Featuring an interview with Stephen Bayley, design editor of The Observer, about his guided cycle ride around the houses and homes of celebrated London artists and architects which kicks of a fantastic programme of bicycle tours as part of the London Festival of Architecture. Stephanie Laslett of Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios explains why architects love [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Literature'
23 June 2008: London architecture by bike and a Rapha exclusive
June 23rd, 2008 · 2 Comments
Tags: Architecture · Art and design · Events · Literature · London · People · Podcast · Rides · Style · Tour de France
26 November 2007: Christmas books special
November 27th, 2007 · 4 Comments
A Christmas books special with guests George Theohari (author of the newly published Cyclist’€™s Companion), Guy Andrews (editor of Rouleur) and Graeme Fife (among the UK’s leading cycle writer whose memoirs were published this year). Includes readings from Tim Krabbé’s The Rider, Jerome K. Jerome’s Three Men On The Bummel, Flann O’Brien’s The Third Policeman [...]
Tags: Literature · Podcast
28 May 2007: Graeme Fife’s life in cycling
May 30th, 2007 · No Comments
This week features a ride in the hills of north Kent hills with writer, broadcaster and cyclist Graeme Fife. Graeme is the author of several of the best English language books about cycling and Le Tour de France. His new book has just been published. It’s a very personal memoir entitled The Beautiful Machine: A [...]
Tags: Literature · Podcast · Rolling interview · Sport · Tour de France · Touring
21 May 2007: Poetry on a country ride with Martin Newell
May 22nd, 2007 · 3 Comments
The Bike Show returns to Essex and Martin Newell, writer, poet, musician and horticultural assassin, for another helping of Spoke N Word. This year’s programme features a new route from Wivenhoe to Bentley Green, reported to be the largest village green in England. We cross fields, pass through woodland and finish on a series of [...]
Tags: Bicycle music · Literature · Podcast · Touring
10 July 2006: The Hour Record with Michael Hutchinson
July 11th, 2006 · 1 Comment
This week the Bike Show is in the presence of time trial greatness and (almost) sporting immortality. Michael Hutchinson has just written a book about his recent attempt to enter the pantheon of cycling legend by breaking the record for how far you can ride in an hour. The Hour: Sporting Immortality the Hard Way [...]
Tags: Literature · Podcast · Sport
24 April 2006 - Martin Newell and Spoke N Word in Essex
April 24th, 2006 · 3 Comments
In the last of the current season of the Bike Show, Kieron Yates rides around Essex with poet, musician and horticultural assassin Martin Newell, as part of the Spoke N Word project.
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Tags: England · Literature · Podcast
8 August 2005 Show: History of the bicycle; London-Edinburgh-London audax ride
August 13th, 2005 · No Comments
This week’s show features an interview with David Herlihy, author of ‘Bicycle‘ the recently published definitive history of the bicycle (Yale University Press). Kieron Yates reports on the London-Edinburgh-London audax/endurance ride.
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Tags: History · Literature · Podcast · Touring
25 July Show: Johnny Green
July 28th, 2005 · No Comments
In the studio is Johnny Green, former road manager of the Clash, talking about his other passion in life, Le Tour De France. In his new book ‘Push Yourself Just a Little Bit More’, Green gives a vivid and at times hilarious account of life backstage at Le Tour in 2003 and 2004 and finds [...]
Tags: France · Literature · Podcast · Politics · Tour de France
23 June 2008: London architecture by bike and a Rapha exclusive [30:46m]: 
