# Adelle Stripe
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adelle stripe (born 1976) is an English writer and journalist.
== Work ==
Stripe's writing is rooted in the non-fiction novel form and explores working-class culture, untold histories of Northern England, popular music, and small-town life.
Her debut novel, Black Teeth and a Brilliant Smile, was based on the life and work of Bradford playwright Andrea Dunbar.
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Fat White Family front man and White Rabbit author Lias Saoudi is this week's Songbook guest, chatting to Jude about Nick Tosches' extraordinary and evocative biography of Jerry Lee Lewis, Hellfire.
They also discuss Lias' own experiences of writing a book, the death of rock 'n' roll, how Fat White…
Lias Saoudi on White Sands by Geoff Dyer
As the frontman of the band Fat White Family, you might know Lias Saoudi as an exciting, confrontational, and spanx-wearing rock phenomenon.
You might also know him as a great writer, as evidenced by Ten Thousand Apologies: Fat White Family and the Miracle of Failure, which he co-authored with Adel…
Field Ramble with Adelle Stripe
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On this episode we speak to Adelle Stripe about her incredible memoir Base Notes. Published by White Rabbit and described perfectly by Wendy Erskine as ‘a marvel of specificity,’ it is everything you’d expect if you’ve read any of Adelle’s previous work. Open, kind and often very f…
Memoir
“Already your future has been planned out. There is not much choice about what to become in the small town where you live . . .”
― Adelle Stripe, Base Notes: the scents of a life
This episode’s guest is Dr. Adelle Stripe — a Sunday Times best-selling author whose remarkable work dives deep into t…
Adelle Stripe on A Childhood: The Biography of a Place by Harry Crews
You could spend an entire podcast unpicking the bizarre circumstances that found a working-class kid from Grimsby on a business class flight to Las Vegas, reading a book about an American ex-marine growing up in poverty-stricken Bacon County, Georgia.
But this is not that podcast.
Still, 30,000 fee…
Volume 2: Adelle Stripe, Gladboy, Neve Cariad & More
This is a live recording from 02/10/2025.
In October we gathered at Wax Bar to hear band members read their creative writing aloud. We heard poetry, prose and an excerpt of a screenplay. This writing exists separate to the artists’ musical output; some of it had never been shared before. We record…
Working Class Creativity
From an impoverished neighbourhood in South London, Charlie Chaplin became one of the most significant figures in the development of cinema. More recently, TV writers like Sophie Willan and Michaela Coel have transformed the way working class lives are depicted on TV, from the concerned paternalism…
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