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Doreen Osborne explains her hobby; buying auction catalogues, cutting
them up, making scrapbooks and the therapeutic qualities of this activity.
Episode 7: It Isn’t Far From London by SPB Mais (1931)
In this final episode in the series Nick and John delve into the topographical writing of SPB Mais. Mais was one of the most famous media figures of the 1930’s and 40’s. He presented a number of popular programmes on BBC radio including Microphone at Large and This Unknown Island.
In this episode he is presented as a forward thinking almost proto-psychogeographer in his approach to the experience of walking and a radical call to arms to embrace both the past and the future from the forces of commerce. Nick describes his writing as a kind of nature mysticism.
The walk from Mais’s It Isn’t Far From London that was recorded for the show was an epic tramp from Slough through Stoke Poges, Burnham Beaches, Hedgerley then along the M40 in the gloom to Beaconsfield.
With readings by Heidi Lapaine.
Originally broadcast December 16th 2009.
Here is some video footage from that walk cut with extracts from the audio recordings used in the show.
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Nick Rochford recorded at Conway Hall describing the early days of
Compendium bookshop.
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Maurice Seddon tries to remember Struwwelpeter and fails.
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LAB at ICA. Various people were asked “What is an artists’ book?”
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Yves Klein. Les Fondements du Judo translated into English by Arnaud
Desjardin.
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Jeff Pine interviewed at the London Art Book Fair.
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Indica. Barry Miles talks about Indica bookshop and William Burroughs.
Patricia Bickers, editor of Art Monthly magazine, discusses a feature from Dec/Jan issue of Art Monthly with it’s author Jennifer Thatcher. Entitled ‘Crunch Time’ it covers the convergence of artistic and entrepreneurial values and in relation to this they discuss Pop Life at Tate Modern.
Art Monthly magazine’s talk programme on Resonance FM started in February 2009 and is broadcast on the second Friday of each month at 5pm. In each show Art Monthly critics discuss their writing in the latest issue.
The programme is presented by Matt Hale who has worked at Art Monthly since 1991
Previous episodes are available on Art Monthly’s website www.artmonthly.co.uk/events.htm
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26 interviews by William English
Nicky Hamlyn recovers his Whole Earth catalogue.
