Paul Spooner's guest appearances

Paul Spooner

London Review Bookshop Podcast

Surrey Residents Network

Andy Miller

Cathy Rentzenbrink

Tom McCarthy

Edmund de Waal

Siri Hustvedt

Patti Smith

Yanis Varoufakis

Michelle Tea

John Gray

Pankaj Mishra

Gareth Evans

Mary Gaitskill

Ben Marcus

Will Harris

Carlo Rovelli

OwlTail

Rosemary Hill

Having an engineer as a father and an art school education, Paul Spooner became, predictably, a school-teacher, then a lorry driver. A chance meeting with mechanical model-maker Peter Markey in Cornwall led him to discover his true métier – the almost extinct profession of automatist, or maker of automata. Since then he has been relentlessly making mechanical playthings, mostly of wood, some of them not, mostly small, some of them not, all of them intricately engineered, eccentrically beautiful and endlessly fascinating.He is in conversation about his work with Rosemary Hill, architectural historian and contributing editor at the London Review of Books. She first encountered Paul Spooner's work at Cabaret Mechanical Theatre in Covent Garden in the 1980s and has admired it ever since. Her books include God's Architect, a biography of A W N Pugin, and Stonehenge. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Having an engineer as a father and an art school education, Paul Spooner became, predictably, a school-teacher, then a lorry driver. A chance meeting with mechanical model-maker Peter Markey in Cornwall led him to discover his true métier – the almost extinct profession of automatist, or maker of automata. Since then he has been relentlessly making mechanical playthings, mostly of wood, some of them not, mostly small, some of them not, all of them intricately engineered, eccentrically beautiful and endlessly fascinating.He is in conversation about his work with Rosemary Hill, architectural historian and contributing editor at the London Review of Books. She first encountered Paul Spooner's work at <a href="https://cabaret.co.uk/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Cabaret Mechanical Theatre</a> in Covent Garden in the 1980s and has admired it ever since. Her books include <a href="https://www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/on-our-shelves/book/9780140280999/gods-architect-pugin-and-the-building-of-romantic-britain" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">God's Architect</a>, a biography of A W N Pugin, and <a href="https://www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/on-our-shelves/book/9781861978806/stonehenge" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Stonehenge</a>. Hosted on Acast. See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.

Paul Spooner and Rosemary Hill: Cabaret Mechanical Theatre

@PaulDeach talks to Cllr Paul Spooner from #Guildford Borough Council at the Summer Science Festival 2014.

@PaulDeach talks to Cllr Paul Spooner from #Guildford Borough Council at the Summer Science Festival 2014.

@SurreySATRO Summer Science Festival 2014 - Paul Spooner