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London Review Bookshop PodcastPhilip Hoare & Olivia Laing: William Blake and The Sea Monsters of LoveIn William Blake and The Sea Monsters of Love (4th Estate) – ‘an impassioned magnum opus celebrating Blake’s star-shaken genius by discovering his lineage everywhere in the author’s own crystal cabinet of artists and outlaws,’ in the words of Iain Sinclair – Philip Hoare pays brilliant and digressive tribute to the maverick poet and artist and his abiding influence.
Hoare, author of the classic Leviathan and Albert and the Whale, was joined in conversation by novelist and essayist Olivia Laing.
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2025-12-151h 04
MAKE POETRY WEIRD AGAINHOW TO MAKE POEMS WITH WILLIAM BLAKE AND OSCAR WILDEBONUS EPISODE - Nols makes an episode on two of his queer poetry icons William Blake and Oscar Wilde. The show is a meditation on the two poets as Nols had a birthday party for William Blake on the 28th November 2025 with some incredible poets making poems in his living room. Oscar Wilde died on the 30th November 1900 an exile in Paris. He was misquoted until the end. Nols read work from both poets and some new poems written this weekend to both. Check out Oscar Wilde's poem Requiescat here.Requiescat by Oscar Wilde - Poems | Academy of American PoetsYou can read De Profu...
2025-11-3038 min
Thinking Class#100 - Philip Cunliffe - Britain After Globalism: Demographics, Identity And The National InterestPhilip Cunliffe is Associate Professor of International Relations at the UCL, where he researches and teaches on the topics of international order, multinational military intervention, and conflict management. He has 20 years of academic experience, having previously worked as a Senior Lecturer at the University of Kent and a Temporary Lecturer at the UK’s Joint Services Command and Staff College. He obtained his PhD in War Studies from King’s College London. He has also worked as a contributor to the Economist Intelligence Unit.He is a prolific author and editor, having published eight books and numerous acad...
2025-10-311h 14London Review Bookshop PodcastXiaolu Guo & Philip Hoare: Call Me IshmaelleGender, race and identity collide on the open seas in Xiaolu Guo’s Call Me Ishmaelle (Chatto), a powerful, feminist reimagining of Herman Melville’s Moby Dick. She was in conversation with Philip Hoare, author of Leviathan: Or the Whale, who has described Guo’s latest novel as being ‘as animal and visceral and shape-shifting and subversive as the broad back of the mythic whale themselves.’
2025-10-291h 07
How To Academy PodcastPhilip Hoare - The Revolutionary Genius of William BlakeA journey of both past and future, of the natural world and metaphysical realms, Philip Hoare guides us through a dreamscape slipping through time and space with the unpredictable guide of William Blake. From William's visions of angels to his radical approach to artistic creation, from his anarchic and seditious writing to the enchanting and democratic force of his art, from his belief in the holiness of every living creature to his staunch opposition to slavery, William Blake was an artistic genius far ahead of his time. And as Philip reveals, William had always known that he would not...
2025-09-121h 03
Daily Reflections with Fr. PatMemorial of Saint Philip Neri, Priesthttps://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/052625.cfm
2025-05-2605 min
Private PassionsPhilip HoarePhilip Hoare is an award-winning writer whose books often describe the lure of the sea, the strange and beautiful creatures that live in it and the inspiration artists have found in its murky depths. His book Leviathan won the Samuel Johnson Prize: it drew on his lifelong obsession with whales, which began with the gigantic skeletons in the Natural History Museum and continued with his own encounters with them at sea. His most recent book, William Blake and the Sea Monsters of Love, traces Blake’s enduring influence on numerous poets, writers, film-makers and musicians. He...
2025-05-1852 min
The Shakespeare and Company InterviewWilliam Blake, Sea Monsters, and the Ecstasy of Art, with Philip HoareIn this episode of the Shakespeare and Company Interview Podcast, Adam Biles welcomes Philip Hoare to the bookstore for a mesmerizing conversation about Hoare’s latest book, William Blake and the Sea Monsters of Love. With characteristic lyricism, Hoare explores the mystic intersections between Blake’s visionary art and poetry and the siren call of the ocean. The discussion flows through queer longing, mythic imagery, and the enduring pull of nature and art. A haunting, moving, and often playful exchange—as unruly and evocative as the sea itself.Buy William Blake and the Sea Monsters of Love: h...
2025-05-0857 minThe Shakespeare and Company InterviewWilliam Blake, Sea Monsters, and the Ecstasy of Art, with Philip HoareIn this episode of the Shakespeare and Company Interview Podcast, Adam Biles welcomes Philip Hoare to the bookstore for a mesmerizing conversation about Hoare’s latest book, William Blake and the Sea Monsters of Love. With characteristic lyricism, Hoare explores the mystic intersections between Blake’s visionary art and poetry and the siren call of the ocean. The discussion flows through queer longing, mythic imagery, and the enduring pull of nature and art. A haunting, moving, and often playful exchange—as unruly and evocative as the sea itself.Buy William Blake and the Sea Monsters of Love: h...
2025-05-0857 minDaily Reflections with Fr. PatFeast of Saints Philip and James, Apostleshttps://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/050325.cfm
2025-05-0305 min
Holistic Health Front PodcastHealing from the Inside: Holistic Approaches to Autoimmune Disease with Philip HoareIn this episode of the Holistic Health Front podcast, we dive deep into the pivotal connections between autoimmune disorders, chronic inflammation, and holistic healing. Special guest Philip Hoare joins Tyler, Stephanie, and Andrea to challenge conventional wisdom in the world of health and wellness. Together, we peel back the layers on what truly causes autoimmune disease, the mysteries of the lymphatic system, and why detoxing the gut and supporting the liver might be your missing links.We touch on personal stories, surprising health revelations, and a big apple cider vinegar debate—can this kitchen staple really improve yo...
2025-04-231h 09
Absorb An Powerful Full Audiobook And Elevate Your Mindset.William Blake and the Sea Monsters of Love by Philip HoarePlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/771to listen full audiobooks.
Title: William Blake and the Sea Monsters of Love
Author: Philip Hoare
Narrator: David Thorpe
Format: mp3
Length: 16 hrs and 14 mins
Release date: 04-10-25
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Genres: Art
Publisher's Summary:
Weaving together fragments of artists’ stories across time and place, Philip Hoare embarks on a Sebaldian exploration of the enduring legacy of William Blake. A poet, painter and printmaker who was unappreciated and considered mad in his own time, Blake was eventually lauded as a key pillar of the Romantic movement. His posthumous influence reverberates endlessly, from th...
2025-04-104h 14
The Sustainability ExpertsPhilip Hoare | AtkinsRéalisExcited to welcome Philip Hoare, COO of AtkinsRéalis, to The Sustainability Experts podcast!
2024-10-1533 minDaily Reflections with Fr. PatFeast of Saints Philip and James, Apostleshttps://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/050324.cfm
2024-05-0306 min
Bad GaysJoe Orton and Kenneth Halliwell
Warning: this episode contains discussions of domestic violence, child sexual abuse, and suicide. Listener discretion is advised.
A rare twofer this week on our show: we discuss the lives and careers of Joe Orton and Kenneth Halliwell. Both frustrated writers from the North of England making their way in the repressive, damp climate of the postwar UK, they were sent to prison for defacing library books into brilliant collage art. But when Orton achieved fame and success, the pressure was too much for Halliwell to bear. And their disturbing pattern of traveling to Tunisia to abuse children c...
2024-02-201h 05
Engineering Matters#242 Partnerships and ResilienceIt is vital that we limit the impact of climate change, through decarbonisation. But communities around the world are already experiencing harm, through floods, wildfires, and other climate-related catastrophes. We must also address these harms, mitigating them through increased resilience.
Building better resilience cannot be left just to the state, or private sector industries like engineering or insurance. Instead, we must build partnerships, bringing the public and private sector together with local communities, to identify risks, and to share successes.
Sid Miller and Philip Hoare are—alongside more than thirty other experts—members of the UK g...
2023-11-3035 min
The UK in a Changing EuropeBooks On Brexit: Philip Cunliffe‘Books on Brexit’ is a podcast for anyone interested in the UK and the EU. Our guest authors represent a range of views on how we got here, and future prospects for the UK and UK-EU relations. They include: Michel Barnier, Philip Cunliffe, Stefaan de Rynck, Peter Foster, Brigid Laffan, Mary C. Murphy and Jonathan Evershed, and Robert Tombs.
Philip Cunliffe, Associate Professor, the Institute of Risk and Disaster Reduction, University College London, is co-author with George Hoare, Lee Jones, and Peter Ramsay of 'Taking Control: Sovereignty and Democracy After Brexit', published by Polity.
"Leaving the EU was a necessary but...
2023-11-0853 min
Só se estraga uma estante26. Drama familiar, oceanos e inteligência artificialPara iniciar o episódio, a Ana recomenda um drama familiar: ‘The most fun we ever had’, escrito por Claire Lombardo. Neste romance conhecemos uma família norte-americana, de classe média-alta, onde 4 irmãs têm dinâmicas simultaneamente realistas e absurdas, num meio de privilégio.
O Tomé vê em ‘Blue Machine’, de Helen Czerski, uma homenagem aos oceanos e aos seus fenómenos. Apesar da complexidade do tema, o Tomé garante que a autora o apresenta e discute de forma atrativa e envolvente.
Na segunda parte do episódio, o Tomé e a Ana falam sobre um...
2023-10-0553 min
Só se estraga uma estante25. Natália Correia, Wallenstein e pequenas irritaçõesApós uma introdução com apontamentos resultantes do episódio 24, o Tomé recomenda dramaturgia, um género abordado pela segunda vez neste podcast ('Rei Édipo'), contrariamente ao que a Ana diz. Viajamos, assim, até ao final do século XIX e às peças de Schiller com a sua trilogia ‘Wallenstein’.
A Ana partilha mais uma das suas obsessões recentes: a biografia de Natália Correia, intitulada ‘O Dever de Deslumbrar’, por Filipa Martins. Com este livro ficamos a conhecer em detalhe a Natália escritora, política e intelectual.
Na segunda parte, a Ana e o Tomé abordam...
2023-09-2956 min
Só se estraga uma estante23. Dürer, memórias desencontradas e autoajudaTanto o Tomé como a Ana recomendam livros publicados recentemente, mas bastante diferentes entre si. O Tomé sugere ‘Albert and the Whale’, de Philip Hoare, onde, entre várias outras digressões, o pintor Albrecht Dürer é o protagonista.
A Ana recomenda efusivamente ‘A História de Roma’, de Joana Bértholo, um livro com uma escrita belíssima e que explora o desencontro entre as nossas memórias e as memórias dos outros.
Na segunda parte, a Ana e o Tomé trazem um tema surpreendente: livros de autoajuda. Ainda assim, a reflexão distancia-se da abord...
2023-09-1452 min
Shelf MotivatedEpisode 9Summer Reading is drawing to a close. On this episode we talk whaling, nature writing, southern gothic novels, and housecats. We discuss some exciting to-be-reads, and as always, a cozy mystery. Books discussed in this episode: Sharon On Lighthouses by Jazmine Barrera trans. by Christina McSweeney The Outermost House by Henry Beston The Whale by Philip Hoare TBR- Soundings by Doreen Cunningham Sarah The Lion in the Livingroom by Abigale Tucker The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell - Robert Dugoni TBR - The Murderer by Roy Heath Eric...
2023-08-2249 min
歧义 La politiqueVol.12 风格作为抵抗，颓废主义与20世纪东北亚殖民史本期节目通过另类角度重新向听众们介绍了发源于欧洲19世纪中后叶的“颓废主义“文学运动，旨在破除其在中国的文艺批评传统中的刻板定论，并通过分析其在20世纪伴随着东北亚殖民史的接受史来提出一种“文艺抵抗”的可能性主张。进一步来说，我们希望挖掘这样一种文艺思潮如何能在当下被扩大理解为一种抵抗绩效逻辑和“积极”逻辑的普遍生存策略的可能性。-本期制作人员-主播：Evan嘉宾：Dee。英语文学学者编辑：鸽鸽音频设计：wren-时间轴-00:03:12 颓废主义运动是什么？00:11:51 颓废主义的背景与发生：保守性的自我感动还是超越性的反抗运动00:19:45 “大众品味”的辨析00:23:17 文化研究视角下的文本：作为意义的中介00:31:23 颓废主义在中国：新文化运动中的京派与海派之争00:43:10 东北亚（朝鲜半岛）殖民史与颓废主义00:47:20 颓废主义在东亚的传播00:55:30 日本殖民扩张中的颓废主义——作为文化殖民的工具00:59:48 历史语境下的文化思考01:08:05 殖民地颓废主义作家的抵抗01:19:25 颓废主义对于当下的意义：作为一种抵抗的无所事事与游手好闲-延伸阅读-文学作品Charles Beaudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal:(1861). BoD-Books on Demand, 2023.Joris-Karl Huysmans (trans. Robert Baldick, Patrick McGuinness), Against Nature (Penguin, 2003)Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (first published 1891; Oxford University Press, 2008Walter Pater, Studies in the History of the Renaissance (first published 1873; Oxford University Press, 2010)Arthur Symons (ed. Roger Holdsworth), Selected Symons (Carcanet, 1974)Harold Acton, Peonies and Ponies: A Novel. (Chatto & Windus, 1950).Kim Tongin, Sweet Potato: Collected Short Stories by Kim Tongin. (trans. Grace Jung, Honford Star, 2017).Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, The Tattooer (kindle edition, Japanese)文论作品Kostas Boyiopoulous, Yoonjoung Choi, Matthew Brinton Tildesley (eds.), The Decadent Short Story: An Annotated Anthology (Edinburgh University Press, 2015)Linda Dowling, Language and Decadence in the Victorian Fin de Siècle (Princeton University Press, 1986)Kate Hext and Alex Murray (eds.), Decadence in the Age Modernism (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019)Philip Hoare, Wilde's Last Stand: Deca...
2023-08-121h 35
Travels Through Time[From the archive] Philip Hoare: Albert and the Whale (1520)In 1520 the artist Albrecht Dürer was on the run from the Plague and on the look-out for distraction when he heard that a huge whale had been beached on the coast of Zeeland. So he set off to see the astonishing creature for himself.
In this beautifully-evoked episode the award-winning writing Philip Hoare takes us back to those consequential days in 1520. We catch sight of Dürer, the great master of the Northern Renaissance, as he searches for the whale. This, he realises, is his chance to make his greatest ever print.
Philip Hoare is...
2023-07-1348 minShelf MotivatedEpisode 7Librarians Eric and Sharon discuss their reading plans for the summer, re-reading books from our past and the mental health benefits of slow and deliberate reading. Eric's Summer Reading List: Flannery O'Connor - The Complete Short Stories, and The Violent Bear it Away Sarah Orne Jewett - The Country of the Pointed Firs Recent Readings: Ronald Johnson - The Book of the Green Man Shelf Inflicted TBR: Arkady and Boris Strugatsky - Roadside Picnic Sharon's Summer Reading List: Herman Melville--Moby Dick Philip Hoare-The Whale: In Search of the Giants of the Sea...
2023-06-1337 minDaily Reflections with Fr. PatMemorial of Saint Philip Neri, Priesthttps://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/052623.cfm
2023-05-2606 min
New Full Audiobooks in MemoirsWriters on Walks: A BBC Radio 3 Collection: 30 Reflections from Exploring on Foot by Kirsty Gunn, Ian Samson, Sophie Coulombeau, Michèle RobPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/640530 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Writers on Walks: A BBC Radio 3 Collection: 30 Reflections from Exploring on Foot Author: Kirsty Gunn, Ian Samson, Sophie Coulombeau, Michèle Roberts, Nat Segnit, Michael Donkor, Christopher Hope, Ross Raisin, Erica Wagner, Kamila Shamsie, Owen Sheers, Jenn Ashworth, Deborah Levy, Lucy Hughes-Hallett, Nicola Barker, Robert MacFarlane, Nicholas Narrator: Various Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 48 minutes Release date: March 23, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: 22 writers talk about their memorable excursions and the act of walking, and share their creative observations In these six series, taken from BBC Radio 3's The E...
2023-03-2305 min
The Bookish LifeOur First Ever BEST OF Episode!On today's podcast, Phil and Sara talk about their favorite books of 2022! We can't wait to see what your favorites were.
Vagabonds by Elaghosa Osunde
Horse by Geraldine Brooks
Albert and the Whale by Philip Hoare
I Came All This Way to Meet You by Jami Attenberg
Tracy Flick Can't Win by Tom Perrotta
To Paradise by Hanya Yanagihara
Now is Not the Time to Panic by Kevin Wilson
Up From the Depths by Aaron Sachs
Notes on an Execution by Da...
2023-01-0226 min
London Review Bookshop PodcastDerek Jarman: Through the Billboard Promised Land Without Ever StoppingNow published for the very first time, Through the Billboard Promised Land Without Ever Stopping (House Sparrow Press) is Derek Jarman’s only piece of narrative fiction. Somewhere between a fairytale, acid trip and road movie, the work lays the foundations for many of the themes and styles that characterise Jarman’s work in film, painting and design.Joining host So Mayer, author of A Nazi Word for a Nazi Thing (Peninsula), to explore the book were writer Philip Hoare, Jarman scholar Declan Wiffen and artist Michael Ginsborg. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/priv...
2022-11-091h 05
SendasDisertaciones marineras #19El mar y las actividades humanas que en él se llevan a cabo se están intentando adaptar a los retos que impone el presente. En el Episodio 19 de Sendas hablamos de la vida y el trabajo en el mar, así como el amor por el mismo, con Àgueda Vitoria.Àgueda es marinera de pesca y ha trabajado principalmente en barcas de arrastre aunque ahora mismo desde hace poco es marinera en una piscifactoria. De vez en cuando colabora con diferentes medios de comunicación hablando sobre cositas relacionadas con el sector primario (principalmente pesca y ganaderia) y medio...
2022-10-291h 02Engineering Matters#176 Bangalore and the Digital TransformationIn Bangalore, the high-tech heart of India, sits a centre of technology. A state-of-the-art engineering facility working on projects across the globe.
In its time, the centre has transitioned from an offshore project design centre to the forefront of technological innovation in the company. Becoming a centre of excellence and pioneering digital innovation, this hub, and its employees, dream big.
Guests
Bharat Gala, Senior Vice-president, Atkins
Haima Haldar, Director of Digital, Atkins
Philip Hoare, President of Engineering Services, Atkins
Partner
Atkins, a member of the S...
2022-08-1814 min
Raj Persaud in conversation - the podcastsThe Reluctant Carer talks to Dr Raj Persaud'Incredible. One of those rare books that should be dispensed on prescription to every household.' - Lucy Easthope, author of When the Dust Settles 'Hilarious, bitter, poignant and profound . . . like an existential soap opera - only with more laughs.' - Philip Hoare, author of Leviathan It was the kind of phone call we all dread. Your elderly father has been admitted to hospital. Your even older mum is now at home alone. The answer? Simple. Drop everything, go back and help. The reality? Not so straightforward. Suddenly, you’re a kid again, stranded in the...
2022-07-0842 min
Pep Talks for ArtistsEp 21: Expressive Figuration w/ Keisha Prioleau Martin & Emilia OlsenPainters, Keisha Prioleau Martin and Emilia Olsen joined me this week to talk about their work. Both painter's painters, they work primarily with the figure and use vibrant luscious color to add to the content of their work. Listen in to hear about why the "bather" is still a rich subject to paint (especially by women or female-identifying artists), why the city's character and quirks can inspire endless imagery and also what advice they would each give their younger selves.
See more of their work:
Keisha: https://keishaprioleaumartin.cargo.site/ and on IG at @keishaprioleaumartin
2022-04-061h 00
Friends of Shakespeare and Company read Ulysses by James JoycePages 350 - 358 │ Sirens, part IV│ Read by Philip HoarePages 350 - 358 │ Sirens, part IV│ Read by Philip HoarePhilip Hoare is the author of nine works of non-fiction. His Leviathan or, The Whale won the 2009 BBC Samuel Johnson Prize. His latest book is Albert & the Whale. He is professor of creative writing at the University of Southampton and is co-curator, with Angela Cockayne, of the digital projectshttps://www.mobydickbigread.com/ and https://www.ancientmarinerbigread.com/Follow on Twitter: https://twitter.com/philipwhaleBuy Albert & the Whale here: https://shakespeareandcompany.com/I/9780008323325/albert-the-whale*Looki...
2022-04-0519 min
Fully AutomatedEpisode 36: Ukraine, NOBS, and the End of the End of History (w/ George Hoare)Hello listeners! This is a rebroadcast of Episode 2 of Transmissions, a new podcast I’ve been involved with lately. Transmissions is the official podcast of the Class Unity Caucus of the DSA, and I want to thank them for their permission to use this episode.
Our guest for this episode is George Hoare, co-host of the Bungacast (neé Aufebunga Bunga) podcast, and co-author along with Alex Hochuli and Philip Cunliffe, of The End of the End of History (Zero Books, 2021).
In this episode, we begin with a discussion of Francis Fukuyama's concept of the end of history, and how many int...
2022-03-081h 11
Fully AutomatedUkraine, NOBS, and the End of the End of History (w/ George Hoare)Hello listeners! This is a rebroadcast of Episode 2 of Transmissions, a new podcast I’ve been involved with lately. Transmissions is the official podcast of the Class Unity Caucus of the DSA, and I want to thank them for their permission to use this episode.
Our guest for this episode is George Hoare, co-host of the Bungacast (neé Aufebunga Bunga) podcast, and co-author along with Alex Hochuli and Philip Cunliffe, of The End of the End of History (Zero Books, 2021).
In this episode, we begin with a discussion of Francis Fukuyama's concept of the end of history, and how many int...
2022-03-081h 11
Class UnityTransmissions Episode 2: Ukraine, NOBS, and the End of the End of History (w/ George Hoare)
Bunga party time!
Welcome to Episode 2, of Class Unity Transmissions! Our guest for this episode is George Hoare, co-host of the Bungacast (neé Aufebunga Bunga) podcast, and co-author along with Alex Hochuli and Philip Cunliffe, of The End of the End of History (Zero Books, 2021).
In this episode, we begin with a discussion of Francis Fukuyama’s concept of the end of history, and how many intellectuals misread it as a ‘triumphalist’ celebration of American victory in the Cold War. The better argument, according to Hoare et al., is that Fukuyama was talking not just about the birth o...
2022-03-081h 06
Class UnityTransmissions Episode 2: Ukraine, NOBS, and the End of the End of History (w/ George Hoare)
Bunga party time!
Welcome to Episode 2, of Class Unity Transmissions! Our guest for this episode is George Hoare, co-host of the Bungacast (neé Aufebunga Bunga) podcast, and co-author along with Alex Hochuli and Philip Cunliffe, of The End of the End of History (Zero Books, 2021).
In this episode, we begin with a discussion of Francis Fukuyama’s concept of the end of history, and how many intellectuals misread it as a ‘triumphalist’ celebration of American victory in the Cold War. The better argument, according to Hoare et al., is that Fukuyama was talking not just about the birth o...
2022-03-081h 06Class UnityTransmissions Episode 2: Ukraine, NOBS, and the End of the End of History (w/ George Hoare)
Bunga party time!
Welcome to Episode 2, of Class Unity Transmissions! Our guest for this episode is George Hoare, co-host of the Bungacast (neé Aufebunga Bunga) podcast, and co-author along with Alex Hochuli and Philip Cunliffe, of The End of the End of History (Zero Books, 2021).
In this episode, we begin with a discussion of Francis Fukuyama’s concept of the end of history, and how many intellectuals misread it as a ‘triumphalist’ celebration of American victory in the Cold War. The better argument, according to Hoare et al., is that Fukuyama was talking not just about the birth o...
2022-03-081h 06
Arts & IdeasWhale watchingThe first underwater film, the making of Moby Dick in Fishguard, Wales, the poetry of Marianne Moore and the secret world of whale scavengers are conjured by Rana Mitter's guests:In a new book, Strandings, Peter Riley, Associate Professor in Poetry and Poetics at the University of Durham, loses himself in the secretive world of whale-scavengers who descend on coastlines to claim trophies from washed-up carcasses.Author and artist Philip Hoare has written extensively about whales, encountering them often in his daily swims in the sea. His most recent book, Albert and the Whale, explores...
2022-02-0944 minArts & IdeasWhale-watchingThe first under-water film, the making of Moby Dick in Fishguard, Wales, the poetry of Marianne Moore and the secret world of whale scavengers are conjured by Rana Mitter's guests:
In a new book, Strandings, Peter Riley, Associate Professor in Poetry and Poetics at the University of Durham, loses himself in the secretive world of whale-scavengers who descend on coastlines to claim trophies from washed-up carcasses.Author and artist Philip Hoare has written extensively about whales, encountering them often in his daily swims in the sea. His most recent book, Albert and the Whale, explores the life...
2022-02-0944 min
Wizard of Ads Monday Morning MemoAt the Fingertips of an Ad Writer“Hoare writes with the license of the nonexpert; you can feel the delight he takes in being unbound by anything but his enthusiasms.”John Williams was describing Philip Hoare when he wrote that line, but he could easily have been describing me. As a nonexpert, I am free to speculate and arrive at my own conclusions.So are you.And so is your customer.You, me, and your customer claim we use deductive reasoning, but it simply isn’t true. Deductive reasoning – the basis of scientific method – would require us to work dilig...
2022-01-0304 minTravels Through TimeChristmas with the Three Wise Historians (2021)In this Christmas special of Travels Through Time our three wise presenters Peter, Violet and Artemis get together to remember some of their favourite books and episodes from the last year on the podcast.
Thank you so much to all of our listeners for joining us over the course of the year and happy Christmas!
As ever, much, much more about this episode is to be found at our website tttpodcast.com.
Click here to order the books discussed in this episode from John Sandoe’s who, we are delighted to say, are sup...
2021-12-2455 min
Colli'r PlotNadolig, Niwl Ddoe a Gadael LeninCroeso i barti Nadolig Colli’r Plot!Trafod pa lyfrau ydyn ni eisiau gan Siôn Corn, Niwl Ddoe gan Geraint Vaughan Jones a Dafydd yn ceisio bod fel Lenin.Dyma restr ddarllen o'r cyfrolau a drafodwyd yn y bennodNadolig, Pwy a Wyr? - AmrywiolPaid â Bod Ofn - Non ParryHela - Aled HughesMori - Ffion DafisDod 'Nôl at fy Nghoed - Carys EleriYn Fyw yn y Cof - John Roberts100 Cymru - Y Mynyddoedd a Fi - Dewi PrysorBeing Morta...
2021-12-151h 07
The Shakespeare and Company InterviewPhilip Hoare on Albert & the WhaleThis week Philip Hoare discusses Albert & the Whale his dive into the mind of Albrecht Durer, one of the most well-known yet mysterious of artists. Mysterious because he lived at that fluid time, in the fifteenth century, where history and legend often blend into one. Mysterious because his works feel so replete with meaning and yet prove so hard to interpret. And mysterious because his skills were so advanced, his genius so profound, that his techniques are hard to replicate even more than five centuries later.
'This is a wonderful book. A lyrical journey into the natural and unnatural world...
2021-12-0957 min
The Shakespeare and Company InterviewPhilip Hoare on Albert & the WhaleThis week Philip Hoare discusses Albert & the Whale his dive into the mind of Albrecht Durer, one of the most well-known yet mysterious of artists. Mysterious because he lived at that fluid time, in the fifteenth century, where history and legend often blend into one. Mysterious because his works feel so replete with meaning and yet prove so hard to interpret. And mysterious because his skills were so advanced, his genius so profound, that his techniques are hard to replicate even more than five centuries later.'This is a wonderful book. A lyrical journey into the natural...
2021-12-0957 minThe Shakespeare and Company InterviewPhilip Hoare on Albert & the WhaleThis week Philip Hoare discusses Albert & the Whale his dive into the mind of Albrecht Durer, one of the most well-known yet mysterious of artists. Mysterious because he lived at that fluid time, in the fifteenth century, where history and legend often blend into one. Mysterious because his works feel so replete with meaning and yet prove so hard to interpret. And mysterious because his skills were so advanced, his genius so profound, that his techniques are hard to replicate even more than five centuries later.'This is a wonderful book. A lyrical journey into the natural...
2021-12-0957 minArts & IdeasDürer, Rhinos and WhalesDürer’s whale-chasing and images of rhinos, dogs, saints and himself come into focus, as Rana Mitter talks to Philip Hoare, author of Albert and the Whale, curator Robert Wenley and historian Helen Cowie as exhibitions open at the National Gallery and the Barber Institute in Birmingham. And Philip Hoare explains the links between the Renaissance artist and the visions of Derek Jarman which are on show in Southampton in an exhibition he has curated.Philip Hoare's books include Leviathan, or The Whale, RisingTideFallingStar, Noel Coward a biography, and his latest Albert and the Whale: Albrecht Dür...
2021-11-3044 min
Shelf LifeJohn Waters: On the Serious Pleasures of a Bright Young ThingSend us a textJohn Waters once said nothing is more impotent than an unread library. In this episode, the cult film director responsible for such enduring cult classics as Pink Flamingos, Female Trouble, Cry Baby and Hairspray talks about Serious Pleasures, Philip Hoare's extraordinary biography of Stephen Tennant, one of the so-called Bright Young Things who fascinated and scandalized 1920s Britain, alongside other headline-grabbing figures of the day such as Cecil Beaton and the Mitford sisters. "I like to be taken into a world that's very foreign to me, and learn something," he says. "I like so...
2021-11-1553 min
FANFANPhilip Hoare habla de su libro sobre Alberto DureroAlberto y la ballena es una historia sobre el arte de Alberto Durero y la onda expansiva que provoca en la cultura, que llega hasta hoy. Hoare habla de Durero, pero también de David Bowie, de Thomas Mann, de Shakespeare, o de Herman Melville
2021-10-2410 min
Against Everyone with Conner HabibAEWCH 164: PHILIP HOARE or INHABITING ANIMALS, BECOMING WATERI talk with philosopher, historian, nature writer, and memoirist Philip Hoare about animals (especially whales), and nature (especially water).
2021-09-221h 29
The World in Time / Lapham’s QuarterlyEpisode 77: Philip HoareIn this episode of The World in Time, Lewis H. Lapham and Philip Hoare discuss Albrecht Dürer’s brilliance, what his art meant to people throughout history, and the centuries-long ubiquity of his woodcut of a rhinoceros—an animal the artist had never seen.
Lewis H. Lapham speaks with Philip Hoare, author of “Albert and the Whale: Albrecht Dürer and How Art Imagines Our World.”
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2021-09-1737 min
Good in Theory: A Political Philosophy Podcast33 - The End of the End of History feat. Philip Cunliffe and George HoareI talk to Phillip Cunliffe and George Hoare about their new book The End of the End of History. In 1989, Francis Fukuyama predicted a boring eternity of liberal capitalism and for nearly 30 years, it looked like he might be right. We had Clinton and Blair. Globalization and apathy. Kurt Cobain. According to my guests, the end of History wasn’t just about politics, it was a whole vibe. But since 2016, things have started happening that don't quite fit the pattern and the pundits are losing their minds. Do Brexit, Trump, and the new politicization signify the e...
2021-08-301h 05
Pb Living - A daily book reviewA Book Review - Albert and the Whale Book by Philip HoareAlbrecht Dürer changed the way we saw nature through art. From his prints in 1498 of the plague ridden Apocalypse – the first works mass produced by any artist – to his hyper-real images of animals and plants, his art was a revelation: it showed us who we are but it also foresaw our future. It is a vision that remains startlingly powerful and seductive, even now.In Albert the Whale, Philip Hoare sets out to discover why Dürer's art endures. He encounters medieval alchemists and modernist poets, eccentric emperors and queer soul rebels, ambassadorial whales and enigmati...
2021-07-0104 min
A Voyage to AntarcticaSongs From the DeepAlok Jha talks to the award-winning writer Philip Hoare about his life-long love for and obsession with whales and their history in Antarctica. Philip’s numerous books include Leviathan or, The Whale, which won the 2009 BBC Samuel Johnson Prize, and has been published all over the world. It was followed by The Sea Inside (2013) and RISINGTIDEFALLINGSTAR (2017).His latest book, Albert & the Whale, is published by 4th Estate in the UK. Philip wrote and presented the BBC Arena film The Hunt for Moby-Dick, and directed three short films for BBC’s Whale N...
2021-06-0331 min
Little AtomsLittle Atoms 693 - Philip Hoare's Albert & The WhalePhilip Hoare returns to Little Atoms and talks to Neil about his fascination with Albrecht Dürer, and Dürer's fascination with painting a whale in his new book Albert & The Whale. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2021-05-1824 min
Press Play On The Best-Selling Full Audiobook Experience!Leviathan by Philip HoarePlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/90125to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Leviathan
Author: Philip Hoare
Narrator: Philip Pope
Format: mp3
Length: 12 hrs and 10 mins
Release date: 04-29-21
Ratings: 3.5 out of 5 stars, 2 ratings
Genres: Environmentalists & Naturalists
Publisher's Summary:
All his life, Philip Hoare has been obsessed by whales, from the gigantic skeletons in London’s Natural History Museum to adult encounters with the wild animals themselves. Whales have a mythical quality - they seem to elide with dark fantasies of sea-serpents and antediluvian monsters that swim in our collective unconscious. In Leviathan, Philip Hoare seeks to locate and identify this ob...
2021-04-2912h 10
A Voyage to AntarcticaSeason 2 TrailerIn the second season of this podcast from the UK Antarctic Heritage Trust, we’ll be delving further into the extraordinary human stories of the wildest, windiest place on our planet. We’ll hear from explorers, scientists and writers who’ve built their lives around this incredible continent. Our guests include explorers Felicity Aston and Dwayne Fields, writer Philip Hoare and space scientist Suzie Imber. Together, we’ll uncover untold histories, and gain insight into the cutting-edge research happening here, on the front-line in the fight against climate change. All from the people...
2021-04-2803 min
Political GabfestUnfulfilledEmily, John and David discuss immigration, violence against Asian Americans and how Amazon is shaping the American economic landscape.Here are some notes and references from this week’s show:Emily Bazelon for Slate: “Stop Telling Ruth Bader Ginsburg to Retire: It's Counterproductive”David Leonhardt for The New York Times: “The Democrats’ Immigration Problem”Nicole Narea for Vox: “Migrants Are Heading North Because Central America Never Recovered From Last Year’s Hurricanes”One Billion Americans: The Case for Thinking Bigge...
2021-03-251h 13
Start the WeekMonsters of the deepThe deep sea is the last, vast wilderness on Earth. In The Brilliant Abyss the marine biologist Helen Scales dives below the surface to tell the story of our relationship with the ocean floor. With an average depth of 12,000 feet it remains a frontier for new discoveries and extraordinary creatures. But Helen Scales warns Andrew Marr of the unfolding environmental disasters as people seek to exploit this new world, far beyond the public gaze.The writer Philip Hoare explores nature through the work of the artist Albrecht Dürer. From his 15th century prints of the plague-ridden A...
2021-03-0141 min
Fully AutomatedEpisode 25: Cosmopolitan Dystopia, with Philip Cunliffe
Philip Cunliffe, excorcizing the demons of Cosmopolitan Dystopia
Hello everyone! Welcome to Episode 25 of Fully Automated. This week we are joined by Dr Philip Cunliffe, Senior Lecturer in International Conflict at the University of Kent. Phil has been a guest on the show before actually. He joined us in Episode 16, for our “What the Brexit?” debate, at the 2019 ISA Convention, in Toronto. And listeners may also be familiar with his voice from the podcast Aufhebunbga Bunga, which he records with Alex Hochuli and George Hoare.
Today we are going to talk with Dr. Cunliffe about his new book, Cosmopolitan Dystopia (Manc...
2020-08-041h 15Fully AutomatedEpisode 25: Cosmopolitan Dystopia, with Philip CunliffePhilip Cunliffe, excorcizing the demons of Cosmopolitan Dystopia
Hello everyone! Welcome to Episode 25 of Fully Automated. This week we are joined by Dr Philip Cunliffe, Senior Lecturer in International Conflict at the University of Kent. Phil has been a guest on the show before actually. He joined us in Episode 16, for our “What the Brexit?” debate, at the 2019 ISA Convention, in Toronto. And listeners may also be familiar with his voice from the podcast Aufhebunbga Bunga, which he records with Alex Hochuli and George Hoare.
Today we are going to talk with Dr. Cunliffe about his new book, Cosmopolitan Dystopia (Manc...
2020-08-041h 15
BookBoundDan Richards & Philip Hoare: Writing the fathomsFlotsam, the call of the sea and ghostly dogs - this is Dan Richards & Philip Hoare in conversation with Malú Ansaldo, Head of Performing Arts at Roundhouse Theatre, on ‘Writing the Fathoms’
This discussion was part of BookBound, a from-home literary festival that was held during the 2020 Covid-19 lockdown. BookBound partnered with Wasafiri Magazine to champion diverse authors, and raised money for the UK mental health charity Mind.
Books:
Dan Richards, ‘Outpost: A Journey to the Wild Ends of the Earth’
Philip Hoare, ‘RISINGTIDEFALLINGSTAR’
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2020-07-0554 min
Músicas Posibles. Radio 3. Rne.El mar 30/11/18Los libros:
Philip HOARE. Leviatán o la ballena. Ático de los libros. El mar interior. Ático de los libros. El alma del mar. Ático de los libros.
Herman MELVILLE. Moby Dick. (il. Rockwel KENT). Valdemar.
Manuel MARSOL. Ahab y la ballena blanca. Edelvives.
Ricardo HENRIQUES y André LETRIA. Ekaré.
Patricia GARCÍA-ROJO. El mar. SM
Véronique OLMI. La orilla del mar. Lengua de Trapo.
Alfonsina STORNI. Poesía completa. Losada.
Rafael ALBERTI. Marinero en tierra. Seix Barral.
Juan Vicente PIQUERAS. La latitud de los caballos. Hiperión.
Ian McEWAN. Chesil Beach. Anagrama.
Y las músicas:
Dolphin – Panda Bear
Salvad a...
2020-05-091h 02
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner Big ReadReading No.22 - Philip HoareDiscover more: https://www.ancientmarinerbigread.com/reading/22
Reader
Philip Hoare
Author
Recorded on Southampton Water
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The body of my brother's son
Stood by me, knee to knee:
The body and I pulled at one rope,
But he said nought to me.
'I fear thee, ancient Mariner!'
Be calm, thou Wedding-Guest!
'Twas not those souls that fled in pain,
Which to their corses came again,
But a troop of spirits blest:
For when it dawned—they dropped their ar...
2020-05-0901 min
Strange FamiliarsA Vision of SalomeWe discuss the life of Maud Allan, sister of convicted murderer Theo Durrant, purported member of “The Cult of the Clitoris”, and creator of the “prurient and ghastly” Vision of Salome dance. If you would like to help us continue to make Strange Familiars, get bonus content, t-shirts, stickers, and more rewards, you can become a patron: http://www.patreon.com/StrangeFamiliarsIf you would prefer a one-time payment to help us out, here is a PayPal.me link - you can change the number 25 in the URL to any amount...
2020-03-231h 08
BacklistedThe Rings of Saturn by W.G. SebaldW.G. Sebald's book The Rings of Saturn, first published in Germany in 1995, is the subject of this episode. Joining John and Andy to walk around this enigmatic masterpiece are the writer and swimmer Philip Hoare and the novelist Jessie Greengrass. Other books under discussion are The Years by Annie Ernaux and Fiona Benson's award-winning poetry collection Vertigo & Ghost.Timings: (may differ due to variable advert length)4'36 - Les Années by Annie Ernaux8'51 - Vertigo and Ghost by Fiona Benson15'03 - The Rings of Saturn by W G Sebald* To purchase any of the books mentioned i...
2019-11-111h 08
London Review Bookshop PodcastKathleen Jamie and Philip Hoare: SurfacingIn her latest book ‘Surfacing’ (Sort of Books), poet and essayist Kathleen Jamie explores what emerges: from the earth, from memory and from the mind. Her travels take her from Arctic Alaska to the sand dunes and machair of Scotland in a quest to discover what archaeology might tell us about the past, the present and the future. Her writing throughout is marked, as always, by an acute attention to the natural world. She was in conversation about her work with Philip Hoare, author of ‘Leviathan’ and ‘Risingtidefallingstar’. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2019-11-0753 min
Extinction Rebellion PodcastEpisode 6 - Writers Rebel, with Margaret AtwoodThis is the Writers’ Rebellion: Are You Here For This?The Extinction Rebellion Podcast is back to normal length; with an episode perfect to kick back to during the post rebellion regenerative period. It features a feast of stories and poems from the Writers' Marathon in Trafalgar Square, London (on the 11th of October, 2019). From Salena Goddens’ call to action, to Philip Hoare’s face-to-face encounter with a whale, Owen Sheers' poem to his daughter in the womb, to Natasha Walter and Tom Bollough’s recollections of being arrested for Extinction Rebellion.Oh, and there is...
2019-11-021h 23
The EssayPhilip Hoare - The Haunted SeaThe annual Arts Over Borders festival reaches into rural and urban communities on both sides of the Irish border. Curated with a strong sense of place and extending across four counties – from Fermanagh to Donegal, Tyrone to Derry/Londonderry- the border itself looms large in the festival.Recorded in front of live audiences at the 2019 Arts Over Borders festival in Enniskillen and Derry/Londonderry, five writers explore the theme of boundaries. At the Royal Grammar School, Enniskillen, the author Philip Hoare transcends the elements and talks about being shaped and reshaped by the sea. ...
2019-09-2813 minEngineering Matters#30 Interviewing Dad: Atkins President Philip HoareChloe is 16 and interested in an engineering career. She is also the daughter of Philip Hoare, President of engineering consultant Atkins. To find out more she digs deep into her Dad’s engineering life story by interviewing him about the projects that have shaped his career. From harrowing tragedy on a bridge project to world firsts in underground construction and his love of railways, she explores how her Dad came to lead a business of 18,000 people and grills him on crucial issues facing engineering in the UK today from HS2 and digital transition to gender diversity.
But it...
2019-09-0534 min
Baillie Gifford Prize2019: Helen MacDonald and Philip HoareIn episode three of our podcast, Helen Macdonald and Philip Hoare join host Razia Iqbal to discuss their prize-winning books, and Tom Tivnan looks at the impact of winning a prize for authors.
2019-07-2640 min
beneath the stream13. Sounds II - messages from the non-humanNature, the non-human - and humans too - connect together in the world of sounds. We are all auditory creatures. However, how do we non-humans relate to what we hear? How do we experience these sounds and where do we store the images and memories we associate with them: in our heads, our hearts, our cells, or all of those?
With three chosen non-human sounds that mean something to him and spark discussion, plus his own music, Colin considers: the messages that the non-human shares with us; the difference between noise and sound; seeking being unsettled by...
2019-06-0700 min
Everything Under The Sun28. Oceans Under The Sun! With Philip Hoare and the Natural History Museum. Why is the sea salty? Why does an octopus have three hearts? Why are orca whales black and white?Today I have three questions about the OCEAN and creatures in it! Because June 8th is World Oceans Day, a global celebration with hundreds of events around the world celebrating the ocean, including Everything Under The Sun with this show!Our first question comes from Emmeline and Elkie, they would like to know why the sea is salty? Our answer comes from Philip Hoare, a writer who loves the ocean and has written books about whales and the sea. He swims in the ocean every day, no matter the weather! He tells how the sea got...
2019-06-0710 min
A for Effort18 C for Cordoned-off Section of the WorldIn which Harry and Mairead discuss whales (not Wales) and United States-Latin American relations.
For more about whales, Harry recommends Leviathan, or the whale by Philip Hoare.
For more about US-Latin American relations, Mairead recommends Our Sister Republics by Caitlin Fitz, The Monroe Doctrine by Jay Sexton, The Tragedy of American Diplomacy by William Appleman Williams, and this article in the Guardian.
Our engineer is Nick Shoup.
Our music is “Chop Shop (Instrumental)” by White Flowers, and our logo is by ei8htz.
2019-01-1000 min
North Cornwall Book FestivalPhilip HoarePhilip Hoare talks about his book risingtidefallingstar, a prose poem to our enduring fascination with the deep and its creatures. Recorded on Saturday 6th October 2018.
2018-10-1458 min
London Review Bookshop PodcastModern Nature: Olivia Laing, Sarah Wood and Philip Hoare on Derek JarmanIn 1986, having just been diagnosed with HIV, the artist, film-maker and writer Derek Jarman decided to create a garden at his home on the bleak, beautiful coast at Dungeness. Modern Nature, his journal of a year in that garden, and a moving account of coming to terms with his own (and everything else’s) mortality, was first published in 1991, and now appears in a new edition from Vintage Classics. In her introduction Olivia Laing describes it as ‘the most beautiful and furious book of all time’. To celebrate the life and work of this unique and uniquely talented artist, almost a quar...
2018-05-2256 min
hello XWho is X?Welcome to episode 1 of the hello X podcast! Meet Christine, Anneli and Valentin, your hosts in imagining the lives of the future. The first segment tells the backstory of X and explains the concepts behind the larger project. Find out how X was born in 2011 on a beach (in Christine’s mind), and why she went from dramatisations of political violence in the past (and co-directing The Act of Killing) to asking scientists, artists, kids and listeners like you to collectively imagine X, a woman who will be born in 2045. (You can start by checking out the WRITE page on...
2018-04-2042 min
Keep the Channel OpenDevin KellyDevin Kelly is a poet and teacher based in New York, NY. Devin's latest book of poems, In This Quiet Church of Night, I Say Amen was a recent favorite of mine, an elegiac, contemplative book about family, love, and the ways in which life is more about the search than the finding. In our conversation, we talked about Devin's book as well as several of his essays, and Devin also read his poem "Elegy For the Long Drive." Then in the second segment, Devin chose whales as his topic. (Conversation recorded February 8, 2018.) Subscribe: Apple...
2018-03-2857 min
London Review Bookshop PodcastRISINGTIDEFALLINGSTAR: Philip Hoare and Olivia LaingPhilip Hoare, who won the Samuel Johnson Prize in 2009 for his magnificent Leviathan, continues his exploration of our watery world with RISINGTIDEFALLINGSTAR (Fourth Estate). In searching the past and present for stories encapsulating the human fascination with the sea, Hoare mixes natural history with travel writing, autobiography and literary criticism to create an invigorating portrait of the oceans, and of their often fatal allure. He was in conversation with Olivia Laing, author of The Lonely City, The Trip to Echo Spring and To the River. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2017-08-2955 min
Relish A Full Audiobook That Is Simply Next-Level.RISINGTIDEFALLINGSTAR by Philip HoarePlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/187565to listen full audiobooks.
Title: RISINGTIDEFALLINGSTAR
Author: Philip Hoare
Narrator: Peter Noble
Format: mp3
Length: 12 hrs and 58 mins
Release date: 07-13-17
Ratings: 5 out of 5 stars, 1 rating
Genres: Earth Sciences
Publisher's Summary:
2017-07-1312h 58
Podularity Books PodcastPhilip Hoare on LeviathanI see that Philip Hoare is publishing the third volume of his trilogy about the sea next week. RISINGTIDEFALLINGSTAR comes nine years after his award-winning book on the culture and history of whales, Leviathan, so I though I would re-present the interview I did with Philip about that book back then in a coffee shop in Bath (to listen click on the player above or download here)… As the publisher’s blurb puts it: The story of a man’s obsession with whales, which takes him on a personal, historical and biographical journey – from his childhood to his fascination with Moby-Dic...
2017-07-0700 minThe EssayPhilip HoareFive writers recall a night they spent somewhere out of the ordinary.Philip Hoare was thrown off his bike and spent a night in a hospital observation ward. The bed is tiny, the sheets strap him firmly in. Then he takes a look at his fellow patients ...Producer Duncan Minshull.
2017-02-0913 min
MidweekMeera Syal, James Runcie, Elliot Ackerman, Philip HoareLibby Purves meets actor and writer Meera Syal; writer and director James Runcie; former soldier Elliot Ackerman and Philip Hoare, author, broadcaster and whale chaser.Philip Hoare is a writer and broadcaster. He narrates Chasing the Whale, a show inspired by the 19th century journeys of whaling ships from Britain to the South Seas. Philip's stories delve into the log books of history to tell of the dangers and hardships endured by the crews on their epic voyages. The author of the award-winning Leviathan and the Whale, he also recalls his own memories of swimming alongside whales...
2016-03-2341 min
Little AtomsLittle Atoms 311 – Philip Hoare & Deborah OrrPhilip Hoare is the author of seven works of non-fiction, including an acclaimed biography of Noel Coward, and Leviathan or, The Whale, which won the 2009 BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for non-fiction. An experienced broadcaster, Hoare wrote and presented the BBC Arena film The Hunt for Moby-Dick, and directed three films for BBC’s Whale Night. He is Visiting Fellow at Southampton University, and Leverhulme Artist-in-residence at The Marine Institute, Plymouth University, which awarded him an honorary doctorate in 2011. He is also co-curator of the Moby-Dick Big Read. His latest book, The Sea Inside, was published by Fourth Estate in June 2013. Al...
2016-02-041h 03
Functional GeekeryPhilip WadlerIn this episode I talk with Professor Philip Wadler. We talk the correspondence between mathematics and computation, his research into concurrent distributed systems, and other research in the area with ABCD and BETTY.
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2015-12-1530 min
Medicine UnboxedFRONTIERS - Phillip Hoare - SEAPhilip Hoare (born 1958, Southampton) is the author of six works of non-fiction: Serious Pleasures: The Life of Stephen Tennant (1990) and Noel Coward: A Biography (1995), Wilde’s Last Stand: Decadence, Conspiracy, and the First World War (1997), Spike Island: The Memory of a Military Hospital (2000), and England’s Lost Eden: Adventures in a Victorian Utopia (2005). Leviathan or, The Whale (2008), won the 2009 BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for non-fiction.
An experienced broadcaster, Hoare wrote and presented the BBC Arena film The Hunt for Moby-Dick, and directed three films for BBC’s Whale Night. He is Visiting Fellow at Southampton University, and Leverhulme Artist-in-residence at The Ma...
2015-08-1457 minThe EssayPhilip HoareThis week, various authors remember a significant swimming experience:5. Author and journalist Philip Hoare would avoid the water. He overcame his fear and started to swim everywhere. But what compelled him to jump into Southampton Water?Producer Duncan Minshull.
2015-03-1413 min
London Review Bookshop PodcastAnother Great Day at Sea: Geoff DyerGeoff Dyer’s latest book Another Great Day at Sea (Visual Editions), illustrated with the photographs of Chris Steele-Perkins, recounts daily life aboard an American aircraft carrier the USS George H. W. Bush, on which Dyer spent time as a kind of writer in residence. Philip Hoare wrote of it in the Guardian: ‘This is beautiful writing. It is urgent, funny, utterly in-the-moment and achingly honest. … Like the captain, like the crew, like the ship, Dyer's superb book constantly reiterates its excellence. It virtually stands to attention on its own.’ Geoff Dyer came to the Bookshop to speak about the project...
2014-07-0949 min
The Film ProgrammeJames Dean remembered; Whales in cinema; Steven Knight on LockeWith Antonia Quirke.Film and theatre director Sir Richard Eyre reveals how he fell in love with James Dean at first sight.Steven Knight discusses his new thriller, Locke, which is set entirely in a car driving down the M6.Philip Hoare, author of the award-winning Leviathan, reflects upon the representation of the whale in cinema, from Free Willy to Moby Dick,via Orca The Killer WhaleSound editor Richard Hymns talks about the challenges of making a film without any dialogue in All Is Lost, starring Robert Redford as a...
2014-04-1727 min
London Review Bookshop PodcastWhale Cultures: Philip Hoare and Jessica Sarah Rinland, with John BurtonTo mark the paperback publication of Samuel Johnson Prize-winning author Philip 'Leviathan' Hoare’s acclaimed new book The Sea Inside, we held an evening exploring the wondrous world of whales. One of our best non-fiction writers and a fine broadcaster, Hoare wrote and presented the BBC Arena film The Hunt for Moby-Dick and directed three films for BBC’s ‘Whale Night’. He was also co-curator, with Angela Cockayne, of the Moby-Dick Big Read . Artist film-maker Jessica Sarah Rinland focuses on whales in both long and short works. She presented a screening of her film A Boiled Skeleton, depicting the journey of a bot...
2014-02-121h 28
Melbourne Theatre CompanyMTC Talks | The private life of Noël CowardFiona Gruber talks with Noël Coward's biographer Philip Hoare about the work and life of 'The Master' and the very private life that created Private Lives.
2014-01-2110 min
Front Row: Archive 2013Morrissey autobiography; Clio Barnard; Glee's Cory Monteith tributeWith John Wilson.Following in the footsteps of Homer's Odyssey, Morrissey's Autobiography has been published as a Penguin Classic. The singer takes readers through his childhood in Manchester, The Smiths' success and subsequent court battles, insights into personal relationships - and unexpected stories, including an invitation to appear in Friends. Philip Hoare, a winner of The Samuel Johnson Prize for non-fiction, reviews.Director Clio Barnard, who won acclaim for The Arbor, her portrait of the Bradford writer Andrea Dunbar, talks to John about her new film The Selfish Giant, loosely based on a story by...
2013-10-1828 minFront Row: Archive 2013Birmingham's new library; Naturally 7; killer whale film BlackfishWith John Wilson.In 2010 Dawn Brancheau, a trainer at the Seaworld theme park, died after being dragged into the water by Tilikum, Seaworld's largest performing Orca. A new documentary, Blackfish, explores how Tilikum came to be in captivity and asks whether whales kept as performing animals will inevitably become aggressive. Philip Hoare, author of Leviathan Or The Whale, reviews.The vocal group Naturally 7 are about to perform at this year's BBC Proms. They demonstrate how they create the sounds of a variety of instruments using just their voices, and reveal how they build up a...
2013-07-2628 minFront Row: Archive 2013Nick Park on his Thrill-o-Matic; Othello; Cultural Exchange - Mohsin HamidWith Mark LawsonAnimator Nick Park has adapted his most famous characters Wallace & Gromit for the small screen, the big screen, the BBC Proms and now the theme park. He invites Mark to take a turn on his new ride - the Thrill-O-Matic - as it opens at Blackpool Pleasure Beach.More from the Cultural Exchange project, in which 75 leading creative minds share their passion for a book, film, poem, piece of music or other work of art. Tonight Mohsin Hamid, author of The Reluctant Fundamentalist, selects the groundbreaking sci-fi novel Star Maker by Olaf...
2013-04-2428 minFront Row: Archive 2013Tom Odell, Moby Dick, Utopia reviewedWith John Wilson.David Cameron, Benedict Cumberbatch, Tilda Swinton and David Attenborough are among 135 people each reading a chapter a day of Herman Melville's epic novel Moby Dick, on a website curated by writer and whale enthusiast Philip Hoare. He talks about choosing an appropriate reading for the Prime Minister, and pairing chapters with works by artists such as Antony Gormley, Anish Kapoor and Tony Oursler - director of the video for David Bowie's new single - who created today's image of a whale's eye.To mark the 150th birthday of the London Underground tomorrow...
2013-01-0928 minPodularity Books PodcastSummer Reading Choices: Philip HoarePhilip Hoare was born and brought up in Southampton, where he still lives. His books include Spike Island: The Memory of a Military Hospital (2001), which W.G. Sebald praised for its “unique sense of time and place, and great depth of vision” and Leviathan or, The Whale which won the 2009 Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction. You can hear my interview with Philip in which we talk about whales, Melville and Moby-Dick by clicking here. Here are his summer reading recommendations: Having just returned from a book tour of New England – a place haunted by its past, and by its whales – I’m deep...
2010-07-2941 min
Blackwell Online PodcastsBest of 2009 - Part 2For the final Blackwell podcast of the year, we take a look back at some of the hightlights from our shows of 2009 in a two-part Christmas special. Listen to our regular host George Miller as he revisits some of the best interviews of the year including his discussions with Hilary Mantel, Philip Hoare, Alain de Botton, Mary Beard, Micheal Slater and more.
2009-12-1800 min