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Berwick Literary Festival
เข้าร่วมเมื่อ 20 ต.ค. 2020
Berwick Literary Festival takes place in mid-October each year in the historic walled town of Berwick-upon-Tweed. The Festival is run by volunteers and is dependent on donations and ticket sales for its income. We are a registered charity (no. 1168860). If you would like to donate, please see our links page, or visit our website: berwickliteraryfestival.com
The eighth Berwick Literary Festival will take place from 14th - 17th October, 2021.
Twitter, Facebook, Instagram: @berwicklitfest
The eighth Berwick Literary Festival will take place from 14th - 17th October, 2021.
Twitter, Facebook, Instagram: @berwicklitfest
Chitra Ramaswamy: Tales of Friendship, Family, History & Homelands
Chitra Ramaswamy in conversation with Jackie Kaines Lang during the tenth Berwick Literary Festival, October 2023.
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Leila Aboulela: River Spirit
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Leila Aboulela in conversation with Andrew Deuchar during the tenth Berwick Literary Festival, October 2023.
Nick Bradley: Writing Japan
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Nick Bradley in conversation with George Cochrane during the tenth Berwick Literary Festival, October 2023.
Nine Arches Press: The Poetry of Place, Nature & Grief
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David Clarke, Isobel Dixon & Ian Humphreys read from their new collections. Introduced by Jane Commane.
Will Self: Why Read in a Digital Age?
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Will Self in conversation with Nolan Dalrymple during the tenth Berwick Literary Festival, October 2023.
Angry Storm Tweedmouth West First School October 2021
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A poetry film based on the group poem written by Y4 children at Tweedmouth West First School, Berwick upon Tweed in October 2021. This project was part of the Berwick Literary Festival Programme for Schools and Young People.
Autumn Breeze Tweedmouth West First School October 2021
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A poetry film based on the group poem written by Y3 children at Tweedmouth West First School, Berwick upon Tweed in October 2021. This project was part of the Berwick Literary Festival Programme for Schools and Young People.
BLF 2022 Kadiatu Kanneh Mason: House of Music
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Kadiatu Kanneh-Mason in conversation with Aisling Ni Bhriain Kadiatu Kanneh-Mason lives in Nottingham and is a former lecturer in English at The University of Birmingham. She has seven children, all of whom are classical musicians and the family has been the subject of several documentaries. What truly sparkles in this eloquent memoir is the joyous affirmation that children are a gift and we mu...
BLF 2022 Bea Setton: Berlin
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Bea Setton in conversation with Jackie Kaines Lang A wry, surprising, piercingly contemporary debut about a young woman who moves to Berlin to escape her demons - and what she finds there. For fans of My Year of Rest and Relaxation, Exciting Times and Acts of Desperation. Channelling the modern female experience with razor-sharp observation and witty flair, Berlin announces Bea Setton as an ele...
BLF 2022 Suad Aldarra: I Don't Want to Talk About Home
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Suad Aldarra in conversation with Anna Edgar I Don’t Want to Talk About Home is not a memoir about war and destruction. It’s not about camps or boats. It’s about the enduring love for a home that ceased to exist, building a life out of the rubble, and the parts of yourself you lose and find when integrating into a new world.
BLF 2022 Wendy Joseph: Life, Love and Murder: Trials at the Old Bailey
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Wendy Joseph in conversation with Gerry Foley Wendy Joseph has just stepped down as one of only a handful of judges qualified to preside over murder trials at the Old Bailey. And one of the few female ones at that. For the first time, she can talk about what it’s really like presiding over and ruling on life-changing cases. Through six extraordinary stories, she explores why we kill, what happe...
Berwick Literary Festival Poetry Project: Autumn 2021feat. Joseph Coelho
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First Schools in the Berwick Partnership were invited to take part in a poetry project led by the brilliant children's writer Joseph Coelho. Joseph shared his top tips for writing poems and inspired the children to write their own. This film features some of the children's poems as well as two specially commissioned poetry films based on their work. Introduced by Chloe Smith.
Radius 2021: A Project for Schools
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Students from Berwick Academy and Eyemouth High School chose places that were special to them within 21 miles of Berwick upon Tweed. The students wrote poems about these places and made their own poetry films. The Radius 2021 project was part of the Berwick Literary Festival Schools' Programme, 2021.
Anne Ryland: Unruled Journal
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A special pre-launch reading from Anne's third collection, on the eve of its publication. Anne is also interviewed by Jackie Kaines Lang and answers questions from the audience. This event was a curtain-raiser to the 8th Berwick Literary Festival.
Vicky Allan & Anna Deacon: For the Love of Trees
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How people and trees have changed each other. Vicky Allan and Anna Deacon in conversation with Jackie Kaines Lang.
Barry Morgan: RS Thomas' Religious Poetry...
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Barry Morgan: RS Thomas' Religious Poetry...
Steve Richards: The Prime Ministers We Never Had...
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Steve Richards: The Prime Ministers We Never Had...
Simon Akam: The British Army Since 9/11
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Simon Akam: The British Army Since 9/11
Michael Taylor: How and Why the British Defended Slavery
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Michael Taylor: How and Why the British Defended Slavery
Diarmaid MacCulloch: Thomas Cromwell - A Fresh Look
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Diarmaid MacCulloch: Thomas Cromwell - A Fresh Look
Andrew Lownie: Traitor King: The Scandalous Exile of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor
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Andrew Lownie: Traitor King: The Scandalous Exile of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor
Tim Tate: The Spy Who Was Left Out in the Cold
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Tim Tate: The Spy Who Was Left Out in the Cold
The United States of America government public school system is controlled by the teachers union and all they want is money, medical benefits and retirement pensions THESE TEACHERS ARE NOT INTERESTED IN EDUCATING STUDENTS AT ALL
Doctor? What? First Lady of the United States of America doctor? That kind? Scientist? Physicists? Mathematician? What kind of doctor, reading, writing, history, language, art, musician, architecture, health, food: please specify
Coca-Cola from a glass bottle is delicious.
Thank you Dr. Kanneh-Mason for reminding us of what true class looks and sounds like! Continue to hold your head high.
She is just confirming her parents and grandparents,and siblings participated AS WE AS her husband, the both came from strong families THAT SUPPORTED EACH OTHER. The expectations in the families that she and her husband come from ARE NOT SUPPORTED BY THE UK GOVERNMENT PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM AT ALL.
There are two people I could endlessly listen to talk about things, one is Werner Herzog and the other is Will Self.
I had so much fun reading this book.
Wonderful. Thank you.
Watching in 2024
I stil yooz dicshunriz to chek spellins 🤔(Author "Green Fire: Tommy & Ruthie's Blues", distributor IngramSpark, bookshops UK/US) 🌈🦉
PS: I've stopped wandering around now that people on their cellphones keep bumping into me.
Kitabı yeni bitirdim . Tarzını çok sevdim. Çok renkli bir kedinin gözünden çok renkli bir hikaye izini takip etmek harikaydı. İnsanda halen dolaşıyormuşuz hissini bırakıyor. Bu söyleşi için de çok teşekkürler. 🌸🍒
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(43:25) 20 books in a week at Oxford University? From cover to cover? Surely not? That's 2.8 books per day! Is there anyone here that can read three novels in a day? I could possibly read one medium sized novel in a day if that was all I did.
I've heard similar stories about required reading for Oxbridge - I don't understand how it's possible. Especially as the books are presumably more complex than the average paperback. I'm a slow reader, affected by 21st century attention span, and I would struggle to get through a book a week. Plus those students fit in rowing and footlight reviews - I know I could never cut it.
Been a fan since reading " My idea of fun"
"Evincing evidence?"
Wincing, but easy to say and then wince.
'your goalie works in greggs' greatest chant ever : Celtic v Berwick R !
That was quite a little Sebald riff at the end
I’m 39 and just now discovering the meaning of “sensual immersion in landscape” and so only just realizing retrospectively what I’ve missed out on - what was being lost - as I giddily and unquestioningly rode the amusement park spectacle of media and techno-advancement over my lifetime.
This is such a fascinating interview , thank you so much .
Despite his occasionally irritating verbiage Will's comments on contemporary fiction are spot on. Especially the fact that the only fiction that seems popular in the modern era is often popular because of political reasons that are often exterior to the work itself. I have hope that people will still be drawn to older forms of media, and perhaps more so than now, as everything internet based becomes more and more hyper-regulated and homogeneous in its own way. Distinctly human and less mediated art will become a slightly rarer thing, and hopefully more valuable in some quarters.
Psychologically, buying a book from a shop, physically holding a book, and even the book's smell, is a more fulfilling experience than downloading from a computer or mobile phone, and just staring at a screen. The same applies to buying records, tapes and CDs from shops than downloading and listening on a mobile phone or computer.
after finishing the wolf hall trilogy, i too embarked on a glut of everything i could find on cromwell. he is certainly a fascinating character and this is only added to by the fact that he IS an enigma. my train of thought leads me to think that he was a man who realised that 'we need to pick our battles', but that ultimately he was a good man. as to his 'out box', i think that when he was 'taken', those who took him also took his papers, and destroyed them. great broadcast, highly enjoyable. thankyou.
I love Will but honestly where the hell is he??? Hasn't appeared on telly in years. Didn't even know he had a new book out. He was the sole reason I would occasionally watch Question Time.
Unfortunately a lot of historical fiction can be entertaining but also seems to become fact for some people
Thank you for uploading this roaringly fine jabberthon! "Re-writing on screen is like painting on water". Will Self is a rare treasure.
very rare. Who else strikes you as a treasure in this sense?
@@hannahhume8164 Ooh, that's put me on the spot. Off the top of my head - Miranda July, John Kennedy Toole, Francis Wheen (OK, granted, he's a journalist but 'Strange Days Indeed' and 'How Mumbo-Jumbo...' are written like thrillers), the early, funny, waspish Evelyn Waugh novels, Lewis Carroll. Who floats your boat?
These two men give you a bit of the best of the British!
Will Self uses too many words. Why read him?
No, he uses lots of long words that seem out of place. The best writers don't do this. It's pretentious nonsense @user-ji1tu3qi5j
@user-ji1tu3qi5j words cannot hurt me. I've read more books than insults you've dished out.
His novels can be interminable, but I enjoy reading his short stories. He's rather like a cerebral Clive Barker in his depiction of urban decay.
Yeah I bought some of his books, I found them to be unreadable. I didn’t have a clue what he was trying to say. I’ll stick to Mr Waugh and Kingsley Amiss ect
He wants to be Sebald. @@eddyk2016
Michael foot
If that head teacher who took away the music from the state school didn't learn their lesson about the importance of music in school, I really do hope that they are not allowed another head-ship.
Unfortunately, Hilary Mantel's novels are being accepted as historical fact.
Oh you mean like that charlatan Phillipa Gregory.
Does he cover people like Enoch Powell, Norman Tebbit and John Smith in his book?
Great book. I enjoyed reading it. Thank you
All their behaviour to other people, friends, staff and organisations was so disgusting and we seem to have this now with another member of the royal family and his wife. They seem to get away with it as well. This cannot be covered up, they should be shown up for the selfish entitled, arrogant people they are. After all, we are all members of the human race and they have no right to place themselves above anyone else. As you say they deserve each other (both couples) but we don't need them and their vile behaviour.
India is the biggest democracy, not the US.
A trip to the corrupt Rome of the period would turn an honest man Protestant.
I wish the interviewer had asked him why, since he thinks Amazon is ruining the book world, he chose to sell his own four books on Amazon in the Kindle format.
I know, right? To bring in the $$$$$$$!!!! But hey, that's ok I guess.
Sweet of you to think authors can dictate terms to their publishers.
Great interview and exceptional book!
It is, quite.
By jove
Really interesting, seen the crown, excellent!!!!! However, nothing wrong with woke a lot wrong with Monarchy; still
Andrew Lownie’s book is excellent, as is the documentary he did on the same subject. Wallis Simpson has been derided for decades as the woman who stole a King, but personally I think they should have made the woman a Dame and thanked her for her services to Britain when she married Edward, who was quite possibly the most selfish, self-centred and stupid King we ever (albeit briefly) had. The fact is that Edward had never wanted the throne, but he did like being the centre of attention and he could only achieve that as King. In the past there was a lot of speculation about him being a Nazi sympathiser and I think people thought his sympathy stemmed from naïveté. Now we know it went much further than that and Edward was a Nazi supporter. Edward was probably naive, but only in the sense that he probably convinced himself Hitler was genuinely interested in him and that Hitler would put him back on the throne with Wallis as his Queen. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to work out that Hitler was unlikely to do any such thing, or if he did it would be on his terms. Wallis Simpson, in marrying that pathetic, spineless little man, did the country a favour.
YES, IT SEEMS HER KEEPING EDWARD OFF THE THRONE INDEED DID THE (WORLD) A FAVOR.!! I THOUGHT IT INTERESTING WHERE MEGHAN AND HARRY ARE CONCERNED HOW MEGHAN ALIGNS HERSELF WITH WALLIS BUT THEN AFTER THE HALLOWEEN DEBACLE W/HARRY iN A NAZI UNIFORM I BEGAN TO WONDER THEN IF HE WASN'T TRYING TO TELL THE WORLD SOMETHING ABOUT HIS POLITICAL VIEWS, IE, HE AND SHE LEAN COMMUNIST!! AS OF COURSE DID WALLIS AND EDWARD.
Very interesting.
as always, immensely enjoyable
If your book does make it to television, I sincerely hope Hugh Grant doesn’t play you. He couldn’t play a bookseller in the other film he was in..Mr Cardboard.
Maybe he had adhd or David was on the autism spectrum?
"Rishi Sunak take note"!
This is interesting.
Do you think Edward was the only ignoratnt, bigoted and stupid? They seem to all have serious issues where NONE should be king. Hereditary monarchy is a crap shoot. One monarch in 500 might be good at it. ALL of them have been drummed into the head that "God pick them and their entire family of this position - therefore, they are as gods on earth, set apart, and in a hiarchy where everyone is below them. This nonsense has to end! Primarily for the part that Charles is getting back at all the school mates who called him names by spearheading "the not so good readjustment for the world". This is his priggish, spoiled, stuck up way of getting back at the world and setting himself apart as better than us all. He can commit any crime, no matter how heinous, and the authorities can't lay a finger on him because he is the King. Can you imagine how all these things twist and feed the mind of a narcissist?
Nor enough attention from his parents! Grow up! Be a man! People all around the world, fron the dawn of time, have had cold parents and NO MONEY! Totally impoverished. They worked theri way up to a place in life and affected humanity's strugg;e for the better. Oh, poor me! am the first born and have to be King and live in palaces with pricesless works of art, and the the largest privite jewelry collection in the world! Boo hoo!
There are many reasons why a portrait painting could end up altered, time and alterations in appearance that the artist may not have been satisfied with! And Diarmaid MacCulloch wasn't presenting like with like, one print v one painting is not a comparison per se, you might ask also, why Cromwell kept his portrait to himself?
It warms the cockles of my politically incorrect heart to hear an interviewer use the word "retarded" in the clinical sense.
How dare they block you, Very interesting story. 😘 brown block
Tim tTate love your voice nis nice and soothing you should have an ASMR channel just talking