The International Anthony Burgess Foundation Podcast

In this episode, Andrew Biswell of the Burgess Foundation explores fictional representations of Jesus Christ with writer Nicholas Graham, author of  The Judas Case . We begin with Anthony Burgess’s 1979 novel,  Man of Nazareth , an ambitious account of Jesus’s life from the point of view of a fictional Greek merchant. The novel was written at the same time as Burgess’s teleplay  Jes...

In this episode we’re looking at the state of Literary London during the Second World War with writer Will Loxley. Will’s book Writing in the Dark: Bloomsbury, the Blitz and Horizon Magazine, brings to life the cultural and intellectual environment that influenced some of Anthony Burgess’s most defining thoughts about writing and literature. Many of the writers that feature in this story, suc...

It’s June 2022 and we’re celebrating the hundredth anniversary of the publication of James Joyce’s Ulysses with a series of podcasts exploring Anthony Burgess’s love of the novel.  In this episode, Andrew Biswell of the Burgess Foundation talks to David Collard about his book Multiple Joyce, a study of Joyce’s cultural legacy over one hundred essays that often reveal unexpected connectio...

It’s June 2022 and we’re celebrating the hundredth anniversary of the publication of James Joyce’s Ulysses with a series of podcasts exploring Anthony Burgess’s love of the novel.  In this episode, the Burgess Foundation's Will Carr tells the story of Blooms of Dublin, Burgess's musical adaptation of Ulysses which was first performed in Dublin in 1982 to mark the centenary of Joyce's birth. T...

It’s June 2022 and we’re celebrating the hundredth anniversary of the publication of James Joyce’s Ulysses with a series of podcasts exploring Anthony Burgess’s love of the novel. In this episode, Andrew Biswell of the Burgess Foundation looks at Burgess’s formative visits to Dublin, and how his passion for Joyce’s work led to his television documentary, Silence, Exile and Cunning. Find out how Bu...

In this episode, we explore the art of translation. Andrew Biswell from the Burgess Foundation talks to Burgess's German translator, Ludger Tolksdorf, who has recently completed his translation of Anthony Burgess's The Malayan Trilogy . Ludger is based in Bonn, Germany, and works as a translator and literary editor. The first volume of his translation of The Malayan Trilogy , Jetzt ein Tiger , in...

In 1984, Anthony Burgess published Ninety-Nine Novels , a selection of his favourite novels in English since 1939. The list is typically idiosyncratic, and shows the breadth of Burgess's interest in fiction. This podcast, by the International Anthony Burgess Foundation, explores the novels on Burgess's list with the help of writers, critics and other special guests. In this episode, we talk to wri...

In 1984, Anthony Burgess published Ninety-Nine Novels, a selection of his favourite novels in English since 1939. The list is typically idiosyncratic, and shows the breadth of Burgess's interest in fiction. This podcast, by the International Anthony Burgess Foundation, explores the novels on Burgess's list with the help of writers, critics and other special guests. In this episode, Will Carr of th...

In 1984, Anthony Burgess published Ninety-Nine Novels, a selection of his favourite novels in English since 1939. The list is typically idiosyncratic, and shows the breadth of Burgess's interest in fiction. This podcast, by the International Anthony Burgess Foundation, explores the novels on Burgess's list with the help of writers, critics and other special guests. In this episode, Andrew Biswell...

In 1984, Anthony Burgess published Ninety-Nine Novels, a selection of his favourite novels in English since 1939. The list is typically idiosyncratic, and shows the breadth of Burgess's interest in fiction. This podcast, by the International Anthony Burgess Foundation, explores the novels on Burgess's list with the help of writers, critics and other special guests. In this episode, Graham Foster o...

In 1984, Anthony Burgess published Ninety-Nine Novels, a selection of his favourite novels in English since 1939. The list is typically idiosyncratic, and shows the breadth of Burgess's interest in fiction. This podcast, by the International Anthony Burgess Foundation, explores the novels on Burgess's list with the help of writers, critics and other special guests. In this episode, Graham Foster o...

In 1984, Anthony Burgess published Ninety-Nine Novels, a selection of his favourite novels in English since 1939. The list is typically idiosyncratic, and shows the breadth of Burgess's interest in fiction. This podcast, by the International Anthony Burgess Foundation, explores the novels on Burgess's list with the help of writers, critics and other special guests. In this episode, Graham Foster o...

In 1984, Anthony Burgess published Ninety-Nine Novels, a selection of his favourite novels in English since 1939. The list is typically idiosyncratic, and shows the breadth of Burgess's interest in fiction. This podcast, by the International Anthony Burgess Foundation, explores the novels on Burgess's list with the help of writers, critics and other special guests. In this episode, Graham Foster o...

In 1984, Anthony Burgess published Ninety-Nine Novels, a selection of his favourite novels in English since 1939. The list is typically idiosyncratic, and shows the breadth of Burgess's interest in fiction. This podcast, by the International Anthony Burgess Foundation, explores the novels on Burgess's list with the help of writers, critics and other special guests. In this episode, Will Carr of th...

In 1984, Anthony Burgess published Ninety-Nine Novels, a selection of his favourite novels in English since 1939. The list is typically idiosyncratic, and shows the breadth of Burgess's interest in fiction. This podcast, by the International Anthony Burgess Foundation, explores the novels on Burgess's list with the help of writers, critics and other special guests. For the first episode in our new...

In this episode, we are exploring Anthony Burgess’s interest in film, both as a consumer and a screenwriter. We follow Burgess’s life from his early years as a cinema-goer in Manchester through to his first trips to Hollywood, where he wrote screenplays on subjects as varied as Mary Queen of Scots, the end of the Earth, William Shakespeare and the wizard Merlin. Along the way, we’ll hear recording...

To mark the 50th anniversary of Stanley Kubrick’s adaptation of A Clockwork Orange we’re examining Burgess’s relationship with the director. In part four of our series, Andrew Biswell of the Burgess Foundation speaks to David Mikics, a Moores Distinguished Professor in the English Department of the University of Houston, about Kubrick's working practices, the importance of his films, and his Jewis...

Laura Tunbridge gave the tenth annual Anthony Burgess Lecture at the Engine House on 14 October, exploring Beethoven's life and work and discussing Anthony Burgess's lifelong engagement with both. Laura is Professor of Music at the University of Oxford and author of the award-winning biography, Beethoven: A Life in Nine Pieces. Beethoven's life is shrouded in myths, and her hugely readable and com...

This episode focuses on the dystopian world-building of Anthony Burgess and Stanley Kubrick. The Burgess Foundation's Andrew Biswell talks to Matt Melia, Senior Lecturer in Film, Literature and Media at Kingston University. Matt's research centres around Kubrick and Ken Russell, and he is co-editor of a forthcoming collection on Stanley Kubrick and A Clockwork Orange. He has also edited a collecti...

In this episode, the Burgess Foundation's Graham Foster has a conversation with Georgina Orgill, the Stanley Kubrick Archivist at the University of the Arts, London. Georgina manages, preserves and promotes the Stanley Kubrick Archive and is currently co-editing two volumes on Kubrick. She is also the series editor for Liverpool University Press's Kubrick Series. For more information about the Kub...

We are celebrating the 50th anniversary of the release of Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange with a series of podcasts exploring Kubrick’s work and his relationship with Burgess. In this episode, writer, lecturer and Italy's leading expert on Kubrick, Filippo Ulivieri talks to the Burgess Foundation's Graham Foster about Burgess's collaborations with Kubrick. from A Clockwork Orange, to Napoleon...

In this episode, we’re exploring some of the research that’s happening in the Burgess Foundation archive. The Burgess Foundation's Graham Foster talks to PhD student Milena Schwab-Graham about her work on the Burgess audio collection. Milena's work is part of a collaboration between the Burgess Foundation and the White Rose College of the Arts and Humanities (WRoCAH), an AHRC-funded Doctoral Train...

In this episode, the Burgess Foundation's Andrew Biswell talks to Emily Skillings, editor of a posthumous collection of poems by the seminal American poet John Ashbery, titled Parallel Movement of the Hands. John Ashbery was one of the most celebrated American poets of the twentieth century. He is perhaps best known for his 1975 collection Self Portrait in a Convex Mirror, which won three major Am...

Are you new to Anthony Burgess? Have you read A Clockwork Orange and want to know what to read next? In this episode, we're going back to basics to tell the story of Burgess's literary career from start to finish. Find out more about what inspired A Clockwork Orange, discover the breadth of Burgess's influences and hear him talk about his own work in recordings from the Burgess Archive. If this po...

In this episode, we're celebrating the fortieth anniversary of Jean-Jacques Annuad's film Quest for Fire, for which Anthony Burgess invented the languages of the cavemen characters. To celebrate the film's anniversary, the Burgess Foundation's Will Carr talks to actor and movement director Peter Elliott. In Quest for Fire, Peter played Mikr, a member of the Paleolithic Ulam tribe, who are searchin...