Chip Shop at the BBC Radio Theatre: Pictures
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
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
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
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
Chip Shop BBC Radio 3 Word Appeal!
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
McMillan Chip Shop Poem Review, Spoonfed 01.04.10
Ian McMillan’s ‘the Verb’ on BBC Radio 3 has accompanied my news blackout of the last few months. I quit listening to or reading about current affairs after I realised it was mostly bad news, not ‘bad’ in the gloomy sense but rather the ‘inaccurate’. So it was fun to realise while listening to the
Jim Hobbs’ Shelf Exhibition, 27th-28th March
I was asked to add a sculpture to a brief exhibition held by our good friend Jim Hobbs, in his studio in Peckham. The reception last night was a great fun occassion. I loaned this: It is about 170mm long. We were also asked to respond to a list of numbers found on one of
Feature in the Independent 19th March 2010
You can read an article by Nancy Groves here about us in the independent about the Chip Shop project for the London Word Festival or see a scan of the print version through the thumbnail below:
Guardian Books Blog 12.3.10
The Guardian books blog has written a round-up of the London Word Festival, joining the words ‘Family’, ‘Press’ and ‘Henningham’ to the word ‘Fantastic’. You can read it here A blog called the first pint has also written up a report of the Chip Shop at Dalston’s Red Art Cafe here
Grazia Magazine 8.3.10
Lauren Laverne has been championing the London Word Festival on BBC6 Music, one of our favourite stations, especially making mention of the Chip Shop. She also writes for Grazia magazine and here we are again: your local family press mentioned between Sandra Bullock and Drew Barrymore? Apparently.