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'Her Kind' by Anne Sexton read by Moira Jeffrey. 'Her Kind' appears in the collection, 'To Bedlam and Part Way Back' published by Houghton Miffllin in 1960. A transcript can be found at https://poets.org/poem/her-kind More from Moira Jeffrey can be found at @moirajeffrey on twitter and instagram.
Hollywood legend Sir Michael Caine returns to the big screen in King of Thieves, the second cinematic adaptation of the infamous Hatton Garden burglary in 2015. The south London born actor looks back at his varied career, which he has seen him act alongside Sean Connery, Sylvester Stallone and even the Muppets and also become synonymous darker criminal roles, in films such as Get Carter, Harry Brown and the Italian Job.When Israel Public Radio recently broadcast part of Wagnar's Gotterdammerung or the Twilight of the Gods, it caused a furore leading the station issued an apology. This is because since 1938 there has been an understanding that, because for his anti-Semitism, Wagner's music is neither performed nor broadcast in Israel. Stig talks to Jonathan Livni, founder of Wagner in Israel, who is in favour of lifting the ban, and Yael Cherniavsky, the conductor and soprano, who used to run the offending radio network, who disagrees. Scotland's first design museum, the £80 million Victorian & Albert Dundee, opens this weekend on the city's waterfront. It will have a permanent collection which promises to tell the story of Scotland's design heritage. Art critic Moira Jeffrey has visited Dundee and lets us know if the museum lives up to its grand design.
Fracked! Or: Please don't use the F-word is a comedy in Chichester about shale extraction. Playwright Alistair Beaton explains how he keeps the play topical in times of fast political change, and how he cast actor James Bolam when he met him demonstrating against a potential fracking site in Sussex. The art of the self-portrait - why do artists portray themselves? From Rembrandt's unflinching treatment of his ageing reflection to Ai Weiwei's politically-charged use of social media, a new exhibition at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery in Edinburgh sets out to answer that question. Moira Jeffrey reviews Facing the World.Someone Knows My Name is a Canadian historical drama which tells the true story of a West African girl who campaigns for her freedom after she is abducted into slavery in South Carolina. Kevin Le Gendre reviews this TV adaptation.Marcus Harvey first attracted public attention as a YBA with his portrait of the child killer Myra Hindley, created from a small child's handprints. Protestors picketed the Royal Academy when it went on show as part of Sensation in 1997. Harvey discusses new exhibition Inselaffe at Jerwood Gallery in Hastings, which explores what it means to be British.Presenter: Tom Sutcliffe Producer: Angie Nehring.
The Dust of Everyday Life is an annual conference exploring the arts, mental health and social justice, programmed by the Mental Health Foundation and See Me, Scotland's campaign to end mental health discrimination. This session from Dust 2016, at the CCA in Glasgow on Wednesday 20 April, brought together speakers from three projects that use visual art to address mental health issues – Out of Sight Out of Mind, an annual exhibition by 100 artists with lived experience of mental illness, that takes place as part of the Scottish Mental Health Arts and Film Festival each October; The Clinic, a group exhibition showing as part of the 2016 Glasgow International festival of visual art that explored pseudo-sciences and the diverse ideas that surround them; and Broken Grey Wires, a contemporary art organisation exploring 'mental health, philosophy, psychology and everything in between'. The discussion was chaired by art critic Moira Jeffrey.
With John Wilson. Edinburgh born artist Peter Doig moved in Trinidad in 2002, and his new exhibition No Foreign Lands concentrates on the work he has painted since he has lived there. Showing at Scottish National Gallery in Edinburgh it is the first major exhibition of his work to be shown in the country of his birth. Art critic Moira Jeffrey reviews. Crime-writer Chris Brookmyre's new novel Flesh Wounds is the third in a series to follow private investigator Jasmine Sharp and Detective Superintendent Catherine McLeod amongst the Glasgow criminal underworld. Brookmyre talks to John about writing from female perspective, how Glasgow has changed and why his name and titles are getting shorter. Based on a Stephen King novel and produced by Steven Spielberg, Under The Dome is a hit American TV series about a small town which suddenly finds itself cut off from the rest of the world by a mysterious force field. Critic and writer Andrew Collins delivers his verdict. In for the Cultural Exchange is actor and musician Riz Ahmed, best known for his starring roles in The Reluctant Fundamentalist and Four Lions. His choice is the first video game to be picked for the Cultural Exchange, Street Fighter II, which was released in arcades in 1991. Producer Kate Bullivant.
Subodh Gupta is one of India's foremost contemporary artists. He is in conversation with writer and journalist Moira Jeffrey about his exhibition Take Off Your Shoes and Wash Your Hands in Tramway's large gallery space, his first solo exhibition in the UK.
A packed episode, covering the GI exhibitions, screenings and events happening throughout Tramway as part of GI 2010. Douglas Gordon's 24 Hour Psycho Back and Forth and To and Fro, Keren Cytter's Four Seasons and Graham Eatough's This Time With Feeling. With interviews from journalist Moira Jeffrey, The SAC's Amanda Catto, and Graham Eatough.
In this very special episode of Tramway's Visual Art Podcasts we explore Christoph Büchel's immersive and highly complex installation in T2 as part of the 2010 Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art. With interviews from festival director Katrina Brown, Tramway's director Sarah Munro and journalist Moira Jeffrey.