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Presenter Gemma Cairney visits Africa Express' 'Maison des Jeunes' in Bamako as part of  her BBC Radio 6 journey to Mali. 

Mali, for so long a musical powerhouse with some of Africa's finest performers has seen its music scene damaged by the coup, the collapse of the country and the Islamist takeover of the north. Incredibly, music was banned for several months in much of this nation that is so entwined with its musicians.

Gemma meets local musicians including Naba TT and Afel Bocoum who talk about their experiences of the ban and living through this very difficult time.

Gemma is given unique behind the scenes access from their rehearsal rooms in Bamako with contributions from Damon Albarn, Brian Eno, Yeah Yeah Yeahs guitarist Nick Zinner, Django Django's David Maclean, Andre de Ridder, Olugbenga from Metronomy, Lil Silva, Ghostpoet, Pauli and Songhoy Blues, a group of young musicians from Timbuktu who had to flee to the South during the troubles. During the recording sessions they end up collaborating on a track with Nick Zinner.

Gemma also joins the collective as they celebrate Mali's biggest holiday, Eid al-Adha festival with Malian musical legend Salif Keita on his island outside the city.

Mali Music: Gemma Cairney BBC Radio 6 (Part 1)

Part 2 of Presenter Gemma Cairney visit to Africa Express' 'Maison des Jeunes' in Bamako as part of her BBC Radio 6 journey to Mali.

Mali, for so long a musical powerhouse with some of Africa's finest performers has seen its music scene damaged by the coup, the collapse of the country and the Islamist takeover of the north. Incredibly, music was banned for several months in much of this nation that is so entwined with its musicians.

Gemma meets local musicians including Naba TT and Afel Bocoum who talk about their experiences of the ban and living through this very difficult time.

Gemma is given unique behind the scenes access from their rehearsal rooms in Bamako with contributions from Damon Albarn, Brian Eno, Yeah Yeah Yeahs guitarist Nick Zinner, Django Django's David Maclean, Andre de Ridder, Olugbenga from Metronomy, Lil Silva, Ghostpoet, Pauli and Songhoy Blues, a group of young musicians from Timbuktu who had to flee to the South during the troubles. During the recording sessions they end up collaborating on a track with Nick Zinner.

Gemma also joins the collective as they celebrate Mali's biggest holiday, Eid al-Adha festival with Malian musical legend Salif Keita on his island outside the city.

Mali Music: Gemma Cairney BBC Radio 6 (Part 2)

Adam Phillips on Freud's Life, and Why It's None of Our Business

In this the season’s final episode of The Book Show we walk across three cities to find out what connects writers and walkers by looking the work of William Hazlitt, Wordsworth, , Jane Austen, Dickens, Virginia Woolf and James Joyce’s famous literary walk from Ulysses.
WALKING AND WRITING
In the programme you’ll hear:
AC Grayling -  The Quarrel of the Age, a biography of William Hazlitt, is published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson.

Margaret Drabble’s latest work The Pure Gold Baby is published by Canongate.

Rebecca Solnit -  Wanderlust: A History of Walking has just been reissued and her new book on mapping cities The Faraway Nearby is also out this month. Both are published by Granta.


Will Self’s  - Psychogeography: Disentangling the Modern Conundrum of Psyche and Place
 (Bloomsbury)

Teju Cole’s Open City (Faber)
In Open City, the main character Julius is an American psychiatrist training in Manhattan. Of German and Nigerian extraction, he talks long walk around in New York to escape from longs days training to be a psychiatrist. Sinead met with Teju Cole to discuss how he mapped the layers of history in Manhattan in this novel and through the eyes of his character. 

And Declan Kiberd, who teaches English in the University of Notre Dame in Indiana and has written extensively on Ulysses. 
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Poems to Make Grown Men Cry
Grown men aren’t supposed to cry. Anthony and Ben Holden chose 100 eminent men; they explain why, in words as moving as the poems themselves.

With broadcaster Melvyn Bragg, Evolutionary Biologist Richard Dawkins, Booker winning author Ian McEwan and film director Mike Leigh reading poems for The Book Show. 

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Zoe Comyns takes a walk through a future Dublin, a city in crisis with John Kelly to talk about his third novel  From Out of The City.
Dublin, some years from now, and the President of the United States has just been assassinated during a state dinner in his honour. The official account has already taken hold but a hawk-eyed octogenarian named Monk, believing that there’s nothing that cannot be known, has a version of his own—a dark and twisted tale of both the watcher and the watched.

And Regan Hutchins final Footnote for the season tell us of Vincent Prices’ much sought after cookbook. 


The Book Show Season 1 Final Episode

Philosopher Daniel Heller-Roazen tells us the story of Pythagoras and the fifth hammer and how Kant and Kepler both tried(and failed)to record the universal harmonies Pythagoras once heard. Your host sets out to make some money doing experimental medical testing, and gets the chance to record the voice in his head. Played some of this recently in Copenhagen, went over well - so we will re-air this one for you all as well.  Special thanks to sponsors: Casper and Souverain Wines

Guided By Voices

“Here is a fruit for the crows to pluck, for the rain to gather, for the wind to suck, for the sun to rot, for a tree to drop. Here is a strange and bitter crop.” -Abel Meeropol

Poet and songwriter Abel Meeropol wrote that lament after seeing a photograph of two black teenagers hanging from a tree. Strange Fruit was later made famous by Billie Holiday. But a third boy escaped being lynched that fateful day, 80 years ago, in Marion, Indiana. James Cameron was believed to be the only African American to have survived a lynching. Decades later, a box of recordings was found in a basement. They contained the recollections of people who witnessed or took part in the events of that day.

#18: Strange Fruit - Voices of a Lynching

A tiny radio show about design, architecture & the 99% invisible activity that shapes our world.

99% Invisible-15- Sounds of the Artificial World

LARB's Philosophy and Critical Theory editor Arne De Bouever speaks with Michael Marder, Ikerbasque Research Professor of Philosophy at the University of Basque Country. He is the author of the recent books The Philosopher's Plant and Pyropolitics.

Michael Marder

Anthropologist David Graeber explores the bureaucratic dimension that rules our lives, takes our money, and stretches between the public and private, the right and the left, between capitalism and whatever comes next.

David's new book is The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy.

http://www.mhpbooks.com/books/the-utopia-of-rules/

David Graeber is an anthropologist, writer and activist.


David Graeber follows the rules, to the boring / fascinating heart of bureaucracy itself.

In episode two of our podcast series, we talk to Joanna Walsh about experimental British writer Christine Brooke-Rose, and Padraig O Mealoid tells us about his investigations into Flann O'Brien's pulp fiction.

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Episode 2: Utterly Other Writers

Short documentary piece made by Dave Blackwell about the Celebration of Traveller Music gigs organised by Poster Fish Promotions and Blanchardstown Traveller Development Group. The piece was recorded at the 4th such gig in the Cobblestone pub in Dublin on 10 Dec 2015 which was a fundraiser for the families affected by the tragic halting site fire in Carrickmines. Dave speaks to Freda Hughes, Jack Delaney, John Connors, Bernie McDonagh and Thomas McCarthy about what the gigs mean to the community and the importance of celebrating Traveller music. The next gig is in Tankers Bar, Listowel, Co. Kerry on 29 Dec 2015. We're taking the show on the road! 

For more information contact Freda on posterfishpromotions@gmail.com

Photo by Colm Keating

Celebrating Traveller Music - 2015

Luc Sante takes us on a tour of “The Other Paris” Benoît Peeters shows us Paris of 22nd century and your host learns why there is so much Brooklyn in the 10th arrondissement

image by Celeste Lai

Paris

In part one of their conversation, Paul Holdengraber and Adam Phillips discuss writing habits, Jacques Lacan, and how are parents make us who we are. More at LitHub.com.

Adam Phillips, part one.

In the second part of their conversation, Paul Holdengraber and Adam Phillips discuss Walt Whitman, self-discovery, and American rock n' roll. For more Phone Calls From Paul, visit LitHub.com.

Adam Phillips, part two.

Rachel Cooke, Observer writer, New Statesman TV critic and author joins John, Andy & Mathew to discuss 'All the Devils Are Here', the astounding travelogue through Kent and the depths of human behaviour from David Seabrook. Plus, the drinking habits of Carry On stars, and what to read in Iceland.

Timings: (may differ due to adverts)
3'36 - Dalva by Jim Harrison
8'46 - Life and Death of Harriett Frean by May Sinclair
17'55 -  All the Devils Are Here by David Seabrook

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All the Devils Are Here by David Seabrook

In part one of Werner Herzog's wide-ranging conversation with Paul Holdengraber, the two discuss the human side of massive volcanoes, making promises to North Koreans, and that thing known as the Internet. For more, visit LitHub.com.

Werner Herzog, part one.

Sunday Feature Suspended In Air 0306

I've indexed most of the pivots in this discussion. Hover them if you're looking for something specific. To skip to an index point, start playing the recording, then click near the vertical stripe in the waveform above the section of interest.

At around 1hr22min, Gibson reads a few sample pages from his in-progress book, THE PERIPHERAL.

WILLIAM GIBSON AT NYPL 4/19/13 READS FROM NEW BOOK, 'THE PERIPHERAL'

Noted philosopher and notorious obsessor Simon Critchley will share his fascination with memory theaters. Ever since reading the wonderful Frances Yates at a tender age, he has been completely obsessed with the classical arts of memory and in particular with various crazy attempts to build a memory theatre, a kind of machine that would permit total recall of the entire sum of knowledge. Critchley will talk about how the occult and hermetic arts of memory were revived in the Italian Renaissance, in Shakespeare and mobilized in Hegel before turning to his own attempt to build a memory theatre in the Netherlands. It ended in disaster.

Obsession: Simon Critchley on Memory Theater

Have you asked Draya Michele any tough Twitter questions yet? This week, Kid Fury and Crissle are reading deadbeat parents and destroying the fuckboys. Also, which Real Housewife is pregnant again and what's up Kanye's butt?

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