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Damian Barr is an award-winning writer, broadcaster and journalist. His memoir, Maggie & Me, won Stonewall Writer of the Year and Sunday Times Memoir of the Year. His debut novel, You Will Be Safe Here, was shortlisted for six major awards and named a Book of the Year in the Observer, Guardian and Mail. He's written columns for The Times and Sunday Times and hosted Front Row on BBC Radio 4 as well as his own series Guide Books.  In 2019, Damian brought books back to television with 'The Big Scottish Book Club', now in its fourth series and syndicated internationally. Also on BBC TV, he presented 'Shelf Isolation' and the landmark documentary for Sir Walter Scott's 250th. Damian holds a PhD in Creative Writing from Lancaster University and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He started his world-famous Literary Salon in 2008. He lives in Brighton.Damian's ChoicesA Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee WilliamsBeloved by Toni MorrisonTales of the City: Book 1  by Armistead Maupin Other books mentionedA Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara Illborn by Daniel T JacksonThe Sandman by Neil GaimonThe Graveyard Book by Neil GaimonListener's Choice (Dedra L Stephenson)Spare by Prince HarryLinks to other things discussedJulia's article on marketing for debut authors (part one, part two)Ed's magical writing practice: Pomodoro TechniqueDamian's favourite writing haunt: Gladstone LibrarySUPPORT GROUPSLGTBQ+ Mental Health Service: Mind OutFor children in need of help: Childline (0800 1111)Support for recovery from child abuse: NAPAC  (0808 801 0331)You can buy books mentioned in this episode on our Bookshop.org Affiliate page (UK Only). By purchasing here, you support both small bookshops AND our podcast. Keep  in touchWe love our listeners, and we want to hear from you. Please leave a review on one of our podcast platforms and chat with us on social media: Twitter: @twolitchicks Instagram: @two_lit_chicks TikTok: @two_lit_chicks Email: hello@twolitchicks.org If you do one thing today, sign up to our newsletter so we can keep you updated with all our news. Thank you so much for listening.    Listeners, we love you. Two Lit Chicks Podcast is recorded and produced by Your Voice HereSupport the show

For natural extrovert Damian Barr, lockdown has presented a new set of challenges. Without being able to enjoy unplanned, unscheduled interactions and the layers of connection we have in our normal life, he's had to learn how to live in the present and slow down. In this brilliantly insightful and honest chat, we speak to Damian about how he has coped with the past year, and how, having lived through the Aids pandemic of the 80s and 90s, and survived a traumatic childhood, he was unusually well equipped to deal with the immediate emergencies thrown at us by Covid. Damian also opens up about his experience of online bullying on social media last summer – and how a forced break from digital platforms has led him to entirely reassess his relationship with social media, consider what he puts online and also rediscover a love of speaking on the phone. He also talks about why he's gone back into therapy and how he's approaching 2021 (it's about dreams, not plans). Thanks so much to Damian for talking to us – we hope you enjoy it. Damian's next Literary Salon Live featuring Russell T Davies and Ruth Coker Burks is February 18th https://www.theliterarysalon.co.uk/get-tickets Damian's book You Will Be Safe Here is available in paperback now: https://www.waterstones.com/book/you-will-be-safe-here/damian-barr/9781408886052 The second series of the Big Scottish Book Club is on iPlayer: https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/m000bc3j/the-big-scottish-book-club How to Cope is hosted by writer Becky Howard and psychotherapist Lucy Clyde. You can follow us on Twitter @_beckyhoward @lucysclyde @cope_podcastThank you so much for listening. Please like, subscribe and share, it makes a real difference and we really appreciate it. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Damian Barr is an award-winning writer and columnist. Maggie & Me, his memoir about coming of age and coming out in Thatcher's Britain, was a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week and Sunday Times Memoir of the Year, and won the Paddy Power Political Books 'Satire' Award and Stonewall Writer of the Year Award. Damian writes columns for the Big Issue and High Life and often appears on BBC Radio 4. He is creator and host of his own Literary Salon that premieres work from established and emerging writers. His debut novel You Will Be Safe Here is out now in paperback. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In celebration of its paperback release, Damian Barr gives an exclusive new reading for Salonistas from his debut novel, You Will Be Safe Here. The book is a powerful and urgent novel of two connected South African stories, exploring how the past influences the present and what choices we have - or not - in influencing our destiny. Listen in for news about the paperback - released in the UK April 2nd 2020 - and for a beautiful new reading from a particularly tender scene in the book. You Will Be Safe Here is published by Bloomsbury and will be available in paperback in the UK from 2nd April 2020. Available to pre-order now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mishal Husain presents pieces by writers and journalists across the UK presenting portraits of life today. Garry Owen of BBC Radio Cymru visits Llanelli and Hospital Notes - an amateur choir there comprising hospital and care workers and members of the emergency services. He discovers how its members de-compress at times of stress - when social distancing restrictions permit it - and what benefits they derive from singing together. The writer, Damian Barr, author of the Radio 4 Books of the Week, "Maggie & Me" and "You Will Be Safe Here", takes us to north Lanarkshire and the South Downs in his quest for glow worms. His search is part journey of discovery and part self-revelation. Along the way, he explains the enduring appeal of these elusive insects at this - or, indeed - any time. Andrew Green has journeyed around England in search of the special memorials which are stained glass windows in parish churches commemorating the Fallen of the Great War. From Cornwall to Suffolk, Leicestershire to Devon, he has been speaking with those entrusted with the care of both old and new windows and has heard why they matter so much to local communities. The Edwardian bandstand in the West Yorkshire town of Todmorden is sadly neglected. But, as Andy Kershaw has been discovering, there are plans afoot from local campaigners to restore it. Might they, though, be defeated by local bureaucracy or will this rare structure come to enjoy a new lease of life over a hundred years after it first came into use? And the poet and broadcaster, Ian McMillan, considers how we mark out our lives. For him, it's the regular visit to the same place for a ritual that’s barely altered over the decades. But if the location hasn’t changed the people certainly have… Producer: Simon Coates

Anna and Amanda discuss how you can support your local bookstores during the COVID-19 shutdown - including Annie's store Mostly Books and ordering online via Hive in the UK. Our book of the week is You Will Be Safe Here by Damian Barr, host of the fabulous Literary Salon  and The Big Scottish Book Club.  This is a novel set in South Africa during the Second Boer War and modern times, when Willem aged 16 is sent to a training camp to 'turn boys into men'. An Observer, Guardian and Financial Times book of the year and a BBC Radio 4 Book at Bedtime, we loved this one.  Next week, Anna and Annie will be reading Weather by Jenny Offill. Follow us! Email: Booksonthegopodcast@gmail.com Facebook: Books On The Go Instagram: @abailliekaras and @amandalhayes99 Twitter: @abailliekaras LItsy: @abailliekaras Credits Artwork: Sascha Wilkosz

Anna and Annie discuss the 2020 Stella Prize shortlist and the Walter Scott Prize longlist. Our book of the week is Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk, translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones. Olga Tokarczuk won the Man Booker International Prize in 2018 for Flights and the 2018 Nobel Prize for Literature.  This novel has been described as "thriller, comedy and political treatise" (Economist), and "a barbed, shrewd, parodic eco-noir" (Times Literary Supplement).   Coming up: You Will Be Safe Here by Damien Barr. Follow us! Email: Booksonthegopodcast@gmail.com Facebook: Books On The Go Instagram: @abailliekaras and @mr_annie Twitter: @abailliekaras and @mister_annie Litsy: @abailliekaras 

We’re delighted to welcome Damian back to Gladfest – he was the very first event of our very first festival! You Will Be Safe Here is Damian’s first novel. Set in South Africa in 1901, at the height of the Boer War, Sarah van der Watt and her son are taken from their farm by force to Bloaemfontein Concentration Camp – where the English promise they will be safe. A deeply moving novel of connected parts, inspired by the true contemporary story of Raymond Buys, You Will Be Safe Here explores our capacity for cruelty and kindness. Damian talks to novelist Sarah Perry about writing this extraordinary novel.

Chavez is a survivor. He survived the zombie apocalypse. He survived watching his new girlfriend die when the camp they lived in was overrun. But can he survive Grossman?"The Wounded, The Sick, & The Dead" is the sequel to "The Neighborhood Is Really Going to the Dead," which was aired May 28, 2019. Here's the link! "The Neighborhood is Really Going to the Dead" is one of the short stories in my first collection, A Knife in the Back: Seven Tales of Murder and Madness and Raleigh's Prep, a novel. AND A Knife in the Back: Seven Tales of Murder and Madness, and Raleigh's Prep, a novel is the first book in the Mad Tales trilogy. Book two is You Will Be Safe Here, Four Tales of Monsters and Mayhem and Tracker's Travail, a novel, and book three is Burn All The Bodies, Five Tales of Violence and Vengeance and Topher's Ton, a novel. Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/madtales)

On ‘Meet The Writers’ this week, join me, Georgina Godwin, as I talk to Damian Barr. His novel ‘Maggie and Me’ won ‘The Sunday Times’ Memoir of the Year and his latest novel, ‘You Will Be Safe Here’, has already received high praise. The conversation ranges from his abusive childhood, to his mentoring of other writers, how the British intervention in South Africa laid the groundwork for Apartheid and… the empathy of chickens.

Good afternoon everyone and welcome to another edition of The Avid Reader. Today our guest is Damian Barr, author of You Will Be Safe Here, his first novel, published in May by Bloomsbury. Damian is an award winning writer and columnist. Maggie And Me, his memoir won several prestigious awards. Damian writes columns for BigIssue and High Life. He is the creator and host of his own Literary Salon that premieres work from established and emerging writers. I’d love to talk to him for hours about that but we’re here to sell his book, to be unpolished. You know, Sometimes I get a little nervous when a novel straddles two centuries with multiple characters. But no need to fear here. The pieces of this book fit together like a jigsaw puzzle. It may not be the most pleasant of juxtapositions but it is a novel that immediately draws the reader in, not with certainty, but with a subtle questioning that leaves one a bit nervous and unsure, kind of, of one’s own values. We explore and are pulled by the protagonist, Sarah van der Watt and her son Fred through their agonizing journey in 1901 during the second Boer War, where the English established what were the first true concentration camps. Sarah’s diary describes in excruciating detail the nature of these camps. Fast forward to the 2000s and we find ourselves in another “safe” place where young and “different” Willem is forced into another camp, that differs in time and nature but imposes the same torture and inhumanity that we have already explored. Lastly, the reader must come to acknowledge that the stories, both of them, are inspired not only by real events, but beckon us to realize that these events are still happening throughout the world and some are even posted by our own nation. With that, perhaps too morbid introduction, welcome Damian and thanks so much for joining us today.

Good afternoon everyone and welcome to another edition of The Avid Reader. Today our guest is Damian Barr, author of You Will Be Safe Here, his first novel, published in May by Bloomsbury. Damian is an award winning writer and columnist. Maggie And Me, his memoir won several prestigious awards. Damian writes columns for BigIssue and High Life. He is the creator and host of his own Literary Salon that premieres work from established and emerging writers. I’d love to talk to him for hours about that but we’re here to sell his book, to be unpolished. You know, Sometimes I get a little nervous when a novel straddles two centuries with multiple characters. But no need to fear here. The pieces of this book fit together like a jigsaw puzzle. It may not be the most pleasant of juxtapositions but it is a novel that immediately draws the reader in, not with certainty, but with a subtle questioning that leaves one a bit nervous and unsure, kind of, of one’s own values. We explore and are pulled by the protagonist, Sarah van der Watt and her son Fred through their agonizing journey in 1901 during the second Boer War, where the English established what were the first true concentration camps. Sarah’s diary describes in excruciating detail the nature of these camps. Fast forward to the 2000s and we find ourselves in another “safe” place where young and “different” Willem is forced into another camp, that differs in time and nature but imposes the same torture and inhumanity that we have already explored. Lastly, the reader must come to acknowledge that the stories, both of them, are inspired not only by real events, but beckon us to realize that these events are still happening throughout the world and some are even posted by our own nation. With that, perhaps too morbid introduction, welcome Damian and thanks so much for joining us today.

We were joined by the wonderful Damian Barr, author of the bestselling memoir Maggie & Me, to discuss his astonishing début novel You Will Be Safe Here.

Award-winning Italian film Happy as Lazzaro is a tale of human unkindness in a remote Italian Village where time stands still, but not in the same way for everyone Caryl Churchill's play Top Girls is revived by The National Theatre; is it hard not to view it nowadays as a period piece? Damian Barr's debut novel: You Will Be Safe Here is set in two separate parts of South Africa's troubled history The Victim is a new 4-part drama on BBC1., following the plaintiff and the accused in a Scottish court case. Can it provide a new twist on the much-worked-over TV formula of crime and courtroom drama and police procedural? A new exhibition at York Art Gallery looks at the work of John Ruskin and the influence of JMW Turner. Tom Sutcliffe's guests are Meg Rosoff, Emma Woolf and John Mullan. The producer is Oliver Jones. Podcast Extra Recommendations Meg: The Alarming Palsy of James Orr by Tom Lee and Don McCullin's Tate Britain exhibition John: Call My Agent on Netflix Emma: 5 Live's podcast Paradise Tom: English Baroque Choir

Welcome to this chapter of the Book Club, another fascinating one in store here as Damian Barr joins Iain to chat all about 'You Will Be Safe Here', one of the most-anticipated debut novels of 2019. You Will Be Safe Here is a deeply moving novel of connected parts. Inspired by real events, it uncovers a hidden colonial history and present-day darkness while exploring our capacity for cruelty and kindness If you enjoyed this podcast, make sure you check through the archive for one you may have missed or why not listen to For The Many, Iain's podcast with Jacqui Smith or Cross Question! Iain Dale Monday - Thursday, 7-10pm on LBC. https://www.iaindale.com/

Author and essayist Taylor Jenkins Reid goes head to head with columnist, writer and literary event chair Damian Barr in a war of the words - putting The Colour Purple against The Hate U Give. Damian and Taylor discuss their latest novels (You Will Be Safe Here and Daisy Jones & The Six) as well as how they write, the music scene in LA through the 1970s and what writers can learn from readers by just hanging around in book shops. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Damian Barr is an award-winning writer and columnist. Maggie & Me, his memoir about coming of age and coming out in Thatcher's Britain, was a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week and Sunday Times Memoir of the Year, and won the Paddy Power Political Books 'Satire' Award and Stonewall Writer of the Year Award. Damian writes columns for the Big Issue and High Life and often appears on BBC Radio 4. He is creator and host of his own Literary Salon that premieres work from established and emerging writers. You Will Be Safe Here is his debut novel. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Damian Barr gives an exclusive reading for Salonistas from his debut novel, You Will Be Safe Here. The book is a powerful and urgent novel of two connected South African stories, exploring how the past influences the present and what choices we have - or not - in influencing our destiny. This reading is the final of three released across March. The book is available to preorder now at smarturl.it/m1t2vm and is published in the UK on 4th April and the USA on 14th May 2019. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Damian Barr gives an exclusive reading for Salonistas from his debut novel, You Will Be Safe Here. The book is a powerful and urgent novel of two connected South African stories, exploring how the past influences the present and what choices we have - or not - in influencing our destiny. This reading is the second of three being released across March. The book is available to preorder now at smarturl.it/m1t2vm and is published in the UK on 4th April and the USA on 14th May 2019. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Writer, salon leader, & literary ambassador for the Savoy, Damian Barr talks about the power of stories, how he chooses his creative projects and how to write a memoir Recorded in a suite at the Savoy Hotel itself on The Strand in London. Join us on a fascinating, fun and emotional journey into the world of writing & books with Damian Barr; author, salon leader and Literary Ambassador to the Savoy Hotel in London. From finding meaning in childhood memoirs to curating inspirational literary salons across the world, Damian shares his thoughts and insights on how he continues to follow his passions and write acclaimed books. Episode Highlights: "You want to feel like you're in conversation with that book, with an idea. Otherwise, you're just being shouted at."  "...A hotel is supposed to be a home from home, and you can't live at home without books." "...Do you really think Charles Dickens would have written all those books if he had Netflix and Twitter?" "...You have to leave space for the reader. I think it's really important when you're telling a story to leave space for the reader." "...You need to stop looking at Twitter, and you need to be there for your book and it involves saying no to all kinds of temptations in the world." "...You can't be that aggressive in fiction or creative non-fiction. You have to let readers think, "actually I like this person or I don't like this person, or I think this happened, or I think that happened". You need to be a bit equivocal. I'm interested in doubt, right? People who are very certain, I find scary." "[On the homophobic section 28 legislation of the 1980s]...Some people struggle to learn maths, homosexuality is a much more advanced skill." "...Stories are my life. What am I without them? I don't want to live without them and I don't want other people to live without them. That's kind of my guiding mission." "...Build in time for spontaneity. But I think that you do need to create these spaces otherwise time just gets used up." "...You've got to make people feel valued, you've got to listen when they're telling you that you're getting something wrong, you've got to listen when they say to you this is what you want for me or I want for me." Bio: Damian Barr FRSA is an award-winning writer, columnist, presenter and playwright and Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. He is currently the Literary Ambassador for The Savoy Hotel in London and also hosts The Literary Salon. Topics covered: Why the Savoy wanted a Literary Ambassador and what it means to be one The key to the success for the Literary Salon. The power of the podcast. How to sign a colostomy bag at a book launch! The benefits of being an independent organisation. Damian's memoir ‘Maggie and Me' - hard truths and how they bring us together. Advice on writing a memoir. The blur between fiction and non-fiction. The origins of his latest book - “You Will Be Safe Here”. A chance meeting with Gerry Adams How Damian got into a good-natured disagreement about cheese with the New Zealand PM Jacinda Ardern. So many projects! How to choose what to invest your time and energy into. The importance of planned spontaneity. The power of partnerships and being social Just. Listen. More.   Get full references, links, videos clips and more in the shownotes here     Music provided by Argofox: TheDiabolicalWaffle - My Wish https://youtu.be/sRWEMjYR6e4

Damian Barr gives an exclusive reading for Salonistas from his debut novel, You Will Be Safe Here. The book is a powerful and urgent novel of two connected South African stories, exploring how the past influences the present and what choices we have - or not - in influencing our destiny. This reading is the first of three which will be released over the next few weeks. The book is available to preorder now at http://smarturl.it/m1t2vm and is published in the UK on 4th April and the USA on 14th May 2019. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices