You can now listen to a couple of Will’s recent A Point of Views for Radio 4 on the BBC, one on Hypocrisy, and the other on Sodcasting.
In conversation with Iggy Pop
WowFest19 keynote speech
A Point of View: Parity of Esteem
You can listen to Will’s recent Point of View on Radio 4 here, in which he talks about the disturbing story of what happened to a friend, recently detained in a London psychiatric hospital.
A Figure of Speech – a new short story
“Sitting at a bar, dabbling with a digital map on his phone, the man is approached by another. He ignores him but later discovers the stranger is connected to this phone map. Connected in a disturbing way …” Listen to Will reading his short story at the Radio 4 website here (available for 19 days).
The North London Book of the Dead
Listen to Will Self reading his short story “The North London Book of the Dead” on Radio 4 here until 9 May. It was first broadcast in 1995.
Will Self’s Great British Bus Journey
Today programme on the countryside
Listen to Will talking about the countryside at the 2hr 56min point on yesterday’s Today programme here.
New Point of Views
Will has produced another flurry of A Point of View broadcasts on Radio 4 recently: Ode to Space, Men Against Women, The miserable pantomime of contemporary British vegetarianism and Mass Myopia.
Phone interviews
Listen to Will talking for about half an hour on Afternoon Edition (available for 28 days) on BBC Radio 5 live here at the 1hr 11 minute mark, taking in the “muted” general election, autism, how the smartphone has changed us and finishing his trilogy of modernist novels with Phone in which “a new technology is visited upon us and a new conflict ensues and what ensues from that … is a new form of mental illness”. He also reveals that he’ll be recording an audiobook of Phone and that his next book will be a memoir.
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