Travis Elborough

Travel the Thames Estuary and meet its people with author Rachel Lichtenstein, who will be discussing her new book.

Rachel will be in conversation with Travis Elborough, author of Wish You Were Here about her new book Estuary: Out from London to the Sea (2016, Hamish Hamilton); an immersive, intimate journey into the world of the Estuary and the people who spend time there.

Part of the Landlubber’s Maritime Folk Festival and Totally Thames 2016Read more at

http://www.rmg.co.uk/see-do/exhibitions-events/estuary#OrDH0iw05Ltxuii3.99

I am delighted to be appearing at the Windsor Festival talking about parks in The Great Park.

Full details here:

http://tickets.windsorfestival.com/Sales/Autumn-2016/Wednesday-21st-September/A-Walk-in-the-Park-The-Life-and-Times-of-a-Peoples-Institution/A-Walk-in-the-Park-The-Life-and-Times-of-a-Peoples-Institution

Courtesy Dan Thompson ‏@artistsmakers

More on the festival here: http://www.estuaryfestival.com

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

courtesy of alexfestival

‘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/