David McAlmont
Season 3 Episode 9Songwriter and performer David McAlmont joins Robin and Josie this week as he awaits the final results from his Art History degree, due that very afternoon. They talk of the great books of art as well as the work of John Baldwin, AA Milne, Truman Capote and, of course, Jean Rhys.
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Reading List
David recommends:
The writings of Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite
The writings of Cornel West
The Story of Art by EH Gombrich
A World History of Art by High Honour and Jeff Flemming
The work of Charles Dickens
Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin
Ways of Seeing by John Berger
The Price of the Ticket by James Baldwin
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
American Tabloid by James Ellroy
When We Were Very Young by AA Milne
The Starlight Barking by Dodie Smith
Robin recommends:
Art and Illusion by EH Gombrich
Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle by Chris Hedges
Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television by Jerry Mander
But Beautiful: A Book About Jazz by Geoff Dyer
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Roog by Philip K Dick
Music for Chameleons by Truman Capote
Josie recommends:
The work of Jean Rhys
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