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.
House Arrest
Listen to Will Self’s monologue House Arrest for Radio 4’s From Fact to Fiction, in which he responds to a week of news that has reported the release of various individuals after periods of imprisonment. The narrator is holed up somewhere that is both familiar and strange. And surely his release, poised to happen any moment, marks the end of it all?
Not really …
The Story of O
Listen to Will Self talking about Pauline Réage’s cult book Story of O on Mark and Lard’s Radio 1 show from the 1990s:
Resonance FM sewer tour
Listen to Will Self being interviewed by Bruno Rinvolucri as he takes him on a two-part tour of the sewers of Brixton on Tunnel Vision Thursday October 14 at 4.30pm on Resonance FM (resonancefm.com), where they will discuss “the spatialisation of human waste, the architecture of sanitation, excremental stalagmites and stalactites” among other things. If you don’t live in London, you can still listen to it live on their website. Read Self’s blog about it here.
Self on Self
Listen to Will Self and Martin Amis (and others) talking about putting themselves in their fiction from the Guardian Books podcast here.
Bookslam reading and interview
Listen to Will Self being interviewed after his appearance at Bookslam recently and also to him giving a reading from Walking to Hollywood.
“Will Self’s just flashed me …”
The Scotsman’s verdict on Walking to Hollywood: “There must be a word – I don’t know it but Will Self will – meaning envy of eloquence, jealousy of the ability to use a large vocabulary convincingly to make the reader’s mind bounce around different levels of reality. That’s one reason Self remains such an engaging writer: the other is that underneath even his weirdest imaginings lies the kind of truths that can only be absorbed through a pair of walking feet.”
For the full review, go here
Website exclusive: Foie Humain read by Will Self
Val Carmichael credited Pete Stenning — who was called ‘the Martian’ — with getting him off the gin and on to the vodka. “Cleaver cunt, the Martian,” Val said to the assembled members, who were grouped at the bar of the Plantation Club in their alloted positions …
Listen to Will Self read the start of Foie Humain here and then here, the first of his four part story-cycle in Liver, which is available as an unabridged audio book from Whole Story Audio Books for £19.99 here.
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