The Last Custodian Podcast: Recent Episodes
Stephen Lightbown
Poet, spoken word artist and disability rights champion Stephen Lightbown reads his poetry collection, The Last Custodian, in full and engages in thought provoking conversations with poets, writers and other disability rights activists around creative process, access issues in the arts and how to survive an apocalypse.
In this final episode Stephen answers some of your questions on writing during a real life apocalypse, the inspiration behind the book and whether there will be a sequel to The Last Custodian.
Transcription by Elizabeth McGeown available here: https://www.stephenlightbown.com/digital
This series was funded by Arts Council England and produced by Rowan Bishop, with original music by Rowan Bishop.
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In this episode Stephen speaks to award-winning multidisciplinary artist, performer and curator Nwando Ebizie about touch, ASMR, living with Visual Snow Syndrome and access to the arts amongst many other topics.
Transcription by Elizabeth McGeown available here: https://www.stephenlightbown.com/digital
This series was funded by Arts Council England and produced by Rowan Bishop, with original music by Rowan Bishop.
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In this episode Stephen speaks to yoga teacher, author and public speaker Matthew Sanford about adaptive yoga, the mind/body connection and the medical model of dealing with trauma.
Transcription by Elizabeth McGeown available here: https://www.stephenlightbown.com/digital
This series was funded by Arts Council England and produced by Rowan Bishop, with original music by Rowan Bishop.
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In this episode Stephen speaks to poet, essayist, and professor of English at University of California, Berkeley, Cecil Giscombe around writing about disability, his involvement in Zoeglossia, a community for poets with disabilities, and his love of travelling on trains.
Transcription by Elizabeth McGeown available here: https://www.stephenlightbown.com/digital
This series was funded by Arts Council England and produced by Rowan Bishop, with original music by Rowan Bishop.
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In this episode Stephen speaks to poet Hannah Hodgson about lockdown creativity, access to poetry events and her latest pamphlet, 'Where I’d Watch Plastic Trees Not Grow'.
Transcription by Elizabeth McGeown available here: https://www.stephenlightbown.com/digital
This series was funded by Arts Council England and produced by Rowan Bishop, with original music by Rowan Bishop.
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Welcome to this 6 part series where poet, spoken word artist and disability rights champion Stephen Lightbown reads his poetry collection, The Last Custodian, in full and engages in thought provoking conversations with poets, writers and other disability rights activists around creative process, access issues in the arts and how to survive an apocalypse.
In this episode Stephen speaks to writer Mike Carey, acclaimed writer of comic books, novels and films. Best known for the novel The Girl With All The Gifts, and its subsequent film adaptation, Mike's other notable works include the Rampart Trilogy, Lucifer, Hellblazer and X-Men.
Transcription by Elizabeth McGeown available here: https://www.stephenlightbown.com/digital
This series was funded by Arts Council England and produced by Rowan Bishop, with original music by Rowan Bishop.
Be sure to subscribe to be notified when new episodes are released.
Trailer for the upcoming 6 part series where poet, spoken word artist and disability rights champion Stephen Lightbown reads his poetry collection, The Last Custodian, in full and engages in thought provoking conversations with poets, writers and other disability rights activists around creative process, access issues in the arts and how to survive an apocalypse.
Be sure to subscribe to be notified when new episodes are released.