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Ape rights

March 18, 2009

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

March 10, 2009

Listen to Will Self talking on Radio 4 about texting and textspeak.

What texting owes to the literary enlightenment

March 4, 2009

Chris Addison explores the links between modern-day text-speak and the language of the 18th-century literary enlightenment. He examines the expressive elements of text language, or “textese”, and how it can be seen to echo a ludic art form that became popular in the Romantic era, via insights found in the letters of Jonathan Swift and later works by Lewis Carroll and James Joyce.

The programme will be broadcast on March 10, Radio 4 at 11.30am and will feature contributions from Will Self and Ian Rankin, the poet Scott Tyrell and professors Jeremy Tambling, John Sutherland and David Crystal.

Recessive spleen

February 25, 2009

Click here to listen to Will Self talking about the role of satire in a recession, first broadcast on the Today programme on February 6.

Free Thinking lecture

December 21, 2008

You can now watch, as well as listen to, Will giving his Radio 3 lecture, here.

A Visit from Mrs Wells

December 9, 2008

You can listen again here to Will’s story told from the point of view of a child, Kylie, in the wake of the Baby P case, first broadcast on Radio 4’s From Fact to Fiction on Saturday December 6.

Resonance FM

November 26, 2008

Those good people at Resonance FM have provided us with a link to download Will’s interview, but we’re not sure how long it will be there for, so best visit sooner rather than later.

Resonance FM

November 17, 2008

Will is going to be on Resonance FM on Thursday November 20 at 4.30pm. He is a guest on Interesting Conversations. You can listen via 104.4FM or go to www.resonancefm.com. An MP3 version will be available to download later. Will is to discuss The Butt, Liver and “his intumescent back catalogue”.

Book of Dave podcasts

November 12, 2008

Here are Will’s Penguin podcasts around the time of the Book of Dave in 2006.

The banks have buried their heads in the sand

November 11, 2008

Over the past decade, as British culture has become steeped in pop psychology, one expression has come to be bandied about with increasing abandon: “She’s in denial.” Much as I deplore such psychobabble, sometimes “in denial” is the mot juste. Since the British economy began to hit the buffers, while interest rates have been slashed and consumer demand plummeted, so people’s denial has increased. Of course, ours being an unequal society, this denial has not been spread about evenly; on the contrary, the highest concentration is among the richest and most powerful.

To read the rest of Will’s Standard column, click here.

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Will’s Latest Book

Will Self - Elaine
Will Self's latest book Elaine will be published in hardback by Grove on September 5 2024 in the UK and September 17 2024 in the USA.

You can pre-order at Amazon.co.uk and Amazon.com

Will’s Previous Books

Will Self - Will
Will
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  Will Self - Phone
Phone
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Shark
Shark
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  Umbrella
Umbrella
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The Unbearable Lightness Of Being A Prawn Cracker
The Unbearable Lightness Of Being A Prawn Cracker
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  Walking To Hollywood
Walking To Hollywood
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The Butt
The Butt
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  Grey Area
Grey Area
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Junk Mail
Junk Mail
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  Great Apes
Great Apes
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Amazon.com
Cock And Bull
Cock And Bull
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Amazon.com
  The Quantity Theory Of Insanity
The Quantity Theory Of Insanity
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Amazon.com
The Sweet Smell Of Psychosis
The Sweet Smell of Psychosis
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  My Idea Of Fun
My Idea Of Fun
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The Book Of Dave
The Book Of Dave
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  Psychogeography
Psychogeography
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Psycho Too
Psycho II
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  Liver
Liver
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How The Dead Live
How The Dead Live
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  Tough Tough Toys For Tough Tough Boys
Tough Tough Toys For Tough Tough Boys
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Dr Mukti And Other Tales Of Woe
Dr Mukti And Other Tales Of Woe
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Amazon.com
  Dorian
Dorian
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Amazon.com
Feeding Frenzy
Feeding Frenzy
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Amazon.com
  Sore Sites
Sore Sites
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Amazon.com
Perfidious Man
Perfidious Man
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  The Undivided Self
The Undivided Self
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