DESCRIPTION Adam talks with American writer Colson Whitehead, whose novels The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys made him only the fourth writer to be awarded the Pulitzer Prize for fiction twice, about writing routines, anxiety management and the challenges of trying to look on the positive side of life, literary influences, music, getting stoned and watching 'Platoon', his new heist novel Harlem Shuffle and one of the many memorable parts from The Underground Railroad. This conversation was recorded remotely on 1st of July 2021 Thanks to Matt Lamont for conversation editing and Séamus Murphy-Mitchell and Becca Ptaszynski for production support. Podcast artwork by Helen Green RELATED LINKS THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD WAS NO FANTASY (by FERGUS M BORDEWICH) - 2021 (WALL STREET JOURNAL) GUARDIAN INTERVIEW WITH COLSON WHITEHEAD (by SEAN O'HAGAN) - 2020 (GUARDIAN WEBSITE) REVIEW OF HARLEM SHUFFLE by COLSON WHITEHEAD - 2021 (KIRKUS WEBSITE) HOW BARRY JENKINS AND COLSON WHITEHEAD MADE THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD (by HUNTER HARRIS) - 2021 (TOWN AND COUNTRY) TOURING TRUMP'S AMERICA ON COLSON WHITEHEAD'S UNDERGROUND RAILROAD (by RAJEEV BALASUBRAMANYAN) - 2016 (THE RUMPUS WEBSITE) YES, MALE WRITERS CAN WRITE FANTASTIC FEMALE CHARACTERS - 2020 (BANG2WRITE WEBSITE) EASY RIDERS, RAGING BULLS by PETER BISKIND - 1999 (WATERSTONES) SPOTIFY PLAYLIST BY FOUR TET (KIERAN HEBDEN) - 2016 - PRESENT (SPOTIFY) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

EP.164 - COLSON WHITEHEAD

British comedian Adam Buxton talks with interesting people. The rambly conversations are sometimes funny, sometimes more serious with funny bits. Adam makes the jingles and records the intros and outros for most episodes while walking with his dog friend Rosie in the East Anglian countryside where he lives with his wife and three children.
Adam has appeared in films such as Hot Fuzz, Stardust and Son Of Rambow as well as a variety of TV shows in the UK. Since 2007 he has hosted BUG, a live show that combines music videos and comedy that became a TV series on Sky Atlantic in 2012. From time to time he also does live shows featuring just his own material. Along with lifelong friend Joe Cornish he also is one half of award winning TV, radio and podcast duo Adam and Joe.
You can find many of the jingles Adam makes for the podcast as well as bonus material, merchandise and a selection of funny and brilliant YouTube videos on Adam's website: adam-buxton.co.uk
Yes, Adam is writing this himself using the third person. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Comedy

Adam talks with old friend and Rupaul's Drag Race producer Fenton Bailey about managing vanity in middle age and the extent to which reality TV can be blamed for everything bad in the world (with particular emphasis on Don Trump). This conversation was recorded face-to-face in London on 12th January, 2024 Thanks to Séamus Murphy-Mitchell for production support and conversation editing. Podcast artwork by Helen Green ADAM'S WEBSITE (for Rosie rainbow pic etc.) LIVE PODCAST - LAST SEATS FOR LONDON (9th June) & DUBLIN (May 21st), 2024 LIVE PODCAST WITH SELF ESTEEM, 2nd June, 2024 @Crossed Wires Festival, Sheffield,  RELATED LINKS FRANK BLACK AND RICHARD AYOADE - HEY (REHEARSAL) - 2024 (YOUTUBE) FRANK BLACK AND RICHARD AYOADE - WHERE IS MY MIND (REHEARSAL) - 2024 (YOUTUBE) REMOVE YOUTUBE SIDEBAR - (CHROME WEBSTORE) SCREEN AGE by FENTON BAILEY - 2022 (WORLD OF WONDER) MANUFACTURING CONSENT: NOAM CHOMSKY AND THE MEDIA - 1992 (YOUTUBE) NAM JUNE PAIK - MOON IS THE OLDEST TV (TRAILER) - 2023 (YOUTUBE) HOW MARK BURNETT RESURRECTED DONALD TRUMP AS AN ICON OF AMERICAN SUCCESS by Patrick Radden Keefe - 2018 (THE NEW YORKER) DEPP V HEARD by Nick Wallis - 2023 (2nd hand copy on WORLD OF BOOKS) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

EP.224 - FENTON BAILEY

Adam talks with British actor, comedian, and writer Jessica Knappett about the challenges of making a good sitcom, how the stress of filming a pilot for American TV made one of Jessica's internal organs explode, what Ilkla Moor Baht'At really means, weird vocal noises, and how the world can be fixed with balls of energy and love. This conversation was recorded face-to-face in London on 1st February 2024. Thanks to Séamus Murphy-Mitchell for production support and conversation editing. Podcast artwork by Helen Green Ramble Chat pastoral remix by Anthony Brown RELATED LINKS ADAM BUXTON PODCAST LIVE @ APOLLO HAMMERSMITH, 9th JUNE, 2024 LIVE PODCAST WITH SELF ESTEEM, 2nd JUNE, 2024 @Crossed Wires Festival, Sheffield JOHN COOPER CLARKE - BOOK, 2024 TOUR ETC ILKLA MOOR BAHT'AT  (YOUTUBE) YORKSHIRE ANTHEM - ILKLA MOOR BAHT'AT - 2010 (YOUTUBE) HOW I MARRIED AN AIR GUITAR CHAMPION by Jessica Knappett - 2017 (GUARDIAN) JESSICA KNAPPETT'S QUEST FOR FREE DRINKS WENT HORRIBLY WRONG - UNFORGIVEN - 2023 (YOUTUBE) BEST OF JESSICA IN IBIZA FOR TRAVEL MAN WITH RICHARD AYOADE - 2020 (YOUTUBE) PHILIP LARKIN READING HIS POEM AN ARUNDEL TOMB - 1956 (POETRY FOUNDATION) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

EP.223 - JESSICA KNAPPETT

Adam and British writer, journalist, and environmental activist George Monbiot go for a walk around the parks and woodland of Bristol and talk about the harmful aspects of farming, what George does for a good time, why being sent away to boarding school was a disaster, responding to criticism of his work, why he changed his mind about nuclear power, and what gives him hope. This conversation was recorded on 26th April, 2023 Thanks to Séamus Murphy-Mitchell for production support and conversation editing. Podcast artwork by Helen Green RELATED LINKS INVISIBLE DOCTRINE - THE SECRET HISTORY OF NEOLIBERALISM (PRE-ORDER) - 2024 (PENGUIN) THE LAND IS OURS ARTICLES, BOOKS, ETC by GEORGE MONBIOT (MONBIOT.COM) GEORGE MONBIOT - RIVERCIDE - 2022 (YOUTUBE) REVIEW OF REGENESIS by Gaia Vince - 2022 (GUARDIAN) GEORGE MONBIOT'S FARMING FANTASIES by John Lewis-Stempel - 2023 (UNHERD) GEORGE MONBIOT AND EWAN McLENNAN - BREAKING THE SPELL OF LONELINESS (Short video about the musical collaboration) - 2016 (YOUTUBE) THE AGE OF LONELINESS IS KILLING US by George Monbiot - 2016 9THE GUARDIAN) GEORGE MONBIOT EXPLAINS RUSSELL BRAND'S DANGEROUS GAME WITH THE FAR RIGHT (ON POLITICS JOE) - 2023 (YOUTUBE) BOARDING SCHOOLS WARP OUR POLITICAL CLASS by George Monbiot - 2019 (GUARDIAN) PRIVATE SCHOOLS ARE TRAUMA FACTORIES - ASH SARKAR MEETS RICHARD BEARD (NOVARA MEDIA) - 2023 (YOUTUBE) WHY THE US WAS LUCKY TO GET DONALD TRUMP (DOUBLE DOWN NEWS) - 2020 (YOUTUBE) THE PROMISED LAND (TRAILER) - 2023 (YOUTUBE) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

EP.222 - GEORGE MONBIOT

Adam talks with American comedian, actor and musician Tim Heidecker about early Tim & Eric influences, making non-comedy music, Bob Dylan, and antagonising the alt-right. This conversation was recorded face-to-face in London on 25th March, 2023. Thanks to Séamus Murphy-Mitchell for production support and conversation editing. Podcast artwork by Helen Green RELATED LINKS OFFICE HOURS (YOUTUBE CHANNEL) ON CINEMA ON THE HEI NETWORK TIM HEIDECKER'S WEBSITE  JOE ROGAN SPOOF (OFFICE HOURS LIVE) - 2021 (YOUTUBE) TOM GOES TO THE MAYOR - 2004 (YOUTUBE PLAYLIST) TIM AND ERIC SEASON 5 MOST UNDERRATED MOMENTS (YOUTUBE) THE BEST OF TIM AND ERIC AWESOME SHOW (YOUTUBE PLAYLIST) AN EVENING WITH TIM HEIDECKER - STAND UP SPECIAL - 2021 (YOUTUBE) MY BEATLES HELL - 2004 (ODD BOOKS WEBSITE) LENNY BRUCE by BOD DYLAN - 1981 (YOUTUBE) SPALDING GRAY DINNER SCENE FROM TRUE STORIES - 1986 (YOUTUBE) CANNIBAL THE MUSICAL (TRAILER) - 1993 (YOUTUBE) BRIGSBY BEAR (TRAILER) - 2017 (YOUTUBE) DELIA DERBYSHIRE AND DOCTOR WHO THEME - 1965 (YOUTUBE) WENDY CARLOS AND HER MOOG - 1970 (YOUTUBE) THE MAKING OF TRON - 2002 (YOUTUBE) NORTH NORFOLK TODAY: BEST BITS - ALAN PARTRIDGE'S MID MORNING MATTERS - 2010 (YOUTUBE) LIMMY - LAPTOP - 2011 (YOUTUBE) BEST FAILS OF THE YEAR - 2023 (YOUTUBE) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

EP.221 - TIM HEIDECKER

Adam talks with American actor, comedian, voice artist, screenwriter, producer and musician Fred Armisen about hotel hacks, what Fred and Matt Berry learned when they hung out with David Bowie's producer Tony Visconti, the Stop Making Sense nerd fact David Byrne told Fred, how Adam could help Talking Heads get on better, why you can't beat Paul McCartney, why Fred wasn't nervous for his Saturday Night Live Audition, the Portlandia sketches that summed up the show best and Fred takes us on an accent tour of New York. This conversation was recorded face-to-face in London on 25th November 2023. Thanks to Séamus Murphy-Mitchell for production support and conversation editing. Podcast artwork by Helen Green JIM DOWN - LIFE IN THE BALANCE (PAPERBACK) - 2023 (WATERSTONES) RELATED LINKS FRED ARMISEN BRITISH MUSIC PLAYLIST - 2023 (LINE OF BEST FIT WEBSITE) DAVID BOWIE, BRIAN ENO AND TONY VISCONTI RECORD WARSZAWA (animated by Brothers McLeod) - 2013 (YOUTUBE) BREAKING DOWN HEROES - TONY VISCONTI & ERIN TONKON (FROM MUSIC MOGULS: MASTERS OF POP, BCC) - 2016 (YOUTUBE) MATT BERRY INTERVIEWS BRIAN ENO - 2018 (YOUTUBE) PORTLANDIA - PUT A BIRD ON IT - 2011 (YOUTUBE) PORTLANDIA - IN THE RESTAURANT - 2011 (YOUTUBE) PORTLANDIA - WHICH BIN DOES IT GO IN - 2012 (YOUTUBE) HISTORY OF PUNK SNL - 2013 (YOUTUBE) SNL WEEKEND UPDATE - GARTH AND KAT SING HALLOWEEN SONGS - 2010 (YOUTUBE) NARDWUAR VS FRED ARMISEN - 2013 (YOUTUBE) FRED ARMISEN, BILL HADER, SETH MYERS RECALL PRINCE AFTERSHOW PARTY ON HOWARD STERN SHOW - 2016 (YOUTUBE) BEST OF BILL HADER AND FRED ARMISEN (YOUTUBE) SATURDAY NIGHT - A DOCUMENTARY ABOUT SNL BY JAMES FRANCO - 2014 (YOUTUBE) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

EP.164 - COLSON WHITEHEAD

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