Moveable Type

How do texts reflect their surrounding environment? How thin really is the boundary between word and the world, and what creative possibilities emerge when our 'eyes stray from the page'? 

Join us to discuss 'Ambience', our latest issue of Moveable Type, featuring interviews with our editors, Q&As with this issue's article writers, poetry readings and 30-Second Book Reviews. This podcast is presented by William Burns and Damian Walsh. It features Sarah Edwards, Will Fleming, Sarah Chambre, Miriam Helmers, Zoe Rucker, Elisa Sabbadin, David Prescott-Steed and K.V.K. Kvas, and was produced by Hugo Chambre. 

You can read our latest issue, 'Ambience' and access the transcript here: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/moveable-type/ambience

Date of episode recording: 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z
Duration: 00:54:03
Language of episode: English
Presenter: William Burns; Damian Walsh
Guests: Sarah Edwards; Will Fleming; Sarah Chambre; Miriam Helmers; Zoe Rucker; Elisa Sabbadin; David Prescott-Steed; K.V.K. Kvas
Producer: Hugo Chambre

Moveable Type Season 1 – Ambience

In this first episode of 2022, host Roxana Toloza Chacon talks to Emma Cavell, Daniel Lewis, Joshua Lok, and Jake Wiseman, four PhD students from the UCL English Department, to discuss Muriel Spark’s crusade against ‘received wisdom’, the anxieties of Biblical translation, and going beyond ‘literature in English’. We’ll also meet the team behind the Moveable Type podcast and hear from Editor-in-Chief Sarah Edwards about the journal’s upcoming Call for Papers on the topic of ‘Unfeeling’ (deadline 22nd February). 

For more information and to access the transcript: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/moveable-type/moveable-type-podcast-unfeeling-transcript-episode-2

Date of episode recording: 2022-01-14
Duration: 00:55:46
Language of episode: English
Presenter: Roxana Toloza Chacon
Guests: Will Burns, Emma Cavell, Anna De Vivo, Sarah Edwards, Daniel Lewis, Joshua Lok, Damian Walsh, Jake Wiseman
Producer: Damian Walsh
Sound Editor: Daniel Lewis

Moveable Type Season 1 – Style and Translation

In the first of a two-part feature celebrating LGBTQ+ History Month, our presenter Roxana speaks to Dr Noreen Masud, BBC New Generation Thinker and Lecturer at the University of Bristol, about her work on flatness, negative affect, and the aphorism, and how each might help us resist heteronormativity. She also speaks to Talen Wright, PhD student at UCL Division of Psychiatry, about her research into trans mental health, microaggressions and microaffirmation. Both guests also discuss UCL’s recent decision to cut ties with Stonewall, and the ramifications of this decision on trans safety and academic freedom within the university and society more broadly. 

For more information on UCL’s recent decision to cut ties with Stonewall: https://thetab.com/uk/london/2022/01/21/vindictive-and-insensitive-students-and-staff-slam-ucl-decision-to-cut-ties-with-stonewall-44148 https://www.theguardian.com/education/2021/dec/21/ucl-becomes-first-university-to-formally-cut-ties-with-stonewall 

Petition calling for UCL to re-join the scheme: https://www.change.org/p/ucl-ucl-staff-students-alumni-ask-ucl-to-rejoin-stonewall-schemes 

For more information on Talen Wright’s study, and to take part, see Twitter @TransMMH and: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/psychiatry/research/epidemiology-and-applied-clinical-research-department/trans-microaggressions-mental-health 

The views and opinions expressed in this podcast are those of the individuals and do not necessarily reflect the official policies, views or positions of any institutions with which they are affiliated.

For more information and to access the transcript:  https://www.ucl.ac.uk/moveable-type/moveable-type-podcast-lgbtq-history-month-part-1-episode-3

Date of episode recording: 2022-02-09
Duration: 01:00:23
Language of episode: English
Presenter: Roxana Toloza Chacon
Guests: Dr Noreen Masud; Talen Wright
Producer: Anna De Vivo; Damian Walsh

Moveable Type Series 1 – LGBTQ+ History Month Part 1: flatness, normativity, and trans mental health

In the second of a two-part feature recorded for LGBTQ+ History Month, presenter Roxie talks to Juliet Jacques, writer, journalist and author of Trans: A Memoir about her 2021 short-story collection Variations and the politics of representing trans history. She also speaks to Ben Miller, historian, writer and co-host of the Bad Gays podcast about complicating conventional queer histories as well as his research into the colonial legacy of queer representation. 

For more information on UCL’s recent decision to cut ties with Stonewall: https://thetab.com/uk/london/2022/01/21/vindictive-and-insensitive-students-and-staff-slam-ucl-decision-to-cut-ties-with-stonewall-44148 

Petition calling for UCL to rejoin the scheme: https://www.change.org/p/ucl-ucl-staff-students-alumni-ask-ucl-to-rejoin-stonewall-schemes 

The views and opinions expressed in this podcast are those of the individuals and do not necessarily reflect the official policies, views or positions of any institutions with which they are affiliated.

To access the transcript: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/moveable-type/moveable-type-podcast-lgbtq-history-month-transcript-episode-3-part-2

Date of episode recording: 2022-02-16
Duration: 01:10:50
Language of episode: English
Presenter: Roxana Toloza Chacon
Guests: Juliet Jacques; Ben Miller
Producer: Anna De Vivo; Damian Walsh; Editor: Daniel Lewis

Moveable Type Series 1 - LGBTQ+ History Month Part 2: queer histories of contestation

In the first of a two-part episode on the Environmental Humanities, host Roxana talks with Prof. Mark Bould about climate change subtexts, Sharknado, and the utopian potential of speculative fiction. Mark Bould is Professor of Film and Literature at UWE Bristol and author of The Anthropocene Unconscious: Climate Catastrophe Culture (Verso, 2021). In 2016 he was awarded the SFRA Pilgrim Lifetime Achievement Award for Critical Contributions to the Study of Science Fiction and Fantasy. 

A transcript of this episode is available here: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/moveable-type/moveable-type-podcast-environmental-humanities-anthropocene-unconscious-episode-5

Date of episode recording: 2022-04-14
Duration: 00:50:52
Language of episode: English
Presenter: Roxana Toloza Chacon
Guests: Mark Bould
Producer: Producer: Damian Walsh; Assistant Producer: Anna De Vivo; Editor: Daniel Lewis

Movable Type Season 1 - Environmental Humanities: Anthropocene Unconscious

In today's episode, we are pleased to share with you our very first radio play. The play we will be sharing with you today is called Gravity and it was written by Katie Caden. Caden is an alumnus of Soho Writers Lab and has had her work performed at Vault festival, the Bunker Theatre, Southwark Playhouse, Theatre 503, Camden People's Theatre and Battersea Arts Centre. Her last show 'Paper Straws', produced by her theatre company PearShaped, won the Vault Origins award and her first play 'Are You Happy Now' was shortlisted for Lyric Hammersmith's Original Theatre Voices competition. 

Caden's writing explores contemporary issues, and interrogates the way we live our lives today, experimenting with form and often using humour as a way to communicate serious issues. She writes to understand other people, and herself, exploring why we behave in the way we do? Why do we make poor decisions and repeat our mistakes? And what drives us to hurt each other or conversely express our love? Writing 'Gravity' in response to Unfeeling, the theme for this year's issue, allowed Caden to consider these things and, in particular, how people can express their love through their actions whilst saying they don't care, and conversely how we can tell people we love them and then behave like we don't. All the characters battle with these impulses and the push and pull between feeling too much and feeling nothing at all. Alongside this, Caden has included technology almost as an extra character, interfering with these dynamics, pulling attention away from the situation at hand, and impacting the characters' ability to feel to the fullest extent.

For more information and to access the transcript: www.ucl.ac.uk/moveable-type/gravity-radio-play-katie-caden

Date of episode recording: 2022-09-27 
Duration: 00:15:58
Language of episode: English
Presenter: Sarah Edwards
Guests: Eve Colyer, Regina Co, Sophie Edwards, ELiot Taylor, Sarah Chambre, Miriam Helmers, Oliver Toloza Chacon, Damian Walsh
Producer: Sarah Edwards (producer), Katie Caden (playwright)

Moveable Type - Series 1 - Gravity

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