11/01/2015
Ian McMillan chooses his 大象传媒 Radio highlights.
On Pick of the Week this week we walk in circles with Will Self around the large Hadron Collider, trying to make sense of particle physics in a storm; poet Mike Garry becomes a spokesperson as the Tour de France speeds through Yorkshire and we remember another poet, the great Thom Gunn who transported himself from Gravesend to California and notated his journey for us all.
The comedian Bridget Christie talks yogurt and we meet The Ferryhill Philosophers who attempt to understand the great questions about death and love and sex and brass music. There's more brass too as Frank Renton celebrates two decades at the driving wheel of Listen to The Band.
Where there's self, there's brass; where there's philosophy there's yogurt.
The best of 大象传媒 Radio this week chosen by Ian McMillan.
Produced by Stephen Garner.
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"With McMillan, you feel a draught coming from the blast of fresh air blowing through the dusty cobwebs that festoon most literary programmes." Sue Arnold, The Observer Review.
Barnsley FC poet-in-residence and Beat Poet for Humberside Police, Ian McMillan says of his new series: "What I want for The Verb is that excitement you get when you go to somebody's house for the first time, you look at their bookshelves and think, 'I've never read that', 'I used to have that', 'I must read that' . It's the magic of discovery, the excitement of living language, stories, songs, the continuum of audience and writer and reader."Broadcast
- Sun 11 Jan 2015 18:15大象传媒 Radio 4