unfinished writing, literature, and poetry
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unfinished writing, literature, and poetry *
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with Richard Hurst. Bomb disposal, sunglasses, and Miranda Hart.
Richard tells me about his unfinished sitcoms and the lunch habits of the Miranda team.
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with Nathan Waddell. George Orwell and unfinished video games.
We discover George Orwell's unfinished stories, and what Orwell's got to do with the incomplete video game Half-Life.
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with Faye Latham. Erasure, imposter syndrome, and Tipp-Ex.
Faye erases large sections of classic mountaineering literature to 'unfinish' it, creating a new story from the gaps that emerge.
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with Sophie Taylor. Writing Robots.
Sophie has a poetry collection she doesn't want to publish. She created it using AI about her experience of surviving revenge porn.
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with Robert Hampson. Publishing an unfinished poem (twice).
Robert recounts how the Russian invasion of Ukraine interrupted a Ukrainian edition of Joseph Conrad's writing. He also describes what it's like to return to an unfinished poem decades after its first publication.
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at the Northern Writers' Awards 2023.
A special episode recorded at the Northern Writers' Awards, which celebrates works-in-progress.
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with Rishi Dastidar. Postcards for strangers.
Rishi turned his old Facebook updates into postcards, and made them into an exhibition.
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with Victoria Bennett. Memoir, grief, and gardening.
Victoria's experience of grief as being unfinished, after going through the sudden death of a loved one.
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with Michael Shallcross. Inscribing Pandemonium.
Michael explains why only an unfinishable project can capture literary devils.
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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.
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with Anna Fleming. A climber’s Time on Rock: community, life changes, and vomiting seabirds.
Rock-climber Anna Fleming talks about her memoir & explains why being a climber is an incomplete experience.
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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.
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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.
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with Mark Antony Owen. Facts disguised as fiction and in-between places.
Mark tells me why he updates his poetry project every three years.
