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The Butt audio book

Posted by Chris H on July 1st, 2010

The Whole Story Audiobooks’ unabridged audio book version of Will Self’s novel The Butt will be available from July 1. For more details, visit Amazon here. Arena magazine said: “Epic and bitterly funny, this stew of satire and linguistic wizardry is everything you’d expect from Britain’s master of misanthropy.”

Are you extremely relaxed about wealth?

Posted by Chris H on May 5th, 2010

Listen to the third part of Will Self’s election bulletins for the Today programme here, which focuses on the Labour party.

The yellow cardigan wearers

Posted by Chris H on May 3rd, 2010

The second of Will Self’s takes on the general election for the Today programme can be heard here.

The absurdity of the general election

Posted by Chris H on April 28th, 2010

Will Self talks about the role of the absurd in the general election, and meets some of the heirs to Lord Sutch, here on Radio 4. He’ll be doing more of these reports for Today in the run-up to next week’s election.

Oxford literary festival

Posted by Chris H on April 17th, 2010

Listen to Will Self at the Oxford literary festival from 2007 here.

Broadcasting House: Psychogeography

Posted by Chris H on March 22nd, 2010

A brief interview – starting around the 22nd minute – with Will Self about psychogeography on Radio 4’s Broadcasting House yesterday.

Jewish Book Week

Posted by Chris H on March 3rd, 2010

Jason Solomons from the Guardian talks to Will Self about half-Jews and Jews on the margins – and explains why he believes that his American mother was a self-hating Jew. Listen to the Jewish Book Week podcast here.

Lent talks

Posted by Chris H on February 23rd, 2010

Will Self kicks off a series of Lent Talks on Radio 4 on Wednesday February 24 at 8.45pm, reflecting on the relationship between art and spirituality.

There is also a version of Self’s talk in the New Statesman here.

How to live

Posted by Chris H on January 28th, 2010

There’s a lively Start the Week that Self took part in earlier in the week, whose guests included the geneticist Steve Jones, Montaigne biographer Sarah Bakewell and Charles Hazlewood. Listen to it here, or subscribe to the podcast here.

WG Sebald/Nightwaves

Posted by Chris H on January 28th, 2010

To listen to Self talking about WG Sebald on Nightwaves from January 11, try signing up to the Arts and Ideas podcast on the radio 3 website here.