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b'Warning: this episode contains discussions of domestic violence, child sexual abuse, and suicide. Listener discretion is advised.\\xa0\\n\\n\\n\\n\\nA rare twofer this week on our show: we discuss the lives and careers of Joe Orton and Kenneth Halliwell. Both frustrated writers from the North of England making their way in the repressive, damp climate of the postwar UK, they were sent to prison for defacing library books into brilliant collage art. But when Orton achieved fame and success, the pressure was too much for Halliwell to bear. And their disturbing pattern of traveling to Tunisia to abuse children casts a pall on any simple attempt to recuperate them as heroes.\\nClick here to subscribe to our monthly podcast "Extra Bad Gays" and support the work we do to make the show.\\n----more----\\nSOURCES:\\nIlsa Colsell, Philip Hoare, and Leonie Orton Barnett, Malicious Damage: The Defaced Library Books of Kenneth Halliwell and Joe Orton (Donlon Books, 2013)\\nPrick Up Your Ears (Curzon Film Distributors, 1987)\\nJames Fox, \\u201cThe Life and Death of Joe Orton,\\u201d The Sunday Times, November 22, 1970\\nJohn Lahr, Prick Up Your Ears: The Biography of Joe Orton, 1st edition (Berkeley: Univ of California Pr, 2000)\\nJoe Orton, The Orton Diaries, Reprint edition (New York: Da Capo Press, 1996)\\n\\u201cJoe Orton,\\u201d Front Row (BBC Radio 4, August 11, 2017), https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08zzly6\\nOur intro music is Arpeggia Colorix by Yann Terrien, our outro music was made for us by DJ Michaeloswell Graphicdesigner'