First Impressions

First impressions count – third time lucky? Join professional writer/editor and amateur impressionist Peter Humphreys for another surreal slice of literary cheesecake. Episode Three is all about time (about time!) and contains an appearance from ‘Big Al’ (AKA playwright Alan Bennett) who has been roped into promoting Lancaster’s premier supplier of digital watches. There are also snippets of conversation with Peter’s wife Anita, during which the couple discuss their lengthy separation due to Covid/visa issues. Readings include Julio Cortazar’s ‘Instructions on How to Wind a Watch’; Peter’s poems ‘The Time is Gone’ and ‘Civil Obedience’, and an extract from his third novel, ‘Oblivious’.

First impressions count – how about second? Join professional writer/editor and amateur impressionist Peter Humphreys for another surreal slice of literary cheesecake. Episode two contains The Legend of Scrimshand, a short story about a prolific (and deeply unpopular) writer & part one of a conversation with guitar teacher and multi-instrumentalist Guy Humphreys, backed by music from the Humphreys' family band Decaying Leather and Wirral-rooted supergroup Cool Cheese. The brothers' uncle's band, OMD, is cited as both a source of inspiration, and of some of the borrowed equipment on which they learnt to get funky. 

Join professional writer/editor and amateur impressionist Peter Humphreys for a surreal slice of literary cheesecake. Peter reads from the start of his novel Hong Kong Rocks and shares a series of Covid lockdown-inspired poems/stories backed by beats and FX. Humour meets bathos, pathos, Aramis and Lynx for men (and women). Guests are promised for future episodes, but will they tear up their contracts after hearing Peter's Frank Spencer impression?