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Man Booker Winner, Weather and Twilight, The Kibbo Kift

Matthew Sweet presents. With Alex Clark on 2015's Man Booker Prize, Peter Davidson and Alex Harris on their histories of weather and twilight, and Michael Rosen on the Kibbo Kift.

Matthew Sweet hears from Alex Clark direct from the 2015 Man Booker Award ceremony on this year's winning novel.
There's discussion of imaginative histories of Weather and Twilight with Alex Harris and Peter Davidson. They'll be explaining why painters first noticed the witching hour at the end of the 18th century, and why Anglo-Saxons only told stories about the winter, why April showers were precious in the middle-ages and fog was the novelists' weather of choice in the 19th century.
Plus the poet Michael Rosen, whose new anthology links anti-Semitism, fascism and war with the lives of his parents and grandparents, joins Matthew in the great outdoors to remember the Kibbo Kift Kin, the 1920s youth movement which combined woodcraft with cutting edge costume and art and arcane and possibly occult dreams of changing the world forever.
The Kindred of the Kibbo Kift, a new book by Annebella Pollen accompanies Intellectual Barbarians, an exhibition at London's Whitechapel Gallery, marking the short but colourful history of an organisation which fell foul of both Right and Left.

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45 minutes

Last on

Tue 13 Oct 2015 22:00

Credits

Role Contributor
Presenter Matthew Sweet
Interviewed Guest Peter Davidson
Interviewed Guest Alexandra Harris
Interviewed Guest Michael Rosen
Producer Jacqueline Smith

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  • Tue 13 Oct 2015 22:00

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