Work in progress
October 29th, 2007 by Steve Bowbrick
Here’s a real find. While I was hunting around for links to use in the ‘Wrestling for Britain’ entry I came across this 2001 page from the Radio 3 archive. Five short programmes from a series called Work in Progress in which George Szirtes, poet, translator - and presenter of the wrestling programme - talks about writing a novel set in the wrestling world (a novel which, unless I’m mistaken - hasn’t yet been published).
I love stuff about the creative process - I’ve often thought of doing a blog about it. Anyway, the Work in Progress pages appear to be a creative process goldmine - although obviously of quite Radio 3-type stuff (lots of poetry and theatre, no video games). Dozens and dozens of Real streams, from people like Roy Strong and Paul Muldoon, Vadim Jean and Ian McEwan.
Pic of George Szirtes from georgeszirtes.co.uk.