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Anthony Burgess (1917-1993) was a novelist, poet, playwright, composer, linguist, translator and critic.

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Inside Anthony Burgess: You’ve Had Your Time
Sep 30, 2026 · original
Inside Anthony Burgess is a podcast that explores the writing of the author of A Clockwork Orange . Taking in both his fiction and non-fiction, we feature one of his books in each episode, discussing Burgess’s inspirations, his thematic interests, his literary techniques and more. In this episode, Andrew Biswell and Graham Foster return for the second episode dealing with Burgess’s ‘confessions’. This time we discuss You’ve Had Your Time , the second volume of autobiography, which follows Burgess’s career as a writer, his status as an international figure, his adventures in Hollywood and on Broadway and more. Books mentioned in this episode By Anthony Burgess: One Hand Clapping (1961) A Clockwork Orange (1962) The Wanting Seed (1962) Honey for the Bears (1963) The Complete Enderby (1963-84) Nothing Like the Sun (1964) M/F (1971) Napoleon Symphony (1974) Beard’s Roman Women (1976) 1985 (1
Inside Anthony Burgess: Little Wilson and Big God
Sep 23, 2026 · original
Inside Anthony Burgess is a podcast that explores the writing of the author of A Clockwork Orange . Taking in both his fiction and non-fiction, we feature one of his books in each episode, discussing Burgess’s inspirations, his thematic interests, his literary techniques and more. In this episode, Graham Foster joins Andrew Biswell for the first of a two-part tour of Burgess’s life. In 1987, he published volume one of what he called his confessions, Little Wilson and Big God , in which he looks back on the first 42 years of his life, including his early life in Manchester, his experiences of war, and his time as a teacher in Colonial Malaya. Books mentioned in this episode By Anthony Burgess: The Malayan Trilogy (1956-59) The Eve of St Venus (1964) Beard’s Roman Women (1976) Ernest Hemingway and His World (1978) Flame into Being: The Life and Work of D.H. Lawrence (1985) By others: Portr
Inside Anthony Burgess: The Malayan Trilogy
Sep 16, 2026 · original
Inside Anthony Burgess is a podcast that explores the writing of the author of A Clockwork Orange . Taking in both his fiction and non-fiction, we feature one of his books in each episode, discussing Burgess’s inspirations, his thematic interests, his literary techniques and more. This first episode starts at the beginning with The Malayan Trilogy , a sequence which contains Burgess’s first three published novels: Time for a Tiger (1956), The Enemy in the Blanket (1958), and Beds in the East (1959). To discuss these novels Andrew Biswell is joined by Ida Baizura Bahar, senior lecturer in English at Universiti Putra Malaysia. The trilogy tells the story of Victor Crabbe, an education officer in the Colonial Service, who arrives in Malaya to teach at the ‘Eton of the East’. Through Crabbe and the diverse cast of characters surrounding him, Burgess gives a unique view of the colonial experi
Revisiting One Hand Clapping
Apr 1, 2026 · original
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 with the futuristic dystopias for which Burgess is best known, it is one of his most successful satirical novels, animated by a witty and energetic first-person voice. The narrator is Janet Shirley, a tough working-class woman in her twenties from Bradcaster, a fictional town in the north of England. Janet is married to Howard, a melancholy used-car salesman with a photographic memory. They are both avid readers of the Daily Window , a tabloid newspaper whose pages are said to be filled with ‘a lot of lies and tripe.’ Howard is accepted as a contestant on Over and
Podcast: Preserving the Anthony Burgess Audio Collection
Feb 4, 2026 · original
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 a substantial collection of audio recordings, including more than 700 cassette tapes, many of which have not been played for 30 years. Some of these tapes were used to record interim drafts of Burgess’s creative work, especially his poetry and translations. To preserve these audio cassettes, and to make them accessible to researchers, the Foundation has sought expert advice from David Govier (pictured below), an audio preservation engineer at the North-West Sound Archive, based at Manches
Burgess on the beautiful South
Feb 2, 2026 · original
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 when the city was part of the county of Lancashire, Burgess wrote fondly about the northern place where he grew up. In Little Wilson and Big God , the first volume of his autobiography, published in 1987, he is nostalgic for the robust food of his boyhood: Fish and chips are everywhere now but they are essentially a Lancashire matter, not even a national one. There are none like those that came out of the huge square seething vats of the Manchester chip-shops. Lancashire used to be famous for shops which provided an instant meal to take home — meat pies with gravy poured in hot from a jug, tripe an
The Last Words of Anthony Burgess
Jan 5, 2026 · original
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 Times published a piece in its diary column, teasing readers with the information that at least one full-length work would appear posthumously. The book was eventually published by Hutchinson in September 1995 — but Byrne is often left out of discussions of Burgess’s work, and there has not been much in the way of critical commentary apart from reviews of the first edition, most of which were expressions of bafflement or incomprehension. Byrne is a strange and wonderful book — a verse narrative in five parts, written in imitation of Lord Byron,
Ninety-Nine Novels: The Anti-Death League by Kingsley Amis
Dec 10, 2025 · original
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. In this episode, Graham Foster explores the military satire of The Anti-Death League by Kingsley Amis, with writer and academic Andrew James. The Anti-Death League follows the soldiers of an army base that borders a quaint English village. They are preparing for the mysterious Operation Apollo, but there may be spies in their midst. As the preparations progress and the lives of the soldiers intersect with the inhabitants of the village, including a lustful aristocratic lady and a psychotherapist who may me more insane than hi
Ninety-Nine Novels: The Old Men at the Zoo by Angus Wilson
Dec 3, 2025 · original
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. In this episode, Andrew Biswell explores the strange dystopia of The Old Men at the Zoo by Angus Wilson, with writer and academic Marina MacKay. The Old Men at the Zoo is a novel of two halves. In the first, Simon Carter, secretary of London Zoo, is tempted by responsibility and power and forgoe his gifts as a naturalist. Yet, in their desire to set up a reserve for wild animals, the old men at the zoo are blind to the approaching chaos of nuclear war. In the second half, the zoo is taken over by a dystopian dictatorship and
Ninety-Nine Novels: Portnoy’s Complaint by Philip Roth
Nov 26, 2025 · original
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. In this episode, Graham Foster submits Philip Roth’s notorious novel Portnoy’s Complaint to examination with academic and writer Matthew Shipe. Portnoy’s Complaint is structured as a monologue to a psychotherapist. Alex Portnoy reveals his inner life and obsessions, including his sexual predilections, his strange relationship with his mother, and his attendant feelings of shame. If the novel’s themes are shocking, Anthony Burgess praises Roth’s ‘great literary skill to make so fierce a theme the occasion for such uproarious c

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