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Simon Armitage

Mark Radcliffe and Stuart Maconie are joined by poet and playwright Simon Armitage.

Mark and Stuart are here again! Shaking their collective tail feathers with some top Friday tunes and top guest, poet Simon Armitage. He's adapted Homer's The Odyssey for the stage, and this production reunites Simon with Associate Director of Liverpool Everyman & Playhouse Nick Bagnall after their recent collaborations on The Last Days of Troy and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Having recently been appointed Oxford Professor of Poetry, Simon Armitage has published nine volumes of poetry, most recently Walking Away, Seeing Stars, Tyrannosaurus Rex Versus the Corduroy Kid and The Not Dead. He has won numerous awards and prizes and been shortlisted for the Whitbread Poetry Prize and the T.S. Eliot Prize, and his 2012 non-fiction book Walking Home - an account of his troubadour journey along the Pennine Way - was a Sunday Times best-seller and was shortlisted for the 2012 Portico Prize.

AND you, yes YOU could get a chance to get your dulcet tones on the actual 6 Music airwaves in the never-ending Chain feature - and who will be first to guess the Teatime Themetime link today? Will it be Brian in Accounts or that one near the photocopier who never makes the tea? YOU DECIDE.

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Fri 25 Sep 2015 13:00
大象传媒 Radio 6 Music

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Music Played

  • Little Richard

    Lucille

    • 20 Greatest Hits.
    • Vee-Jay Records.

  • John Grant & Tracey Thorn

    Disappointing

    • Bella Union.

  • The Damned

    Smash It Up

    • BIG BEAT.

  • Future Islands

    Seasons (Waiting On You)

    • 4AD.

  • Paul Weller

    I'm Where I Should Be

    • Parlophone Music.

  • Ash

    Machinery

  • Young MC

    Bust A Move

    • My Name Is Earl O.S.T. (Various Artists).
    • Shout Factory.
    • 5.

  • Odyssey

    Going Back To My Roots

    • 10 Star Soul #2/10 Soul Stars #2.
    • Stardust.
    • 5.

  • Low

    What Part Of Me

    • Sub Pop Records.

  • Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers

    Egyptian Reggae

  • Mercury Rev

    Are You Ready?

    • Bella Union Records.

  • PJ Harvey

    Let England Shake

    • Island.

  • Terry Jacks

    Seasons In The Sun

    • Million Sellers Vol.16 - The Seventie.
    • Disky.

  • Albert Hammond, Jr.

    Losing Touch

    • Infectious Records.

  • Floating Points

    Silhouettes

    • (single).
    • Pluto.
    • 1.

  • The Bangles

    Going Down To Liverpool

    • CBS.

  • Beirut

    Gibraltar

    • 4AD.

  • Gwenno

    Patriarchaeth

    • Heavenly Recordings.

  • Dick Dale

    Misirlou

    • MCA.

  • Nick Cave & Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds

    Red Right Hand

    • Mute.

  • Kurt Vile

    Pretty Pimpin

    • Matador Records.

  • New Order

    Singularity

    • Mute Records.

  • The Coral

    Put The Sun Back

    • (CD Single).
    • Deltasonic.

  • Wilco

    Random Name Generator

    • ANTI - Records.

  • The Primitives

    Crash

  • The Beloved

    Hello

  • Drenge

    The Woods

    • Infectious.

  • David Bowie

    Young Americans

  • Propaganda

    Duel

    • ZTT.

Broadcast

  • Fri 25 Sep 2015 13:00
    大象传媒 Radio 6 Music