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Keep Printing and Carry On in Pictures!

By - David
Posted on June, 18, 2010May, 12, 2011

The London Word Festival team have put up loads of wonderful pictures from that seminal evening of entertainment, Keep Printing and Carry On at STK. Darren Hayman, Jo Neary, and Murray Macaulay all in collaboration with the Henningham Family Press. And if that wasn’t enough, Universettee with guest mini-lecturers Sophie Mackay and David Barnes… Pictures

Word Chain

By - Julie Rafalski
Posted on June, 17, 2010

If you follow a pencil carefully, from the moment it is created from the wood of a tree that grew by a Czech lake which you once saw through the train window while on your way to Vienna where a waiter then used that pencil to write down your order, to the moment when that

Chip Shop at the BBC Radio Theatre: Pictures

By - David
Posted on May, 28, 2010May, 12, 2011

Chip Shop on stage before broadcast Making preparations with Ian McMillan and the producer Simon Armitage choosing his Chip Shop word; ‘homunculus’

Work in Progress CANCELLATION

By - David
Posted on May, 16, 2010May, 16, 2010

We are having to pull out of the book fair advertised for today, Ping* is on maternity leave now, and I’m going to have to stay with her today instead.

Work in Progress Book Fair, Sun 16th May 2010

By - David
Posted on May, 8, 2010May, 9, 2010

Sunday 16th May 2010, 12noon FREE 96-98 Pentonville Road, N1 We’ve been invited to host a stall at a book event called Work in Progress, at the Lexington. For people who have asked when they’ll be able to come and browse through a copy of the Neglected Interviews, this is a good time. Many of

Listen again to the Verb, or even for the first time

By - David
Posted on May, 8, 2010May, 12, 2011

We had a great time last night, broadcasting the Chip Shop as part of a live edition of the Verb from the BBC Radio Theatre. Our dictionary lies in great need of repair after being put through its paces by the wonderful verb audience. Their favourite words are obviously almost part of the family. One

Clegg’s Last Tape

By - David Barnes
Posted on May, 6, 2010May, 6, 2010

So it emerges that Nick Clegg has been a Samuel Beckett fan all along. I couldn’t help wondering what an election scripted by Beckett would look like: The stage light slowly illuminates a rocky plateau. Buried in pebbles up to their necks are BROWN, CLEG and CAM. BROWN. Finished, all finished now. Old Brown’s gone

Chip Shop BBC Radio 3 Word Appeal!

By - David
Posted on April, 30, 2010May, 12, 2011

Here’s your chance to suggest words for our menu on the Verb. Either email us directly or add a comment below with up to two of your favourite words, and we will hand-pick the freshest entries to be printed for the show. Members of the Verb audience and recipients of their newsletter now have until

Chip Shop live on BBC Radio 3

By - Ping Henningham
Posted on April, 30, 2010May, 12, 2011

Friday 7th May, 9.15pm on The Verb Following his performance of the Chip Shop Poem, a poem composed of the words generated by the Chip Shop at the London Word Festival 2010, Ian McMillan enjoyed the Chip Shop so much he asked us to come on his BBC Radio 3 ‘caberet of the word’ show,

Drei Schreit fur alles

By - Eddie
Posted on April, 9, 2010April, 9, 2010

I really enjoyed reading Julie Rafalski’s last blog on the flagship site, Henningham Family Press. I liked how just one overheard word on the tube led to such a flow of information. The whole subject of how one writes or composes was foremost in my head yesterday as I tottered along Invalidenstrasse on a beautifully