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| Adverb, The | ...Poet Ian McMillan continues the series of literary performances, recorded in front of a live audience at Cadogan Hall, based on the Proms themes. Ian is joined by the acclaimed novelist, WILL SELF, to discuss his selection of classic and contemporary writing about the sea. Plus, a chance to hear Ian McMillan's own specially commissioned piece on the sea.... |
| Archive On 4 | ...WILL SELF explores the imagination and work of writer JG Ballard, who he came to know in his final years. Will draws on the many telling interviews that Ballard gave throughout his working life and on Self's own tapes of his encounters with him.... |
| Books And Company | ...In the last of the current series, WILL SELF visits his local library, and Martin Gilbert unearths some harrowing eyewitness accounts of persecution in Nazi Germany in one of the UK's lesser-known arcHIVes.... |
| Clive Anderson's Chat Room | ...Guests include Nick Clegg, Ed Byrne and WILL SELF ... |
| Front Row | ...With Mark Lawson. Includes an interview with writer WILL SELF, whose new novel imagines a future religion based on the rants of a London taxi driver.... |
| Hell And High Water | ...Marlene encourages her best friend, Kay, to spend a weekend at a spiritual health centre in the country. They're doing it to help Bianca - she needs a full course to make her career change a success - but what do Marlene and Kay need? WILL SELF-exploration and soul searching help them ring changes in their lives?... |
| Irreversible | ...Written and read by WILL SELF. A man walks into an isolated pub, sporting a peculiar jacket.... |
| Jura - Writers In Residence | ...WILL SELF reflects on the creative process with passages from the notebook he kept while on Jura.... |
| Lent Talks | ...`The Dove Descending'. Writers from a variety of religious perspectives offer their views on the Easter story. Controversial novelist and journalist WILL SELF considers the story of the Passion and Resurrection from a secular point of view, and discovers a striking resemblance to science fiction.... |
| Letters To An Icon | ...Authors WILL SELF, Bonnie Greer and Ali Smith have dramatic encounters with icons, in a series of short plays about Dorian Gray, Shakespeare's Dark Lady and Dusty Springfield.... |
| Moral Maze, The | ...Michael Buerk chairs a debate on the moral questions behind the week's news. Melanie Phillips, Claire Fox, Matthew Taylor and WILL SELF cross-examine witnesses.... |
| Moral Maze, The [summary] | r4 ...Michael Buerk chairs a debate on the moral questions behind the week's news. Claire Fox, Kenan Malik, Matthew Taylor and WILL SELF cross-examine witnesses.... |
| Night Waves | ...The Free Thinking Lecture - WILL SELF... |
| Nightwalks | ...WILL SELF celebrates his role as a twilight walker and looks back at some memorable strolls under the streetlamps, including a recent one in the 'chilly north'.... |
| North London Book Of The Dead, The | ...The North London Book of the Dead - a story about life beyond the grave, written & read by WILL SELF. Producer: Duncan Minshull.... |
| Off The Page | ...... |
| Open Book | ...Mariella Frostrup talks to WILL SELF about the work of William Burroughs, as a previously unpublished novel by the American writer appears in print for the first time.... |
| Pillories Of The State | ...The last of six programmes examining common perceptions of British institutions. Dr Phil Hammond is joined by WILL SELF to discuss the legal system.... |
| Private Passions | ...WILL SELF... |
| Short Short Stories | ...A man walks into an isolated pub sporting a peculiar jacket. Written and read by WILL SELF ... |
| States Of Mind | ...As someone with dual English and American nationality, writer WILL SELF examines how attitudes to America have changed since 9/11 and explores the dangers inherent in knee-jerk liberal anti-Americanism.... |
| Tales Of Cats And Comets | ...Are we all conditioned like Pavlov's famous dogs who came to connect food with the sound of a bell? In the early 1900s the famous Russian psychologist did ground breaking experiments into associative learning and today his ideas have been fostered by novelists. Ian Peacock talks to WILL SELF, author of Great Apes, and discovers that Pavlov's legacy extends to fruit flies.... |
| Thinking Allowed | ...In front of a live audience at the Radio Theatre at Broadcasting House, Laurie is joined by writer WILL SELF, sociologist Richard Sennett and geographer Doreen Massey.... |
| Unbelievable Truth, The | ...Jeremy Hardy, Fred MacAulay, Jack Dee, WILL SELF ... |
| Verb, The | ...Ian Mcmillan hears from WILL SELF, who reads from his forthcoming novel featuring a disgruntled East End taxi driver; and Peter Blegvad uncovers the secret lives of books.... |
| What Texting Owes To The Literary Enlightenment | ...Featuring contributions from authors WILL SELF and Ian Rankin, poet Scott Tyrell and Professors Jeremy Tambling, John Sutherland and David Crystal.... |