Liz Lochhead, Gareth Malone, Sebastian Barry and Tuesday Review
Liz Lochhead reads new poetry inspired by lock down, Gareth Malone discusses The Great British Home Chorus and Sebastian Barry chats about his new book A Thousand Moons.
Niall Murphy赂 architect and chair of the Glagow City Heritage Trust, has been showing off some local urban #MomentsofBeauty on his Twitter feed, and author Louise Welsh has been exploring the hidden lanes of the city 鈥� they share their ideas for things to look out for on urban lock down walks.
Damien Love talks about his new children鈥檚 book Monstrous Devices, about killer robots, and inspired by the stories he loved as a child in Wishaw.
Liz Lochhead was on the show three weeks鈥� ago and she mentioned a poem she had started writing inspired by the lock down. She鈥檚 now finished it, and will read The Spaces in Between on air for Janice.
Sebastian Barry discusses his new novel A Thousand Moons.
Gareth Malone talks about his choir of thousands The Great British Home Chorus, which would-be singers around the country can join thanks to online rehearsals and digital technology.
And in Tuesday Review our critics Bronwen Livingstone, Andrew Meehan and Amy Taylor give their verdict on Sally Rooney鈥檚 own adaptation for the 大象传媒 of her bestselling novel Normal People, Frankenstein from National Theatre at Home and Apple TV鈥檚 first UK commission, Trying which is a comedy starring Imelda Staunton, Rafe Spall and Esther Smith, about a couple trying to start a family.
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Nancy Sinatra
These Boots Are Made for Walkin'
- The Greatest Hits Of Nancy Sinatra.
- Boulevard.
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The Proclaimers
King of the Road
- The Best Of.
- CHRYSALIS.
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Fleetwood Mac
Everywhere
- The Very Best Of Fleetwood Mac.
- Warner Strategic Marketi.
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Donna Summer
Hot Stuff
- The All Time Greatest Movie Songs.
- Columbia/Sony Tv.
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Sheena Easton
Morning Train (Nine to Five)
- Sheena Easton.
- EMI鈥怌apitol Music Special Markets.
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The La鈥檚
There She Goes
- Crash! Indie Anthems 1982 - 2004.
- BMG / Telstar.
- 20.
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Sister Sledge
We Are Family
- Disco Fever (Various Artists).
- Global Television.
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George Ezra
Shotgun
- Staying at Tamara鈥檚.
- Columbia.
- 004.
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Strawberry Switchblade
Since Yesterday
- Strawberry Switchblade.
- Korova.
- 1.
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Maroon 5
Moves Like Jagger (feat. Christina Aguilera)
- (CD Single).
- A&M.
- 1.
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Martha and the Muffins
Echo Beach
- The Oldies - Steve Wright In The Afternoon.
- Universal.
- 5.
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The Fratellis
Chelsea Dagger
- Now 65 (Various Artists).
- Now.
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Dead or Alive
You Spin Me Round (Like A Record)
- Wave Party (Various Artists).
- Columbia.
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Patsy Cline
Walkin' After Midnight
- Patsy Cline - Walking After Midnight.
- Classic Country.
The Spaces Between - a lockdown poem by Liz Lochhead
The Spaces Between
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The boy is ten and today it is his birthday.
Behind him on the lawn
his mother and his little sister
unfurl a rainbow crayoned big and bright
on a roll of old wallpaper.
His father, big-eyed, mock-solemn, pantomimes ceremony
as he lights the ten candles on the cake.
Inside her living-room
his grandmother puts her open palm to the window.
Out in the garden, her grandson
reaches up, mirrors her, stretching fingers
and they smile and smile as if they touched
warm flesh not cold glass.
听
More than forty thousand years ago
men or women splayed their fingers thus
and put their hands to bare rock, they
chewed ochre, red-ochre, gritted charcoal and blew,
blew with projectile effort that really took it out of them,
their living breath. Raw gouts of pigment
spattered the living stencil
that was each鈥檚 own living hand
and made their mark.
The space of absence
was the clean, stark picture of their presence
and it pleased them.
We do not know why they did it
and maybe they did not either but
they knew they must.
It was the cold cave wall
and they knew they were up against it.
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The birthday boy is juggling.
He has been spending time in the lockdown learning
but though he still can鈥檛 keep it up for long
his grandmother dumb-shows most extravagant applause.
She toasts them all in tea
from her Best Granny in the World mug, winking
and licking her lips ecstatically as they cut the cake,
miming hunger, miming prayer
for her hunger to be sated.
The slim girl dances and her grandmother claps
and claps again, blinking tears.
Another matched high-five at her window. 听
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Neither the blown candles or the blown kisses
will leave any permanent mark
听鈥� unless love does? --
on them on this the only afternoon
they will be all alive together on just this day the boy is ten. 听听听
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Broadcast
- Tue 28 Apr 2020 13:30大象传媒 Radio Scotland