Novelist and Gothic literature specialist Elizabeth Lowry joins the writer, documentarist, film-maker and psycho-geographer Iain Sinclair to discuss the dark glitter of the Gothic and the work of the American poet Edgar Allan Poe, with presenter Matthew Sweet.
Elizabeth Lowry’s latest book is entitled ‘Dark Water’
“A rare radio appearance last night, talking about Poe in the interval of the BBC proms. Available as podcast” (Iain Sinclair)
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p07k6xyp
The mysterious Stanley Schtinter (I wonder if this is his real name), has released a “endless tape” by Iain Sinclair:
Endless Tape Series (2) – Acoustic Gleanings From The Overground by IAIN SINCLAIR
Unfortunately seen too late but it might still be available on BBC iPlayer:
There will be a reading from, and conversation about, ‘Black Apples of Gower’ on Radio 3 – ‘Freethinking’ – at 10pm on Tuesday June 23.
best,
Iain
Iain on BBC Radio 4 Today
Aside from the exercise, can walking help you to think clearly? There is no shortage of writers who have drawn inspiration from their daily stroll.
Claire Tomalin, biographer of keen walkers Charles Dickens, Thomas Hardy, Samuel Pepys and Jane Austen, told Today: “I love walking. I find it absolutely thrilling to walk along the Thames where Pepys walked”.
“You see the sky and the river in the same way that your subject did”.
Iain Sinclair, an author and filmmaker who does the same walk every morning, said: “I walk for 40 minutes every morning before I start working, as a kind of mediation between the state of sleeping and the state of waking.”
First broadcast Today programme 16 January 2015.
Iain was invited on the BBC4 Front Row radio show to comment on Ruin Lust, a new exhibition at Tate Britain.
Audio: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01t8m4m

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