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Paulin on Blake

November 28th, 2007 by Steve Bowbrick

Here’s some proper learning from the grown-ups over at Radio 3. Tom Paulin, a public intellectual on an almost Eighteenth Century model and a William Blake expert, has written a four-part essay about Blake’s language for the Beeb’s aforementioned Blake-a-thon.

I’m going to grab all four of these because Radio 3’s archiving policy is patchy at best. So as not to swamp the podcast with the old fruitcake (sorry), I’ll add parts two, three and four to this entry. So, remember to come back here if you’d like to hear them all (MP3s: part one, part two, part three, part four). From the  British Library’s collection, here’s a really lovely Shockwave facsimile of one of his notebooks and here’s a page about The Tyger.

Presenter: Tom Paulin
Producer: Kate Bland, Lloyd Evans
Production Company: Just Radio
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The Poet of Albion

November 28th, 2007 by Steve Bowbrick

I’m already enjoying the Beeb’s 250th anniversary Blake-a-thon (is that how you spell ‘Blake-a-thon’?). There’s stuff on all the networks. The best so far has been this half hour on Radio 4 in which Jenny Uglow asserts Blake’s radicalism. She’s worried that these days everyone thinks he was either a sentimental English patriot (mostly because of ‘Jerusalem’) or a fruitcake (mostly because of the angels in the trees and the mad engravings).

Tom Paulin, Iain Sinclair and Peter Ackroyd are on hand to back her up, the historical context is fascinating and there’s obviously plenty of marvelous poetry from the old fruitcake (sorry). MP3.

Presenter: Jenny Uglow
Producer: Susan Marling
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