If you missed Jules Evans asking whether art galleries and theatres can really help us come together, lose control and connect with something beyond ourselves on Start the Week on Monday 24 April 2017 you can listen again on the BBC Radio 4 website.
Monthly Archives: April 2017
Thomas Dixon discusses Princess Diana, Prince Harry and Stiff Upper Lip on Today programme
If you missed Professor Thomas Dixon discussing Prince Harry, the death of Princess Diana in 1997, and the history of the stiff upper lip on 18 April 2017 then you can listen to his segment on the Today progamme website. The discussion was picked up in in a comment piece for The Guardian by Sir Simon Wessely, President of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, on 19 April 2017 and Thomas was quoted in an article about Prince Harry, tears, and the British stiff upper lip in a German national newspaper, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, on 18 April 2017.
Mood Shifts: A Sonic Repertoire
“Sounds touch me, and mood is the window of allowance, wide or narrow, to let sound in: my moods are equivalent to what I let myself touch, and be touched by in turn, but also what I have no choice in the matter of being encased in…”
Is it possible to create a poetics of atmosphere as antidote to pre-election and post-Brexit airlessness, moodlessness, and disrepair? Mary Cappello performs a multi-modal reading from her latest collection of essays and experimental prose, Life Breaks In (a mood almanack) with emphasis on sounds and voices as mood generators par excellence. Expect images, music, discussion and unnamed mood shifts. Attendance is free but please register online.
Doors will open at 6pm and the event starts at 6.30. There will be a pay bar.
PopSugar calls Life Breaks In one of 10 books to keep us centred post-election.
Brit+Company places it among “3 books to set your imagination ablaze”
LARB describes it as “time spent in a language-made listening room, a stroll into shifting human emotive time“.
Books will be available for sale and signing. Life Breaks In (Unviersity of Chicago Press) features a colour photo gallery by Rosamond Purcell.