Sat 16 Jan 2021 - Putri Prihatini - folklore Thursday & Tolkien

Putri Prihatini in discussion about folklore, Twitter and Tolkien. How Folklore Thursday on Twitter and Lord of the Rings inspired her to dig deeper into Indonesian folktale and mythology. Putri's family are from East Java but she lives in Borneo. Her twitter tag is @blogtolkien. This is the first in a occasional series working with international thinkers, artists and activists met during lockdown and Covid restrictions on social media. Plus Minangkabau songs and Indonesian music.  

Listen Again - Sat 16 Jan 2021 - The News Agents - Putri Prihatini - Indonesian Folklore

Sat 12 Dec - Ana Silvera - Bringing together inspiration from the Mourning Kaddish and kora music

 Ana Silvera discusses prayer and music as she releases Light, Console Me based on the Mourning Kaddish prayer of Jewish religion and talks about working with kora master Sefo Kanuteh from Gambia. This new piece is part of a virtual programme of events put together by Arts La'Olam based in Ipswich, Suffolk. With more musics on the theme of kora, the African lute/harp and prayer music from different traditions. For more information see thenewsagents.blogspot.com

Sat 21 Nov - Wind Power & Kite Turbines - Rod Read

Rod Read from Windswept and interesting on wind power, particularly the potential in lo fi kite turbines. Notes from the airborne energy community and thoughts on alternative technology and weather systems. Plus fiddle music and song from the Shetland Islands.

Listen Again - Sat 21 Nov - Wind Power and Kite Turbines - Rod Read 

Sat 14 Nov - Rapture and radical Protestantism - Jason Dittmer and Alex Botten

Rapture, the end times and radical Protestantism. Jason Dittmer discusses different ideas in pre- and post-millenarianism and its knotty relationship with ethiss, morals and American politics. writer Alex Botten on rewriting St Paul. What might have happened on the road to Damascus and how to use the novel to explore religious and historical possibilities, exploring alternative readings of the early church through speculative fiction. For more information see thenewsagents.blogspot.com

Listen Again - Sat 14 Nov - Rapture and radical Protestantism Jason Dittmer & Alex Botten

Sat 31 Oct - Unfinished Business and Biscuits

Unfinished Business, The Fight for Women's Rights exhibition at the British Library is introduced by curator Polly Russell. Jenny Robins talks about her new Myriad Press publication, Biscuits, an assortment of urban stories of London women and their varied relationships. And the debut of tunes from VERSUS, the forthcoming joint album by Bettina Schroeder and Jude Cowan Montague on Wormhole World.

Sat 17 Oct - Plague Songs - Jack Klaff - Martin Rowson - Jon Tregenna

Plague Songs - the Second Wave. Martin Rowson, cartoonist/poet and Jon Tregenna, playwright/musician bring you volume 2 of this 'powerful stuff - words and music as angry and disturbing as these present times,' Ken Loach. Funny and offensive, this online musical theatre heads to new Covid and Brexit powered realms. Featuring a special interview with director, actor and Plague Songs performer Jack Klaff about his own career in satire, stage and film.

Listen Again - Sat 17 Oct - Jack Klaff - Plague Songs 

Sat 10 Oct - Stories of Saqqara

Saqqara is the oldest necropolis pyramid in Egypt and travels though the Nile and along the desert inspired singer-composer Esbe's romantic album. Professor and archaeologist Ramadan B. Hussein and author of 'Inside the Tombs of Saqqara discusses the significance and structure of the pyramid and ancient Egyptian funereal art. 

 

Listen Again - Stories of Saqqara - Ramadan B Hussain & Esbe