Free Thinking - Eimear McBride & Nathan Filer
Arts & Ideas
BBC
4.2 • 598 Ratings
🗓️ 12 June 2014
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Prize-winning first novelists Eimear McBride and Nathan Filer join Anne McElvoy to discuss literary experimentation. Matt Thorne gives us a first night review of the European premiere of Anne Washburn's play Mr Burns which is set in a world without electricity. New Generation Thinker Sophie Coulombeau examines British philosopher and social reformer Jeremy Bentham€'s €'Universal Tattoo'€™. And as Chancellor George Osborne makes his annual Mansion House speech to the City of London we get Peter Knight and Janette Rutterford to consider the image of finance past and present.
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| 0:23.4 | It's like the podcast version of telling your kids the ice cream van plays music when it's out of ice cream. |
| 0:28.9 | Listen to Evil Genius on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:32.0 | Hello, The Simpsons and all of us face the end of days tonight. |
| 0:36.3 | We'll have a first night review of the European premiere of Anne Washburn's hit American play, Mr Burns. |
| 0:43.0 | Jeremy Bentham and his Universal Tattoo make a comeback in the third of our series of columns from the 2014 New Generation Thinkers and... |
| 0:52.3 | ...and... New Generation Thinkers and I work all night, I work all day to pay the bills I have to pay. |
| 1:08.8 | Hey, need said. |
| 1:15.8 | And still there never seems to be a single penny left for me That's too bad |
| 1:17.7 | Gin, why don't you do right |
| 1:20.5 | Like some of the men do |
| 1:23.6 | Get out of here And get me some money too |
| 1:31.1 | Peggy Lee, why don't you do right? Get me some money too. |
| 1:36.5 | Before that, Abba's Money, Money, Money, and Humphrey Littleton's Bad Penny Blues. |
| 1:40.9 | The Art of Finance, I'll be discussing what a new exhibition on the image of |
| 1:45.1 | Filthy Luca can tell us about our relationship with money a bit later on. But first, |
| 1:50.9 | Emy McBride and Nathan Filer are two of the shiny new names in contemporary British fiction. |
| 1:57.1 | Nathan won the Desmond Elliott Prize and the Costa Prize for his first novel The Shock of the Fall. |
| 2:02.8 | And this month, Emy McBride's debut, A Girl is a Half-Fourmed Thing, won the Bailey's Women's Prize for Fiction. |
| 2:09.6 | Their books, though pulls apart stylistically, share a fascination with the fragility of mental health, |
| 2:16.0 | the schisms and bonds of family, and the devastating |
| 2:18.8 | power of grief in the lives of the young protagonists. |
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