Listen to Will Self and Mark Doty talking at the launch of Granta 117: Horror at Foyles bookshop this week on the Granta podcast here.
Will Self: Radio and Audio
A Point of View: The arms trade
Listen to Will Self talking about the arms trade tonight at 8.50pm on Radio 4′s A Point of View. Listen again here. Or you can read a transcript here.
A Point of View: Class, race and social mobility
Listen to Will Self’s fourth and final A Point of View tonight on Radio 4 at 8.50pm. Listen again here.
A Point of View: Wind turbines
Listen to Will Self’s third A Point of View programme tonight on Radio 4 at 8.50pm, in praise of wind turbines. Listen again here.
(Update: the text of the broadcast is now available on the BBC website).
London Unfurled iPad App
Will Self has contributed to Matteo Pericoli’s recently launched London Unfurled iPad app, providing commentary on Pericoli’s drawings of south London.
There is also the London Unfurled book featuring a foreword by Will if you prefer paper to iPad.
Here’s the official blurb for the app:
In 2009 Matteo Pericoli (author of the bestselling iconic book Manhattan Unfurled) made an intensive twenty-mile journey along the River Thames, from Hammersmith Bridge to the Millennium Dome and back again. Over two years later, he finished the most astonishing document of his journey: two thirty-seven-foot-long freehand pen-and-ink drawings.
A Point of View: Prisons
Listen to Will Self talking about why prisons fail in the second of his A Point of View programmes for Radio 4 tonight at 8.50pm. Listen again here.
A Point of View
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.
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.