In 1979 Paul Green devised a piece for BBC Radio 3, based on ‘Lud Heat‘, Iain Sinclair’s pioneering psychogeographical foray into London’s East End, focusing on Nicholas Hawksmoor‘s churches and the sites of the Ripper murders.
Iain takes us through the streets of Hackney and Spitalfields, reads poems and prose extracts from the book. We also descend into the crypt of St Anne’s, Limehouse under the guidance of artist and writer Brian Catling.
The final programme was never transmitted by the BBC, thanks to the whims of the person then in charge of Radio 3, but it has been circulated for years as a samizdat cassette.
Concrete Atlantis is proud to present a hand-numbered cassette edition of 50 copies only to commemorate 50 years of Lud Heat.
Released with full approval from both Iain Sinclair and Paul Green and available from late July exclusively at the Swedenborg House bookshop in Holborn, London.
Concrete Atlantis is a new series of private press recordings, spoken word events and London drifts from award winning author Travis Elborough & electronic artist Stonecirclesampler.
Iain Sinclair & Paul Green – The Lud Heat Tapes 1979
Editor’s note: The Guardian, article about Lud Heat.