Poet Alan Buckley (Shiver/The Long Haul) discusses the creative life of Oxford outside the university and how the town is part of literary and historical imagination stretching beyond a world of privilege. Readings, news improvisation, guest music from the Oxford scene.
Listen Again - Alan Buckley - poetry and Oxford
THE NEWS AGENTS ..... Jude Montague's creative news-arts show Saturday 2.30pm-3.30pm Resonance 104.4FM ...... EXPERIMENT AND JOURNEY 'On a rainy Saturday in cold old February it was a delight to be chatting about music and arty things and having a bit of a sing with Jude Montague' JUDY DYBLE She creates poetry which finds the humanity amid the horror of our times.' BILL NEELY 'Jude Montague has gone where I've never seen a jobbing journalist tread before.' JON SNOW
Sunday, 30 April 2017
Monday, 24 April 2017
Sat 29 April - STREET SONG AND SATIRE: Lancashire Cuckolds and Enchanted Chamber Pots
Leafing through the pages of street song, pastiche. The creative undercurrent of politics and cultural life that bred alongside rats and fleas in the taverns and open spaces. Investigating the popular enthusiasm for narrative and comedy lyric and their heyday in the seventeenth century. With musical guests Matt Scott and his accordion.
Listen Again - Broadside Ballads - Street Song and Satire with Matt Scott
Listen Again - Broadside Ballads - Street Song and Satire with Matt Scott
Sunday, 16 April 2017
Sat 22 April - DAINAS, MUSIC AND DREAMS - Composers from Latvia
Artists Elizabete Balcus, Sabine Moore aka Waterflower and Richard Thompson discuss song, baroque pop, dream and noise-making from a Baltic perspective. Traditions of poetry and nature worship and how these interweave with contemporary art.
Listen Again - Latvian Song with Elizabete Balcus and Sabine Moore / Waterflower
Listen Again - Latvian Song with Elizabete Balcus and Sabine Moore / Waterflower
Sunday, 9 April 2017
Sat 15 April - AUTHORITY IDENTITY AND CONFLICT: Making Music and Video with Mary Ocher
Mary
Ocher talks music, video and politics following her live performance
for the Hello Goodbye Show. Mary is currently on tour in the UK. Her
recent album 'The West Against the People' is out on Klanbgad and
features an essay elaborating on the themes of the album and analysing
the current sociopolitical climate. Plus a live studio composition engineered by Ilia Rogatchevski
Saturday, 8 April 2017
Sat 8 April - BEING BEAR AWARE: SJ Fowler and poetical guides to living
Steven
Fowler presents the idea of the Anthropocene, the world altered by the
human presence. 'The Guide to Being Bear Aware' is published by
Shearsman Books. With live poetry/scores and composition. For more
information see thenewsagents.blogspot.com.
LISTEN AGAIN: S J Fowler - poetry - 'Being Bear Aware'
LISTEN AGAIN: S J Fowler - poetry - 'Being Bear Aware'
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