Faiz Kermani, frontofbicycle, Blickfang

Broadcast on: 
13 May, 2014

Children's author Faiz Kermani came into the studio to talk about his latest book, Golbo the Spider's Amazing Vacuum Cleaner Adventure. Faiz told us about how he came up with the story and how long it took to write the book. He has just returned from doing a book event in Manchester and is in the process of organising an event right here in Basel. Check out his website for details. You can also win one of his books in our exclusive competition!

 

 

 

 

 

Megan Rodgers of art agency frontofbicycle told us about an upcoming exhibition featuring eight artists from England, Scotland, Canada, Philippines, Australia, America, and Austria. The exhibition runs from 14 - 18 May at the JanKossen Gallery Basel. You can meet the artists on May 15th from 6 to 9 p.m. and there's a Blind Auction Event on Saturday, 17th May from 6 to 9 p.m.

 

Our reporter Ellie Golder went to Blickfang, a design exhibition featuring young talent from across the world, where she interviewed a few up-and-coming designers from labels Berenik and Button Eye. The former was the winner of the Mini Design Award at the exhibition and is a minimalist clothing label with a Scandinavian edge to the pieces. The latter designed a quirky family of little teddy-bear critters set in vintage frames, complete with name and personality. 

 

Our music theme this week was drug-related - not that we condone drugs, but we do like the music. We played Underworld, Pulp, Jefferson Airplane, Work Drugs, The Stranglers, MGMT, The Dandy Warhols, Brian Jonestown Massacre and the Beach Boys.

 

WIN WIN WIN!

Congratulations to the winner of the tickets to the Barhopper Festival! We have 2 more tickets to give away to Lörrach's Barhopper Festival on the 28th May. Write to us at info@theenglishshow.com or join us on Facebook to enter your name! 

You can also win one of Faiz Kermani's books Golbo the Spider's Amazing Vacuum Cleaner Adventure or Curiosity the Giant. Again, write to us or join us on Facebook and we'll draw the lucky winners in one of our next shows!