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Once considered an art-form in its own right, these speeches by Jonathan Bowden deal with culture, metapolitics and ideology. Delivered in Greater Manchester, Croydon and the Thames Valley, these talks are both combustible and 'Politically Incorrect'. Not for the faint-hearted.
 
Agamemnon by Aeschylus (2009)
Maurice Cowling (2009)
Performance of Beowulf (Part Two) (2007)
British Sculpture (2006)
Against The Turner Prize (2006)
British Painting (2006)
Shakespeare (2006)
Elgar (2006)
 

Agamemnon by Aeschylus (2009):

A fantastic, high quality rendition of 'Agamemnon' produced by the BBCollective. This first part, based upon Aeschylus's Oresteia, is performed entirely by Jonathan Bowden.

Maurice Cowling (2009):

Professor Maurice Cowling was once described by an editorial in the Daily Telegraph as the Don of dons. He certainly intellectually ‘terrorised’ a generation of liberal students who came his way at Peterhouse College, Cambridge. His most famous academic work, The Diplomatic Response to Hitler, Anglo-German Relations (1933-1939) [Chicago University Press] was sold by Dr William Pierce’s National Alliance, for example. This talk was given by Jonathan Bowden to a group of students who are Nationalists and paleo-conservatives.

Against The Turner Prize (2006):

What's wrong with the Turner Prize? Ah, there hangs a tale for this or any other day. For who, on pain of being demonised as a reactionary by contemporary opinion, can object to such a circus? To be specific, are works such as a shark held in taxidermic thrall, a demi-monde's unmade bed, a pointillist version of Myra Hindley made from infantile thumbs, and a medley of semi-paedophile dolls, really deserving of a Tate house cup? A recipient of which receives £20,000+ on the one hand, and a dollop of tabloid notoriety, on the other. All of it in relation to Turner; yes, that's right, John Ruskin's moral exemplum, and the foremost British impressionist in nineteenth century England. Does it even really matter? The response has to be a resounding YES.

Whereas the Turner Prize's relative failure, superintended by Serota at Tate Britain and financed by Saatchi at County Hall, can be placed on a trident's three points. Does not Hermes stretch out from under the sea, grasping a thrice-spronged spear, in order to accompany a mage to his truth?

British Painting (2006):

Listeners to this audio will have to be aware of a certain cinema verite quality. After all, the revolutionary French theorists called the 'Situationists' always believed that any background noise, echoes, concrete music, and general sound all contribute to the work’s impact.

Shakespeare & Elgar (2006):

In these two particular sound recordings - taken from the DVD Amor Patriae - Jonathan Bowden takes a timely and provocative look at 'politically incorrect' matters in works as diverse as Titus Andronicus, The Merchant of Venice, Othello, King Lear, Richard the Third, Timon of Athens, Henry V, The Taming of the Shrew and The Rape of Lucrece - not to mention related themes, imperially speaking, in Pomp and Circumstance, Cockaigne and The Dream of Gerontius.

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