Mind, Body, Soul

An interview with a performance artist, whose "art" consists of consuming entire copies of the Oxford English Dictionary, Gray's Anatomy, and the King James Bible.

2002 / Gregory Whitehead / BBC Radio 4, USA / UK

An interview with a performance artist, whose "art" consists of consuming entire copies of the Oxford English Dictionary, Gray's Anatomy, and the King James Bible.

Mind, Body, Soul was first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1999.

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Gregory Whitehead is the award-winning playwright, director and producer of more than one hundred radio plays, documentary essays and acoustic adventures for the BBC, Radio France, Australia’s ABC, NPR and other broadcasters.

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[Ed. note: When we first started talking with Gregory about featuring his work on the Third Coast Web site, he requested that instead of conducting a standard interview, weengage in a dialogue that would unravel over a short period of time, and extract parts of it. We were more than happy to break from tradition for a couple weeks and indulge him (and ourselves) in a conversation about his work. What follows are some of the highlights."### So, I've been asked to describe your work a few times, and have never been exactly sure where to start. How would / do you describe your approach to your work? I begin with the idea of radio as an adventure, and part of the idea of an adventure is that you don't always know precisely where you are. To my ears, a good radio program invites the listener to navigate. Sometimes the waters get choppy, or the fog rolls in. I always remind myself that the first community of radio artists was a community of maritime distress and rescue, the community of S-O-S

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