slanderhour

Inside you, as you read this, you are deciding whether or not to build a wall around this monologue. You can make several doors within your perimeter, and at any point, during any syllable, you can walk through a door and away, onto something else for your eyes to listen to, and for your ears to see. This is evidence of YOUR canon. We all have one, and it decides, collectively, where we go, what w...

Would you trust a psychotherapist with your life? Is trust implicit? Does it cease to be Trust once it is noticed? What the bleeding hell is trust?  The Three explore the nature of Trust and what it means nowadays when you can't even trust your best mate these days.  S.LANDERHOUR

Sometimes we start a conversation and it only lasts for 8 minutes.  Try limiting your words today. Say less. YOU CAN DO IT!!

Thank you for coming home Sorry that the chairs are all worn I left them here I could have sworn These are my salad days Slowly being eaten away Just another play for today Oh, but I'm proud of you, but I'm proud of you Nothing left to make me feel small Luck has left me standing so tall After the rush has gone I hope you find a little more time Remember we were partners in crime It's only two yea...

The year is the early nineties. Which is roughly as far away as it is to 2050. so it is a long time ago if you think about it. The early nineties, for those not accustomed, was a place where you would either bash or be bashed. It was a very binary landscape and it would take one hero, Cyberboi, to break this cycle and lead us proudly into the new frontier of the analogue millennium. 

The Three discuss the rare ability to enter people's dreams and manipulate their subconscious. Their skills have made them a hot commodity in the world of philosophy and academia but has also cost them everything they love. The Three get a chance at redemption when they are offered a seemingly impossible task: identify a brand with seemingly no logo, no identity, and no status. If they succeed, it...

The Three investigate the movement of information and how it explores our vacuoles as a method of transit.  Can we bend information by spotting it, trapping it, and limiting it to a function that is more submissive and cute? Or does information Power-Bottom us into sloganistic, slavish, ersatz sandwichboard catwalk models?  Well, lets find out then....

We have all met many buildings in our time.  But have you ever considered that it is in fact the building encountering you?  These structures have always been there, etched into a psychic agreement with the movement of aphoristic non-linear sediment.  Your house drinks you. Water it well. 

When you speak, do you even think or what? In the final moments of your life, is it best to keep it quiet, especially if you're in public? This week, and in perpetuity, MS, GS & JJH will investigate the caverns between thought and speech.  Join us for the first of many gentle, soothing, and delightfully prosaic inquiries into pure, rock bottom NOWT. 

There are many things that happen in a person's life that seem pre-determined. Perhaps there is even an argument that all life is pre-determined.  If this is so, then how does self-awareness and even this self-enquiry fit in? Slanderhour has a lot in common with my rival Sam Harris.  We both claim to be truth sayers.  We both have spent the last few months in LA on retreat.  Most importantly, thou...

Idris Fotheringay Elba was fortunate enough to be born in the second half of the 20th century.  A self-made man, he has forged a long and consistent career of playing mute heartthrobs, anabolic detectives and duplicitous criminals.  All of which amazingly came naturally to this humble Disc Jockey from the mean streets of Dagenham.  Catch Big Driis in the forthcoming Amazon Prime reb...

Everyone knows about Mark Rothko, but not everyone knows everything about Mark Rothko. Today I present an investigative deep-dive through his tragic 'suicide' and into his origins as a young labourer sweating the coffee shops of New York for coin and inspiration. Little did he know ( or did he? ) that the plastic claws of this world were striving to imitate him; and he was watched from afar by eye...

All the way from working backstage on The Golden Girls to becoming our Golden Girl.  Take a journey with Whoopi Goldberg (and I) as, hand in hand, we delve deep into her upbringing on the charred sandcoasts of Africa; mining the juiciest nuggets form her latest and most comprehensive biography yet: 'The Wand of the Wallow and the Call of the Star Guns.  I have delivered this documentary...

Soren Kierkegaard stars as a sleek young executive in old Copenhagen, and a single guy who is fanatically, even ecstatically, addicted to philosophy. It's an addiction that is strip-mining his personality of all recognisable human impulses. He is living in a hell that he has furnished and maintained himself, but it was made by willful moral incest. A clue to this lies in his desperately unhappy sc...

The year is 1975, The planet, Earth.  George Harrison is the same age as Christ when he was put to death for our sins.  In the midst of one of his most creatively fertile periods, Harrison has just composed perhaps his Magnum Opus: 'Bumpty Boo'.  As he plucks the final flourish on his double-necked sitar, he reclines deep within the embrace of his trusty Chesterfield, waits for the...

A wise hen once said: 'An argument is never won, it is only lost by the company it keeps'  Stephen Fry would often say things like this throughout his long and illustrious lives.  Come with me upon a man's odyssey through the dogged receipt of information, jocund performance of other people's art, and ultimate destination as a firm, timeless, British cenotaph.  Keep up with my new w...

Season 2, Episode One: I visit the vaunted, corking town of Haworth, famed for its cobbled streets, foreboding neighbouring moors, and perhaps most notably, sisters Anne, Charlotte and Emily Brontë.  I discuss their heritage, their early works, their untimely demise, and ultimately, their posthumous success as some of England's top lady writers.  So join me as I journey once moor into the past and...

All things, even slanderhour, must come to an ending.  This fitting epsiode that ends this series of SH is dedicated to my favourite actor: Tamsin Greig.  She's brilliant, isn't she?  What can you say about Tamsin that hasn't already been said? Well, that's the end of series one.  If there is enough demand, I may do some more.  I need to go away and have a think about who else is good.  Goodbye Fo...

This time, we take a long and tender look at the almost man of British Politics, Neil Kinnock.  From his prodigious student days (he helped discover Barium at University), to his socialist epiphany whilst meeting one of his heroes, Paul Robeson.  It's an emotional and action packed hour and its a fitting choice as the penultimate epsiode of series one.  For more about slanderhour, v...

This week we analyse not one, but TWO famous lives: The fascinating and untold intimate sibling alliance of Richard and David Attenborough.  From their early creative and surprisingly competitive years, to their growth into separate, personal success and mutual respect.  We have uncovered exclusive family tapes of both brothers speaking about the other in candid detail.  There is nothing as sacred...

This week we delve deep into the world of the enigmatic God-Mother of Punk: Patti Smith.  We look at her early, prodigious years as an aspiring poet and artist and follow her talismanic rise to pop superstardom, with some dramatic twists and turns through Philadelphia, New Jersey and finally, the Big Apple.  It's an emotional and touching tribute to one of the strongest characters to eme...

After last week's extra long and controversial Jim Belushi,  we thought it only right to follow it up with a look at everyone's favourite lasagna obsessed cat, BILL MURRAY.  We take discuss his childhood, those casting near misses, and his big break at SNL where he rubbed shoulders with his idols and learned his endearing and signature dead-pan style.  For more news and exclusive content, follow s...

In this episode, we discuss the life and times of the wonderful, singular talent that was Jim Morrison .  For more information about slanderhour, follow us on twitter @slanderhour See you soon!