A.F. Harrold
Season 5, Episode 6
Children’s author and poet A.F Harrold sits down with Robin and Josie to talk about his own work and some his favourite poetry and children’s books including the work of Russell Hoban, Brian Patten and Raymond Briggs. Also, in our first ever commercial break, that isn’t really a commercial break, Nat Metcalfe pops in to let us know about the best new comics out right now.
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Reading List
A.F. Harold recommends:
The work of Chris Riddell
Things You Find in a Poet’s Beard by A.F. Harold
The Mersey Sound by Roger McGough, Brian Patten and Adrian Henri
Tonight at Noon by Adrian Henr
The Book of Guys by Garrison Keillor
Nuns and Soldiers by Iris Murdoch
The Green Knight by Iris Murdoch
Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban
The Bat Tattoo by Russell Hoban
Angelica’s Grotto by Russell Hoban
The Mouse and his Child by Russell Hoban
Monsters by Russell Hoban & Quentin Blake
Twenty Elephant Restaurant by Russell Hoban & Quentin Blake
Fungus the Bogeyman by Raymond Briggs
Gentleman Jim by Raymond Briggs
The Snowman by Raymond Briggs
Pierre: A Cautionary Tale in Five Chapters and a Prologue by Maurice Sendak
Memorial by Alice Oswald
This Craft of Verse by Jorge Luis Borges
Painting as a Pastime by Sir Winston Churchill
The Energy of Slaves by Leonard Cohen
Fantastically Great Women Who Changed The World by Kate Pankhurst
Come Hither by Walter De La Mare
Delight by JB Priestley
Robin recommends:
Brain Droppings by George Carlin
Jack B.Yeats: A Vision of Ireland by John Booth
The Song From Somewhere Else by A.F. Harold
The Sentence by Alistair Fruish
The Bell by Iris Murdoch
Unlucky Wally by Raymond Briggs
In The Night Kitchen by Maurice Sendak
Josie recommends:
Collected Love Poems by Brian Patten
The Red Virgin and the Vision of Utopia by Mary M. Talbot
Red Rosa: A Graphic Biography of Rosa Luxemburg by Kate Evans
The March series by John Lewis and Andrew Aydin
The Sea, The Sea by Iris Murdoch
When the Wind Blows by Raymond Briggs
Small Pig by Arnold Lobel
Nat recommends:
The Times I Knew I Was Gay by Eleanor Crewes
Decadence #11 comic anthology
Scarlett Traces by Ian Edginton
Haddon Hall: When David Invented Bowie by Nejib
The Rabbi’s Cat by Joann Sfar
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