Another chance to listen to Will Self on The Verb talking about his walk from JG Ballard’s house in Shepperton to Heathrow and then his two-day trek from the airport in Dubai to The World resort. He also gives a short reading. The essay will feature as the introduction to his second collection of Psychogeography columns to be published in November by Bloomsbury.
Comedy Zone: Literary Comedians
Interview with Will Self in his Edinburgh hotel room, available on the BBC iplayer, under the rubric of “literary comedians”, about The Book of Dave. It’s an 11-minute segment, starting at 4hrs 28mins.
Bat Segundo interview
Podcast interview with Will Self as part of the Bat Segundo show in December 2007, taking in The Book of Dave and Psychogeography among many other things. The Bat Segundo website can be found here.
Ballard on Open Book
Mariella Frostrup’s Open Book programme is repeating Will Self’s guide to the work of JG Ballard, which will be broadcast at 4pm today on Radio 4. You can listen to it again on Thursday on Radio 4 at 4pm.
Clive Anderson’s Chat Room
Will Self is one of the guests on Clive Anderson’s Chat Room, tonight on Radio 2 at 10pm.
The unbelievable truth
Will Self is going to be on the Radio 4 panel show on Monday April 26 at 6.30pm.
The unbelievable truth …
… is that Will Self is going to be on the Radio 4 programme on Monday April 13 at 6.30pm with Jack Dee, Jeremy Hardy and Fred MacAulay. Hosted by David Mitchell. You can listen to it here for a while.
Free Thinking redux
There’ll be another chance to listen to Will Self’s Free Thinking 2008 lecture on the subject of how the mind is portrayed in fiction, tonight on Night Waves, Radio 3, 9.15pm.
“Self argues that the way the mind is portrayed in novels is preposterous. Why are we so resistant to attempts to represent the mind as we really experience it, in all its terror, exhilaration and confusion? Are many of our finest novels designed to reassure us that we are ‘normal’?”
Ape rights
A short audio clip of Will Self talking with Professor David Penny about the rights, or otherwise, of great apes on the BBC.
What texting owes to the literary enlightenment
Listen to Will Self talking on Radio 4 about texting and textspeak.
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