From the Alan Partridge show on Radio 4, January 1993 (Episode 6) list of trendy women in UK mentioned in an interview sketch re: ‘The Hen Run’. Very Ab Fab:
Yasmin Le Bon
Annie Lennox
Katie Puckrick
Juliette Stevenson
Fay Weldon
Janet Street Porter
Pamela Stephenson
The Cholmondeleys
"Sense and Sensibility
Seminar
Zadie Smith
What does 'having a sensibility', literary or otherwise, mean? Is it something one acquires, something innate, or something else again? We're going to read a selection of very good 20th century novels (and one book of poems) concentrating on whatever is most particular to them, in the hope that this might help us understand whatever is most particular to us. The reading list is long* and heterogeneous in the hope of encouraging sympathy for a broad range of literary sensibilities regardless of what our own natural inclinations may be. Students will give short presentations, and at the end of the course will write a piece of fiction, or a piece of literary criticism, of at least five pages.
The course will be punctuated by secondary readings of literary criticism and philosophy.
* Most of the novels are short.
Among the books we will read:
A Room With a View - E.M. Forster
The Complete Short Stories - Franz Kafka
Pnin - Vladimir Nabokov
Frost - Thomas Bernhard
The Book of Daniel - EL Doctorow
Pastoralia - George Saunders
Remainder - Tom McCarthy
Brief Interviews With Hideous Men - David Foster Wallace
The Rings of Saturn - W.G. Sebald
The Atrocity Exhibition - JG Ballard
Selected readings from - George Orwell
My Loose Thread - Dennis Cooper
Crash - J.G. Ballard
An Experiment in Love - Hilary Mantel
Modern Criticism and Theory: A Reader - David Lodge
The Screwtape Letters - C.S. Lewis
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie - Muriel Spark
The Loser - Thomas Bernhard
Reader's Block - David Markson
The Quiet American - Graham Greene
"Thatcher’s Children
Have inherited the Earth
Ronald Reagan was there
He gave the curse
Thatcher’s Children
What Can You Do?
When Every Little Smile
Has To Shine BRAND NEW
Thatcher’s Children
They came from afar
Now even rock ‘n’ roll’s
Just floggin’ a car
Thatcher’s Children
Only tied to the purse
It ain’t gettin’ better
It’s just gettin’ worse
And nobody’s ringin’
The ice is getting thin
And terrorists might get ya’
The tunnel’s cavin’ in
The countdown’s beginnin’
The winner can’t win
Save your own skin –
Everyone’s a LOSER
Thatcher’s Children
You said it’s punk rock
Now we’re on our knees
And we’re all sucking cock
Thatcher’s Children
Who’d believe it’s true
But what she did to them
Well, they’ll do it to you
Thatcher’s Children
The headlines will grab ya
Don’t go outta your homes
Or your children might stab ya
Thatcher’s Children
You said it would be fun
Now we’re staring down the barrel
Of our own gun
And nobody’s ringing
The air is getting thin
The terrorists might get ya
The tower’s caving in
The Countdown’s beginning
The winner can’t win
Save your own skin
Everyone’s a LOSER
Thatcher’s Children
What can you lose?
You could all be famous
On You Tube
Thatcher’s Children
[I’m afraid I can’t make out what Mr Childish sings in these two lines!]
They just couldn’t resist
Thatcher’s Children
Aren’t you glad you came?
Preaching a gospel of
Greed and Gain
Thatcher’s Children
Won’t you give me a smile?
For the CCTV cameras
Recording you for mile, after mile, after mile, after mile"
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