Travis Elborough

A walk around the English coastal town of Worthing in West Sussex with author Travis Elborough. Thanks to my supporters on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/JohnRogers

Our walk starts at Worthing Station and then heads down into the heart of the Town Centre. We are looking for sites associated with Jane Austen who stayed in Worthing in 1805 and used it as the setting for her unfinished novel Sanditon. This is based on one of the chapters in Travis Elborough’s latest book The Writer’s Journey (White Lion Publishing https://www.waterstones.com/book/the-…. The locations visited include: The Connaught Theatre, Stanford Cottage (where Jane Austen stayed in 1805), The Dome Cinema as featured in the 1987 film Wish You Were Here starring Emily Lloyd and Tom Bell, The Royal Arcade, Shelley House and Worthing Pier. Many thanks to Travis Elborough https://traviselborough.co.uk/ https://www.waterstones.com/author/tr… Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCk1q…

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Delia Derbyshire: The Myths & The Legendary Tapes is a cinematic portrait of the legendary musical innovator written and directed by Caroline Catz, who also performs the lead role. Catz’s directorial debut feature-length film is a stunning conceptual and atmospheric journey into the legacy and character of electronic music composer/sound pioneer Delia Derbyshire, who, in 1963 conceived one of the most familiar compositions in science fiction, the Doctor Who theme, while working at the BBC’s Radiophonic Workshop.

It is a life story told through sound, with Delia’s own musical creations featured alongside an original soundtrack by musician/performance artist Cosey Fanni Tutti  drawing on material from Delia’s posthumously discovered “Attic Tapes”. The result is a brilliant exchange of ideas between two unique and fascinating maverick female artists, traversing temporal and spiritual planes, and the film a visual and audio tour de force.

This will be a screening of the full Festival cinema exhibition version of the film in 5:1 sound.

The screening will be preceded by a Q&A with director/writer/actor Caroline Catz, Cosey Fanni Tutti (via Zoom) and hosted by the author Travis Elborough

Although Cosey will not be present in person, signed copies of her latest book Re-Sisters: The Lives and Recordings of Delia Derbyshire, Margery Kempe and Cosey Fanni Tutti, will be on sale on the night.

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Picture thanks to Caroline Gannon

Picture thanks to Jaime Rory Lucy

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Very sad to hear the news of Ian Jack’s death, he commissioned and edited The Bus We Loved so I owe him a great deal. My thoughts are with his family, friends and former colleagues, he was a great writer and real editor – he went through the first draft of Bus like a locust, improving it immeasurably but also encouraged my use of footnotes in that book to give it more playful tone than was usual in transport books then and probably since.

I learnt a lot about what not to do from him and have always tried to heed much of his advice ever since. It must have worked to some extent because he later commissioned me to do a cover story for The Oldie on parks and told me he’d enjoyed A Walk in the Park.