To buy an unabridged audio book version of Umbrella, by Whole Story Audiobooks, which has also produced audio versions of The Butt, Liver (read by Will), The Book of Dave (also read by Will) and How the Dead Live, go to Amazon here.
Will’s own readings of Dorian (Penguin) and Revelation (Canongate) are also available on audio.
Listen to Will Self talking on the Today programme on the day of the Man Booker prize announcement, which will be at around 9.40pm tonight. There’s also a news story on the BBC about Will and Hilary Mantel being joint favourites for the prize.
Listen to Will Self talking about Umbrella on Insight Radio here. Will is also appearing on BBC 6 Music on Monday 15 October on the Radcliffe and Maconie show after 2.30pm. Listen again here.
Listen to Will Self talking about Umbrella on Open Book here.
Listen to Will Self on the Robert Elms show on BBC London today at 2.30pm. (Listen again here.) Will is also appearing on BBC Radio Ulster’s Arts Extra at 6.30pm today. (Listen again here.)
Listen to a longer interview with Will Self on the Today programme on the BBC website here, talking about encephalitis lethargica, the subject of his latest novel, Umbrella.
Listen to Will Self discussing Anthony Burgess’s A Clockwork Orange, which was published 50 years ago, on Nightwaves, Radio 3 at 10pm on Tuesday July 3. Listen again here.
Listen to Will Self on Radio 4’s Any Questions last month on the iPlayer here. Other speakers include Ken Clarke, Harriet Harman and the editor of Prospect, Bronwen Maddox (where, incidentally, Will has a large piece on the seduction of advertising and Robert Heath’s Seducing the Subconscious in the current issue).
In the last of the current run of Will Self’s A Point of View on Radio 4 tonight at 8.50pm, he reflects on the historical tradition of the Loyal Toast. A week before the Jubilee celebrations get underway, he muses on where deference is properly due: “I have never risen for the Loyal Toast, and unless some apoplectic patriot holds a gun to my head, I doubt I ever will.”
To listen again, go here.
Listen to Will Self on Radio 4 tonight at 8.50pm where he reports back from Germany and wonders whether we should consider an end to the EU in its “current banjaxed form”. Listen again here.
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