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.
Both drawings, rendered with loving and essay-like detail, are digitally reproduced in this app; together they reveal a distinct profile of London in all its glorious diversity: a dozen boroughs, nineteen bridges and hundreds of buildings, including the Houses of Parliament, Tate Modern, Battersea Power Station and the Millennium Wheel.
London Unfurled for iPad offers a unique way to discover one of the world’s most famous cities. This interactive digital edition allows you to fully explore Matteo Pericoli’s intimate drawings of the north and south banks of the Thames, from Hammersmith Bridge to the Millennium Dome.
With London Unfurled for iPad you can scroll the entire drawing seamlessly, flipping from north to south, jumping from place to place, finding famous landmarks, zooming in on its extraordinary detail and discovering over a hundred points of interest with added facts and amazing background information.
In addition, Matteo Pericoli opens up his experience of creating this inimitable work of art in audio voiceover highlights, giving an exclusive insight into the work behind London Unfurled. And two of London’s most famous cultural figures (Iain Sinclair on the North and Will Self on the South) offer their thoughts on the city’s character.
The London Unfurled iPad app is published by Pan Macmillan. You can find it in the Apple iTunes store here.
The iTunes store also has several of Will’s books available as audiobooks and iBooks – see Will Self on iTunes.
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.
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.
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