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Broadcast: Tuesday 23rd June 2009.
The guests were Louise Schweitzer, Edmund Hardy and James Wilkes.
An ‘archaeological’ investigation of Victorian nonsense poetry through the work of Edward Lear, W.S.Gilbert and Lewis Carroll. Drawn from the unconscious volition, and personal character of these three writers, nonsense poetry is also indicative of the Victorian era’s imaginative freedom, romantic masculinity and sense of colonial superiority.
The show was hosted by Seph Rodney.
Guest biographies:
James Wilkes studied Psychology, Philosophy and Physiology at Oxford, followed by an MA in Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia. Links to his poetry and other writing can be found at his website. He is studying for a PhD at the London Consortium, where his research interests centre on the construction of the landscape of the Isle of Purbeck in Dorset by artists and writers.