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Anne O'Neill and Julian Henry
Manage episode 314931241 series 3234668
Anne O'Neill and Julian Henry are newer members of the Philip Larkin Society team and many people will have already been feeling the benefit of their fantastic work on the PL Instagram page. Julian is also a trustee and is now supporting the society committee and its planning and events work. Anne is based in County Kerry and Julian in Oxford. We got together to talk about Larkin in the media, Twitter, Instagram, radio and television and Anne and Julian talk about their route into Larkin, their favourite poems, cancel culture, Hull University, Beatrix Potter, Larkin’s legacy and much more.
Wider topics and references: Rachel Cusk, Morrissey, Rap Boy, Desert Island Discs, Dublin, James Joyce, Richard Murfield, Monica Jones, Beatrix Potter, The Smiths, The Beatles A Hard Day Night, Bernadine Evaristo.
Larkin poems discussed: No Road, Dublinesque, Going Going, Broadcast, Church Going, This Be The Verse, At Grass.
Desert Island Discs (BBC) Larkin as guest (17.7.76) https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p009n0l8
The South Bank Show March (1981) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdeEFErYVtk
All What Jazz (1970) https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/feb/10/back-pages-philip-larkin-jazz-george-melly
Margaret Atwood on poetry: https://www.theguardian.com/books/ng-interactive/2020/nov/07/caught-in-times-current-margaret-atwood-on-grief-poetry-and-the-past-four-years
Nick Cave on cancel culture/censorship: https://www.theredhandfiles.com/do-you-need-to-change-lyrics/
Bibliotherapy
https://ofselfandshelf.com/tag/philip-larkin/
https://theblahpolar.wordpress.com/2016/01/25/bibliotherapy/
Letters Home- James Booth (ed.) https://www.faber.co.uk/9780571335596-philip-larkin-letters-home.html
Anne O’Neill’s articles on Larkin
https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/world-sleep-day-can-t-sleep-at-night-have-a-read-1.3428267
Books themselves serve as the ultimate self-help book for reading is a great cure
Presented by Lyn Lockwood.
Theme music: 'The Horns Of The Morning' by The Mechanicals Band. Buy 'The Righteous Jazz' at their Bandcamp page: https://themechanicalsband.bandcamp.com/album/the-righteous-jazz
Audio production by Simon Galloway.
Follow us and get it touch on Twitter - https://twitter.com/tiny_air
Find out more about the Philip Larkin Society here - http://philiplarkin.com/
60 episodes
Manage episode 314931241 series 3234668
Anne O'Neill and Julian Henry are newer members of the Philip Larkin Society team and many people will have already been feeling the benefit of their fantastic work on the PL Instagram page. Julian is also a trustee and is now supporting the society committee and its planning and events work. Anne is based in County Kerry and Julian in Oxford. We got together to talk about Larkin in the media, Twitter, Instagram, radio and television and Anne and Julian talk about their route into Larkin, their favourite poems, cancel culture, Hull University, Beatrix Potter, Larkin’s legacy and much more.
Wider topics and references: Rachel Cusk, Morrissey, Rap Boy, Desert Island Discs, Dublin, James Joyce, Richard Murfield, Monica Jones, Beatrix Potter, The Smiths, The Beatles A Hard Day Night, Bernadine Evaristo.
Larkin poems discussed: No Road, Dublinesque, Going Going, Broadcast, Church Going, This Be The Verse, At Grass.
Desert Island Discs (BBC) Larkin as guest (17.7.76) https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p009n0l8
The South Bank Show March (1981) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdeEFErYVtk
All What Jazz (1970) https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/feb/10/back-pages-philip-larkin-jazz-george-melly
Margaret Atwood on poetry: https://www.theguardian.com/books/ng-interactive/2020/nov/07/caught-in-times-current-margaret-atwood-on-grief-poetry-and-the-past-four-years
Nick Cave on cancel culture/censorship: https://www.theredhandfiles.com/do-you-need-to-change-lyrics/
Bibliotherapy
https://ofselfandshelf.com/tag/philip-larkin/
https://theblahpolar.wordpress.com/2016/01/25/bibliotherapy/
Letters Home- James Booth (ed.) https://www.faber.co.uk/9780571335596-philip-larkin-letters-home.html
Anne O’Neill’s articles on Larkin
https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/world-sleep-day-can-t-sleep-at-night-have-a-read-1.3428267
Books themselves serve as the ultimate self-help book for reading is a great cure
Presented by Lyn Lockwood.
Theme music: 'The Horns Of The Morning' by The Mechanicals Band. Buy 'The Righteous Jazz' at their Bandcamp page: https://themechanicalsband.bandcamp.com/album/the-righteous-jazz
Audio production by Simon Galloway.
Follow us and get it touch on Twitter - https://twitter.com/tiny_air
Find out more about the Philip Larkin Society here - http://philiplarkin.com/
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