Podcast appearances and mentions of Luke Jerram

Now for a round-up of accessible arts events as RNIB Connect Radio's Toby Davey catches up with Jess Beal from VocalEyes, the national audio description charity providing access to the arts for blind and partially sighted people to share some of the accessible events that are featured in their regular email newsletter. Audio described shows and events included: Mrs Warren's Profession - Saturday 19 July, 2.30pm, touch tour 1.15pm, Garrick Theatre, London Milton Keynes International Festival - AD guided tour: Luke Jerram's Mars and Michael Pendry's Les Colombes - Tuesday 22 July, 10.30am, Church of Christ the Cornerstone, Milton Keynes Transe Express: DNA Vertical Odyssey - Saturday 26 July, 9.45pm, touch tour 8.45pm, Secklow Gate, D3 Car Park, Milton Keynes Fawlty Towers: The Play - Thursday 24 July, 7.30pm, Marlowe Theatre, Canterbury  The Merry Wives of Windsor - Friday 25 July, 2pm, touch tour 12noon, Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, London Naughts and Crosses - Saturday 26 July, 2.15pm, touch tour 12.30pm, Regent's Park Open Air Theatre, London To find out more about these and other up-coming described arts events as well as details on how to sign up to the regular VocalEyes What's On email newsletter do visit - https://vocaleyes.co.uk (Image shows the VocalEyes logo. A speech bubble with 'VOCALEYES' written in bold black letters next to it)

In this episode Director of Astronomy Dan Pye, and Ian Brannan head to Seaton Delaval Hall in Northumberland, to get up close to The Sun! HELIOS is the latest creation of artist Luke Jerram, whose previous works of the Moon & Earth you may have previously seen in the North East. Luke chats to us about his latest project, and how the idea came about in the first place! Plus with the upcoming partial Solar Eclipse we have advice on how to see it safely, as well as a look ahead to what to expect in the night sky in the coming few weeks heading into spring! Helios is at Seaton Delaval Hall until April 6th, and will be touring the UK with the National Trust. More details can be found HERESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

H enjoys the first part of a walk around the Nancy Corkish exhibition at the Loom Gallery, hears from a Manx calligrapher writing herself into the headlines and hears from the man of the Moon Museum, Luke Jerram

Jason Singh is a sound artist, producer and performer. His creative output is an exploration of the natural world, voice and a wide range of music technologies. Works include live performance, immersive installations, studio recordings, broadcasts and sound walks. In this show he talks about how he makes music using the MIDI Sprout interface, a device that senses the electrical voltage of plants and converts it into MIDI information. He then uses the notes to control Ableton to produce the sounds he used in his recordings and immersive installations.Chapters00:00 - Introduction01:48 - Getting Started in Audio06:17 - Collaborating With Other Creatives09:46 - Studio Toys12:48 - Custom Built Instruments And Interfaces14:08 - Live Performances19:41 - Collaborating With Nature Using Biofeedback25:07 - Using The MIDI Sprout and PlantWave29:47 - Experiencing Nature Sounds In Real-Time31:44 - Creating An Immersive Installation For Womad40:54 - Opening Your Ears To Everyday SoundsAudio Credits:Afternoon - a commission by National Trust to create an entirely vocal piece which mimics the sounds of a woodland area in Tatton Park in Cheshire.Passing Light - an Ambient Jazz piece featuring trumpet player Yazz Ahmed.Rhubarb  - is a biosonfication track from the latest release "The Hidden Music of Plants and Trees", created in collaboration with a Rhubarb plant.MIDI Sprout - https://www.midisprout.com/PlantWave - https://plantwave.com/en-gbJason Singh BiogJason Singh is sound artist, nature beatboxer, producer, dj, curator, facilitator and performer. Jason's life and work is rooted in listening - he follows a multi-sensory and cross-species approach to sound and music. His creative output is an exploration of the natural world, voice and a wide range of music technologies. Works includes live performance, immersive installations, studio recordings, music for film and theatre, deep listening and well being experiences, sound walks, broadcasts, music workshops, podcasts, soundtapes and immersive DJ sets. Collaborations and commissions include a diverse range of organisations and artists including BBC, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, V&A Museum, Earthshot Prize, WOMAD, Kew Gardens, Chester Zoo, SONOS, Luke Jerram, BFI, Celtic Connections, RNLI, National Trust, Tate Britain, Nitin Sawhney, George Ezra, Big Narstie, Yazz Ahmed, Shabaka Hutchings, Sebastian Rochford, Leafcutter John, Graham Massey (808 State), Natacha Atlas, Sarathy Korwar, Talvin Singh and Rokia Traore to name just a few. Jason is an associate Soundscape artist with D&B audiotechnik.https://jasonsinghthing.com/Credits:Afternoon - was a commission by National Trust to create an entirely vocal piece which mimics the sounds of a woodland area in Tatton Park in Cheshire, England. Passing Light - Ambient Jazz piece featuring trumpet player Yazz Ahmed Rhubarb  - is a biosonfication track from the release "The Hidden Music of Plants and Trees" created in collaboration with a Rhubarb plant.Caro C BiogCaro C is an artist, engineer and teacher specialising in electronic music. Her self-produced fourth album 'Electric Mountain' is out now. Described as a "one-woman electronic avalanche" (BBC), Caro started making music thanks to being laid up whilst living in a double decker bus and listening to the likes of Warp Records in the late 1990's. This 'sonic enchantress' (BBC Radio 3) has now played in most of the cultural hotspots of her current hometown of Manchester, UK. Caro is also the instigator and project manager of electronic music charity Delia Derbyshire Day.URL: http://carocsound.com/Twitter: @carocsoundInst: @carocsoundFB: https://www.facebook.com/carocsound/

Fiona McArdle is our host as we hear about Manx Wildlife Week (27th April - 4th May), which brings together Manx National Heritage, the Manx Wildlife Trust and UNESCO Biosphere Isle of Man and many of the volunteer groups they each support. The programme can be found at this website - https://manxnationalheritage.im/whats-on/ We hear an overview from: Lauren McCoy, curator of natural history at MNH; Lucy Chapman of the Manx Wildlife Trust; and Jo Overty of UNESCO Biosphere Isle of Man. We then join MWT's Community Ranger, Hannah Phillips, who tells us about something of the things the Trust is involved in during the week. We also hear about the Luke Jerram installation, Gaia, in St Thomas's Church in Douglas from Aly Lewin of Net Zero Isle of Man of which the website can be found at - https://www.netzero.im/

On the programme today, Salvation Army Corps Officers Captains Dylan and Rachael Nieuwoudt are looking forward to the Official Opening of their magnificent new Church and Community Centre in Douglas - and to welcoming General Lyndon Buckingham to perform the ceremony - the first visit of a Salvation Army world-wide leader to the Isle of Man since the mid-1930's We go deeper into the earth art installation GAIA in conversation with Justin McMullin of Manx company ELS who has worked in partnership with Ben Osborne, representing the artist Luke Jerram, to put GAIA in place in St Thomas's Church in Douglas. And we pop into The Archive Room for some fascinating stories about the history of St Thomas's church - and some comments that are as fresh and relevant today as they were when first made, 40 years ago! Tickets and details of all special events in St Thomas's church during the time GAIA is there, can be found at sponsor Net Zero's website - netzero.im

Spaudos apžvalga.Ernesto Parulskio komentaras „Džiazuojanti regionų mažuma“.Visą mėnesį Kaune rodoma britų menininko Luke Jerram instaliacija „Gaia“. Autorius sako, kad ja siekia padėti suvokti mūsų planetos trapumą.Pristatomi svarbiausi LRT KLASIKOS savaitės koncertai.Lietuvos startuolio globali kelionių platforma „Legego“ savo startą pažymėjo prestižiniame renginyje Paryžiuje.Tęsiame pažintį su Lietuvos metų knygos rinkimuose dalyvaujančiomis knygomis. Simono Bernoto poezijos rinktinė „Pasakų parkas“, kurią išleido Lietuvos rašytojų sąjungos leidykla, pretenduoja tapti geriausia poezijos kategorijoje.Rašytoja Giedrė Mičiūnienė – už visuomeniškai aktualią publicistiką, ugdančią tautiškumą ir dvasines vertybes šiemet buvo apdovanota Gabrielės Petkevičaitės-Bitės medaliu „Tarnaukite Lietuvai“.SODAS 2123 ir kultūros erdvė Entity pristato jaunosios kartos menininkų parodą apie instinktą kurti. Kaip jaunieji menininkai siekia įsitvirtinti rinkoje?Ved. Justė Luščinskytė

* Poetry contains topics not suitable for all * The latest Spoken Label Session (Spoken Word / Poetry Podcast) features Amy B Garratt. Amy advises she is "I'm the creator/co-host of a spoken word group ‘Rabbiting On' based in The Rabbit Hole Bookshop in Brigg North Lincolnshire. I collaborated with the bookshop to run/compere the spoken word stage at ‘No Limits Festival' at Normanby Hall in September 2022/2023. My poetry was included in ‘Of Earth And Sky' 2021 installation by Luke Jerram which won an award (Hearts for the Arts) for ‘Best Arts Project'. I have also performed at The Festival Of Love in 2022/2023 at D31 Gallery Doncaster, Scunny Pride Festival August 2023, and The Truth To Power Cafe at Cast Theatre with Jeremy Goldstein/London Arts Project. I have had poems published in Dreich Magazine, HNDL, Written Off Publishing ‘Ey Up Again' Anthology (formerly BentKey), and my own indie publication through Partnership Publishing ‘Sunlight Stripping Shadows Bare' in 2021. A book of modern poetry, micro poems and prose." Amy's book can be found on Amazon.

In the third episode of this six-part Working Scientist podcast series about art and science, artists and illustrators describe examples where accuracy is key, but also ones where they can exert some artistic licence in science-based drawings, sculptures, music and installations.For Lucy Smith, a botanical artist at London's Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, measurement and accuracy is important, she says.But accuracy can sometimes take a back seat for illustrator Glendon Mellow, who is also a senior marketing manager a life sciences learning and development company Red Nucleus, based in Toronto, Canada.“When I put wings on trilobites, I'm not too concerned. It's not likely that anything I do is going to suddenly nudge opinions into someplace they shouldn't go on these fossils,” he says.But what if the science changes? You need 10 to 20 years to be able to look back on data to see whether something's accurate or not, says artist Luke Jerram, who describes a 2004 project to produce a glass models of the hepatitis C virus. ”You ask the scientists if it actually look like that?” And they say, 'Well, we don't really know.'”Sculptor and ceramicist Nadav Drukker outlines the challenges of capturing string theory in art, plus other concepts that form the basis of his theoretical physics research at King's College London.Kelly Krause, creative director at Springer Nature, explains how the art displayed on a Nature front cover comes about, and how she and her team aim to strike the right balance between accuracy, creativity and clarity to draw readers in. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In the first episode of this six-part Working Scientist podcast series, Julie Gould explores the history of science and art and asks researchers and artists to define what the two terms mean to them.Like science, art is a way of asking questions about the world, says Jessica Bradford, head of collections and principal curator at the Science Museum in London. But unlike art, science about interrogating the world in a way that is hopefully repeatable, adds UK-based artist Luke Jerram, who creates sculptures, installations and live artworks around the world.Ljiljana Fruk, a bionanotechnology researcher at the University of Cambridge, UK, says artists can be more playful and work faster, whereas scientists need to repeatedly back up their work by data, a more time-consuming exercise. They are joined by Arthur I. Miller, a physicist who launched the UK's first undergraduate degree in history and philosophy of science in 1993, and Nadav Drukker, a ceramic artist and theoretical physicist at King's College London.Future episodes in this series will focus on how scientists collaborate with artists and why their partnerships are so important. It will also feature researchers who, like Drukker, juggle research careers alongside creating art. Each episode concludes with a follow-up sponsored slot from the International Science Council (ISC). The ISC is seeking perspectives from science fiction authors on how science can meet societal challenges, ranging from climate change and food security to the disruption caused by artificial intelligence. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A conversation with U.K artist Luke Jerram about an illuminated globe installed for Earth Day weekend in Key Biscayne. Measuring nearly 23 feet in diameter, this installation is a scale replica of Earth, created using detailed NASA imagery of the planet's surface.Support the showSubscribe to the Key Biscayne Independent today

It is fifty years since the last manned-flight to the moon. While the Apollo missions have long been superseded by explorations further afield, the science journalist Oliver Morton insists the moon landings remain strong in our cultural imagination. In his 2019 book, The Moon, he explained how a spherical piece of rock had captured the world's attention, but then been largely ignored. He tells Tom Sutcliffe how scientists and politicians are now once again turning their focus to our nearest neighbour. Throughout history the moon has inspired artists, poets, scientists, writers and musicians the world over. The artist Luke Jerram has created an extraordinary replica of the Moon measuring seven metres in diameter, fusing NASA imagery of the lunar surface, moonlight, and sound composition. The Museum of the Moon has been exhibited hundreds of times – both indoors and outdoors – across the world, and Jerram explains how each installation has stimulated different events. While NASA's Artemis mission explores sending astronauts back to the Moon as a stepping stone to human exploration to Mars, and celebrity billionaires sell visions of private space travel, Mary-Jane Rubenstein sounds a warning. In Astrotopia: The Dangerous Religion of the Corporate Space Race she sees comparisons with the destructive effects of the centuries-long history of European colonialism. As problems multiply on Earth she dismisses the offer by wealthy messiahs of an other-worldly salvation for a chosen few. Producer: Katy Hickman Image: Museum of the Moon by Luke Jerram, Cork Midsummer Festival, UK, 2017

Luke Clancy tours the visual art program at Galway International Arts Festival, taking in work by John Gerard, Luke Jerram, Ana Maria Pacheco and Annex.

"As in ymposant plafond draait wrâldbol Gaia rûn boppe de hollen fan de sprekkers. Sprekkers út polityk, wittenskip en keunst, dy 't ûnder it keunstwurk fan Luke Jerram yn 'e mande mei skoalbern it wittenskipsfestival Expeditie Next, en dêrmei Arcadia, iepenen yn Frjentsjer. Elkenien wie der even stil fan. Dat der wat geande is en de kommende tiid geande wêze sil, kin gjinien ûntgien wêze. Himel en ierde wurde ferweegd om alderhanne kulturele eveneminten mooglik te meitsjen, en dêrmei omtinken te freegjen foar ús takomst. It bringt sels beammen yn beweging, dy 't as in griene slinger troch de stêd trochjûn wurdt en minsken oars nei harren stêd sjen litte."

A public forum at Melbourne's St Paul's Cathedral entitled "Fighting a Climate Emergency" was held under a huge three dimensional (it is seven metres across) artwork of Gaia created by British artist, Luke Jerram. Ever worsening warnings of trouble for the Shepparton-based Nicholls electorate has reached a new level with the Climate Council declaring the Federal Seat to be the worst in Australia with regard to riverine flooding, adding that even under the least worse scenario, many homes in Shepparton will be uninsurable by 2030. Murray Silby's story in today's Shepparton News - "Report claims 90 per cent of Shepparton homes uninsurable by 2030" - makes for unsettling reading. Other Quick Climate Links for today are: "Luke Jerram -  multidisciplinary arts practise"; "Why Barnaby Joyce's 'gift' to farmers of a $5.4bn dam could create the 'most expensive water' in Australia"; "Startup tests technology to recover minerals from mine waste and recycled batteries"; "Beyond “Net-Zero”: A Case for Separate Targets for Emissions Reduction and Negative Emissions"; "How the oil and gas industry is trying to hold US public schools hostage"; "Climate Risk Map of Australia"; "‘Older people destroying our future': Geelong gas terminal plan sparks strong opposition"; "Removing bike lanes is not just a bad idea, it's economic vandalism"; "Global disasters are coming harder and faster. Here's how we can cut the risks"; "As drought worsens, can Kenyan communities coexist with native wildlife?"; "Great Barrier Reef coral bleaching report delayed until after election"; "Farmers' lobby criticises major parties' ‘radio silence' on climate policy"; "Boiled alive: how India's record heatwaves test the limits of survival"; "‘We risk wasting billions': Australia Institute report seeks urgent review of Emissions Reduction Fund"; "Election 2022: Young people launch new tongue-in-cheek Save the Planet Party for under-18s"; "Charity boss: Governments should be ‘horsewhipped' over energy policy"; "NSW government rules out coal exploration licences for two major regions"; "Mining towns now accept the need for energy transition, new report says"; "Australia's next government must tackle our collapsing ecosystems and extinction crisis": "65,000 years of food scraps found at Kakadu tell a story of resilience amid changing climate, sea levels and vegetation"; "Seaweed farm proposal for Eden aims for Australian-first commercial kelp crop"; "750 mining jobs potentially at stake as Eraring closure approaches"; "Japan Says It Needs Nuclear Power. Can Host Towns Ever Trust It Again?"; "Top Sea Polluters Beg for Climate Rules That No Rival Can Avoid"; "Microbe-based faux beef could save forests, slash CO2"; "Combining crops and solar panels is allowing Kenya to ‘harvest the sun twice'"; "Nowhere Is Ready for This Heat"; "The Rise of Greenflation"; "Western Drought 2020-2022"; "What Regions Need on the Path to Net Zero". Enjoy "Music for a Warming World". Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/climateconversations

In WAFDust podcast #22 we chat with multi-disciplinary artist Luke Jerram, about "New Beginnings", the latest addition to our  exhibition at Ashton Court in Bristol. New Beginnings is the first in a series of coin sculptures to be made by Luke which are animated and completed by members of the public. Some sculptures will be temporary, whilst others, will be permanent, creating a slowly changing landmark in the landscape, a destination and focus for public discussion.The giant wooden seed sculpture is proving to be very popular, as members of the public are invited to make a wish, as they hammer coins into the piece.

If you enjoy this podcast, consider buying me a coffee: https://adamstoner.com/support I left this space 2,572 ago on my 26th birthday, exhausted and anxious. Living online for the past fifteen months had worn me out in a way interacting in person never did and whilst working, writing, podcasting, and publishing fulfilled a desire to be heard, it came at a cost of being seen. More people saw, read, and listened to things I had made in those fifteen months than Belgium, Barbados, Bermuda and Bahrain have people, combined. Previously taught that your value as a creative is not in what you make but in what you market, I took time over the past few months to take a different tact: doing what I want. I'm now back – and better (more on that later) – and several months have passed since we last spoke, so I suppose it's time for a bit of a catch-up… In June, I got a synth – the Arturia MicroFreak – paid a visit to independent music store Soundhouse in Gloucester to pick up a Zoom U22, made something resembling music, and put it on your favourite streaming service. I had never done that before – it's surprisingly easy. Too easy, you might say. Some of the more pleasant noise I've been making these past few months comes in the form of programmes. With Ciaran and Dan at TWJ's Science+Nature magazine and Chris at Devaweb, we've been making Mysteries of Science and answering some of the biggest questions in our universe. Are aliens real? What is Deja vu? Is there a curse on King Tut's tomb? And how does the placebo effect work? It's intended for kids aged 8 to 11 but is a billiant listen whatever your age. There's also Activity Quest which I make at Fun Kids and have given some real TLC to this summer. My favourite episodes include Dan Simpson's visit to Tower Bridge, my go at an at-home escape room experience known as Mini Mysteries, and a conversation I had about extreme-exposure analogue photography and astronomy with Sam from Solarcan. In fact, analogue film photography is something I've gotten back into over the summer. I've been shooting on cameras ranging from a 1960s point-and-shoot to a mid-2000s SLR on films Kodak Portra and Ektar, and Ilford HP5 Plus and PanF 50. Almost all of the photos in this update were shot on film then scanned for storage; newly-founded Take It Easy Lab in Leeds has been handling that whole process for me. I've rediscovered that having a mindful and respectful tactile relationship with things you create makes the experience more meaningful. To inspire the range of things I've been doing this summer, I was gifted beautiful coffee-table books including Paul Smith and Tom Ford's self-titled retrospectives, Vivienne Westwood's Catwalk and a book containing a load of Andy Warhol polaroids. I've also been listening to In Praise of Shadows and Revelation as well as Rework, Remote, and It Doesn't Have to be Crazy at Work by Basecamp founders Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson. All of these pastimes – whether it's photography or podcasting, art or Audible – have something in common: They're all time-intense, creative outlets that present a slow-burn of gratification… In amongst ten tonnes of hardcore and hidden beneath the concrete foundations of a log cabin, I placed a time capsule this summer. It'll be found long after you and I – 80 to 100 years in the future – when the concrete begins to deteriorate. Preparing a stash of items to be intentionally found after your death makes you address mortality in a very intimate and profound way. Compiling my own time capsule – a message-in-a-bottle, launched into the ocean of potential futures – affected me in only positive ways. It reminded me of a scene in the 2020 documentary Life in a Day where one man jumps into a lake, then speaking to camera, says: What I fear the most is that my life will pass unnoticed, that my name won't matter in the history of the world. Also containing its own time capsule, September 5th 2021 marks the 44th anniversary of the Voyager 1 launch. The Voyager Golden Record is a scrapbook of sounds and pictures from the planet, destined forever to float in interstellar space (or be intercepted by intelligent life). It's the furthest object from home that humankind has ever created; a record of our fleeting evolutionary fluke. It is a statement. We exist. Whatever happens to it in space, whatever its unknown destiny is, I think it represents a high water mark of our civilisation when we dreamed the biggest dreams. And I hope it will serve as an example, an inspiration for people to keep dreaming. Those are the words of Jon Lomberg, the artist who created the symbols on the Voyager's Golden Record cover which detail exactly how it is to be played, where in the universe it came from, and how to decode the images on it. The most important goal of any space mission is not to discover what's ‘out there' but is instead an effort to understand ourselves a little bit better… How did we get here? What is our position within the universe? Are we alone? Speaking to artist Luke Jerram for Activity Quest and learning of something called the Overview Effect, to discovering humankind's other strides to communicate our existence on this tiny pearl transformed all of the anxiety and exhaustion I had in May – the thought of over 14 million people consuming things I had made, a population double the size of London – into something entirely different: affirming. The point isn't being heard or seen. It is to make for the sake of making and in doing so perhaps understand ourselves a little bit better; a statement I knew 2,572 hours ago but that took 2,572 hours of practice to rediscover. I'm now back – and better (thanks for waiting) – and in the several months that have passed since we last spoke, two billionaires touched the edge of space, Wimbledon, the Euros, and the Olympics all came and went, and almost one million more people laid eyes or ears on my work. I won't leave it 2,572 hours next time, just 620 or so. You'll next hear from me on October 1st, 2021.

This week's episode of Activity Quest is out-of-this world. We're looking at astronomy and photography and how you can see the Earth from the stars... kind of. That, plus events from across the country and a summer challenge set by Cressida Cowell. Remember, whatever you do and however you do it, tell us at FunKidsLive.com/ActivityQuest – and remember to rate, review and follow this podcast wherever you're listening to it. If you know of or own a venue that you think would be perfect for Activity Quest, email activityquest@funkidslive.com See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Episode 14 of the Bristol24/7 Behind the Headlines podcast sees Luke Jerram talk to Robin Connolly about his inflatable sculpture of the moon now on display at Bristol Cathedral, Natalie Fey from the SS Great Britain tells Ian Downs about the new Iron Island exhibition, and Martin Booth meets Getting Up To Stuff, the artist behind a number of mysterious artworks that have appeared across Bristol.

Film critic Jason Solomons brings a touch of glamour to tonight's proceedings with his report from this year's Cannes Film festival which opened this week. Tove Jansson was the Finnish creator of the Moomins, stories much loved by children (and adults) the world over. A new film, Tove, tells the story of her extraordinary life in post-war Helsinki, the ambivalence she felt towards the success of the Moomins, and how her ideas about freedom were challenged when she fell in love with theatre director Vivica Bandler. The film's director, Zaida Bergroth, talks about the choices she made in telling the story of this iconic author and artist. Welsh culture that is ancient, and modern: Catrin Finch, commissioned by the Llangollen Eisteddfod, plays the harp and is working with a choir - but not just male voices, a choir of singing refugees and asylum seekers. A beat boxer is involved, too. Meanwhile the artist Luke Jerram has turned to another Welsh tradition, throwing a huge, beautiful patchwork quilt over the town bridge. Presenter: John Wilson Producer: Harry Parker

In our latest podcast episode, Luke Jerram talks about the ideas behind some of his spectacular and highly popular installations, sculptures and live events that have been shown around the world. These include Park and Slide, originally installed as a playful work in his native Bristol, Play Me I’m Yours in which his team installed... Continue Reading →

Screenwriter and novelist Ben Hopkins talks to Tom about his ambitious new novel, Cathedral. It's a portrait of the construction of the medieval period's greatest buildings, featuring a cast of intriguing characters all vying for power - from the bishop to his treasurer to local merchants and lowly stone cutters. Faith, Hope and Glory is a new drama series on Radio 4 which sees British playwrights Roy Williams, Rex Obano, and Winsome Pinnock chart the history of postwar Britain through the intersecting lives of three women. Starting in 1946, a week of 15 minute dramas which set the scene: Hope and Jim’s baby, entrusted to Eunice to take home to Antigua, is lost at Tilbury Docks, and found by Gloria and Clement, a celibate couple, who decide to keep her and call her Joy. The series continues with three 45 minute plays. Winsome Pinnock and Rex Obano join Tom to discuss the series. Luke Jerram is the next artist to feature in #FrontRowGetCreative, where artists encourage you to try your hand at a piece of art. Today, he focuses on sound, which has been an important component to much of his work, from installing 2000 pianos in public spaces in 65 cities around the world to etching the sound of his own voice on the engagement ring for his wife (which actually plays!). Presenter: Tom Sutcliffe Producer: Hilary Dunn

In April the artist Luke Jerram spoke on Front Row about his sculpture of the Covid-19 virus. Since then he has been ill with Covid and has created another sculpture - unveiled today - this time of the AstraZeneca vaccine. Jerram discusses his artistic engagement with Covid, including his piece In Memoriam, 120 flags made of NHS bed-sheets, commemorating those who have died. The Oscar-winning actor Christopher Plummer, whose death at the age of 91 was announced today, is remembered by the film critic Larushka Ivan-Zadeh. For our Friday Review, Larushka is joined by Carl Anka to discuss Malcolm & Marie, the black-and-white, made-in-lockdown relationship movie on Netflix starring Zendaya and John David Washington, written and directed by Sam Levinson. They also watch ZeroZeroZero, a new thriller on Sky unpicking the international cocaine trade based on the book by Roberto Saviano. Arts Foundation Futures Award winner Keisha Thompson discusses her past work as a theatre-maker and poet. She talks about how she uses her background in science and maths to inform her theatre practice, and why she is fascinated by taboo subjects in art. And to celebrate Welsh Language Music Day, the 19-year-old Welsh singer, composer and harpist Cerys Hafana joins us to explain how music and the Welsh language go hand-in-hand. Presenter: Kirsty Lang Producer: Jerome Weatherald Studio Manager: Giles Aspen

If you enjoy this podcast, consider buying me a coffee: https://adamstoner.com/support On October 18th, along with 14,000 other people in a sold-out exhibition that lasted just two weeks, I saw Gaia, a seven meter wide re-creation of the Earth by UK artist Luke Jerram at Gloucester Cathedral. The piece explores the ‘Overview Effect' that many astronaughts report after seeing Earth from a distance; isolated, alone, and floating in nothing but darkness. Gaia is accompanied by a soundtrack which features Sir David Attenborough and succeeds in making you feel incredibly small and fragile. We're used to having maps in the palm of our hand, not towering over us. Listen to the podcast version of this newsletter to hear Luke talk about his artwork and hear an excerpt of the soundtrack. Attenborough's lines in the Gaia soundtrack come from the new Netflix documentary-cum-autobiography A Life On Our Planet. It's a watch that will have your jaw (and at points, all hope for our future survival) on the floor. I'm no Attenborough but I have been trying to get out before the weather gets in my way. My girlfriend and I went geocaching, the hobby that involves using multi-million dollar satellites to find plastic containers hidden by others in the real-world. It's the first time I've done it properly since 2016 and I've become a little addicted to it; I'm now on 33 finds, 17 this month. We've been along the ridgeway and even explored the Forest of Dean's sculpture trail in quest of them. Listen to the podcast version of this newsletter to hear Chris from Geocaching HQ in Seattle describe the hobby. My adventures that I mentioned at the opener of the last email have now featured in Activity Quest, the podcast I produce at Fun Kids. Climbing is good fun – an extreme sport, I learned – and something I plan on taking up. Listen to the podcast version of this newsletter to hear me go climbing at The Warehouse in Gloucester where I chat with route-setter Josh and Director of The Warehouse, Andrew. I wrote about how I keep my audio journal on the 19th. It's something I've been doing more-or-less daily for five years now and includes tips on how you can keep your own. It's something I've found incredibly rewarding over the years and probably one of the best things I've ever done. As with all posts on my website, it comes with – you guessed it – a podcast equivelent where you can hear excepts from that diary. Elsewhere, Mollie's, run by the team at Soho House, sits between Oxford and Swindon on the A420. It's a modern diner and motel, complete with a drive-thru (if you haven't booked in advance). A meal for two cost less than the Five Guys equivalent and was twice as delicious. Milkshakes are mandatory if ever you visit… In an effort to consume less rolling news coverage – which is almost always inaccurate and of poor quality, especially if you're getting it from social media – I've been using Guardian Editions. You get the daily newspaper delivered digitally when you wake-up and, importantly, get no further updates until the following day. I've found it very useful especially with the dyad of a US election and global pandemic. Speaking of the US election, I took out an Amazon Prime Video trial to watch Sacha Baron-Cohen's Borat follow-up, Subsequent Moviefilm, which focuses entirelty on the President, the election, and COVID–19. Like the first, it is crass and vulgar but lands every punch with some real laugh-out-loud moments. I've also been watching 60 Days In, a reality TV format that sees ordinary folk go undercover in a US jail to help wardens improve the facility, as well as Emily in Paris which is Ugly Betty, if Betty worked for a luxury Parisian marketing firm. I like Netflix's new AI-powered shuffle, their Play Something feature. Let me know what you're watching by replying to this email. If you have any suggestions for anything else you think I might enjoy, let me know those also. Alright, that's all for now. Over the coming month, I plan to write about the brands I expect to buy from this holiday season, share some tips and tricks I've learned whilst producing podcasts that could help you elevate your own audio production, and share something else that I've been writing and researching for almost a year. adamstoner.com is the place to keep checking back for those. See you soon.

Brook Andrew's passions have never been contained to the artist's studio, from his interest in the anonymous sitters of early ethnographic photographs and memorials to the lives lost in Australia's frontier wars, to the repatriation of Aboriginal remains. Brook speaks to guest host Rosa Ellen about what drives him and what he set out to do as the first Indigenous artistic director of the Biennale of Sydney, which he renamed NIRIN.

Brook Andrew's passions have never been contained to the artist's studio, from his interest in the anonymous sitters of early ethnographic photographs and memorials to the lives lost in Australia's frontier wars, to the repatriation of Aboriginal remains. Brook speaks to guest host Rosa Ellen about what drives him and what he set out to do as the first Indigenous artistic director of the Biennale of Sydney, which he renamed NIRIN.

Brook Andrew's passions have never been contained to the artist's studio, from his interest in the anonymous sitters of early ethnographic photographs and memorials to the lives lost in Australia's frontier wars, to the repatriation of Aboriginal remains. Brook speaks to guest host Rosa Ellen about what drives him and what he set out to do as the first Indigenous artistic director of the Biennale of Sydney, which he renamed NIRIN.

Brook Andrew's passions have never been contained to the artist's studio, from his interest in the anonymous sitters of early ethnographic photographs and memorials to the lives lost in Australia's frontier wars, to the repatriation of Aboriginal remains. Brook speaks to guest host Rosa Ellen about what drives him and what he set out to do as the first Indigenous artistic director of the Biennale of Sydney, which he renamed NIRIN.

My next podcast guest on TeaTime with artist Luke Jerram is out now on Spotify! Luke shares his thoughts and how he came up with In Memoriam his latest art installation which is this week at Sandbanks in Bournemouth. And it was great to meet Luke as he is truly one of the most engaging artists of our time who is always giving the public opportunities to connect.

Ievērojot visus nepieciešamos piesardzības pasākumus, šā gada 5. septembrī Rīgā jau 15. reizi norisināsies mūsdienu kultūras forums "Baltā nakts". Saruna par mūsdienu kultūras forumu „Baltā nakts” ar projekta koordinatori Annu Dārziņu. “"Baltās nakts" programmā ir vairāk nekā 30 projektu, un saturiski laikmetīgās mākslas programma būs tikpat kvalitatīva un bagātīga kā citos gados,” sola organizatori. Anna Dārziņa norāda, ka oficiālais pasākuma norises laiks ir no pulksten 18 līdz 2 naktī. "Uzsvars ir uz objektiem pilsētvidē, lai apmeklētājiem nebūtu jādrūzmējas noteiktos laikos un vietās. Objektus var aplūkot visa vakara garumā, dažus objektus varēs apskatīt arī nākamajā dienā," stāsta Anna Dārziņa. "Vairāk nekā puse ir objekti pilsētvidē, ko piedāvā gan vietējie mākslinieki tēlniecības kvadriennāles ietvaros, gan iecienītie starptautiskie mākslinieki." Ir arī atsevišķi mūzikas notikumi iekštelpās, kuriem jāpiesakās iepriekš. Uz pārējiem notikumiem var doties brīvi, bet, iespējams, būs jāuzgaida rindā, kamēr viena grupa aplūko darbus noteikto ierobežojumu dēļ. "Baltā nakts 2020" piedāvās gan gadu gaitā iecienītus vietējos un starptautiskos projektus, gan jaunu pašmāju mākslinieku programmu. Apmeklētājus pārsteigs jau iepriekšējos gados iepazītā britu mākslinieka Lūka Džerama (Luke Jerram) gaismas instalācijas, kurpretim nacionāla mēroga kultūru pārstāvēs gan tradīcijā nostiprinājušies projekti ("Skaņu mežs", "Urban Poetry", "Videogrāfija"), gan jauni notikumi. Arī šogad lielākā daļa apskates objektu koncentrēsies pilsētas centrālajā daļā un Tallinas ielas kvartālā, tomēr kopumā objekti būs pieejami arī vairāku citu Rīgas apkaimju iedzīvotājiem, tostarp Āgenskalnā, Imantā, Ķīpsalā, Sarkandaugavā, Vecrīgā, VEF apkārtnē un citviet. Programmas apjoma ziņā lielākais šī gada projekts būs "Tēlniecības kvadriennāle Rīga 2020". Mākslas objekti būs viegli pieejami apmeklētājiem, jo tie organiski iekļausies Rīgas pilsētvidē. "Baltās nakts" programma pieejama internetā.

British artist Luke Jerram discusses his new work, In Memoriam, a large-scale outdoor installation designed specifically to be presented in large open and windy spaces, constructed from bed sheets flying from tall flagpoles arranged in a 36-metre wide circular formation. It was created as a temporary memorial to honour those we have lost during the Covid-19 pandemic and also in tribute to NHS staff and key workers. The Lying Life of Adults is the much-anticipated new novel from Elena Ferrante, the author of the quartet of books known as the Neapolitan Novels. It’s familiar ground as we follow a teenage girl and her negotiation of life both with her middle-class parents and on the rougher side of town – but will it satisfy the Ferrante fans? Critic and writer Thea Lenarduzzi reviews Love in Colour is the name of a collection of fresh and romantic takes on myths from around the world by self-proclaimed "romcomoisseur" and writer Bolu Babalola. She joins Front Row to talk about decolonising traditional tales and why she believes in the power of love. As Britney Spears continues her legal battle to remove father as her conservator, music journalist Laura Barton explains the latest and considers other examples of parents exerting control over their high-profile offspring. Jazz saxophonist Charlie Parker would have been 100 years old tomorrow. He died tragically young at the age of 34 but his genius still exerts a powerful influence over popular music today, including bands like Red Hot Chilli Peppers. British alto saxophonist Soweto Kinch is a fan and tells us why Parker is still so important. Presenter: Samira Ahmed Producer: Jerome Weatherald

What is it like to be an actor or musician without a place to perform? On this homemade edition of Showcase, we answer that with​ an all-star line-up of artists that are under self-isolation. Luke Jerram, Artist 00:35 Hussein Al Shateli, Theater Actor​ 05:35 Tim Parks, Novelist, Translator and Essayist 09:56 Ceren Gundogdu, Musician​ 19:48​ #Artist #Pandemic #Coronavirus

Comedian Angela Barnes is the new host of Radio 4’s stalwart show The News Quiz. Fresh from recording the first episode of the new series, we ask how they’re keeping it funny when the only story is a deadly virus, and what it’s been like making the show under lockdown when there’s no audience to laugh at your jokes. When the coronavirus pandemic struck, Women’s Prize-winning novelist and games writer Naomi Alderman was in the middle of a new writing project. The subject? A piece of speculative fiction about a global pandemic. Alderman joins us to talk about the dilemmas a novelist faces when unpublished work is overtaken by real events. John Mullan on the delights of Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen's first published novel, that juxtaposes pain and pleasure to powerful effect. And how the physical qualities of viruses are re-created by two very different artists: Luke Jerram – the latest in his Glass Microbiology series of glass sculptures is a replica of Covid 19 - and the political cartoonist Martin Rowson. They talk to Front Row about the terrible beauty of viruses and the human attributes we project onto them. Image: Covid-19 glass sculpture by Luke Jerram Image credit: Luke Jerram Presenter: Tom Sutcliffe Producer: Sarah Johnson

Edward Norton on his new film Motherless Brooklyn, which he wrote, directed, produced and stars in, as a lonely private detective with Tourette Syndrome in 1950s New York. The film also stars Bruce Willis, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Alec Baldwin and Willem Dafoe, and is based on Jonathan Lethem's 1999 novel. Bristol–based artist Luke Jerram discusses his latest artwork, Extinction Bell, which he hopes will help raise awareness of the issue of biodiversity loss. The bell will toll once, 150-200 times a day, at random intervals, indicating the estimated number of species lost worldwide every 24 hours. It will tour to a number of different venues including museums of natural history, botanic gardens and zoos, and its first location is Bristol Zoo Gardens. Elizabeth is Missing is adapted from Emma Healey's bestselling 2014 novel and stars Glenda Jackson as Maud – a woman struggling with dementia who attempts to piece together what has happened to her best friend. Raifa Rafiq reviews. Midnight Movie is a new play by Eve Leigh which combines British Sign Language, captioning, audio description and the spoken word and opens at the Royal Court this week with Nadia Nadarajah and Tom Penn. Samira Ahmed talks to the play’s director Rachel Bagshaw about the way in which the play explores the impact of the digital revolution on disabled people and the issues that face disabled practitioners working in theatre. Presenter : Samira Ahmed Producer : Dymphna Flynn

We hear from one of the world’s last remaining globemakers and reflect on the globe’s cultural and symbolic currency. While Google Earth may give us intricate detail of every inch of land, there’s nothing like clutching a globe to properly comprehend our place in the world. We’ve been fascinated by replicating our planet since ancient times; an art and science that’s developed as our understanding has evolved. In this programme, we step into the studio of Bellerby & Co Globemakers, one of the few companies remaining that are making globes by hand today. From their Stoke Newington warehouse, we follow the journey of a globe from design to dispatch. We hear about the challenges they face daily, from retraining their hands to querying geopolitical protocol, and the customers who’ve commissioned their unique bespoke worlds. Alongside this creative process, we visit installation artist Luke Jerram, who is touring his replica earth artwork, Gaia. We also hear from writer and cartography enthusiast Simon Garfield and globe conservator Sylvia Sumira to explore the rich history of globemaking as well as some bigger ideas around the influence of those who represent our planet to us. The globe is crucially illustrative of our shared experience. Do we need its symbol today more than ever? Produced in Cardiff by Amelia Parker Photo by kind permission of Bellerby & Co Globemakers (credit: Sebastian Boettcher) Gaia soundtrack courtesy of Luke Jerram and Dan Jones

Everything Around The MOON! July the 20th will mark the 50th anniversary of when humans first landed on the moon! Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Mike Collins made it to the moon. Mike Collins stayed in the command module and Buzz and Neil walked on the moon. Neil Armstrong strode out first and said: “That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.”I saw the boot he was wearing in the Smithsoanian Museum in Washington DC and wrote about it in my book, The Secret Museum, if you want to know more. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Secret-Museum-Molly-Oldfield/dp/0007455283To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing 50 years ago we're going to answer three question about the MOON and ASTRONAUTS! PLUS you can win tickets to do family yoga under a huge MOON at the Natural History Museum in London this summer!Our first question comes from Wilbur, he would like to know: Why do we see the moon in the day? To answer it I have Professor Sara Russell who is a planetary scientist at the Natural History Museum in London and knows all about the moon!Next up is Tommaso, who asks:Why haven't people been to the moon since Apollo 17?Find out all the things left on the moon by the Apollo astronauts, what a moon tree is and why the Apollo missions came to an end. Or have they?! What's next for man's adventures to the moon? Our third question is about astronauts and comes from Felix! He would like to find out:How do astronauts see in the dark? Professor Sara Russell from the Natural History Museum tackles this one again! She tells us about the gold sunglasses astronauts wear in space and how actually its surprisingly bright in space during the day.Plus you can win family tickets to do yoga under Museum of the Moon, a huge moon made by an artist named Luke Jerram at the Natural History Museum in London.A huge thank you to Professor Sara Russell for telling us all about The Moon and how astronauts see in the dark, to The Natural History Museum in London for tickets to family yoga at the moon and of course to Tommaso, Felix and Wilbur for this week's lovely questions! I'll be back next week answering more questions from children around the world in another episode of EUTS. Do send in your questions, there's info about how to do that on the show's website, everythingunderthesun.co.uk.Remember, the questions will now also be in a BOOK, I need all the questions soon as I'm busy writing away so please do send them in as soon as you can!If you like the show people do rate, review and subscribe and tell all your friends to do the same, it really does help!Don't forget to look up at the moon at night, especially tomorrow and imagine what it was like for the Apollo astronauts to visit the moon!Thank you, and GOODBYE! XNatural History Museum Family yoga at Museum of the Moon - https://www.nhm.ac.uk/events/family-yoga-classes.htmlProfessor Sara Russell: https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/space-researcher-over-the-moon-about-her-work.htmlThe Secret Museum: https://www.mollyoldfield.com/secretmuseumWOW Museums: https://www.mollyoldfield.com/wowWebsite for the podcast: www.everythingunderthesun.co.ukTwitter: @mollyoldfieldInstagram: @mollyoldfieldwritesFacebook: Molly Oldfield Writer See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Fifty years ago, the astronauts aboard Apollo 11 took their first steps on the moon. We talk to our VP of astronomy Dr. Carolyn Sumners and professor of physics and astronomy at Rice University Dr. Patricia Dr. Reiff about the day we took a giant leap for humankind. Be sure to like, rate and subscribe to Beyond Bones wherever you listen to podcasts. Follow the Houston Museum of Natural Science on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter @hmns. Visit hmns.org/moon for more info about Moon by Luke Jerram.

Luke Jerram uses art and public displays to make people look at their world a little bit differently, with public transport via waterslide, pianos to play as you please, and monumental mock-up moons in museums. But what does he know about shrimp? Who is Florida Man? Listen to find out. Find more of Lukes art at www.lukejerram.com Trace our steps: https://www.one-tab.com/page/xvbOjZDmRWSPtFUfvPbdsA

Luke Jerram uses art and public displays to make people look at their world a little bit differently, with public transport via waterslide, pianos to play as you please, and monumental mock-up moons in museums. But what does he know about shrimp? Who is Florida Man? Listen to find out. Find more of Lukes art at www.lukejerram.com Trace our steps: https://www.one-tab.com/page/xvbOjZDmRWSPtFUfvPbdsA

We hear from British artist Luke Jerram whose installation for the Commonwealth Games is connecting people through the wonder of the cosmos, meet activist and crafter Rayna Fahey and three men who have been making art for each other for their birthdays for the last twenty six years.

In this special Easter Edition, we revisit some highlights of the year so far. We talk to Maddie Rice about Fleabag, meet a hospital choir in Perth and listen to Kate Ceberano and Paul Grabowsky record their new album. We also hear the first episode of Situation Critical, which examines the state of arts criticism in Australia.

Luke Jerram is that rare bird, a genuinely popular yet acclaimed contemporary artist. And he's obsessed with the moon. So he's made one: seven metres wide featuring 120dpi detailed NASA imagery, and he's taking it around the world. This is his story, as well as the moon's.. Every day Luke Jerram cycles to his studio across the river in Bristol and watches its dramatic changes. It has the second highest tidal range in the world and it's the moon that makes this happen. Luke's become fascinated with finding out everything he can about the cultural, artistic and poetic significance of the moon, and the latest scientific developments around it. It both reflects our culture and inspires it. Being colourblind he's interested in all forms of light, and moonlight is fascinating and has very particular properties. The fact we see 'the man in the moon' is a perceptual and optical illusion. But again, different cultures see different imagery - in China they see the Hare in the Moon. Luke presents his own story of making these works and hearing people's responses to them, woven in with the new soundtrack he's commissioned from composer Dan Jones. We talk to fellow contemporary moon obsessives James Attlee and Jay Griffiths, but it's all filtered through the very particular consciousness of one artist and his imagination, and the hard slog of his creative process. Producer Beth O'Dea.

Academy Award winning screenwriter and director Neil Jordan talks about his latest novel Carnivalesque. During a trip to a carnival, schoolboy Andy gets trapped inside the glass in the hall of mirrors and his reflection takes his place in his family.A new theatre production created and performed by current and former sex workers aims to challenge stereotype and stigma. Writer Molly Taylor and member of the cast Jane discuss bringing together a group of male, female and transgender performers to share their stories on stage.He's the artist who put a giant water slide in the centre of Bristol, and pianos at stations inviting passing musicians to play; now Luke Jerram has cast five small artefacts from the North Lincolnshire Museum in 18 carat gold and hidden them across Scunthorpe for the public to find. As Treasured City, his artistic treasure hunt, begins, he explains why art is better when the public is involved, and why it doesn't need to be confined to galleries.In Michael Keaton's new film The Founder he plays Ray Kroc, a salesman from Illinois who turned one small takeaway burger bar in California called McDonalds into the globally-franchised billion-dollar empire it is today. The film's writer Robert Siegel - who also wrote The Wrestler starring Mickey Rourke - discusses his fascination for the story and what it says about America in the 1950s.

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A 90ft long E.Coli bacterium was commissioned for Krebs Fest, and displayed in multiple locations around Sheffield. In addition, a glass mitochondrion sculpture is now displayed in Firth Court, Sheffield, providing a permanent legacy to the festival. Luke Jerram, an internationally renowned artist from Bristol describes some of the unique challenges involved in creating such a spectacular pieces of art. Luke also gives an insight into some of the other projects he's been involved with prior to Krebs Fest.

The actress, script-writer and producer Ruth Jones joins Aasmah Mir and Richard Coles. Known for her role as 'Nessa Jenkins' in the BBC's award-winning sitcom Gavin and Stacey, she's now back on our screens in the comedy drama series Stella. Trend forecaster James Wallman describes why we have more stuff than we could ever need. It's cluttering up our homes and making us feel 'stuffocated'. He explains why, rather than a buy a new watch or another pair of shoes, we should invest in shared experiences. Listener Polly Loxton wrote to Saturday Live about the value of a handwritten letter. She explains why they have been central in her own life. Anna Bailey accompanies Julian Lloyd Webber to a football match at Leyton Orient to find out how he spends his Saturday. A visit to his local launderette inspired Luke Jerram to create the 'Play Me, I'm Yours' project - in which he installed pianos in various locations in 46 cities across the world. An estimated six million people have played or listened to the Street Pianos. He describes how the project has led to marriages, a peaceful protest and the film of a homeless man playing which has gone 'viral'. Inheritance Tracks - the singer and actress Beverley Knight chooses: Touch the Hem of His Garment and A Change Gonna Come by Sam Cooke. Ruth Jones stars in Stella, Fridays, 9pm, Sky 1. Stuffocation by James Wallman, is published by Penguin. Beverley Knight stars in Memphis the Musical at the Shaftesbury Theatre in London and has extended her run until July 2015. Julian Lloyd Webber makes his conducting debut with the album 'And The Bridge is Love', which comes out at the end of the month; and he'll also be touring with his wife the cellist Jia Tschin Lloyd Webber, where he'll be talking about his career.

How can art be invisible? When it's made of sound. Dan Jones commemorates the centenary of 'The Art of Noise Manifesto', by Luigi Russolo, with an exploration of that mysterious, invisible and vigorous form - Sound Art. Luigi Russolo believed that the music of the future should reflect the noises of modern life. Rejecting the classical orchestra (along with pizza and pasta which he believed sapped the moral fibre of his nation) he invented 'noise- makers' to replicate the sounds of traffic, industry and even modern warfare. Russolo may be a disputed godfather of sound art, but it would be almost a hundred years till a sound artist would be shortlisted for the Turner Prize (Susan Philipsz won in 2010) and the Museum of Modern Art, MOMA, in New York would open its first sound art show. In 'Sonic Art Boom', Dan Jones considers why it has taken so long for Sound Art to get a hearing. He talks to Janet Cardiff - whose sound installation "The Forty-Part Motet" has been presented by prestigious galleries all over the globe; speaks with Barbara London, MOMA's legendary curator, about the difficulties of displaying sound; meets his hero Stan Shaff - creator of 'Audium', the world's first sound sculpture theatre in San Francisco; and goes underground with Bill Fontana, world-renowned sound artist, as he places a giant loudspeaker in front of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. The art world, it seems, has pulled out its earplugs. First broadcast in October 2013 Producer: Sara Jane Hall Presenter: Dan Jones is a BAFTA award-winning composer and sound designer working in film and theatre - Sound and Fury, is a theatre company of which he is a founder - and his performance piece, created with Luke Jerram, 'Sky Orchestra' has toured the globe for ten years.

Luke is one cool dude. We invited the UK-based artist on the show to talk about his project "Play Me, I'm Yours," which installs pianos on street corners in a city, allowing anyone to play at any time. But then learned: he also designs hospital atriums. He creates glass sculptures with lightning. He sends hot air balloons up over cities to play music and inspire peoples' dreams. And he's colorblind. Jarret speaks with him about his artistic process, installing street pianos in Boston in Summer 2013, and the differences between foxes and hedgehogs.

Mark Cosgrove, Watershed's Head of Programme, discusses Amazing Grace, David Lynch and an interview with Watershed’s resident artists, Hazel Grian and Luke Jerram