Inside Anthony Burgess is a podcast exploring the imaginative world of the author of A Clockwork Orange and 32 other novels. Each episode will feature one of Burgess’s books, taking in both his fiction and his non-fiction. Among other subjects, we will discuss the origins of each work, its themes and its literary techniques. At first glance, Burgess’s 1961 novel One Hand Clapping seems very different to everything else he wrote. It is narrated by Janet Shirley, a northern housewife who lives in a council house with her husband Howard. When Howard wins big money on a quiz show their lives change forever, but their newfound wealth brings corruption as well as glamour. […]
Inside Anthony Burgess is a podcast exploring the imaginative world of the author of A Clockwork Orange and 32 other novels. Each episode will feature one of Burgess’s books, taking in both his fiction and his non-fiction. Among other subjects, we will discuss the origins of each work, its themes and its literary techniques. Tremor […]
Inside Anthony Burgess is a podcast exploring the imaginative world of the author of A Clockwork Orange and 32 other novels. Each episode will feature one of Burgess’s books, taking in both his fiction and his non-fiction. Among other subjects, we will discuss the origins of each work, its themes and its literary techniques. In […]
Inside Anthony Burgess is a podcast which aims to explore the imaginative world of the author of A Clockwork Orange and 32 other novels. Each episode will feature one of Burgess’s books, taking in both his fiction and his non-fiction. Among other subjects, we will discuss the origins of each work, its themes and its […]
Inside Anthony Burgess is a podcast that explores the writing of the author of A Clockwork Orange. Taking in Burgess’s fiction and non-fiction, we feature one of his books in each episode, discussing the genesis of the work, its thematic interests, and its literary techniques. This first episode starts at the beginning with The Malayan […]
A closer look at the first Joseph Kell novel, published in 1961. When Anthony Burgess was struggling to establish himself in the literary world in the years before the publication of A Clockwork Orange, he wrote a strange comic novel that stands apart from most of his other work. Although One Hand Clapping has little in common […]
Throughout his writing career, Anthony Burgess used a variety of recording equipment to document his personal and professional life. Using reel-to-reel tapes, audio cassettes and camcorder video tapes, Burgess and his wife, Liana, recorded conversations, readings, lectures, interviews, performances of music, and other scenes from the Burgess family’s daily life. The Burgess Foundation’s archive contains […]
Anthony Burgess often wrote about his love of the North of England. In this article, we consider why he was also drawn to the South. One of the paradoxes of Anthony Burgess is that he was a proud northerner who longed for the culture and climate of southern Europe. Born in Manchester at a time […]
To mark the 30th publication anniversary of Byrne, we revisit Burgess’s posthumous novel. When Anthony Burgess died in November 1993, he had completed the typescript of his last work, a 150-page narrative poem titled Byrne: A Novel. Rumours of this novel began to circulate in the British press a few days after Burgess’s death was announced. The […]
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. […]