Starting this Friday at 8.50pm, Will Self is going to be taking over A Point of View on Radio 4 for four episodes. His first programme will be on political party membership. Read his thoughts about it here. Listen again here.
Will Self: Radio and Audio
Psychogeography talk
Listen to Will Self in recent conversation with Dr Sebastian Groes at the Museum of London talking about the psychogeography of London here.
Two short interviews and one longer one
There’s a short interview with Will Self in the Big Issue Scotland here, and an interview with Book Buzz in the States here around the publication of Psychogeography, which we overlooked at the time.
And a longer one too is available to listen to – Psychogeography: Disentangling the Modern Conundrum of Psyche and Place at the Los Angeles Public Library – here.
Bloody flyovers
“Sometimes I think I may be losing … my incident room”
Listen to Bomb the Bass’s track 5ml Barrel, from their album Clear, featuring Will Self.
Stockwell bus garage redux
Will Self’s recent talk on the Stockwell bus garage in London at the Royal Academy of Arts is now available to listen to on its website here, albeit in not especially good quality sound.
Open Book: Library cuts
The Book of Dave audio book
The unabridged recording of The Book of Dave – all 18 hours and 15 minutes of it – that Will Self recorded last Autumn has been released by Whole Story Audio Books for £30.62. Details here.
John Gray talk at the RSA
A reminder that although Will Self’s talk with John Gray to discuss his new book – The Immortalization Commission: Science and the Strange Quest to Cheat Death – at the Royal Society of Arts tonight is sold out, you can listen to it online at the RSA website here from 6pm. It’s also available as a free mp3 audio file, and you can watch it here too.
Nightwaves: The rhetoric of family
Listen to Will Self talking about the idea of the family on Nightwaves on the BBC iplayer here (available until December 29). Self’s contribution is in the first 10 minutes or so of the programme, in which he talks about how politicians have used the rhetoric of family and how George Osborne’s likening of the national debt to a family’s finances is “specious and insidious”.
JG Ballard’s 80th birthday
There will be a repeat of Will Self’s programme on JG Ballard on Radio 4 this Saturday to coincide (roughly) with what would have been the author’s 80th birthday. Listen again here.