Music and Autism: John Harris in conversation with Richard King live at the Talking Shop at Green Man 2025
The Green Man PodcastShow Notes
JOHN HARRIS has a weekly column in The Guardian, hosts its Politics Weekly UK podcast, and co-created its BAFTA-nominated video series Anywhere But Westminster. He also writes regularly for Mojo, and is the author of the acclaimed pop-cultural history of the 1990s The Last Party, as well as the definitive work on Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side of The Moon. His latest book, Maybe I'm Amazed, tells the story of how music profoundly connected him to his autistic son James, and explores the hidden history of creativity and neurodivergence.
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Richard King is the author of the Gordon Burn Prize shortlisted Original Rockers, a Rough Trade, Times and Uncut Book of the Year; How Soon Is Now?, a Sunday Times Music Book of the Year; the Penderyn Prize shortlisted The Lark Ascending, a Rough Trade, MOJO and Evening Standard Book of the Year; Brittle with Relics and the Penderyn Prize shortlisted Travels Over Feeling, all published by Faber. His recent appointments include Visiting Simon Industrial and Professional Fellow, University of Manchester and Royal Literary Fellow at Cardiff University School of Journalism, Media & Culture.
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