This week I was delighted to share my research into the Arts League of Service Travelling Theatre on an upcoming episode of BBC Radio 3’s Free Thinking celebrating Bloomsday, Dalloway Day and 1922. In conversation with presenter Shahidha Bari and guests Cleo Hanaway-Oakley and Merve Emre, we talked about modernism, its audiences, and its legacies. It was an uplifting conversation full of joy, hope and celebration. A tonic in these ever-troubling times.
You can tune into our conversation on Wednesday 15 June (this year’s Dalloway Day) at 10pm, or catch up after the broadcast on the BBC website/BBC Sounds.
To give Shahidha (and listeners) a feel for the travelling theatre I bought along some ALS postcards I’ve collected over the past few years. Radio’s not the most visual medium (!) so I’ve reproduced them here.
Read more about the ALS elsewhere on the blog: profiles of founders Eleanor Elder and Ana M. Berry and a short introduction to the ALS. See also my 2020 article in the academic journal Modernist Cultures.
If you missed my last appearance on Free Thinking, in which I shared some of my archival research into the economist John Maynard Keynes’s work for the early Arts Council, you can catch up now via the BBC website/BBC Sounds.
Revolutionary Red Tape 