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Mon, 2007-04-23 11:29

Brooklands

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Excuse my wrong foruming but...

a chapter from my book is being read on Radio 4 at 3.30pm today. By a man I've never met.

The chapter was posted on Abctales many moons ago:

http://www.abctales.com/node/503948

It's changed a bit since then.

You can probably do that funky listen again online thing - the programme's called The Time Being.

Joe xx

Mon, 2007-04-23 11:53

markbrown

Brilliant! You must be chuffed to bits. I get chuffed when people I've met read my stuff, never mind people I haven't reading it out on national radio. Good one Joe. Cheers, Mark

Mon, 2007-04-23 12:17

lisa h

Congrats! Here's more info: 15:30 Afternoon Reading The Time Being 23 April 2007 Series of original stories by unpublished writers. By Joe Dunthorne. On a family holiday in Tuscany, a teenage boy views his parents with all the scorn he can muster. Read by Matt Green. http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/schedule/ I'll be in the middle of the school run. But it is available for the next 7 days. Lisa

Mon, 2007-04-23 19:18

Enzo v2.0

Agree with BBF, it really is fabulous. Exciting times! Enzo.. Buy my book! http://www.amazon.co.uk/o/ASIN/1846855187/

Tue, 2007-04-24 11:36

Brooklands

Thanks alot guys, I was shitting my pants before it came on. Cheers! Joe

Tue, 2007-04-24 19:37

Enzo v2.0

:So:Do:I: Enzo.. Buy my book! http://www.amazon.co.uk/o/ASIN/1846855187/

Tue, 2007-04-24 19:38

Enzo v2.0

...I'm sorry. I can't believe I actually posted that. I need to get out more.

Tue, 2007-04-24 19:45

lisa h

Enzo, I'm going to look at you in a completely new light now... On a similar vein, on Radio 2 this morning, the chap (I forget who) filling in for a poorly Wogan remarked that Little Red Corvete by Prince was not about cars. I feel totally naive and kinda grossed out, and I really need to find the disk and listen to it again - with wide open eyes! Lisa

Wed, 2007-04-25 11:13

Brooklands

On a similar vein? Is a corvete Prince's name for the female sex organs?

Wed, 2007-04-25 12:26

#10

ivoryfishbone

congrats spack!

Wed, 2007-04-25 12:32

#11

andrewjames

"Like the kind you find in a second-hand store...." Oops. Wrong track.

Wed, 2007-04-25 15:09

#12

Brooklands

That's a good point. Surely a raspberry beret is even more explicit?

Wed, 2007-04-25 16:47

#13

Liana07

A paisley park? And then you could call.. oh, perhaps not. I had a listen and i bloody love that story... the man reading it though I thought not right at all. The voice I read is deadpan, and Matt Green is all over enunciating. Terrible. Did you take the vine/spiders legs out? I really liked that.

Wed, 2007-04-25 18:51

#14

Juliet OC

congratulations, usually i try to listen everyday if i can and would love to write well enough to get on, but i was home early today, will look it up and have a listen. I'd be shouting it from the rooftops - so jealous. Juliet

Juliet

Wed, 2007-04-25 22:59

#15

Brooklands

I took the vine spider's legs thing out at some point. I don't know why. I don't know when. Maybe I'll reinstate it. It's an appropriately cruel-boyish observation. Thanks Liana, Fish, Juliet! Joe

Thu, 2007-04-26 02:03

#16

Foster

Joe, I'm just now getting to this - well worth the wait! Great stuff, and some really superb images. foster.

Thu, 2007-04-26 13:40

#17

Juliet OC

Joe i finally found time to have a listen and the story is great, loved the end scene. I have to agree though that the reader did not do it in the way i imagined it, and i actually preferred reading the version on here. You paint a vivid scene with lots of insightful and fresh description, i could hear them. Can i ask, how did you get it onto Radio 4,was it an unsolicited attempt or through agent or competition? Juliet

Juliet

Thu, 2007-04-26 14:14

#18

Brooklands

I got an email from my old university tutor telling me that a production company were looking for unpublished writers for a reading slot on Radio 4. So I sent the production company the story and they accepted it. I had next to no input in the whole thing. They just told me when it was going to be on. Joe

Thu, 2007-04-26 15:28

#19

tcook

Congrats Joe! As you are now officially the 'next big thing' of British fiction I do hope you won't forget your pals on ABC! Will you be able to come along to the Brighton event on june 23rd?

Thu, 2007-04-26 15:55

#20

Brooklands

Hey Tony, I won't forget ABC! In fact, I'm writing my acknowledgements page today... I'm sadly at Glastonbury (not that sadly) the weekend of the 23rd though. Joe

Thu, 2007-04-26 22:07

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martin_t

excellent stuff joe just come across a site you're connected to, pennedinthemargins and blow me down with a feather, i've met the dude who started it, Tom, he used to post on another message board (urban75) that i go on, and i did a gig with him in herne hill many moons ago

Fri, 2007-04-27 11:23

#22

Brooklands

Cheers Martin, that's interesting - I've only got to know Tom over the last six months but I know he used to do gigs in Herne Hill. I'm doing a tour with him for a poetry book that he published. It's a teeny tiny world. Joe

Fri, 2007-04-27 12:21

#23

martin_t

aye it is i ordered the book as well, and checked out the myspace stuff...

Fri, 2007-04-27 12:43

#24

Brooklands

Nice one! Let me know what you think of it. Cheers, Joe

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