Rupert Mallin's Podcast: Recent Episodes
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Rupert Loydell is a writer, publisher and artist, and here with Russell Kirk is a musician. This 1986 original was featured on a cassette album 'Playing Music to an Empty Room' and released by Zeal SS tapes.
Rupert's publishing can be accessed via Stride Magazine and Stride Books.
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As teenagers in the late 1960s we'd dare ourselves to enter this abandoned farm house: table set for breakfast, shirt on the ironing board and the door open...
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This podcast is a rededication to my creative output. Here is a short poem accompanied by auto-harp. Alongside a back catalogue, there will be new work too.
Rupert Mallin
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A shorter podcast this week as I search for the answer to the question: what is poetry? I think I've found the answer, but will you agree?
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This twenty minute podcast features a reading of the opening of a long poem, Zero, while Rupert also tries to define poetry in his piece, What is Poetry? (Part 2)
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Here are eight short poems, covered in flowers.
And we ask: What is Poetry? Starting out with prosody (but what on earth is that?)
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A walk up Magdalen Street, Norwich
Suffolk childhood memories
Art from nothing
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We're going weekly! Every Tuesday evening at 8pm there will be a new podcast on Art and Life.
In this first Tuesday edition: Against AI in Art, The Black Box Experimental Theatre 1965-71 and the first of several art school recollections.
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Helen Wells is a prolific performance artist. Her exhibitions and performances in Norwich and beyond attract large audiences. We spoke in St Mary's Works in May where her latest work 'Fast SLOOOOW Fashion' was on display - performance, films, clothes, paintings, prints and props!
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This is a shortened edition as there's been a virus in the family!
This months podcast focuses on two exhibitions in Norwich this month.
Normal service will be resumed in June!
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This month's edition features the music of Mark C. Sargeant and the art/music improvisation group Plank.
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Welcome to the March edition of the Collective’s Podcast.
This month we feature an interview with artist Alexander Costello, whose exhibition ‘It’s not about the thing, It’s about all of it’ is on at the Outpost Gallery, Norwich, until March 16. A discussion around the theme of Alexander’s exhibition ensued at the Art Depot, which led Nicola to reflect on Ai Weiwei's ‘Sunflower Seeds'’ installation at Tate Modern in 2010. And we conclude with Mary Littlefield’s half term visit to London galleries.
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Featured artist Paul Levy – an interview on this forthcoming exhibition and reflections on his art practice.
Meanwhile, Mary Littlefield reviews an important book on 1930s Art, pertinent in today’s world.
And amidst the sounds of the collective drawing, a walrus pops up!
Do join us for our March 1 podcast. Like nature the artists will be in bloom!
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Welcome and a happy new year to one and all. In this holiday edition we kick off with a review of Martin Battye’s ‘Small Paintings,’ the Beer Mat Series, PrimeYarc, Market Gates, Great Yarmouth.
Then there’s Paul Levy who introduces Tiny Scores; followed by an interview with David Lester about his forthcoming dramatic production at The Garage in January; Mary Littlefield enthuses about art; We have a What’s On? at the Art Depot slot; and there’s pyrotechnic piece on Punk Art. Sounds this month include rubbing down gaffer tape in the studio and a woodpecker caught on my way to the studio.
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Welcome to the first Collective Podcast
The Art Depot NR3, Norwich
featuring ‘the sound of art’
This is a pilot for a monthly podcast to be broadcast on the first day of each month at midday. Running time of this episode is just over 18 minutes, though we aim to build up a magazine of 30 to 40 minutes per month.
This episode features artist Dave Cassell talking about his first solo exhibition, Paul Levy on the influence of Italo Valenti’s collages on his work, together with an interview with Becky Tough and Tom Simpson on the founding of the Art Depot and the birth of the Collective.
Each month, we will feature ‘the sounds of art’ and, from next month, an off the wall What’s On column. We will also introduce you to the dozen members of the Collective.
Rupert Mallin
A search for a riotous exhibition or its spirit took me to Gustave Courbet in the 19th Century and a little publicised show of kinetic art in Amsterdam in 1961.
Half scripted, half improvised, the poet faces interrogation at the local cop shop. Was his poem in Pix 6 stolen and did anyone read Pix 6? Are all the poet's poems stolen anyway? And if he has stolen them, did he not then murder them? This is a Crime Busters fly-on-the-wall interrogation, not for the faint hearted.
The picture restorer’s invoice
Under honeysuckle sprays, a cinder path
runs up to the barn and around its brick footings
to a thick archway of clipped privet, through which
lies the picture restorer’s door. He stands mixing
pigments with linseed oil, cleans brushes with turps
and stares intently at the painting before him.
A woman in rags looks up from the canvas
to feet she has tenderly washed. At night
She licks a bowl in the stairwell’s shadow,
left there for her wellbeing. As usual, her meal’s
gruel. She is offered little but a goodnight kiss
and willingly binds wounds for peach stones.
Too soon the clatter of others’ laden breakfasts
drowns out dawn chorus. She has washed
his white dress, which has fallen from a nail
at the focal centre of this period piece.
A subtle tint of Western flesh turns her anguish
into something warmer but expressionless.
The craftsman clouds over with past’s varnish
and wearily writes out an invoice for his work.
Complete, he follows the cinder path round the barn,
under the pink and fragrant canopy to the yard
and lifts the latch to his terracotta tiled kitchen,
where the smell of Arabica coffee greets him.
His wife’s smile meets his. Her complexion
Is olive-skinned, a brunette, Middle Eastern.
He addresses an envelope, seals it with a lick,
kisses his wife’s forehead and counts his blessings.
Stable Press, Haverhill Poetry Group, Ipswich Poetry Workshop and the Jubilee... with a poem, The Corn Dolly dole queue blues,' to round it off.
From skimming the pit in the meat factory to riding the Lansing Bagnall across the factory floor, while trying to hang on to a dream.
Back from Liverpool I returned to education, briefly, but was I born to tip my cap or was I a fire raiser after all?
Called back to Liverpool from Clare, Suffolk, to help make a film. Here too is 'Something in the Air,' the Woodside Ferry and the reality of poverty in the city.
The Haverhill Echo was an independent newspaper in Suffolk. Now long gone, I look back at my highs and lows working as a trainee reporter there in 1972
Here is part one of my autobiography (1967-1971). This autobiography will cover my enthusiasms in drama, art and poetry over the years. In part one, an English teacher saves me via a play, a drama course makes me and a spell in Liverpool finds me eating supper with Adrian Henri.
A diary exploring playwriting. In this edition: theatre courses, psychology in plays, 1968, Silent Witness and remembering Max Wall.
A fortnightly diary on playwriting and culture. First episode: Line of Duty, the existential threat and writing an audio play. Coming up: my journey in staging a play.
An appreciation of poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti, who died this week. Through him, I discovered poetry and a lot more besides.
Note: apologies for pronouncing the poet Rimbaud as Rambo - but hey, Rambo The Poet is quite cool...
Raised in Clare, West Suffolk, here are some characters from my childhood and other encounters as I attempted to leave the village, mostly using my thumb.
I grew up near Poslingford Corner, Clare, Suffolk, close to A.L. Morton, communist historian and author of 'The People's History of England.' Here is a recollection from the time I was six, 1959.
An encounter with a dinosaur and all the world in a sharpened pencil: an exploration of why I like to write "through objects."
These four poems were written in the late 1970s/early 1980s and are variously about the "other side" of countryside. Includes Stubble Fires which became part of the narration for my BBC Radio 4 play 'Overspill,' 1993.
I 've purposefully left this recording rough and ready because it is, after all, live. A transcript of the poems is included.
This Christmas. Phil of NR3 is listening to BBC Radio 4, counting out his money to see if he can afford jam from the corner shop. He puts on his mask but will he make it out of the door?
From conspiracy theories and sabbaticals to the seat of government itself; from lockdowns and hardships to Boris's imaginary friends, here is a look back at the year, to look forward to the next.
Two monologues from a group of interlocking monologues. Though there are four characters, it can be played by two actors.
I have written plays since 1980. Despite some success in the 1990s, work cut me off from my life-long interest after the crash of 2008. Whether my new plays find success or not, I love the process of writing for performance. Here is both my journey and some home-grown techniques I use in my writing.
This is the concluding monologue of Bag Man Clive. Will he eat his Big Meaty? And what's he doing with those matches?
This is my last nostalgic trip back to the 1960s for a while. This piece is largely improvised so I've left the glitches and stumbles in!
Back in a small Suffolk town in 1969, at a gig in the town hall, I lost God but found The Eyelid of God!
Muriel Mallin was born in Chicago but was brought up in London. Here are her early years, from the Downham Estate to the Central School of Art and Kilquhanity Free School.
Tom Mallin 1927 to 1977 - painter, printmaker, sculptor, novelist and playwright - from dating Hazel Court to smuggling paintings abroad!
Looking back in Lockdown - here are three letters to Heather. Many were published in magazines such as joe soap's canoe and Ambit.
I am presently constructing a long play set on the East Coast and am looking back at some poems from the 1990s/2000s for some 'leads'
An improvised performance at The Bending Tower Museum of Magic and Lies, the Reimagine Exhibition, St Margaret's Church, St Benedicts Street, Norwich, Wednesday September 4.
Thanks to Helen Wells for recording.
Pete is looking for a puppeteer but has he bitten off more than he can chew when Jude auditions.
A review of three paintings by Martin Laurance
The three paintings can be viewed here https://mallin.blogspot.com/2019/04/podcast-landscape-paintings-of-martin.html
Buying flowers with good intentions? Buying flowers as a gift? Buying flowers to show your love? What else could we possibly buy flowers for?
Cock and Bell is a short poem written way back in 1977 and published in Palantir 11, a magazine edited by Jim Burns
Two short prose pieces by Rupert Mallin.
Joined up thinking or what political jargon really means.
At Shelley's grave, a factual piece
Here are some more poems - A Cowboy Boy, When Mr Aston was God, Whistle Blowers, Out of the Ordinary and Poetic Justice.
Three poems:
A Good Friend and two poems exploring age and memory - On Brazen Street and Hiding Places.
I'm an artist and writer living in Norwich.
Three poems: Fifty-seven pence, Pristine and Confidence