Chris Riddell
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390 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Oct 2020
last heard Jan 2021
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As we're talking, Kate, I'm just sort of having a look at the latest collection that I've done.
It's called Poems to Save the World With.
Again, I illustrated this during the coronavirus sort of pandemic.
And it's a sort of feeling, I think, of both wanting to sort of look at poetry as a way of escaping in some sense, but also...
You know, transporting us somewhere else in difficult times, but also looking at, I suppose, an idea that it can embody, you know, what we're all feeling.
It can be a wonderful sort of way of producing collective thought.
And so for me, poetry was a wonderful sort of balm, I think, in the sort of rather terrible times we've been living in.
Yes, yes, I am.
And I've been...
I've been doing something recently, just predates the pandemic by a couple of months.
But it was something to stop me shouting at the radio, you know, that terrible thing where you're listening to the morning news, which I do each morning.
And last November, we had a general election.
It didn't go well for some sections of the population, including myself.
We felt sort of that the wrong person had been elected.
It was a very sad moment for many people on the left in this country.
And I resorted to shouting at the radio as the results came in and
you know, completely pointlessly.
And I thought, I must stop this behaviour.
You know, I'm waking up my wife, I'm concerning my children, I must stop this.
So I reached for my sketchbook and each morning as I turned on the news, instead of shouting at, you know, the minister telling us something unlikely, I would do a little drawing to make myself sort of feel better as a sort of cathartic response.
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