Pure poetry as Iain Banks adds audio to Mark Brew’s Nocturne
June 26, 2009DaveH of The Banksoniain fanzine fame has been in touch with some information about an audio contribution by Iain to a dance performance that's opening tonight in London:
Not strictly an Iain appearance but Gary Lloyd who created an audio version of The Bridge and is working with Iain on a tribute album for Frozen Gold has used a recording of Iain reading a poem by Luke Pell in the music that Gary has written for a dance group.
The first of this year's performances of Nocturne by the Marc Brew Company are free and will be taking place as part of the Greenwich and Docklands International Festival this weekend. The piece lasts approximately twenty minutes.
- Friday June 26th, 13:45 & 18:45
- Saturday June 27th, 13:45 & 18:45
- Sunday June 28th, 13:45 & 15:45
at Monument Gardens, Old Royal Naval College, Greenwich
There will also be performances at:
- Winchester Hat Fair - 3rd and 4th July
- Penrith Dance Daze - 26th July
- Stockton International Riverside Festival - 31st July, 2nd August
- Liberty Festival 2009 - Trafalgar Square, London - 5th September
- Manchester International Festival - 18th to 20th September (TBC)
Iain Banks taking part in ‘Ursula Le Guin at 80′ radio tribute
March 11, 2009Iain Banks will be contributing to a BBC Radio 4 tribute to veteran science fiction and fantasy author Ursula K. LeGuin, which will be broadcast on Tuesday, March 17th at 11.30 a.m.
Here's the info from the BBC Radio4 website:
Writer China Miéville talks to American science fiction writer Ursula Le Guin.
Le Guin was a trailblazer - writing in the 1960s, her series of books about the adventures of a boy wizard, Ged, included characters of every race and colour. Her fiction has been acutely concerned with politics, portraying worlds destroyed by environmental catastrophe that prefigured modern concerns about global warming, and societies without gender just as modern-day feminism began to take off.
Featuring contributions and tributes from Iain Banks and Margaret Atwood.
[Thanks to The Banksoniain's David H for the heads-up]
The Wasp Factory on BBC Radio 4
February 11, 2009Iain's debut novel The Wasp Factory, which celebrates its 25th anniversary this year, will feature on BBC Radio 4's A Good Read on Tuesday March 3rd at 4.30 p.m., repeated on Friday March 6th at 11.00 p.m.
Visit www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/arts for more information on the current series of A Good Read.
State of the Art radio adaptation news
October 7, 2008Via DaveH we've learned that Ian Whates, one of the organisers of this month's Newcon4 convention - at which Iain will be a Guest of Honour - has posted the following news about Paul Cornell's radio adaptation of Ian's short story 'The State of the Art', at the SFF Chronicles forum.
"Paul Cornell's radio adaptation of Iain Banks' novel The State of the Art will be aired on the 6th March 2009 on Radio 4...
"Of course, anyone impatient for a preview would have to come along to NewCon 4. We've obtained permission to play exclusive clips from the show, 6 months ahead of its broadcast; said clips to then be discussed by the author and adaptor ('adaptor' as in Paul, rather than any electronic gizmo!)."
And there's more information on State of the Art's place in the forthcoming BBC Radio science fiction season, over at blogs.thestage.co.uk.
Iain Banks FinancialRadio.co.uk audio interview
August 4, 2008Iain Banks has been interviewed by market news and interviews webzine Financial Radio. It appears that the interview was carried out and posted to the website back in April, but was added to YouTube a couple of weeks ago and subsequently discovered by Gary W, who sent in the link (cheers, Gary!)
Here's the link to the original article: www.financialradio.co.uk.
And here are the three YouTube links:
Embedded audio after the jump, click on 'read more' to access.
