1antimuzak
Sunday 26th November 2023 (starting this evening)
Time: 18:45 to 19:30 (45 minutes long)
Afterwords - Ursula Le Guin.
The work and legacy of the American sci-fi author, featuring archive recordings of Le Guin herself alongside interviews with people who knew, loved or were inspired by her.
Time: 18:45 to 19:30 (45 minutes long)
Afterwords - Ursula Le Guin.
The work and legacy of the American sci-fi author, featuring archive recordings of Le Guin herself alongside interviews with people who knew, loved or were inspired by her.
2antimuzak
Sunday 24th December 2023 (starting this evening)
Time: 18:15 to 19:00 (45 minutes long)
While Shepherds Watched.
Elizabeth Alker explores the ancient tradition of South Yorkshire carolling. Originally sung in churches by musicians and choirs, the tradition suffered in the Victorian era and all but a few were driven out. They found a new home in pubs around Sheffield and South Yorkshire, flourishing there today where the tradition has survived intact and is proving increasingly popular, spreading across county lines to other part of the UK and abroad.
Time: 18:15 to 19:00 (45 minutes long)
While Shepherds Watched.
Elizabeth Alker explores the ancient tradition of South Yorkshire carolling. Originally sung in churches by musicians and choirs, the tradition suffered in the Victorian era and all but a few were driven out. They found a new home in pubs around Sheffield and South Yorkshire, flourishing there today where the tradition has survived intact and is proving increasingly popular, spreading across county lines to other part of the UK and abroad.
3antimuzak
Sunday 28th January 2024 (starting this evening)
Time: 18:45 to 19:30 (45 minutes long)
Briggflatts - A Northern Poetic Odyssey.
Inspired by Basil Bunting's epic poem Briggflatts, Rory Stewart travels across Cumbria and Northumbria from an ancient Quaker meeting house to a medieval tower on Newcastle city walls in search of clues in Bunting's life and work to help understand this neglected masterpiece of 20th-century modernist poetry. It's a landscape which the former MP for Penrith and the Borders came to know and love, and it's where Bunting's poetic masterpiece is largely set. Bunting called it his 'acknowledged land', an area stretching from Scotland to the Humber, which was once the ancient kingdom of Northumbria. A moment in time during the Dark Ages which saw a flourishing of Northumbrian art and culture, which produced the Lindisfarne Gospels, and was populated by larger than life historical figures like Eric Bloodaxe and St Cuthbert. It's a complex poem, which is not in the least parochial, taking in the poets travels around the world and his wide learning, and it has much in common with the modernist poetry of Eliot's Waste Land and Pounds Cantos. Briggflatts popularity spearheaded a Sixties' north-eastern poetry renaissance, and yet in its homeland it's been criticised for not being written in an authentic regional voice. Rory examines the many contradictions in Bunting's life, the conscientious objector who later served in the RAF, the socialist who had fascist friends, and the principled public man who led an unexamined private life. But Rory leaves his journey with an acknowledgement of Bunting's exceptional poetic skill and the way in which his life weaves into the life of northern England with all its complexity and fierce rooted national pride.
Time: 18:45 to 19:30 (45 minutes long)
Briggflatts - A Northern Poetic Odyssey.
Inspired by Basil Bunting's epic poem Briggflatts, Rory Stewart travels across Cumbria and Northumbria from an ancient Quaker meeting house to a medieval tower on Newcastle city walls in search of clues in Bunting's life and work to help understand this neglected masterpiece of 20th-century modernist poetry. It's a landscape which the former MP for Penrith and the Borders came to know and love, and it's where Bunting's poetic masterpiece is largely set. Bunting called it his 'acknowledged land', an area stretching from Scotland to the Humber, which was once the ancient kingdom of Northumbria. A moment in time during the Dark Ages which saw a flourishing of Northumbrian art and culture, which produced the Lindisfarne Gospels, and was populated by larger than life historical figures like Eric Bloodaxe and St Cuthbert. It's a complex poem, which is not in the least parochial, taking in the poets travels around the world and his wide learning, and it has much in common with the modernist poetry of Eliot's Waste Land and Pounds Cantos. Briggflatts popularity spearheaded a Sixties' north-eastern poetry renaissance, and yet in its homeland it's been criticised for not being written in an authentic regional voice. Rory examines the many contradictions in Bunting's life, the conscientious objector who later served in the RAF, the socialist who had fascist friends, and the principled public man who led an unexamined private life. But Rory leaves his journey with an acknowledgement of Bunting's exceptional poetic skill and the way in which his life weaves into the life of northern England with all its complexity and fierce rooted national pride.
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