“What’s So Funny About Interviews?”
Tony Macaluso, Chapel FM Director, shares ideas and bits from audio archives to explore how humour plays strange and surprising roles in radio and other kinds of interviews. NOTE LOCATION: NOT AT CHAPEL FM BUT AT LEEDS LIBRARY
When & where
- DateThursday 12th Nov '26
- Time5:30pm to 7:00pm
- WhereLeeds Library (the private one on Commercial Street) Map
Tickets
- TypeFree
- Cost£0.00 per ticket
NOTE LOCATION: NOT AT CHAPEL FM BUT AT LEEDS LIBRARY / 18 Commercial Street Leeds, LS1 6AL
https://www.theleedslibrary.org.uk/events/whats-so-funny-about-interviews/
Using audio examples from a range of radio and oral history projects, we’ll explore 9 varieties of humour that could be cultivated in interview situations, from awkward pauses to word duels to happy accidents or chanting the ridiculous.
This talk will draw on ideas and examples by people such as: Soren Kierkegaard, Simone Weil, Henri Bergson, Italo Calvino, Marguerite Duras, Laura Jackson Riding, Samuel Beckett, Studs Terkel, as well as recent oral history and radio interviews with teenagers, asylum seekers, artists, and street-corner philosophers recorded in Leeds.