Fine and dry salt with plenty of sunshine but tension a heavy rain and thunder a shower of rice highs of 15 foul c s b b c a radio Skinny's 3 minutes past the b.b.c. Radio pack I'm actually going it was here we could we could make a fortune by some of the yeah that doesn't sound good so often it does I might do well to have it go to you know one cross country competition that's going to be the rule if you do cross country go right. Don't change on b.b.c. Radio on Sunday. Well good luck today 7 James was a look at the show up until fall that Adam got a great job great show on paper this is going to be award winning. Writer standing by just about he's written a new book cold. And I don't know if you've heard of all this but it's a fantastic place and we go all the information about how you get to love that book I don't know why that also makes Ben a little bit lighter on them because I'm strictly told with a robot a little bit lighter wrong as well Ross and. Radio. Talk. Talk Talk shock. Shock. So I'm going to get the joke. But you know but do you. Know that you want. To get. To do the work that you've got to get to the direction you want to. Thank you. That's a shock to the to do so. Because it would. Be. Thank. You but you. Fail. And we say welcome to. The new book is called Oxford and Matthew Reiss your baby isn't it I bet my little rectangular baby yes it's just that I would look at it online or on the little bit of it and it's much more impressive in real life that's a relief to be helpful set back if you've seen a pretty good I. Have got to look good in line of them as people won't buy them online is most important Yeah Ok and if and when I see a title and you may be aware that we are in Oxford at the moment yeah I am aware of that yeah good if you live here I live just outside Oxford and I did live in Oxford you know that's why I read that these are think. Of picture but with words or story you know it's a very surprising. It is a picture book with words which is ideal for radio broadcasts and it helps that So 1st of all explain explain the book because there's a big picture well explain the front cover the front cover is obvious because it's got a picture of the regular camera and it is night time and it's got lots of people wandering around and I hope it will make everyone want to buy the book because that's what covers are there to do and what's nice about it is a dozen of those railings No the railings and the grass have both gone missing as it turns out of the great treats about drawing pictures of things as opposed to photographs is that you can scrap anything you don't want to pylons go out the window and or or not depending on the picture and railings and grass can all go with it you can do it want that is a beautiful case but I can also do a little bit adroit as good as you by a country mile but you know I think I can't draw I just miss out. Yes and I used to do that with people and my father was alive I always used to rush down the road his house and say Could you put the people in for me and then they'd look really good and now sadly he's died so I've had to get better at the people's old places. Everything is gone very very wrong and the beauty of it is in the book that the various drawings watercolors a spouse of a and and then you can see there's a cartoon esque n'est of a figure I mean well I would be the last to say it but I have a feeling if you have a book that's just pictures of buildings risk it might be a tiny bit boring and so and buildings are about people and the people who are in the museum and you need people for scale and if you got people to scale most wanted them doing something nice Yeah it was full of rather strange characters doing strange things and so kind of resistable not to make people a bit interesting as well yeah and you can write a funny little notes by them and sort of you know say so well it was got notes anyway because although one spends a huge amount of time writing the text it's sad but no in fact nobody ever reads it not even your nearest and dearest friends and so Knutson captions are on the novel obviously they have to read the words when is it a straight or they tend to go over the pitches the captions as a kind of safe way around that one so you've got so because we know it is full of great buildings so how did you decide what to draw to start with well and good question because there's plenty of it this is stuff we're building stuff with architecture I think I tried to go over the buildings that were the best example and of each thing in like a kind of architectural museum age by age it's got something of a riparian in it so you try to pick the best and the ones are the most interesting and the ones that got the most to say about them and sometimes just the ones where you can compare one with the other and try and work out that you've got and you also plan that you know you thought you found something interesting about a building and thought about a drawer. Or you draw then find something interesting theoretically the 1st time sometimes the 2nd theoretically the 1st type and there was in all sorts of plans of this book as with all books you keep making plans it's a really good way of putting the time before you start doing it but yeah I think I probably did fill in the gaps I knew what I what I wanted to illustrate and if we were in Oxford on the right day did we get to see you with ease or. Easel No you might have seen me general the crappy old golf drawing through the window you might as seen Mr slum like another drop on the corner against one nice building drawing another yes you could easily have seen me yeah and so I said you might have walked embarrassingly past or possibly dropped a coin and there was some Ben and said that you did this summer on a sketch pad and made it better home yeah finish off or work from that and see what's quite quickly when I'm quite quick yes yeah the idea is what I'm doing wrong I get bored I do it quite quickly I want is one of the things you can do life has changed but if you will phone in your top pocket you can have the answers on the bus on the time that your drive never had a period when I've been so up to date with Ambridge. In Oxford somehow turned out to be the place that I really got my head around in that time and that's I mean and if and I have drawn the line but it put it in your top pocket upside down took me several months to realise Weirdly I had as the sun comes out of the end of the telephone with the holes on it is a real life changer if any of you out there have find it makes life easier. And so I sometimes do listen to the radio. We need to transfer to radio works but apart from that will lay off later on the way on the I mean the right area. And so how long you've been putting this together I think it's taking about 2 years to do this from the 1st drawings and the 1st stumbling bits of writing to getting it done it comes out in. The shop not in Blackwell's windows eyesore. Yes I think I think there's a little I think I might begin to talk to his literary festival as well and a few other things but yes so I don't want to. Say if you. Come into. The book. But yes I'm going to that bit more about. Going to. Hair today we got Matthew rice with a book called Oxford. Doesn't architectural drawing books we can't call it that better than that I did and it does sound a bit stiff Yeah but I'm not to reflect least if I didn't have my drawings are all shaky and feeble I tried to get the line straight where possible using the ruler but I think that it's what I think is in the trade called accessible I don't think it is. Your background then my background. I have been a designer and an illustrator all my life my parents were both design. My dad was a theater designer My mom was a textile design. And I've designed things ever since. And and so I started doing books about 20 years ago and I've done about 6 or 7 you know and it's the nicest thing to do you feel do I know why I want always feels this is a magic about a book and is going to last for them because because because with it or you know you don't quite have it's the opposite it's over you've done it and then you know it was last week the next thing you know I've almost forgotten it I wasn't brilliant I realize when I was in my early twenties I was old fashioned and my father was pushing the boundaries rather more than me and when you see that that's a time to change I think and so I I rather skipped over I did furniture for of. These things and I ventured if you draw what you do is draw and say whether you're drawing buildings in Oxford or designing a table or whatever it is I think it's all so in the same language Yeah yeah and the course you can deliver a stooge Tolliver and here you've moved. Half an hour away yeah and you only got a nice of a mediæval house you know yes it is my house is strange it was built in 1320 it's. Very nice vaults and things like that in it so yes it's old it was the. It was the gate house is the last shred of the gate house of a long gone castle so that doesn't really feel very costly Les you have arise and sort of bracket the picture down till you can just see about 10 foot of it you can still kind of imagine the great thing about drawing is you can leave out all the modern things yeah try to make it so good you know the castle looked like before you know what do you think that So there are a couple of drawings here in the body and of of of what it looked like sort of 200 years ago and also 400 years ago as one drawing Yeah it was a great long been there also from but it's all been like all castles and buildings that were needed broken down we presume it's from a ghost Well you would you know what I really hope to full of was interesting things underground I thought there'd be armor and spearhead or even cannonballs or anything interesting whereas we didn't even find a sort of cow's tooth under that I've never known a less rewarding bit of archaeology and we found one good thing which was a sort of mammoth task and when I said nice lady who I hope isn't as ning from Oxford archaeology to look how exciting you find a mammoth task and then it's not interesting it's not it's not really archaeologists too old. Best thing you could possibly find it fell to pieces very quickly and I've got some shreds of mammoth task but that's all I don't know they kept them in the castle and now the book is called Oxford and how do you how was it how many different account there how to draw your image loads after it was really great about having friends I think is probably about 150 pictures and quite a lot of drawings which your for if your favorite Oxford building building Well yes I mean obviously you have cameras sort of everybody's favorite and it is extraordinary Radcliffe Square is a very extraordinary composition of buildings because you go in to that square and you are in a strange place which is. Totally unlike anywhere else in the country and because it's got also wonderful floor floors really one thing I did learn but my brief bit of the theater designing world is the floor cloth is what matters more than anything else as long as you've got the floor cloth you can suspend disbelief properly but if you still see the ordinary floor the whole thing just looks like all the flats and I think it's the same with buildings and you know you have the most modest buildings if you put enough to put a modern asked for around there's a 1000000 sit happily and the best bit about that is it's got the most wonderful pavement and road because if I'm if I when I wander around Oxford I'm thinking or going to be arty Yes you do that quite a lot to get that thing. Yesterday to be a party and take a couple of snaps from a phone in the us and that's quite a lot of a not very are to do that to snatch the family quite well you know then we can then I might draw it later on if only Yeah mostly Yes but you know when it's out of course we do I we've all done what you've done on the front cover we take a picture of that and maybe draw a little bit but where or what are the other iconic so I should have a go at. A good question one that we don't know what we're not what I think that the portress that there is with curly wurly columns and so called Solomonic because allegedly the Temple of Solomon had barley sugar columns like that I think that's probably rather brilliant the gateway is the Botanic Garden they are extraordinary I don't know almost all of north and there's so many I mean did you go in the colleges you know because they didn't you know they oversee you know you know somebody because you want to somebody who doesn't know you know you walk past always going these places you know what I think that there are enough days and hours and things where you can I think that of all cities as an architectural interest was very accessible you know you can get into so many so many different places and see inside but most cities or towns of this size have some wonderful buildings but they're kind of squished in amongst the dreary stuff or the horrid stuff or the really ugly stuff. The stuff no one cares about and the strange thing about I guess is to do with the university it's just boom boom boom boom boom one marvelous thing after another it's like. The best musical you've ever heard one number following another number there's a tiny little pill ready and a marvelous hasn't got brilliant overture actually walking from I think walking from the station into town must be the least exciting arrival in a most exciting place to go where. They always draw you've got hundreds of men there I presume you can have a good gallery at home with them looking on a wall you know looking great and I didn't know that what to do with them is yet to be done I think they might possibly be sold in aid of the new organ Barnabas church which we're trying to get some money for so I think I might try and find a way of letting them help us get a few more pipes for the. Architectural fact he said no one reads the words only look at the pictures which is fine but there's a quality of what you know the words are in there was a little different they were doing Joy writing do you enjoy finding out the stuff about these places very nice that's how you find out by writing books in every way that's anywhere so anybody ever finds out it is but you have to do the proper research so when you go to a library or something like that what happened here is a look at another book has already been written I think you just yes I mean I think I think if you look at one book and copy the whole thing out you know I think you look at a loss and you try and similarly the information and sort of anchor Yeah well it looks fantastic as a good book in it thank you very nice to say. It and here we are you know 1st it's lovely to talk to your c.e.o. Your appearance his literary appearance is happening soon you know the model of where you're going to be I think there's something happening Blackwell's on the 25th something Wantage festival about a week later Ok lovely or something like that it's it's it's rushing in Matthew Ryan and good luck with the book thank you very much for coming today thank thank you for having me. A.b.c. 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