with Dr Pete Edwards. Proper Northern History.
History tours, teaching in prison, and why historians should go outside more.
with Michael Farris Smith. Putting the Nick into Gatsby.
Michael’s novel Nick tells the story of Nick Carraway before we meet him in The Great Gatsby, treating Nick as an unfinished character.
with Richard Hurst. Bomb disposal, sunglasses, and Miranda Hart.
Richard tells me about his unfinished sitcoms and the lunch habits of the Miranda team.
with Maggie Tran. Performance, Zen gardening, and the future of historical gardens.
Overlaps between gardening and performance, why gardeners may not be as relaxed as you might think, and the future of historical gardens.
with Kevin Frediani. Gorillas, vertical farming, and abandoned gardens.
A gorilla exhibit in Chelsea, vertical farming, and how gardeners work for the benefit of future generations.
with Sarah Geissler: emotional quilts, dress detectives, and naughty steps.
In Summer 2020 Sarah was one of the volunteers who engaged in a mammoth effort to sew scrubs for the NHS. Her unfinished project is a quilt made from the offcuts.
with Adam Smyth. Lists, archival secrets, and redemptive urges.
Why lists might be the ultimate form for unfinished work, not finding what you’re looking for in archives, and why we don’t want to admit a project’s abandoned.
with The Dark Material Podcast. Daemons, TV adaptations, and biscuits.
Podcast hosts Amy and Iain are in the middle of a chapter-by-chapter read along of Philip Pullman's best selling Dark Materials series of books.
with David Spittle. Unfinished things are not lost.
David tells me how abandoned ideas emerge in other creative work later down the line.
with Rachael Shaw. Writing and therapy.
Rachael tells me about the blog she started after being diagnosed with breast cancer in her mid thirties.
with Mary McGrath. The literature of food, perseverance, and writing towards an audience.
Mary reads her short story, “Sup”, which judges Prue Leith and Stephen Fry shortlisted for the Mogford Prize for food and drink literature.
with Gillie Kleiman. Grief dances, and newts.
The possibilities of the incomplete, and the value in everyday things.
with Sophie Cooper. ‘Prog Land’, disastrous A-Levels, and babies learning music.
Incomplete prog rock theme parks and babies learning music.