The Auditoury Project
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TW Writers have joined forces with the Electric Lantern Festival with a new take on the conventional museum audio-tour. Imagine any English town as a kind of museum or a series of strange artworks. What if you could take an audio-tour of the buildings and places? These twenty pieces will take you on a surreal tour of the urban landscape through the unique perspective of the TW Writers collective. They originally formed part of the Electric Lantern Festival 2012 or ELF for short. The collection includes stories, poetry, essays and a play and can all be downloaded as audio files hosted on the ELF website. Each piece was read on location.
Tunbridge Wells Writers
Tunbridge Wells Writers is a writers collective operating from the beautiful spa town of Tunbridge Wells in England. Formed in 2010 it is made up poets, fiction and non-fiction writers, bloggers and other waifs and strays.
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The Auditoury Project - Tunbridge Wells Writers
THE AUDITOURY PROJECT
(WELLS READ)
Part of the Electric Lantern Festival 2012
By
THE TUNBRIDGE WELLS WRITERS
Published by Tunbridge Wells Writers Publications at Smashwords
Copyright 2012
Peter Seal
Karen Gaynard
Simon John Cox
David Smith
Jess Mookherjee
Martin Fletcher
Carolyn Gray
C.J.Hall
Kate Price
With special thanks to Sam Marlow of the Electric Lantern Festival for inspiring the project and launching the finished article.
All stories were read on location in Tunbridge Wells and can be downloaded from YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/user/electriclanternfest
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. A Famous Person You've Never Heard Of by Peter Seal
2. Park Life by Karen Gaynard
3. After Jeff Goldblum and the Ripples in the Water by Simon John Cox
4. Afternoon Tea by David Smith
5. Picnic at High Rocks by Jess Mookherjee
6. Battle of Millennium Square by Martin Fletcher
7. The History of Grosvenor and Hilbert Park by Carolyn Gray
8. The Vomit Comet by C.J.Hall
9. The Black Pig by Kate Price
10. The Big Red Combine Harvester by David Smith
11. Waiting for the Man by David Smith
12. Suicide Thursday by Martin Fletcher
13. You Can Lead a Horse to Water by C.J.Hall
14. Boundary House by Karen Gaynard
15. Scandal by the Back Door by Kate Price
16. The Reality Machines by Simon John Cox
17. Toad by Jess Mookherjee
18. Easter Sunday at Rocky Tom's by David Smith
19. Funfair for the Common Man by David Smith
20. Killing With Kindness by Martin Fletcher
A FAMOUS PERSON YOU’VE NEVER HEARD OF
Peter Seal
Part way up London Road, at number 69, there is a beautiful old house with a beautiful garden and two beautiful trees.
On the uppermost gatepost there is an oval plaque indicating that a person of historical significance once lived there.
Mr. Bayes moved into this house as a lodger in 1731. He lived here for the last 30 years of his life. His days in Tunbridge Wells became the most productive years of his life.
Thomas Bayes was the son of London Presbyterian minister Joshua Bayes and was perhaps born in Hertfordshire. We are not too sure exactly when, because when a child is born – with the possible exception of Jesus – nobody knows that he, or she, will contribute anything to the advancement of the human race, so the circumstances of the birth were often not recorded very accurately. His birth date is uncertain likely due to the fact that he was baptised in a dissenting church, which either did not keep or was unable to preserve its baptismal records.
We know nothing of his early life, but he was obviously well educated, as a minister's son would be expected to be.We do know for certain, however, that in 1719 he was enrolled at the University of Edinburgh to study logic and theology, and thatafter graduating in 1721 he moved to London sometime in 1722, where he assisted his father at the latter's Presbyterian chapel.
Working in the chapel for some ten years it later became obvious that his Father's non-conformist views had a great influence on son Thomas, and he moved permanently to Tunbridge Wells in around 1734 to become minister of the Mount Sion chapel, a position he held for nearly 20 years.
So far so good, and it's not surprising that you haven't heard of him. After all, non-conformist ministers were two for tuppence in those days.
So what did he do that made him famous?
His serious claim to fame was in the field of mathematics and statistical analysis. Today, religion and science would seem to be poles apart, but in those days the clergy were a select group of people who were well educated and had time on their hands. Many significant figures in science in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were men of the cloth; so it was with Thomas Bayes.
In the seventieth century little was known, at least by the common man, about risk management and chance. Actually, there still isn't today. If you buy a lottery ticket you have a vastly greater chance of being dead by the time the balls drop their numbers than ever you have of winning the fortune you have promised yourself.
In those days, Lady Luck was a very powerful force and it was not considered by many that her good will could be determined by some mathematical jiggery pokery; she either smiled on you or she didn't, and the vagaries of the the female psyche were considered unfathomable (no change there, then!). Luck and chance were understood as being a factor, but little more. Questions such as when you toss a coin and it comes up heads, what are the chances of it coming up heads next time?
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