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In this episode of ‘Past – Forward’, curator and writer Gareth Evans talks to writers Lydia Fulton and Ben Eastham who ran The Wapping Project’s bookshop, set in a glasshouse within the gardens of the Wapping Hydraulic Power Station, where one could encounter Deborah Levy, Andrew Motion, Ben Okri, Helen Oyeyemi, and many other writers and poets reading by a woodburning stove to an audience of twelve sitting on the glasshouse’s floor.

Hosted by Gareth Evans

Featuring Lydia Fulton and Ben Eastham

Sound editing and design by Philippe Frau-Nadal

Podcast intro theme by Billy Cowie from the soundtrack to ‘Shiny Nylon’