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Left-Field Languages

Stuart celebrates music and poetry written in obscure languages with a selection of guests in front of a live audience at Contains Strong Language festival in Hull.

Stuart celebrates music and poetry written in obscure languages with a selection of guests in front of a live audience at the UK鈥檚 biggest poetry and performance festival, Contains Strong Language festival in Hull.

Featuring music with lyrics in minority (and some made-up) languages, Stuart also welcomes the writer and linguist Adham Smart to talk about Esperanto. Esperanto was created in 1887 by a Polish-Jewish doctor who believed that a new, easy to learn auxiliary language would enable global discussions to take place and help bring peace to the world.

British-Ghanian poet Victoria Adukwei Bulley talks about her project Mother Tongues where she invited British poets of colour to ask their mothers to translate a poem into their mother's native language. The resulting series of films showed the poets having a conversation about culture and language with the women who鈥檝e nurtured them before reading out a translation of their daughter鈥檚 poem.

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Sun 29 Sep 2019 20:00
大象传媒 Radio 6 Music

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Music Played

  • Magma

    Udu Wudu

    • Magma.
    • Utopia.

  • Oumou Sangar茅

    Diaraby Nene

    • The Wassoulou Sound - Women Of Mali.
    • Stern.

  • Traditional Bedouin Musicians

    Fi Solam Al Taeira (On the Aircraft Steps)

    • The Music of Islam Vol. 2: Music Of The South Sinai Bedouins.
    • Celestial Harmonies.

  • Juliano Hern谩ndez Angulo

    Tiel La Mondo Iras

  • The Garifuna Collective

    Ub贸u (The World)

    • 础测贸.
    • Stonetree Records.

  • Barrule

    Yn Ven-Ainshter Dewil (The Cruel Mistress)

    • Manannan's Cloak.
    • Easy On The Record.

  • Actores Alidos

    Ninnidu A Giogu

    • Songs of the Sardinian Women.
    • Finisterre.

  • Roseanne Watt

    Lullaby in Shetland Dialect (6 Music Session 29th Sept 2019)

  • Kalinga

    Rice Winnowing Song

    • Music From The Mountain Provinces.
    • The Numero Group.

  • Maranoa

    Lullaby

    • Music From The Mountain Provinces.
    • Numero Group.

  • Rufus Mufasa

    The King of Tango (6 Music Session, 29th Sept 2019)

  • Liricas Analas

    Dar il Maun

    • Banalitad.
    • Muve Recordings.

  • Tinariwen

    Takount

    • Amadjar.
    • ANTI-.

  • Alan Stivell

    Tri Martolod

    • Again.
    • Epic.

  • Zena Edwards

    Afro Blue (6 Music Session, 29th September 2019)

  • 惭谩诲诲箩颈

    I膽itguovssu (Dawn Light)

    • Dobbelis - Beyond.

  • Sigur R贸s

    Svefn-g-englar

    • 脕g忙tis byrjun.
    • Fat Cat Records.

Broadcast

  • Sun 29 Sep 2019 20:00
    大象传媒 Radio 6 Music