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Full issue online here:

https://www.familiesonline.co.uk/locations/london-south-east/magazine/families-se-london-may-june-2016-issue-177

Read here:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-36039580

I have a piece in the latest issue of The Happy Reader magazine on Sweden’s state-run shops for alcohol, as you do.

More info here: https://www.thehappyreader.com

Conducting the post-screening Q&A of High-Rise with Ben Wheatley, Jeremy Thomas and Bea Ballard at the British Library on Friday 11 March 2016.

Brutalist architecture: its pleasures and its discontents

Writer and broadcaster Travis Elborough chairs a discussion on the powerful, controversial, and at their best, beautiful urban buildings characteristic of the 60s and 70s, which form a striking backdrop to Ballard’s novels of the period. Speakers include John Grindrod, author of Concretopia: A Journey Around the Rebuilding of Postwar Britain, architect Charles Holland and blogger Andrea Klettner.

– See more at: http://www.bl.uk/events/inner-space-j-g-ballard-in-the-seventies-a-symposium#sthash.ykcM7qxQ.dpuf

Photos by Erin McKellar.

Little Atoms
The Edwin and Susan Davies Galleries, Room 82
20.30
Join Neil Denny (Little Atoms) and cultural critic Travis Elborough in conversation on the rise, fall and rise again of the vinyl album, with regular interruptions for choice cuts from Travis’ record bag. Travis Elborough is the author of The Long Player Goodbye, a hymn to vinyl records; as well as books on the Routemaster bus and the British seaside. Little Atoms radio show and podcast has been broadcasting interviews with leading writers from the worlds of science and the arts for 10 years.
littleatoms.com/
@littleatoms

More details here: http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/articles/f/friday-late/