Ep. 434 - Will Eaves

My Time Capsule

Cast Off Productions

Comedy, Lee Mack, Interview, Comedy Interviews, Personal Journals, Society & Culture, Rob Brydon, Caroline Quentin, Mike Fenton Stevens, David Mitchell, Michael Fenton Stevens, Arabella Weir, Stephen Fry, Ross Noble

4.8 • 817 Ratings

🗓️ 10 October 2024

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Will Eaves is a British writer, poet and professor at the University of Warwick. He began writing for the Times Literary Supplement in 1992 and joined the paper as its Arts Editor in 1995. He left in 2011 to become an Associate Professor in the Writing Programme at the University of Warwick. In 2020, he judged the Goldsmiths Prize and was a Visiting Research Fellow at Merton College, Oxford. In 2016, he was a Sassoon Visiting Fellow at the Bodleian Library. He has written five novels, two books of poetry, and one volume of literary essays. For for book Murmur, Eaves was shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize and won the Wellcome Book Prize. He has given talks, seminars and readings around the world and has appeared several times on BBC Radio 3’s The Verb, with Ian Macmillan, and on BBC Radio 4’s Start the Week and Open Book. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. His book The Point of Distraction is out now and you can preorder Invasion of the Polyhedrons any time. It’s out at the end of October 2024 .

Will Eaves is guest number 434 on My Time Capsule and chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things he'd like to put in a time capsule; four he’d like to preserve and one he’d like to bury and never have to think about again .

Buy Will’s book, The Point of Distraction, here - https://harpercollins.co.uk/products/the-point-of-distraction-will-eaves?variant=40755240730702

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0:00.0	Whiz? Flying visit to London.
0:03.0	Sandy! I'm staying over tonight.
0:05.3	Got a great discount on a hotel and a West End show with SWR rewards.
0:09.9	Oh, didn't take you for a culture vulture?
0:12.5	When the deal's this good, you could say it's two birds with one stone.
0:17.7	Waze!
0:19.7	Book trains direct to claim your SWR reward
0:22.8	and make every trip a treat.
0:25.4	T's and C's apply subject to availability.
0:27.7	Southwestern Railway.
0:29.0	Spread your wings.
0:30.1	Yes! I just can't believe it.
0:32.8	This time tomorrow, you could be a millionaire.
0:35.3	Get your lotto ticket for tonight's draw.
0:37.1	The National Lottery.
0:38.0	Rules and procedures apply.
0:38.9	Players must be 18 or over.
0:51.7	Hello and welcome to my time capsule. My name's Mike Fenton-Stevens, and my time
0:58.0	caption is the podcast where people tell me five things from their life that they wish they had
1:02.2	in a time capsule. They pick four things that they really cherish, and one thing they'd like to
1:07.5	bury and forget. And my guest in this episode, doing just that, is the author,
1:12.3	poet, and sometimes pianist, Will the Eves. Now, after a brief spell as an actor,
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