This month sees the return of a new season of Homework: our regular night of literary miscellany at Bethnal Green Workingmen’s Club. Featuring resident writers Tim Clare, John Osborne, Luke Wright, Chris Hicks, Joe Dunthorne and myself.
Our first event is this Wednesday, 26th of May, 8:00, £5 in. For directions to the venue, check BGWMC’s website here
For our opening event, we have a reading from John Osborne’s brand new book, Newsagent’s Window, in which John goes in search of people who have forsaken internet noticeboards in favour of a more traditional ways of swapping goods. So begins a year of self-discovery and a wild obsession with newsagents’ windows, which take John to a shoe-exhibition, to an Alan Ayckbourn play, to a wrestling match. He finds himself the owner of a man’s entire video collection, a second-hand bike, a clapped-out Ford Escort – and discovers a community of a bygone age.
Along with support from the other residents, we have extra special support in the form of comedian Kevin Eldon (Jam, Big Train, lots of things with Stuart Lee in)
Here he is, under the guise of the heavyweight poet Paul Hamilton:
In addition to that, here’s a couple of my favourite recordings from last season:
