On Thursday 29 September 2022 at 22.00 BBC Radio Three broadcast an episode of Free Thinking devoted to John Cowper Powys to mark the 150th anniversary of his birth.
Matthew Sweet discusses the life and writing of JCP with Margaret Drabble, John Gray, Iain Sinclair and Kevan Manwaring.
Recording the programme, 16 September 2022:
L-R Matthew Sweet, Kevan Manwaring, Iain Sinclair, Margaret Drabble, John Gray (photo: Luke Mulhall, BBC producer).
BBC R4 Open Book: A.N. Wilson and Mariella Frostrup
A.N. Wilson talks with Mariella Frostrup on Open Book on 14 October 2007 about JCP and Wolf Solent
The Powys Brothers: a selection from the writings of John Cowper Powys, T.F.Powys and Llewelyn Powys
Read by Freddie Jones, Christopher Kent, and Oliver Marlow Wilkinson
Disc 1
The Soliloquy of a Hermit (1) (TFP), Freddie Jones
The Soliloquy of a Hermit (2) (TFP), Freddie Jones
Lucifer (JCP), Oliver Marlow Wilkinson
Under the Stars (LP), Christopher Kent
A Glastonbury Romance (1) (JCP), Oliver Marlow Wilkinson
An Owl and a Swallow (LP), Christopher Kent
Weymouth Sands (JCP), Oliver Marlow Wilkinson
Disc 2
A Churchyard Cough (LP), Christopher Kent
Now Where the Seaweed Drifts (JCP), Oliver Marlow Wilkinson
The Candle and the Slow-Worm (TFP), Freddie Jones
A Glastonbury Romance (2) (JCP), Oliver Marlow Wilkinson
Glory of Life (1) (LP), Christopher Kent
Disc 3
Autobiography (1) (JCP), Oliver Marlow Wilkinson
Black Laughter (LP), Christopher Kent
Letter to Frances Gregg (JCP), Oliver Marlow Wilkinson
Glory of Life (2) (LP), Christopher Kent
Autobiography (2) (JCP), Oliver Marlow Wilkinson
Morality (LP), Christopher Kent
When Thou Wast Naked (TFP), Freddie Jones
Disc 4
The Village Shop (LP), Christopher Kent
A Glastonbury Romance (3) (JCP), Oliver Marlow Wilkinson
Merton Wood’s Luncheon (LP), Christopher Kent
Mr Weston’s Good Wine (1) (TFP), Freddie Jones
Mr Weston’s Good Wine (2) (TFP), Freddie Jones
God (LP), Christopher Kent
The Death of the Old (JCP), Oliver Marlow Wilkinson
Acknowledgements:
Digital recordings made available online (August 2022):
The Powys Society is grateful to Christopher Kent and the representatives of Freddie Jones and Oliver Marlow Wilkinson who have given permission to allow this 1999 audio-cassette release to be made available online.
David came to the 2017 Conference at Llangollen and shared his childhood memories of living next door to John Cowper Powys and Phyllis Playter, at Cae Coed near Corwen. This recording is courtesy of Marcella Henderson-Peal who realised a few minutes after the talk started how valuable David's memories would be.
James Purdy
James Purdy, who died on 13 March 2009 was a friend of JCP. Charles Lock, editor of The Powys Journal, keeper of Purdy's ashes, (and champion of his literary reputation), took Purdy's ashes to a tenth anniversary commemorative event, at which they were interred beside the grave of Edith Sitwell.
Featuring Beth Car, ‘The House in the Pasture’, home of Theodore Powys, the Old School (now the village hall),
The Church
of St. Nicholas: Graves of Philippa (Katie) Powys, Sylvia Townsend Warner
& Valentine Ackland and Janet Pollock, nee Machen. [Video filmed on a pocket camcorder by Frank Kibblewhite]