Riddley Walker

UPDATE 1/2/22: The British Library have put up an audio recording of Will Self's full conversation with Russell Hoban about Riddley Walker at https://www.bl.uk/british-library-player/videos/russell-hoban-in-conversation-with-will-self The original link here to the SA4QE site is a personal account and partial transcript of the conversation.

John Mullan discusses Riddley Walker in terms of using catastrophe as a narrative device. Part of the Guardian book club series.

Direct link to mp3 file hosted by the Guardian (975k)

Summary of John Mullan's interview with Russell Hoban on 29 November 2010. Includes link to audio recording of the interview.

John Mullan sums up readers' responses in the Riddley Walker Guardian book club series.

John Mullan introduces Riddley Walker as the Guardian's book club title, summarising the language and some of the themes of the novel.

Facebook "community page" based on the Wikipedia article about Russell Hoban's 1980 classic.

A video posted by the Trouble Puppet theatre company on YouTube showing their approach to staging a puppet version of Riddley Walker. They establish the principal characters in "bunraku" style -- manipulated directly by visible puppeteers -- and do the puppets-within-the-story as hand puppets, Punch and Judy style.

Essay by author/journalist Andrew Brown, mostly about Richard Dawkins, touching on Riddley Walker.