# John Cooper Clarke

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107 - I gave Artic Monkeys their first gig - Carl Maloney

This week we're joined by Carl Maloney, founder of RGM Magazine — the man who's interviewed everyone from John Cooper Clarke to Shaun Ryder, all while championing unsigned bands from Sheffield and beyond. We talk about the night Arctic Monkeys played their very first gig, bombing on stage at an ope…

Dr John Cooper Clarke joins the Rockonteurs with Gary Kemp and Guy Pratt

This week performance poet John Cooper Clarke joins Gary and Guy to talk about his career, from his discovery of the powers of poetry at school to his status today as something of a national treasure. Always a fan of music, and galvanised by the Beatles and The Stones, he tried his hand playing bas…

Episode #20 - Ash-Lee De Haldevang

Ash-Lee De Halevang joins us for a fiercely honest conversation about identity, transience, and finding home after a childhood stretched between London, East Lothian, Singapore, Malaysia, Cornwall, and now Glasgow. We talk about growing up dyslexic and uprooted, Warrior Cats as a gateway into readi…

Podrophenia with guests Stern John - May 2026

The second May Podrophenia has Stern John joining us in the studio previewing tracks from their debut album ahead of the launch gig - and picking fave plays from their collection.. We've new music from The Forty Fours, Ash with Graham Coxon and the ‘one man Brill Building from Staines’ Billy Reeve…

Idiots, morons and dumb asses

Send us Fan Mail Five songs about those people that drive us crazy or seem to go out of their way to make our lives more difficult. Often self important and over confident, they seem to be everywhere and sometimes it feels like they are taking over. Playlist:  https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1Cm6…

Mike Garry: From Moss Side to Carnegie Hall

Poet, author and performer Mike Garry joins Shay O'Brien for a powerful conversation about creativity, identity, courage and how his career blossomed from his early love of words and language. Known for acclaimed works including Mancunian Meander and God Is A Manc, Mike has become a distinctive voi…

Free Thinking - Writers and Their Notebooks

As the British Library launches a website devoted to writers' notebooks and manuscripts, Discovering Literature, novelist Lawrence Norfolk takes a look at his own notebooks, and talks to AS Byatt, John Cooper Clarke and David Mitchell about theirs. He's joined in the studio by Wendy Cope, Bidisha,…

Alexa, what is there to know about love? Audiobook by Brian Bilston

https://libranovo.com/free Listen to free audiobooks with a 30-day free trial! Title: Alexa, what is there to know about love?Genres: Fiction & Literature, Poetry, General ComedyAuthor: Brian BilstonNarrator: Brian BilstonRelease date: 01-21-2021Length: 1:08:18Language: EnglishPublisher: Pan Macmil…

John Cooper Clarke, Jackie Kay, Antony Szmierek, Hannah Maxwell

Stuart Maconie and guests are at the BBC's Contains Strong Language Festival in Salford. Baudelaire of the bus stop, local man made poetic, John Cooper Clarke reveals where he goes for inspiration. Multi-award winning poet and novelist Jackie Kay who began writing as a pre-teen and hasn't stopped …

Episode 58: Toria Garbutt - "I felt like I'd be struck by lightening"

On today’s episode of The Poems We Made Along the Way Gregory Kearns is joined by Toria Garbutt at the Contains Strong Language festival for the podcast’s first live episode. They talk about having friends that ground you, using pop culture in poetry, and Toria comes up with a theme tune for the li…