How a childhood spent collecting building societies taught me to celebrate the power of obscurity
Ignite London
Date: November 5, 2011
Theme: Personal/Memoire, Small worlds, The Best Water Skier in Luxembourg
Category: Other talks (selected)
Talks, videos and podcasts
Here you can find a record of my recorded lectures, talks, podcasts and interviews, listed with the most recent first. I have not generally included talks that were not recorded so in most cases there is either a streamable or downloadable sound file or a link to one. You can search by category (podcasts, talks and lectures etc), by theme and by keyword.
Publishing: Website helps authors pitch books to readers
BBC News
Includes interview with me about 'The Best Waterskier in Luxembourg'
Date: November 4, 2011
Theme: The Best Water Skier in Luxembourg
Category: Media appearances and Interviews
The Best Waterskier in Luxembourg: Pitch Video 1
Unbound
This was the pitch video for the - ultimately successful - campaign to crowdfund the first chapter of the book 'The Best Waterskier in Luxembourg: Tales of Big Fish in Small Ponds' with the publisher Unbound.
Date: September 16, 2011
Theme: The Best Water Skier in Luxembourg
Category: Videos
Turbulent Times panel
Jewish Book Week 2011
Panellists included Ben Gidley, Melanie Phillips and myself. Chaired by Martin Bright. Other details mislaid!
Date: 2011
Theme: Community, Jews, Judaism and Jewishness
Category: Other talks (selected)
My dream came true and I’m still not satisfied: the journey of a Metal Jew
Ignite London
Date: March 2, 2010
Theme: Jews and Metal, Personal/Memoire
Category: Other talks (selected)
Panellist: ‘Solidarity from afar’
Psycho-Political Resistance in Israel-Palestine’, Birkbeck College,
Date: October 15, 2009
Theme: Israel/Palestine
Category: Other talks (selected)
Sounds Jewish: Heavy metal Jews
Guardian Sounds Jewish Podcast
Includes interview about the film 'Anvil! The Story of Anvil'
Date: April 6, 2009
Theme: Jews and Metal
Category: Podcasts
Chair: ‘Postcards from the Unholy Land’
Jewish Book Week 2007
Panellists included Avi Pitchon and Etgar Keret
Date: 2007
Theme: Culture, Israel/Palestine
Category: Other talks (selected)
Interview with John Safran
Sunday Night Safran, Triple J radio (Australia)
Date: February 18, 2007
Theme: Metal Music and Culture, Music, Religion
Category: Media appearances and Interviews
Interview on Jews and popular music
BBC World Service ‘Reporting Religion’
Date: May 20, 2006
Theme: Jews, Judaism and Jewishness, Music, Religion
Category: Media appearances and Interviews