese, francese e inglese. Insegna all'Università di Roma Unint. Fra i suoi autori Dulce Maria Cardoso, Alain Mabanckou, Will Self. Ha vinto il Premio «Luciano Bianciardi» per la traduzione dall'inglese e il premio Annibal Caro alla traduzione, pubblicato i saggi Falsi d'autore. Guida pratica per orientarsi nel mondo dei libri tradotti (Quodlibet 2014) e Le pagine nere. Appunti sulla traduzione dei romanzi (La Lepre 2017), il romanzo La casa delle madri (Terra- Rossa 2020).IL POSTO DELLE PAROLEAscoltare fa Pensarehttps://ilpostodelleparole.it/

Will Self reflects on success...and failure. 'Ours is a society', he writes, 'in which that hoary old saying, 'Nothing succeeds like success', has been elevated to the status of a political, philosophic and indeed moral credo.' But, Will argues, this is a world typified by hyperbole and exaggeration, where the successful, 'with plenty of cake to eat, have no need to partake of the true bread of life, which is, of course, failure'. Producer: Adele Armstrong Sound: Peter Bosher Production coordinator: Gemma Ashman Editor: Penny Murphy

'It's time to acknowledge', writes Will Self, 'that we don't really feel nostalgia at all - only something far more worrying and debilitating: a condition I've named no-stalgia'. Will argues that the West is particularly in thrall to rose-tinted nostalgia and looks to Japan - and its concept of 'mono no aware' - as an alternative and healthier way of thinking about the past. Producer: Adele Armstrong Sound: Peter Bosher Production Coordinator: Iona Hammond Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith

Will Self presents a very British solution to the issues surrounding the legalisation of marijuana. Considering the pervasiveness of cannabis in the UK, he says the question that should currently be preoccupying us as a society is not whether marijuana should be legalised, but how. "My model here would be the old Tote," he says, "a form of nationalised gambling that for many years mitigated its worst effects by limiting opportunities and hence possible losses." He says that we must avoid the "commercialised free-for-all that's emerging in the US and parts of Canada." Producer: Adele Armstrong Sound: Peter Bosher Production coordinator: Gemma Ashman Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith

Will Self tells the story of Vasily Arkhipov, the commander of a Soviet nuclear-armed submarine, who during the Cuban Missile Crisis refused to fire his vessel's nuclear weapon and averted, many believe, a Third World War. In the light of President Putin's actions this week, Will argues that the threat of nuclear apocalypse has never really gone away, however much we've tried to convince ourselves otherwise. Producer: Adele Armstrong Production Coordinator: Gemma Ashman Sound: Rod Farquhar Editor: Hugh Levinson

In this episode of Don't Make It Weird, Dina has no voice! So she asked her friend Quinn to interpret sign language for her, live in the studio! We check our voicemail! We play a brand new game, MAD LIBS! Daniel and Dina discuss PROSE VS. STORYTELLING! Daniel tells us about that time he was featured in a Nashville newspaper for underage drinking in STORYTIME! He reads an excerpt from DORIAN by Will Self in CRINGEY COPULATION! And the gang discusses some of your WEIRD TAKES! #bookish #booktube #writingcommunityA very special thanks to Dina's interpreter Quinn for making this episode possible!Check us out on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@dmiwpodcast?You can find the video version of this show on our YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/_XE3OkjM7UYYou can support Don't Make It Weird by shopping at our official merchandise store! Every penny goes right back into making the show!: http://store.dontmakeitweird.net/A special shout-out to Emel Garden Shop for all their wonderful support. Use promo code WEIRD at checkout for 10% off your first order. https://www.etsy.com/shop/EmelgardenshopDon't Make It Weird Podcast on Twitter: https://twitter.com/DMIWPodcastDaniel on Twitter: https://twitter.com/DanQwritesthingDina on Twitter: https://twitter.com/DinasaurusDProducer Sean on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ShaceHoldu--------------------------Music Credit:Swing Rabbit ! Swing ! by Amarià https://soundcloud.com/amariamusiqueCreative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0Free Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/al-swing-rabbit-swingMusic promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/lt7fn1NVxQMSupport the show

Will Self, author of Umbrella, How the Dead Live, and a new memoir, Will, discusses his provocative argument that trauma—in literary, historical, and cultural criticism—is wildly overused and misapplied. Rather than it being a phenomenon that has persisted throughout human history, Self contends that it is a product of modernity; while past injustices and injurious experience (war, slavery, abuse) may seem to have produced trauma-like symptoms, we have no way of judging whether they resemble trauma as we now conceive of it. Harper's Magazine web editor Violet Lucca talks through the finer points of Self's thesis. Read Self's essay: https://harpers.org/archive/2021/12/a-posthumous-shock-trauma-studies-modernity-how-everything-became-trauma/ This episode was produced by Violet Lucca and Andrew Blevins.

Boston Manor is considered one of architect Charles Holden's masterpieces, so in this episode we discuss his career in tube station design. At Boston Manor, Holden created a station with an elegant tower soaring above the flat roof - which upon visiting the station we discovered looks more impressive in photographs than reality! We also look at the history of the station dating back to its origin on the District Railway, as well as Brunel's nearby marvel of bridge engineering, the factory that built the underframes of the famous Routemaster buses, and the grand home of a distant ancestor of Princess Diana. Follow us on Instagram and Twitter @roundelroundpod, or email us at roundelroundpod@gmail.com References London's District Railway Volume 1: Nineteenth Century by Mike Horne (Capital Transport Publishing 2018) London's District Railway Volume 2: Twentieth Century by Mike Horne (Capital Transport Publishing 2019) The Piccadilly Tube: The First Hundred Years by Mike Horne (Capital Transport Publishing 2007) London Underground by Design by Mark Ovenden (Penguin 2013) London Underground Stations in Colour for the Modeller and Historian by John Glover (Ian Allan Publishing 2009) London's Underground Stations A Social and Architectural Study by Laurence Menear (Midas Books 1983) Bright Underground Spaces: The Railway Stations of Charles Holden by David Lawrence (Capital Transport Publishing 2008) Underground Architecture by David Lawrence (Capital Transport Publishing 1994) A Guide to Modernism in Metro-Land by Joshua Abbott (Unbound Publishing 2020) The Tube - Station to Station on the London Underground by Oliver Green (Shire Publications 2012) The London Underground by Andrew Emmerson (Shire Publications 2013) The Little Book of the London Underground by David Long (The History Press 2009) London Underground Stations by David Leboff (Ian Allan Publishing 1994) Tube Station Trivia by Geoff Marshall (Capital Transport Publishing 2018) Labyrinth: A Journey Through London's Underground by Tamsin Dillon, Will Self, Mark Wallinger, Marina Warner, Christian Wolmar, and Louise Coysh (Art/Books 2014) Why Do Shepherds Need a Bush?: London's Underground History of Tube Station Names by David Hilliam (The History Press 2015) What's in a Name?: Origins of Station Names on the London Underground by Cyril M Harris (Capital Transport Publishing 2001) Vision of Britain - https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/10213526/cube/TOT_POP Norvic Philatelics - http://www.norphil.co.uk/2013/01b-London_Underground_stamps.htm London Borough of Hounslow – Historic Houses - https://www.hounslow.gov.uk/info/20174/heritage_and_arts/1855/historic_houses Hidden London – Boston Manor - https://hidden-london.com/gazetteer/boston-manor/ AEC Southall - https://aecsouthall.co.uk/ Historic England – Windmill Bridge - https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1002020 Disused Stations - Windmill Lane Bridge (Three Bridges) – http://www.disused-stations.org.uk/features/windmill_lane_bridge/index.shtml Commercial Motor Archive - http://archive.commercialmotor.com/article/7th-april-1939/25/personal-pars Hansard - https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/1946-11-18/debates/8323d849-285d-4111-b920-6c2e4737a327/CommonsChamber

Opened with a classic Leslie Green station building in 1906, the 1932 rebuilding of the station rendered the original entrance disused in favour of a subsurface booking hall featuring a display of model buses. Follow us on Instagram and Twitter @roundelroundpod, or email us at roundelroundpod@gmail.com Read Reuben Lane's reflection on a journey on the number 19 bus (contains sexual references) References The Underground Stations of Leslie Green by David Leboff (Capital Transport Publishing 2002) Tiles of the Unexpected by Douglas Rose (Capital Transport Publishing 2007) London Underground Stations by David Leboff (Ian Allan Publishing 1994) The Piccadilly Tube: The First Hundred Years by Mike Horne (Capital Transport Publishing 2007) Underground Architecture by David Lawrence (Capital Transport Publishing 1994) Building London's Underground by Antony Badsey-Ellis (Capital Transport Publishing 2016) Rails Through the Clay: A History of London's Tube Railways by Alan Arthur Jackson and Desmond F. Croome (Capital Transport Publishing 1993) Hidden London: Discovering the Forgotten Underground by David Bownes, Chris Nix, Siddy Holloway and Sam Mullins (Yale University Press 2019) London's Lost Tube Schemes by Antony Badsey-Ellis (Capital Transport Publishing 2005) Labyrinth: A Journey Through London's Underground by Tamsin Dillon, Will Self, Mark Wallinger, Marina Warner, Christian Wolmar, and Louise Coysh (Art/Books 2014) Why Do Shepherds Need a Bush?: London's Underground History of Tube Station Names by David Hilliam (The History Press 2015) What's in a Name?: Origins of Station Names on the London Underground by Cyril M Harris (Capital Transport Publishing; 4th edition 2001) 'World's most expensive hotel' put up for sale by Cahal Milmo (The Independent 17 September 2011) https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/world-s-most-expensive-hotel-put-sale-5364768.html Hansard - House of Commons debate Volume 274 column 843, Tuesday 14 February 1933 https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/1933-02-14/debates/454c5110-982c-43ef-a31a-d95c6bb8fe13/OrdersOfTheDay Education, Literacy and the Reading Public by Amy J Lloyd, University of Cambridge https://www.gale.com/binaries/content/assets/gale-us-en/primary-sources/intl-gps/intl-gps-essays/full-ghn-contextual-essays/ghn_essay_bln_lloyd3_website.pdf St George's Hospital website https://www.stgeorges.nhs.uk/about/history/ Manor Castles website https://manorcastles.com/places/united-kingdom/greater-london/westminister/5-star/lanesborough-house/ London Transport Museum photographic archive - multiple images including: https://www.ltmuseum.co.uk/collections/collections-online/photographs/item/1998-66513 https://www.ltmuseum.co.uk/collections/collections-online/photographs/item/1998-81864 https://www.ltmuseum.co.uk/collections/collections-online/photographs/item/1998-84984

Our first Bakerloo line station, Kensal Green has an unusual partly timber clad station building. The local area includes the spectacular Kensal Green cemetery, and is set to be transformed in the near future with the construction nearby of Old Oak Common station on HS2. Follow us on Instagram and Twitter @roundelroundpod, or email us at roundelroundpod@gmail.com References London Underground Stations in Colour for the Modeller and Historian by John Glover (Ian Allan Publishing 2009) Building London's Underground by Antony Badsey-Ellis (Capital Transport Publishing 2016) The History of the Bakerloo Line by Clive D W Feather (The Crowood Press Ltd 2020) The Bakerloo Line: An Illustrated History by Mike Horne (Capital Transport Publishing 2001) Labyrinth: A Journey Through London's Underground by Tamsin Dillon, Will Self, Mark Wallinger, Marina Warner, Christian Wolmar, and Louise Coysh (Art/Books 2014) Why Do Shepherds Need a Bush?: London's Underground History of Tube Station Names by David Hilliam (The History Press 2015) What's in a Name?: Origins of Station Names on the London Underground by Cyril M Harris (Capital Transport Publishing; 4th edition 2001) Middlesex by John Betjemen (1954) Newsflashes - Underground News July 2017 https://www.lurs.org.uk/04%20july%2017%20NEWSFLASHES.pdf Newsflashes - Underground News October 1979 https://www.lurs.org.uk/UN214%20OCT%201979.pdf The station now arriving - Old Oak Common interchange (Rail Engineer - 2nd September 2020) https://www.railengineer.co.uk/the-station-now-arriving-old-oak-common-interchange/ West London council ‘in talks' about new Crossrail station by Rob Horgan (New Civil Engineer 30th September 2020) https://www.newcivilengineer.com/latest/west-london-council-in-talks-about-new-crossrail-station-30-09-2020/ 7 Things You Probably Didn't Know About Kensal Green Cemetery by Harry Rosehill (The Londonist 2nd November 2016 - https://londonist.com/2016/10/things-you-didn-t-know-about-kensal-green-cemetery) Kensal Green Cemetery - https://www.kensalgreencemetery.com/ Friends of Kensal Green Cemetery - https://www.kensalgreen.co.uk/

Upney station was opened in 1932, on a mainline railway that had been running since the 1880s. The station has only ever been served by District line trains, but it was built by the London Midland and Scottish Railway who owned the mainline at the time, and was run by LMS and then British Railways staff until 1969. Follow us on Instagram and Twitter @roundelroundpod, or email us at roundelroundpod@gmail.com References Steam to Silver. A History of London Transport Surface Rolling Stock by J. Graeme Bruce (London Transport 1970) London's Underground Stations A Social and Architectural Study by Laurence Menear (Midas Books 1983) London Underground Stations by David Leboff (Ian Allan Publishing 1994) Labyrinth: A Journey Through London's Underground by Tamsin Dillon, Will Self, Mark Wallinger, Marina Warner, Christian Wolmar, and Louise Coysh (Art/Books 2014) Why Do Shepherds Need a Bush?: London's Underground History of Tube Station Names by David Hilliam (The History Press 2015) What's in a Name?: Origins of Station Names on the London Underground by Cyril M Harris (Capital Transport Publishing; 4th edition 2001) Post Memories: The Mystery of Matchstick Island by Zoah Hedges-Stocks (Barking and Dagenham Post, August 15, 2016) https://www.barkinganddagenhampost.co.uk/lifestyle/heritage/post-memories-the-mystery-of-matchstick-island-3336762 Case study:Mayesbrook Climate Change Park restoration project (Restoring Europe's Rivers website) https://restorerivers.eu/wiki/index.php?title=Case_study%3AMayesbrook_Climate_Change_Park_restoration_project Barking Hospital (Lost Hospitals of London website) https://ezitis.myzen.co.uk/barking.html Eastbury Manor House website https://www.eastburymanorhouse.org.uk/

There are two stations at Hammersmith - in this episode we discuss the older of the two, which today serves the Circle and Hammersmith and City lines, discovering a history of corporate rivalry and alliances, multiple reconstructions, state of the art signalling, and a barbershop open since 1911. Note - We recorded this episode in March 2021, while London was still under lockdown due to Covid-19, so we make a few references to not being allowed out and plans for when lockdown ends. Follow us on Instagram and Twitter @roundelroundpod, or email us at roundelroundpod@gmail.com References The Hammersmith & City Railway 150 Years by Mike Horne (London Underground & Nebulous Books 2014) The Circle Line: An Illustrated History by Desmond F. Croome (Capital Transport Publishing 2003) London's Underground Stations - A Social and Architectural Study by Laurence Menear (Midas Books 1983) Underground Architecture by David Lawrence (Capital Transport Publishing 1994) Tube Station Trivia by Geoff Marshall (Capital Transport Publishing 2018) Labyrinth: A Journey Through London's Underground by Tamsin Dillon, Will Self, Mark Wallinger, Marina Warner, Christian Wolmar, and Louise Coysh (Art/Books 2014) Why Do Shepherds Need a Bush?: London's Underground History of Tube Station Names by David Hilliam (The History Press 2015) What's in a Name?: Origins of Station Names on the London Underground by Cyril M Harris (Capital Transport Publishing; 4th edition 2001) The London Underground - A Diagrammatic History by Douglas Rose (Capital Transport Publishing; 2nd edition 2007, latest edition 2016) Ordnance Survey map Middlesex XVI (Surveyed 1866, Published 1874) via National Library of Scotland https://maps.nls.uk/view/102345961 Ordnance Survey map London 1:1,056 - Sheet VI.96 (Published 1895) via National Library of Scotland https://maps.nls.uk/view/101201385 Clive's UndergrounD Line Guides by Clive Feather https://www.davros.org/rail/culg/hammersmith.html Disused Stations - Hammersmith Grove Road site record http://www.disused-stations.org.uk/h/hammersmith_grove_road/ Transport for London Research Guide No 19: A Brief History of the Hammersmith and City Line http://content.tfl.gov.uk/research-guide-no-19-a-brief-history-of-the-hammersmith-and-city-line.pdf Alexander Barbers http://alexanderbarbers.com/

Earl's Court station on the District and Piccadilly lines is notable for many "firsts", with the Underground's first escalator, its first automatic lifts, the first electric trains on the cut-and-cover lines, and the first Ferris Wheel in Britain having once stood nearby. We'll visit all these historic occasions using the TARDIS which stands outside the station! Follow us on Instagram and Twitter @roundelroundpod, or email us at roundelroundpod@gmail.com References Going Green: The Story of the District Line by Piers Connor (Capital Transport Publishing 1993) The District Line: An Illustrated History by Mike Horne (Capital Transport Publishing; First Edition 2006) The Northern Line: An Illustrated History by Mike Horne and Bob Bayman (Capital Transport Publishing; New edition 1999) History of the Metropolitan District Railway to June 1908 by Alexander Edmonds (London Regional Transport 1974) Underground: How the Tube Shaped London by David Bownes, Oliver Green, Sam Mullins (Allen Lane 2012) Amazing and Extraordinary London Underground Facts by Stephen Halliday (David & Charles 2009) The Moving Metropolis: A History of London's Transport Since 1800 by David Lawrence (Laurence King Publishing; second edition 2015) The Subterranean Railway: How the London Underground Was Built and How it Changed the City Forever by Christian Wolmar (Atlantic Books 2004) Building London's Underground by Antony Badsey-Ellis (Capital Transport Publishing 2016) Underground Architecture by David Lawrence (Capital Transport Publishing 1994) Rails Through the Clay: A History of London's Tube Railways by Alan Arthur Jackson and Desmond F. Croome (Capital Transport Publishing; 2nd edition 1993) London Underground at War by Nick Cooper (Amberley Publishing 2014) The London Underground Electric Train by Piers Connor (The Crowood Press Ltd 2015) Charles Tyson Yerkes - Traction King of London by Tim Sherwood (The History Press 2008) Labyrinth: A Journey Through London's Underground by Tamsin Dillon, Will Self, Mark Wallinger, Marina Warner, Christian Wolmar and Louise Coysh (Art/Books 2014) Why Do Shepherds Need a Bush?: London's Underground History of Tube Station Names by David Hilliam (The History Press 2015) What's in a Name?: Origins of Station Names on the London Underground by Cyril M Harris (Capital Transport Publishing; 4th Revised edition 2001) Metadyne.co.uk - http://www.metadyne.co.uk/DistrictPages/MDR_bigwheel.html Mike Horne's blog - https://machorne.wordpress.com/2013/05/19/escalators-inclined-elevators-and-myths/

In our first episode, we've opened our bag of London Underground station names and drawn out Hatton Cross. Opened in 1975 on the Piccadilly line extension towards Heathrow Airport, it was at the time the 279th station on the Underground, the highest number ever on the network. Follow us on Instagram and Twitter @roundelroundpod, or email us at roundelroundpod@gmail.com References The Piccadilly Line - A Brief History by Charles Edward Lee (London Regional Transport 1973) The Piccadilly Tube: The First Hundred Years by Mike Horne (Capital Transport Publishing 2007) The Piccadilly Line an Illustrated History by Desmond Croome (Capital Transport Publishing 1998) Rails Through the Clay: A History of London's Tube Railways by Alan Arthur Jackson and Desmond F. Croome (Capital Transport Publishing; 2nd edition 1993) A Guide to Modernism in Metro-Land by Joshua Abbott (Unbound Publishing 2020) Underground Movement by Paul Moss (Capital Transport Publishing 2000) Building London's Underground by Antony Badsey-Ellis (Capital Transport Publishing 2016) Underground Architecture by David Lawrence (Capital Transport Publishing 1994) Tube Station Trivia by Geoff Marshall (Capital Transport Publishing 2018) The Moving Metropolis: A History of London's Transport Since 1800 by David Lawrence (Laurence King Publishing; second edition 2015) Labyrinth: A Journey Through London's Underground by Tamsin Dillon, Will Self, Mark Wallinger, Marina Warner, Christian Wolmar, and Louise Coysh (Art/Books 2014) Why Do Shepherds Need a Bush?: London's Underground History of Tube Station Names by David Hilliam (The History Press 2015) What's in a Name?: Origins of Station Names on the London Underground by Cyril M Harris (Capital Transport Publishing; 4th edition 2001) The London Underground - A Diagrammatic History by Douglas Rose (Capital Transport Publishing; 2nd edition 2007, latest edition 2016) Extension of the Piccadilly Line from Hounslow West to Heathrow Central by D.G.Jobling and A.C.Lyons (Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers May 1976) Ian Visits: https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/blog/2017/12/16/40-years-of-flying-the-tube-with-the-london-underground-to-heathrow/ Pastscape: https://www.pastscape.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=1311086 Modernism in Metroland: http://www.modernism-in-metroland.co.uk/hatton-cross-station.html Underground Idiom guide: http://content.tfl.gov.uk/station-design-idiom-2.pdf

In the second part of our first episode, Reuben makes us read noted English wanker Will Self, Rio elevates things a little with the Grande Dame of Science Fiction, Ursula K LeGuin, then Matt sickens everyone with a notorious Chuck Palahniuk short story.Will Self's short story, "Prometheus" is featured in his collection, Liver.You can read LeGuin's "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" here.Chuck Palahniuk's "Guts" can be found here or in his collection, Haunted.

Tell us what you like or dislike about this episode!! Be honest, we don't bite!Dylan Jones is editor-in-chief of British GQ, the country's premier men's title, and the chair of London Fashion Week Men's. He has won the BSME Editor of the Year Award seven times, including five awards for his work at GQ, and has written several critically acclaimed books, including "Cameron on Cameron," and a biography of Jim Morrison. He was awarded an OBE in 2011 for services to publishing.Jones was appointed as editor of GQ in 1999 and immediately brought on board some of the most established writers working in the industry including Dominic Lawson, Will Self, A. A. Gill, Ed Victor and Tom Wolfe. He was the first editor to put David Cameron on the cover of a magazine and employed Boris Johnson as the magazine's motor correspondent.He has been integral to the success of London Fashion Week Men's, and has succeeded in establishing the event on a global scale, convincing Burberry,  Alexander McQueen  and  Tom Ford , among many more, to show their collections in the city.Jones' journalistic career began at i-D magazine in 1983; incredibly he was made editor-in-chief of the magazine just a year later, a position he would hold until he was appointed to the same role at Arena in 1987. Concurrent to this, Jones was a contributing editor to The Face; other notable positions in his career include being associate editor at The Observer Magazine when the publication was relaunched with Simon Kelner, and a variety of positions at The Sunday Times.—Thanks for watching!SUBSCRIBE NOW FOR MORE TIPS—WebsiteInstagramTik TokFacebookTwitterLinkedIn—LISTEN TO THE PODCAST!SpotifyApple—Who Is Matt Haycox? - Click for BADASS TrailerAs an entrepreneur, investor, funding expert and mentor who has been building and growing businesses for both myself and my clients for more than 20 years, my fundamental principles are suitable for all industries and businesses of all stages and size.I'm constantly involved in funding and advising multiple business ventures and successful entrepreneurs.My goal is to help YOU achieve YOUR financial success! I know how to spot and nurture great business opportunities and as someone who has ‘been there and got the t-shirt' many times, overall strategies and advice are honest, tangible and grounded in reality.

New interviews with writer Matthew de Abaitua (Self and I) and Sofie Laguna (The Choke), and revisiting the Finnish Weird of Laura Lindstedt's Oneiron and the formative bookshelf of Morris Gleitzman

Novelist Will Self, shark expert Gareth Fraser and film expert Ian Hunter join Matthew Sweet for a discussion about sharks, whales and the impact of the book and film Jaws. Jaws started out as a novel which reads as a sociological study of a small American coastal resort full of rather unlikeable characters. It ended up as an iconic film whose heroes engage in a fight to the death with a Great White Man-Eating Machine. Matthew Sweet discusses how the shark came to fill the space once held by the whale, why big teeth still fill our nightmares and whether all publicity is good publicity for the denizens of the oceans with writer Will Self, whose novel 'Shark' was inspired by the film, and Gareth Fraser, who now studies the dental configurations of sharks all because he once sat in a dark cinema, as did life-long Jaws fan, the film expert Ian Hunter. The artist Fiona Tan, whose exhibition was partly inspired by 'Jonah the Giant Whale', a preserved whale exhibited inside a lorry which toured across Europe from the 1950s to the mid-1970s will also appear out of the deep. Presenter: Matthew Sweet Guest: Gareth Fraser, Dept of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield Guest: Ian Hunter, School of Media and Communication, De Montford University Guest: Will Self's latest novel is called 'Shark' Guest: Fiona Tan's exhibition at BALTIC called Depot and draws on Newcastle's history as a whaling port. It run from 10 Jul to 01 Nov 2015. Producer: Jacqueline Smith