Travis Elborough

Courtesy Dan Thompson ‏@artistsmakers

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Travis Elborough explores the role of public parks in British life and urges us to cherish them as institutions for the people.

“The best public parks, as artfully contrived areas of greenery in the midst of brick and concrete, offer the delights of nature with fewer of its downsides.”

Link here:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07v2mf7

*Since the broadcast it has rightly been pointed out that Lyme disease can be contracted in public parks, so please mentally substitute the word ‘less’ for ‘no’ in that bit of my talk.

I will be appearing at the Fourth World Congress of Psychogeography in Huddersfield speaking on at 7.30 pm on Friday 9th September.

More details here:

http://4wcop.org

I will be introducing a screening of Radio On in Walthamstow on Sunday 11 Sep 19:30 at The Chequers, 145 High Street E17 7BX

Reserve a space here:

http://www.ticketweb.co.uk/artist/stow-festival-tickets/974993

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‘From sprucing up the estate in Jane Austen to a backdrop for adultery in Graham Greene to a destination for an Iain Sinclair pilgrimage, authors have long paraded their characters through these most public of places…’

My top ten books featuring parks in The Guardian.

Read online here:

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/aug/31/top-10-books-parks-jane-austen-graham-greene-iain-sinclair

I was discussing parks on Monocle Radio.

The whole programme is online here:

https://monocle.com/radio/shows/the-monocle-weekly/373/play/

I will be appearing at the End of the Road Festival more details here:

http://endoftheroadfestival.com/artist/travis-elborough/

Helen Castor is joined by the architectural writer and cultural commentator Travis Elborough and garden historian Deborah Trentham.

Tom Holland takes a ride on Brighton’s new attraction, the British Airways i360, and is joined at 450 feet by Professor Fred Gray to gain new insight into the history of seaside attractions. Surprisingly, the new doughnut on a stick (as locals are describing it), offers similar experiences and challenges to those of the West Pier which opened 150 years ago.

In Norfolk, Radio 4’s organic gardening legend Bob Flowerdew gets to grips with a character who, on the face of it, is his horticultural opposite. Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown was born 300 years ago and Bob visits one of his masterpieces – Kimberley Hall – to ask landscape historian Professor Tom Williamson where the neatness and order of the English country house came from and what it was supposed to do for those who lived with it.

We continue our series of forgotten history heroes as food writer William Sitwell nominates the man who became famous for his pie but who also kept Britain fed during World War 2 – Lord Fred Woolton.

Link here:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07npxwq

I will be appearing at the Green Man festival on the Talking Shop stage on Sunday 21st.

More details here:

http://www.greenman.net/artists/travis-elborough/