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1antimuzak
Oct 20, 2019, 2:12 am

Sunday 20th October 2019 (starting this evening)
Time: 18:45 to 19:30 (45 minutes long)

The Hidden Reservoir.

Author Carlo Gebler believes Northern Ireland is sitting on a hidden reservoir of pain. 50 years on from the onset of the Troubles, estimates suggest around a quarter of the population continues to be affected by the psychological trauma of the conflict. No political agreement has been reached on how to deal with the legacy of the violence - yet for many victims and survivors, members of the security forces, individuals, families and even ex-combatants - the past is something which can't just be left behind. As a teacher of creative writing in some of Northern Ireland's toughest prisons, Carlo Gebler witnessed first hand the transformative role the arts can play in enabling positive change. Now Carlo looks at the numerous arts based initiatives, schemes and individual projects aimed at promoting peace-building and reconciliation in Northern Ireland - and asks they're helping to heal a society still in pain - or simply perpetuating bitter memories.

2antimuzak
Ene 19, 2020, 1:54 am

Sunday 19th January 2020 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:15 to 23:00 (45 minutes long)

The Emergency - Creative Freedom in Wartime Dublin.

At the beginning of the Second World War in 1939 the Irish leader Éamon De Valera vowed that Ireland would play no part in the conflict. Instead he declared a state of emergency. Neutrality had serious political consequences for Ireland but in Dublin, the city saw a brief burst of creativity as writers, artists, dancers and thinkers sought refuge from the war. There were art openings, poetry readings, dance performances, recitals and underground house parties. Restaurants were filled across the city and hotels held daily dances and jazz nights. The story of 1940s Dublin is more complex, however. There was great poverty, fuel shortages, travel restrictions and a constant threat of invasion. For some artists and writers there was also a sense of isolation and confusion. Writers such as Seán Ó'Faoláin, who felt a strong intellectual connection to Europe, agonised over the decision to remain neutral. Another writer, Elizabeth Bowen, saw her role as a 'marriage counsellor' between Britain and Ireland at a time when relations between those two countries were at a low point. The White Stag Group of artists, the poet John Betjeman (from Britain), the dancer Erina Brady (from Germany) and the physicist Erwin Schrodinger (from Austria) may all have spent an evening in The Palace Bar with the Irish writers and artists who regularly propped up the bar there. With its German and Japanese diplomats, Dublin was also a potential den of spies and to add to the chaotic mix there was a strict regime of censorship as well as a constant wave of propaganda over the wireless. In this programme, Regan Hutchins hears how this confusion and creativity fed into the life of the city to bring about a new, welcome energy. It was a time of hardship but also a time of collaboration, intrigue and play.

3antimuzak
Mar 1, 2020, 1:57 am

Sunday 1st March 2020 (starting this evening)
Time: 18:45 to 19:30 (45 minutes long)

The East Speaks Back.

We are used to getting a world view from the west, but what did the east make of us? Jerry Brotton heads to Turkey on the trail of one the world's great travellers, Ottoman writer Evliya Celebi. In the 17th century, Celebi described the places he visited and the people he encountered in what has been called the world's first travel book. It gives us a fascinating insight into how the Ottomans viewed western civilisation. Talking to modern day Turkish and Bulgarian writers and historians, Jerry pieces together a story of cultural interchange and mutual fascination, along with a few tall tales along the way. Tracing Celebi's journey across Europe involves something of a logistical nightmare for Jerry as he makes his way from Istanbul through the Balkans to Vienna, the city the Ottomans saw as the golden apple.

4antimuzak
Mar 22, 2020, 2:50 am

Sunday 22nd March 2020 (starting this evening)
Time: 18:45 to 19:30 (45 minutes long)

Truman Capote: In Cold Blood.

In November 1959, Truman Capote read a newspaper headline: Wealthy Farmer, 3 of Family Slain. It was a murder in Kansas. The sheriff was quoted as saying it might be the work of a psychopath. And Capote set off to Kansas, believing this was exactly the story he'd been waiting for. Travelling with him was his friend, Harper Lee, soon to win a Pulitzer prize for To Kill a Mockingbird. Together they began conducting rigorous interviews on the impact of this murder. Initially, Capote planned an article for the New Yorker magazine, but when the two murderers were caught, Capote realised he had something much bigger on his hands - the non-fiction novel, the very first one he declared, and the book that led to an explosion in true crime. Tracing his journey is Corin Throsby. She picks her way through Capote's sometimes exaggerated claims to discover a story that remains relevant to this day. Written largely in Verbier in Switzerland, the book came to obsess Capote - he was close to the murderers, friendly, perhaps more. But for his book to succeed, they needed to die. Corin Throsby teaches at the University of Cambridge and is a former BBC Radio 3 New Generation Thinker. Contributors include Thomas Fahy, author of Understanding Capote; Brenda Currin who played the murdered Nancy Clutter in the 1967 film of the book; Ed Pilkington of the Guardian; James Linville, formerly of the Paris Review; actor Toby Jones; Ralph Voss, author of the Legacy of In Cold Blood; plus Ebs Burnough and Lawrence Elman who made the 2019 documentary The Capote Tapes.

5antimuzak
Abr 5, 2020, 1:51 am

Sunday 5th April 2020 (starting this evening)
Time: 18:45 to 19:30 (45 minutes long)

Wordsworth: Poet of the People.

On the 250th anniversary of Wordsworth's birth, Jenny Uglow presents a programme which looks at the poet's response to the Industrial Revolution and contrasts his view with that of Adam Smith, the great Enlightenment moral philosopher and father of modern economics. Jenny visits the Lake District and finds that far from hills and dales empty except for sheep, the countryside that Wordsworth knew was rapidly industrialising with mills and canals, quarries and ironworks. But while Wordsworth lamented the end of small farm self sufficiency, an end to what he saw as the dignity of work on the land as factories took hold, Adam Smith saw the potential of industrialisation. We visit his homes in Kirkcaldy and Edinburgh to hear about his hopes of offering prosperity and betterment to every level of society as the new economic order evolved. The two men's world views - of what constitutes a good society, of how to take care of the poor, the place of morality in commerce - actually inform debates which are relevant now. And counter-intuitively these views were not as polarised as they first might seem. The backdrop is Wordsworth's Grasmere, where Dove Cottage and the attached museum and archive are enjoying a major upgrade, and Panmure House in Edinburgh - Adam Smith's final home - which has been restored as a centre to honour his legacy.

6antimuzak
Abr 12, 2020, 1:49 am

Sunday 12th April 2020 (starting this evening)
Time: 18:45 to 19:30 (45 minutes long)

The Ruhleben Legacy.

Kate Kennedy reveals how life within a largely forgotten First World War German internment camp shaped the course of early 20th-century classical music. Exploring the lasting impact of this imprisonment on the men's lives and careers, Kate visits the site of the former camp and speaks to some of the detainees' families and former colleagues. Many of those imprisoned at Ruhleben would go on to important and influential positions. Edward Clark helped to shape the tastes of the post-war British public, programming music at the BBC. Edgar Bainton would become director of Australia's New South Wales Conservatorium. Sir Ernest MacMillan drew on the diverse musical programme in the camp and became one of Canada's most celebrated conductors. Percy Hull worked as music director at Hereford Cathedral, commissioning fellow former inmates to perform at the Three Choirs Festival. At the outbreak of war in August 1914 some 5000 mainly British men in Germany found themselves locked up for the duration of the Great War in a makeshift internment camp at Ruhleben, a racecourse on the outskirts of Berlin. It housed a wide cross-section of people - from sailors to chemists - but a sizeable number were musicians who had been drawn to Germany by the summer festivals at Bayreuth and Salzburg. For four years the camp acted as an extraordinary musical college: the prisoners composed new pieces and staged ambitious performances. Ernest MacMillan even gained a musical doctorate from Oxford University. We also hear the first broadcast performance of one of Ernest MacMillan's compositions, written whilst in the camp more than a century ago. A reading from John Ketchum's book Ruhleben: A Prison Cap Society is included, with kind permission from University of Toronto Press.

7antimuzak
mayo 3, 2020, 1:46 am

Sunday 3rd May 2020 (starting this evening)
Time: 18:45 to 19:30 (45 minutes long)

Tales from the Caspian Sea.

Alexander the Great, it was still asserted into the early 19th century, had built the gates that separated East and West at the eastern edge of the Caucasus: what is now Azerbaijan lay beyond. In Tales from the Caspian Sea, Dr Bettany Hughes investigates the rich cultural history of the Caspian, a region which nourished the ancient world's oldest theocracy, in the form of a Zoroastrian state, and pioneered an early Muslim-majority democracy in 1918. Her investigation of Azerbaijan, the land of fire, begins in the foothills of the Caucasus Mountains with visits to the archaeological sites that are actively reanimating the history of the region. Hughes discovers the landscape of Azerbaijan, which has been a centre of ancient trade on the Silk Road, inspired the poetry of the acclaimed poet Nizami Ganjavi and is a land that has been at the forefront of the development of civilisations and geopolitics to this day.

8antimuzak
mayo 10, 2020, 1:46 am

Sunday 10th May 2020 (starting this evening)
Time: 18:45 to 19:30 (45 minutes long)

Tales from the Caspian Sea.

Alexander the Great, it was still asserted into the early 19th century, had built the gates that separated East and West at the eastern edge of the Caucasus: what is now Azerbaijan lay beyond. In Tales from the Caspian Sea, Dr Bettany Hughes investigates the rich cultural history of the Caspian, a region which nourished the ancient world's oldest theocracy, in the form of a Zoroastrian state, and pioneered an early Muslim-majority democracy in 1918. Her investigation of Azerbaijan, the land of fire, begins in the foothills of the Caucasus Mountains with visits to the archaeological sites that are actively reanimating the history of the region. Hughes discovers the landscape of Azerbaijan, which has been a centre of ancient trade on the Silk Road, inspired the poetry of the acclaimed poet Nizami Ganjavi and is a land that has been at the forefront of the development of civilisations and geopolitics to this day.

9antimuzak
mayo 24, 2020, 1:50 am

Sunday 24th May 2020 (starting this evening)
Time: 18:45 to 19:30 (45 minutes long)

Six authors on different continents take the baton from their preceding writer and reveal something of their own preoccupation during lockdown, before passing directly to the next. Taking part are Dava Sobel in Long Island, Thomas Lynch in Michigan, Okwiri Oduor in Bavaria, Claire-Louise Bennett in Galway, Akash Kapur in Auroville, and William Fiennes near Oxford.

10antimuzak
Jul 5, 2020, 1:50 am

Sunday 5th July 2020 (starting this evening)
Time: 18:45 to 19:30 (45 minutes long)

Toni Morrison.

Reflections on the American writer Toni Morrison, who died in 2019, through her own words and those of her peers. The words of the author Toni Morrison, whose work received the Nobel Prize and many other awards, take us on a journey that spans her literary career and the black American story. Through a selection of Morrison's interviews for BBC outlets, spanning her entire career, Morrison is placed in dialogue with contemporary thinkers, writers and activists - as well as with readings from her work. Afterwords outlines the events that shaped her powerful command of language and the great visionary force through which she chronicled the black American experience. With contributions from writers, historians and curators, including Jay Bernard, Nydia Sawby, Ifeanyi Awachie, Dana Williams and Morrison's friend, Professor Farah Jasmine Griffin.

11antimuzak
Jul 27, 2020, 1:50 am

Monday 27th July 2020 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)

Claiming Schubert.

John Tusa explores the many and varied ways in which the Viennese composer has been used and reinvented after his death, in politics, art and literature. For many decades across parts of Europe there was a romantic interpretation of Schubert as lovelorn, naive and at one with nature. He has also been seen in a feminine context, especially after Robert Schumann described him as having feminine qualities when compared to Beethoven. However, Schubert has also been appropriated by political leaders. The emerging Christian Socialist Party in 20th-century Vienna used the composer to exemplify a nostalgic, non-multicultural way of life, which fitted in with their anti-semitic and anti-liberal policies. John explores the significance of this and how the link with fascism developed throughout the century. He also hears how novelist George Eliot and painter Gustav Klimt refashioned the composer and brought a different view of him to a wider public.

12antimuzak
Ago 7, 2020, 1:46 am

Friday 7th August 2020 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)

The Nature of Creativity.

Writer and producer Mary Colwell explores the relationship between nature and creativity, and asks, as nature disappears, are we compromising our ability to express ourselves in art, music and literature? Since the 1970s the world has lost half of the mass of wildlife on earth, so is this affecting human creativity? The opening to Beethoven's ground-breaking, 5th piano concerto starts with a piano imitation of the call of an Ortolan bunting. It is tiny, weighing just a few grams, but its song is powerful. Nature was a vital source of inspiration to him. From the earliest times humanity has always woven nature into the very fabric of our cultural, spiritual and scientific lives. Nature has acted both as a source for inspiration, but also as a metaphor, allowing us to be more creative and expanding our understanding of ourselves. The mysterious cave paintings, from as early as 30,000 years ago hint at a religious association with animals, where the veil between the real and spiritual was thin and insubstantial. For the ancient Greeks birds are especially commonly depicted in frescoes. plays, idioms similes and plays. Welsh storyteller, Dafydd Davies Hughes, describes how ancient tales, predating the Romans, used animals to tell us about morality and to instil social norms. But does the lessening of nature in our lives mean we are becoming less creative? Simon Colton, Professor of computational Creativity at Falmouth University believes we are just as creative as ever, and new technology is allowing us even greater expression. Prof Vincent Walsh believes we are in an extraordinarily rich, creative age.

13antimuzak
Ago 10, 2020, 1:55 am

Monday 10th August 2020 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)

Literary Pursuits - Les Miserables.

The story behind the writing of Victor Hugo's classic novel is one of adultery, revolution, political intrigue and exile. It was begun in Paris, when Hugo was part of the political and literary establishment, but the revolution of 1848 led to Hugo falling foul of the authorities and he had to flee for his life in disguise. He was reunited with his precious manuscript days later when it was brought to him in Brussels by his long-time mistress Juilette Drouet. Eventually ending up in Guernsey, it was twelve years later that Hugo finally took his manuscript out and finished it. But the events of the intervening years caused Hugo to make huge additions to the manuscript, transforming it from a novel into a masterpiece.

14antimuzak
Ago 11, 2020, 1:44 am

Tuesday 11th August 2020 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)

Patrick Kavanagh - the Inexhaustible Adventure of a Gravelled Yard.

WB Yeats is revered, Seamus Heaney is beloved, but the poet that everyone in Ireland can quote is Patrick Kavanagh. 50 years after Kavanagh's death, the poet Theo Dorgan wanders the streets of Dublin and lanes of Co Monaghan, tracing his life and significance. Patrick Kavanagh was one of 10 children, his father a shoemaker and farmer. He wrote unflinchingly, when this was being romanticised, about the poverty - material, sensual and spiritual - of Ireland's rural population. It was Kavanagh's poems, such as Kerr's Ass and The Great Hunger, with their insistence on the labour, the local, the idioms of speech that Heaney said gave him his word hoard and even permission to write. The Great Hunger is a monumental achievement, a rural equivalent of TS Eliot's The Waste Land. Kavanagh also wrote lyrically of the beauty of the landscape and the spiritual consolation of nature. Kavanagh scholar Sister Una Agnew argues he is a Christian mystic. Kavanagh developed cancer and had a lung removed. During his convalescence he sat by Dublin's Grand Canal and achieved some peace. This led to some great poems, such The Hospital, a moving expression of his appreciation of `the inexhaustible adventure of a gravelled yard". Kavanagh achieved simplicity, but was not simplistic. Dorgan demonstrates how keen his poetic sensibility was, aware, early on, of Ginsberg and the Beats. Half a century after Kavanagh's death, Theo Dorgan visits his grave, his birthplace, and places in between. He talks to those who knew, and know about this one man awkward squad capable of great tenderness, a ranter in drink, and for all that a man more beloved than he ever knew.

15antimuzak
Ago 24, 2020, 1:59 am

Monday 24th August 2020 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)

Keats Goes North.

The poet John Keats is often seen as a sickly individual, dying young due to his frailty. In this walking, talking Sunday Feature, Professor Fiona Stafford's aims to show that far from being a consumptive weakling who never left Hampstead, he was a strapping, fit young man who resigned as a doctor and undertook an amazing journey on foot, which was to inspire his greatest poetic works. In July 1818, Keats travelled to Liverpool because his brother George was sailing to America. He would never see him again. Keats and his walking companion, Charles Brown, then walked across Cumbria to visit Wordsworth (who was out), on to Scotland, to Burns' birthplace (unimpressed by the gaudy mausoleum), to Northern Ireland (shocked by the poverty), Mull (where he got very cold and wet and probably got TB), Iona and Fingal's Cave (an inspiration), climbed Ben Nevis, then over the Highlands to Inverness before sailing back to London. Professor Fiona Stafford builds on her five series of Radio 3 essay successes by following in Keats's footsteps, tramping his route, adding extracts from his letters and poems and of Charles Brown. She reflects on what Keats saw, thought and heard, witnessing them herself and walking parts of Keats' journey with Keats experts such as Professor Nigel Leask, Dr. Meiko O'Halloran and Keats biographer Professor Nicholas Roe. Fiona Stafford's windswept, dramatic storytelling recreates this epic journey aiming to transform Keats' image in the same way the journey transformed Keats from a doctor into a poet. This epic journey was the making of Keats the poet, as this active, rich, location feature shows, recreating his walk by also getting buffeted by the wind and waves just like Keats was on Iona and at Fingal's Cave, and visiting the significant places that transformed him.

16antimuzak
Sep 9, 2020, 1:51 am

Wednesday 9th September 2020 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)

Afterwords: Susan Sontag.

In 'Afterwords', we explore the ideas of great writers in their own words - as archive recordings in which they articulate their approach interweave with the thoughts of contemporary writers, academics and activists. Through the 'Sixties and 'Seventies up to her death in 2004, Susan Sontag was the embodiment of the fashionable, metropolitan, 'public intellectual'. Her writings on 'camp', on photography, on illness (she survived and then died from cancer at a time when the C word was almost taboo) and so much more, together with her activism and her art, came to be shared with millions through the medium for which she had very little time as a viewer - television. And her radio interviews on the BBC and elsewhere cemented her reputation. With contributions from her west coast friend (Prof) Terry Castle, the war correspondent Allan Little who got to know her well during the Siege of Sarajevo, the writer and broadcaster Lisa Appignanesi who achieved a rare intimate revelation in one interview for Nightwaves, and the writer Elif Shafak who continues to work in Sontag's long shadow, we take a close listen to the American writer and examine her legacy.

17antimuzak
Sep 10, 2020, 1:49 am

Thursday 10th September 2020 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)

Octavia E Butler.

The words of celebrated science-fiction and fantasy writer Octavia E. Butler take listeners on a journey of discovery. During her career, Butler invited readers to traverse difficult terrain through the prism of a genre fiction that had not quite accepted different perspectives: landscapes that were human rather than technological, earthbound rather than among the planets. Her published career ran from the 1970s until her death in 2006, across decades of economic, environmental and political upheaval. She is now considered an important part of the science fiction canon, but during her lifetime she experienced works going in and out of print and the archive of her recorded voice is sparse. This documentary examines the notion of legacy and who gets to be remembered.

18antimuzak
Nov 29, 2020, 1:49 am

Sunday 29th November 2020 (starting this evening)
Time: 18:45 to 19:30 (45 minutes long)

The Fake Poet.

250 years ago, the brilliant but impoverished Thomas Chatterton died in his cold, bare garret, alone. The image of the tragic and neglected young genius, doomed by his art, has rippled through the centuries. Sophie Coulombeau discovers that the myths built up around this tortured poet are as enticing and complex as the poems he is accused of faking. Chatterton ended his brief life at 17 years of age. But his story catapulted around the world and was captured in poetry, novels, operas and paintings. There was Chatterton merch with postcards and handkerchiefs; he captivated the Romantics and the Pre-Raphaelites, shaped the work of myriad writers and musicians from Oscar Wilde to Keith Jarrett, Samuel Wesley to Serge Gainsbourg and his invented poet monk Rowley is hailed as an inspiration for literary duplicity even today. Telling Chatterton's story through five works he inspired, New Generation Thinker Sophie Coulombeau pins down the man and the myth, exploring how each generation has passed the baton and reinvented the poet for their own age.

19antimuzak
Ene 3, 2021, 1:49 am

Sunday 3rd January 2021 (starting this evening)
Time: 19:15 to 19:30 (15 minutes long)

New Generation Thinkers - The Art of Rowing with Mary Wollstonecraft.

Mary Wollstonecraft, the great feminist pioneer, is best known for her book, 'A Vindication of the Rights of Women'. She was never afraid to make waves. But after the book came out in 1792, she embarked on perhaps her greatest and most personal experiment in modern womanhood - travelling alone as a single mother. She hadn't planned her life this way. Her passionate affair with an American adventurer, Gilbert Imlay, had come to an end when he abandoned her and their baby daughter, Fanny. Undeterred, she set off for Scandinavia, where she hoped to impress Imlay by tracking down some business assets that seemed to have been lost at sea. Mary turned the letters she wrote during her travels into her next book, and it gives us a vivid picture of a single mother who is fully engaged in the world around her -- a fallen woman refusing to stay at home and play the victim. In the end, the book impressed a much worthier man, Mary's fellow radical activist and writer, William Godwin. 'If ever there was a book calculated to make a man in love with its author, this appears to me to be the book,' he said. We join Professor Lisa Mullen, herself a single mother with experience of the vicissitudes of travel-with-child , as she sets off on a voyage of the imagination in the company of one of the greatest intellects of western culture, to 18th-century Sweden and Norway. Restlessness, sex and single motherhood - treacherous waters indeed.

20antimuzak
Ene 17, 2021, 1:49 am

Sunday 17th January 2021 (starting this evening)
Time: 18:45 to 19:30 (45 minutes long)

The Apple and the Tree.

When he was a boy and returned to the family home from primary school in the afternoon, Carlo Gébler would often hear the sound of typing coming from the shed at the foot of the garden. This was where his mother, the writer Edna O'Brien, sometimes went to write her novels. Later, when he lay in bed at night, Carlo would again hear the sound of typing. This time it would be coming from the downstairs front room where his father, Ernest Gébler, wrote plays for television. Now 66 and an acclaimed author himself, Carlo wants to know why the children of writers often follow their parent's footsteps into literature. Exploring the dynamics of literary lineage and his own journey into writing, he asks if it is simply an iron law that the apple rarely falls far from the tree - or if the truth is something far more complex.

21antimuzak
Ene 24, 2021, 1:52 am

Sunday 24th January 2021 (starting this evening)
Time: 18:45 to 19:30 (45 minutes long)

Margaret Fay Shaw's Hebridean Odyssey.

Margaret Fay Shaw gave up a privileged upbringing and classical music training in 1920s New York to live in a remote, Gaelic-speaking community in the Outer Hebrides. Without any knowledge of Gaelic, she used her classical training to notate and later record the first proper archive of traditional, unaccompanied song and folklore from the Western Isles. Later, she married folklorist John Lorne Campbell. They settled in the Big House on the Isle of Canna, and for decades, they embarked on recording expeditions throughout the Western Isles. Fay Shaw died in 2004, aged 101 and her priceless archive of song sheets, recordings and photographs is stored on Canna along with her beloved Steinway piano, shipped out specially on a fishing boat from Glasgow. Fiona Mackenzie, one of Scotland's leading Gaelic singers, is curating and digitising this huge collection, owned by the National Trust for Scotland and says it is her dream job. Margaret Fay Shaw's life and work is her inspiration and obsession and she regularly gives talks, illustrated with archive recordings and her own live performance, to bring the story to wider audiences. Recorded on location, Fiona explores the songs and folklore which mean so much to her and which drew her muse from New York to the beautiful but storm-tossed Outer Hebrides. She says the songs of love, lament, work and exile have an enduring relevance. She describes the earliest recordings as `pinpricks of sound", but says they echo a vanished way of life, `telling us who we are and where we came from".

22Dilara86
Ene 24, 2021, 7:51 am

Thank you for the heads-up: this sounds fascinating!

23antimuzak
Mar 14, 2021, 1:46 am

Sunday 14th March 2021 (starting this evening)
Time: 19:15 to 19:30 (15 minutes long)

Landscape Histories.

Archaeologist Seren Griffiths uses a walk along a sandstone ridge in Northern Cheshire to explore the way a landscape can hold multiple histories, and in doing so make it easier to contemplate distant futures. Seren starts her journey in a quarry used variously by the Romans, Iron Age settlers and latterly the Victorians, making her way up to one of the string of hilltop forts that can be found along the escarpment, and then moves along to a Cold War listening station, and not far away, the Frodsham anti-aircraft operations room. And all the while the vista shows the canal work of the Industrial Revolution, the chemical plants of the 20th century and the wind turbines of the last decade. The ancient landscape hums with history and archaeology brings them into focus in the present. For Seren, and many before her, this is a magical, mysterious place which draws out timelines like a strand, with artefacts from the past projecting forwards, enduring into the present.

24antimuzak
Abr 18, 2021, 1:50 am

Sunday 18th April 2021 (starting this evening)
Time: 18:45 to 19:30 (45 minutes long)

A look at the impact of Virginia Woolf: The Waves 90 years on from its publication. Novelist Amy Sackville examines the author's interest in rhythm over narrative, while musician Steve Harley recalls the precise moment the novel inspired his song Riding the Waves. Dramaturg Uzma Hameed traces the translation of Woolf's language from the page to the stage in Wayne McGregor's acclaimed ballet Woolf Works, pianist Lana Bode reflects on the musicality of Woolf's language, and composer Jeremy Thurlow reveals both how Woolf was inspired by music and how her work has inspired his own music. With readings by Emma Fielding.

25antimuzak
Jun 20, 2021, 2:03 am

Sunday 20th June 2021 (starting this evening)
Time: 18:45 to 19:30 (45 minutes long)

Kate Kennedy examines the work that poet and composer Ivor Gurney created while spending the last 15 years of his life in psychiatric hospitals. She gains access to Gurney's archives and discovers a treasure trove of lost compositions and poems about the Gloucestershire landscape he would never again see, about his mental state and thoughts of suicide, and about the devastating effects of war. Together with poet Andrew Motion and musicologist Stephen Johnson, Kate explores the lost works of Gurney, and there are previously unheard songs that tenor Nicky Spence and pianist Dylan Perez rehearse and perform especially for the programme.

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