The International Anthony Burgess Foundation is celebrating the 40th anniversary of Earthly Powers, Burgess's longest and most accomplished novel. In this first episode of a series of special podcasts, we explore the character of Kenneth Toomey. What were Burgess's inspirations? How did he breath life into his protagonist.Written and narrated by Graham Foster.Readings by Paul Barnhill.Music by Anthony Burgess.For more information about Burgess and Earthly Powers, visit www.anthonyburgess.org.

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In this episode, the Burgess Foundation's Andrew Biswell and Graham Foster discuss the importance of Italy to Anthony Burgess's work, including the novels Beard's Roman Women, ABBA ABBA, and Earthly Powers.

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Dr Matthew Whittle talks to the Burgess Foundation's Graham Foster about Anthony Burgess's experiences of Malaya in the 1950s and the fiction they inspired.

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In this episode, Anthony Burgess experts Andrew Biswell and Rob Spence discuss Nothing Like the Sun, Burgess's novel about Shakespeare. Written for the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's birth, the novel is a creative rendering of Shakespeare's love life and his experiences of theatrical London. This podcast discusses the innovative use of language, the unique composition of the novel and Burgess's lifelong preoccupation with Shakespeare and his contemporaries.

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Episode 7 of the Burgess Foundation Podcast explores Anthony Burgess’s translations of the sonnets of Giuseppe Gioachino Belli. Seventy-one of Belli’s sonnets form the appendix to Burgess’s 1977 book ABBA ABBA. The following podcast discusses who Belli was, considers the reason for Burgess’s interest in this nineteenth-century poet, and maps out the evolution of Burgess’s translations using original audio footage from the archives at the Burgess Foundation in Manchester and an interview with Dr. Nicoletta Di Ciolla from Manchester Metropolitan University. By Martin Kratz.

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In the following podcast, AHRC-funded Cultural Engagement researcher Martin Kratz talks to Dr David Miller from Manchester Metropolitan University about his research on the English romantic poet John Keats, Anthony Burgess’s ABBA ABBA, and the posthumous lives of John Keats.

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What's it going to be then, eh? Episode Five of the International Anthony Burgess Foundation Podcast examines Burgess's most famous novel, A Clockwork Orange. From the novel's genesis over fifty years ago, to Stanley Kubrick's controversial film adaptation and beyond, this podcast is a guide through the murky world of Alex and his fearsome droogs.

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This episode of the International Anthony Burgess Foundation Podcast seeks to explore Burgess’s cosmopolitanism. Beginning with his formative years in Manchester, Burgess is revealed as a writer that was intellectually preoccupied by geographic location and how it affects the development of the identity in exile. It also depicts the conflict between Burgess’s identity as a professional writer, and that of ‘The Writer as International Figure’, a personality that he cultivated on television chat shows and in the press.

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The third episode of the International Anthony Burgess Foundation Podcast discusses One Hand Clapping and Tremor of Intent. These two books, republished this year by Serpent's Tail, illustrate the breadth of Burgess's work in fiction, from the plain-speaking northern voice at the centre of One Hand Clapping to the Bond-esque secret agent in Tremor of Intent.

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Episode Two examines Anthony Burgess's relationship with Shakespeare and his works, including discussions of his Shakespeare biography, his novel Nothing Like the Sun and his imaginative interpretation of the bard's life. Featuring music from the little-known and unfilmed musical The Bawdy Bard and Burgess's Shakespeare ballet, Mr WS, this is a fascinating exploration of one of the great influences on Burgess's creative life.

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