conversations – Regular Marvels

A painful edge to oral history

The Light Ships is proving to be a revelation. An exploration of the church’s place in a community’s artistic life,

‘Music is in the first place of art. It brings us on an island with peace, beauty and love. Music

A quick post to highlight a radio programme called The Folklorist, about Izzy Young, who was central to the Greenwich Village

Why do writers quote other writers? The reasons are complex, and do not preclude such weaknesses as showing off—no one

Philosophy Bites is a podcast that has been produced since 2007 by David Edmonds and Nigel Warburton. In the spirit

‘If you love it here, you love the bleakness and the vast flat sky and landscape.’ A few weeks ago,

The landscape of the Fens remains impervious to the 21st century’s need for speed. Elsewhere trunk roads have been transformed

«For a Swiss, I am a Japanese and for a Japanese I am a Swiss or rather a gaijin.» Pro

It’s an old-fashioned ladies hairdressers’, on a down-at-heel high road in the West Midlands. The owner – let’s call her

‘Hope today is a contraband passed from hand to hand and from story to story.’ John Berger, Bento’s Sketchbook, 2011