Eimear McBride and Nathan Filer, Mr Burns
Prize-winning first novelists Eimear McBride and Nathan Filer join Anne McElvoy to discuss literary experimentation. Plus a first night review of the European premiere of Anne Washburn's play Mr Burns which is set in a world without electricity
Producer: Ella-Mai Robey.
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Eimear McBride and Nathan Filer
The prize-winning first novelists discuss literary experimentation.
Duration: 21:15
New Generation Thinker: Sophie Coulombeau
Sophie Coulombeau examines Jeremy Bentham’s ‘Universal Tattoo’€.
Duration: 05:11
Show Me The Money
Peter Knight and Janette Rutterford consider the image of finance past and present.
Duration: 10:13
Mr Burns
Matt Thorne reviews Mr Burns at the Almedia Theatre, in London.
Duration: 06:59
New Generation Thinkers 2014
Sophie Coulombeau of the University of York is one of this year's New Generation Thinkers. Her current research is on personal naming and identity in England.ÌýÌý
Photo: © Cheryl Cottrell-Smith.
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Mr Burns
is at the Almeida Theatre in London until Friday 25 July 2014.Image: The company of Mr Burns. Photo by Manuel Harlen
Show Me The Money
is at the Northern Gallery of Contemporary Art (NGCA) in Sunderland until 30 August 2014.Ìý
It will then be showing at the Chawton House Library in Chawton, the John Hansard Gallery in Southampton and the People's History Museum in Manchester.
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Image:ÌýWilliam Holbrook Beard, The Bulls and Bears in the Market (1879). New-York Historical Society.Eimear McBride
Eimear McBride's first novel is A Girl is a Half Formed Thing, which is available in paperback and ebook now.ÌýNathan Filer
Nathan Filer's first novel is The Shock of the Fall which is available in hardback, paperback and as an ebook now.ÌýCredits
Role Contributor Interviewed Guest Eimear McBride Interviewed Guest Nathan Filer Presenter Anne McElvoy Producer Ella-mai Robey Broadcast
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