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Of Walking in Ice by Werner Herzog

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Arts, Books, Leisure, Hobbies

4.71.2K Ratings

🗓️ 16 September 2019

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Filmmaker Werner Herzog's journal Of Walking in Ice is the subject of this episode, recorded at the End of the Road festival at Larmer Tree Gardens in Dorset on September 1st 2019. Joining John and Andy is writer and critic Luke Turner (Out of the Woods). Other books under discussion are Time Lived, Without Its Flow by Denise Riley and March of the Lemmings: Brexit in Print and Performance 2016-2019 by Stewart Lee.Timings: (may differ due to variable advert length)3'59 - Time Lived Without Its Flow - Denise Riley9'59 - March of the Lemmings: Brexit in Print and Performance 2016–2019 by Stuart Lee16'53 - Of Walking in Ice by Werner Herzog* To purchase any of the books mentioned in this episode please visit our bookshop at uk.bookshop.org/shop/backlisted where all profits help to sustain this podcast and UK independent bookshops.* For information about everything mentioned in this episode visit www.backlisted.fm*If you'd like to support the show, listen without adverts, receive the show early and with extra bonus fortnightly episodes, become a Patreon at www.patreon.com/backlisted Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Hello and welcome to Backlisted.

1:22.0

The podcast that gives new life to old books today you find us bathed in the warm late summer sunshine at the larmetry gardens in Dorset in Wiltshire. In Dorset.

1:40.0

The end of the road festival, the very excellent end of the road festival, which is amazing

1:43.8

because the journey we had to get here was horrific. Snow, ice tramping for thousands of miles

1:51.2

across empty farmland

1:53.2

with only crows and sheep for company.

1:57.0

I'm John Mitchinson, the publisher of Unbound,

1:59.6

the website that brings readers and writers together.

2:06.6

And I'm Andy Miller, author of the Year of Reading Dangerously.

2:19.0

Our guest today, get ready to clap again, is Luke Turner. Thank you. Hello, Luke.

2:20.0

Hello Luke.

2:21.0

Luke is the author of the Acclaim Memoir Out of the Woods, which was shortlisted for the Wainwright Prize,

2:25.7

and long listed for the Polari Prize for first book by an LGBT plus writer.

2:31.3

Luke has also been selected by Val McDermott as one of the 10 most important

2:34.4

LGBT plus writers for a British Council and National Center for Writing Initiative. In 2019 he's been

2:42.3

co-curating a program of arts events celebrating the landscape and people of Epping Forest as part of Walton Forest stint as the first London Borough of Culture, Luke's co-founder and editor of The Quietest and writes for a variety of publications.

2:57.1

And he is an enigma, ladies and gentlemen, because he likes football, but he doesn't like the clash.

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