Books & Spoken Word
In The Dark – Live
- Artists
- John Osborne, Ross Sutherland
In The Dark present a live summer special featuring two of their favourite radio writer-performers, John Osborne and Ross Sutherland, who will be performing together for the first time.
John Osborne is a writer-poet-performer based in Norwich, who once won a box of records on John Peel’s Radio 1 show and turned the experience into an award-winning show; John Peel’s Shed. He regularly tours the country performing poetry, and his most recent collection is No-one Cares About Your New Thing (Go Faster Stripe, 2017). He’s written three non-fiction books: Radio Head: Up and Down the Dial of British Radio (2009), The Newsagent’s Window: Adventures in a World of Second-Hand Cars and Lost Cats (2010) and Don’t Need the Sunshine (2013). His written a comedy series, a Short Cuts piece and had his books adapted all for BBC Radio 4.
Ross Sutherland writes for film, radio and stage. His one-man show Stand by For Tape Back Up, was nominated for the 2015 Art Foundation Award for Spoken Word. His film adaptation of the same show was awarded the Grand Jury prize for Experimental Film at BAFICI in Argentina, and the Runner-Up Audience Prize at Fantastic Fest in Austin TX. Ross is a regular contributor to Radio 4’s Short Cuts programme and the producer of the Imaginary Advice storytelling podcast, which has recently won Best Fiction Podcast 2018 at the British Podcast Awards.
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Ross also has four collections of poetry published by London press Penned in the Margins. He runs poetry-writing workshops with students of all ages, working with organisations including The Poetry Society, International PEN, National Portrait Gallery and London Science Museum. You can read his poetry online at the Poetry Archive.
In The Dark is a collaborative project between radio producers and radio enthusiasts.
Its aims to create a mini-revolution in the way people think about spoken word radio by lifting it out of its traditional settings and celebrating it in new and exciting ways.
Over the last five years In The Dark have commissioned new works from producers around the world, and staged countless live listening events at festivals, theatres, cinemas and museums.
“a bit like a cinema, but without the pictures”
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