Caught By The Times

The Times runs extracts from the Caught By The River book today – you get essays from Jarvis Cocker, Irvine Welsh and Jon Savage – it’s in the colour supplement, you can read them here too. If you missed it, yesterday The Times ran a feature on the website written by CBTR contributor (and mate) John Niven. That piece is archived here. As if that wasn’t enough, they are also hosting a couple of podcasts of writers reading from the book. The podcasts are produced by Chris Watson and are ace.

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Listen to Robert Macfarlane reading an essay by Roger Deakin,

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Listen to Gavin Pretor-Pinney, the man behind the Cloud Appreciation Society, reading about canoeing down the river Cary.