Jarvis Cocker talks to music writer Laura Barton in celebration of Beyond the Pale, the debut album from 'Jarv Is...' via Rough Trade Records. This is the first original music from Jarvis Cocker since the Further Complications album in 2009. Jarv Is… a band featuring Jarvis Cocker (vocals, guitar, percussion), Serafina Steer (harp, keyboards, vocals), Emma Smith (violin, guitar vocals), Andrew McKinney (bass, vocals), Jason Buckle (synthesiser and electronic treatments) and Adam Betts (drums, percussion, vocals).

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Salena Godden is one of Britain’s best loved poets and performers. She is also an activist, broadcaster, memoirist and essayist and is widely anthologised. She has published several volumes of poetry, the latest of which was Pessimism is for Lightweights,and a literary childhood memoir, Springfield Road.

She joins Gemma Cairney for an intimate in-conversation celebrating the release of Mrs Death Misses Death, a book which looks into the well-worn subject of death, telling the story of 'Mrs Death', an elderly working-class black woman, through poetry and prose.

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Harry Sword and Stephen Mallinder discuss Monolithic Undertow, a book which alights a crooked path across musical, religious and subcultural frontiers. It traces the line from ancient traditions to the modern underground, navigating archaeoacoustics, ringing feedback, chest plate sub-bass, avant-garde eccentricity, sound weaponry and fervent spiritualism.

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Intro/outro: Let's Talk About It by White Denim