A Sentimental Journey

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🗓️ 1 March 2018

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Laurence Sterne's subjective travel book was published in 1768. Mary Newbould and Duncan Large discuss its influence. Plus novelist Philip Hensher on his new book The Friendly Ones and writing fiction about neighbourliness, families and the Bangladesh Liberation War. Walker Nick Hunt discusses his journeys following the pathways taken by European winds such as the Mistral and the Foehn and the conversations he had about nationalism, immigration and myths. Presented by New Generation Thinker Seán Williams.

The Friendly Ones by Philip Hensher is published on March 8th. Nick Hunt's book Where the Wild Winds Are: Walking Europe's Winds from the Pennines to Provence is out now.

‘Alas, Poor Yorick!’: A Sterne 250-Year Anniversary Conference takes place at Cambridge 18 - 21 March and an Essay Collection is being published called ‘A Legacy to the World’: New Approaches to Laurence Sterne’s ‘A Sentimental Journey’ and other Works to be edited by W.B Gerard, Paul Goring, and M-C. Newbould. A new edition of A Sentimental Journey, illustrated by Martin Rowson, has been published by the Laurence Sterne Trust

An evening of music and readings to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the funeral of Laurence Sterne in the church where the original service took place. St George's, Hanover Square, London W1S 1FX on 22 March 2018 features David Owen Norris, Susanne Heinrich, The Hilliard Ensemble, Patrick Hughes, Carmen Troncoso et al.

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0:58.5	Hello. In this program, we're between wind and water.
1:02.5	We'll discuss being vulnerable, sentimental, and yet open to the world in a new novel by
1:07.2	Philip Henscher and in an old one by Lawrence Stern. We'll talk about travel, across
1:12.1	the channel and over the continent, hearing about walks inspired by European winds with names
1:17.4	like the Mistral and the helm. Something must have shifted in the air, for the oral landscape
1:22.3	suddenly changed. Above the buffeting blows of gusts that banged recurrently on my ears, flatlining like microphone distortion,
1:29.9	rose an unearthly whispering like dozens of tiny voices.
1:33.7	It was a mischievous chattering accompanied by a hissing that suggested branches and spirals,
1:38.9	complex patterns being woven in the air, and under it all a low moan like an animal in distress.
1:45.0	More from Nick Hunt and his book Where the Wild Winds are later.
1:49.7	Philip Henscher's 10th novel, The Friendly Ones, is an epic of everyday life from the 1970s
1:55.3	through to today. A lot happens in the book. It covers the lives of two extended families.
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