20 April 2007
Friday 20 April 2007 21:45-22:30 (Radio 3)
Playlist
Kings Cross is rising
The writer John Simmons has just completed a subterranean residency with the London Underground.
The resulting book, Kings Cross Is Rising, is full of stories from passengers and staff alike. John Simmons joins Ian to share his experiences, describing the process of turning everyday journeys into literary inspiration.
Kings Cross Is Rising is published by Platform Art.
Verbatim Literature
From real stories on the Tube to real testimony in the pages of literary fiction. The novelist Iain Sinclair joins the Verb panel to discuss the history and future of verbatim literature.
His current book mixes his own non-fiction writing with verbatim transcripts of interviews conducted with residents in his neighbourhood.
How tricky is it to pull such different material together and is the resulting work always a work of fiction or not?
Kapka Kassabova
The exciting young poet Kapka Kassabova discusses her new collection, Geography For The Lost, a series of meditations on travel and identity.
Geography for the Lost by Kapka Kassabova is published by Bloodaxe.
Marty Himmelfarb
The second part of author Elena Lappin's special commission for The Verb, detailing the adventures and misadventures of Marty Himmelfarb, accidental spam writer.
This week Marty goes to the London Book Fair and encounters unexpected success in the world Spamblishing.
Tunng
Performance from the lyrically masterful folk band, Tunng, from their new album Comments of the Inner Chorus.
Comments of the Inner Chorus by Tunng is out on the Full Time Hobby label.
E-mail ettiquette eartoon
Another mind-bending eartoon from The Verb's award winning Peter Blegvad, exploring the world of email etiquette, `netiquette'.
Send: The How, Why, When and When Not of Email by David Shipley and Will Schwalbe is published by Canongate on 19th May.
