Folkestone Triennial, animation and Dirty Pretty Things
Tonight is our last Friday night slot - we are moving to Thursday at 11.20pm from next week. Is that more or less convenient from your point of view? We'd be interested to know. On tonight's show we've got a brilliant and downright strange animation from Holbrook's Films, called T.O.M. as well as Dirty Pretty Things busking in Camden. Poor Carl Barat is in hospital with acute pancreatitis, so they've had to cancel some gigs. We've got some pictures of them in action - prior to Carl become ill - on our Flickr group. We're also showing items from Tuesday's show, including the piece on Dylan Thomas that seems to have encouraged at least some outbreaks of poetry reading around the UK. Could we be on the edge of a new trend? Don't miss all our extra Beth Rowley songs from the event at the Midland Hotel - they're great.
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I've just become a real fan of the Culture Show, well done all involved. I love it's broad canvas and it's unpretentious style. May I suggest an item about the Sonic Art Expo at Brighton the weekend of July 4th,5th, 6th? I confess I've a personal interest as my son is involved but I can't go and I'd love to see some coverage to try to understand this rather obscure area of the art and sound world which is difficult to understand to the general public I think! Thank you for reading this, best wishes, Angela Brignell .
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Watching your programme last night I became profoundly aware of what a misnomer the title of the show has become, because it shouldn’t be called ‘The Culture Show’ at all. It would be far more appropriate to entitle it ‘The White Culture Show’, or ‘The Young White Middle Class Culture Show’. Furthermore, from the format of last night’s show (20/06/2008) it ought to be more properly called ‘The Young White Middle Class Culture Show for People Who Live in the South East of England’. It’s truly stunning how this monstrosity, with all its myopic pretensions, has seeped almost subliminally into the schedules.
One final thing, isn’t Mark Kermode, Frank’s boy? Gosh, mono-cultural as well as nepotistic / elitist – my, my, the Beeb certainly has excelled itself.
Signed, a disgruntled global citizen
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Thanks for your feedback, but I wonder if the knee-jerk reaction is fair. Neon Neon would chaff rather at being described as being from the South East of England (Wales and LA, actually) and Morecambe (where we filmed the Midland Hotel piece) is in Lancashire... not known for being in the South East. We also feature lots of international artists - in the previous week we had a feature on the Venezuelan conductor Gustavo Dudamel, while in tomorrow's episode, Brazilian band CSS will be in the studio. It's a good question as to how we represent the diversity of the UK, but it is something we think about long and hard, and if you stay around to watch the rest of the series I think you'll find that we feature far more than the white middle class of SE England. In fact, a team in Glasgow make half the programmes on The Culture Show, so we don't just talk about not being London-centric: we really aren't!
Didn't understand what you meant about Mark Kermode being 'Frank’s boy'. No idea what that means, so I can't respond.
Come back to me in a few episodes and let me know if you feel the same way about our coverage, but for the moment, what is it that you think we should be featuring? Who are the artists and musicians we are missing out on? We are always open to suggestions.
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Less convenient. Thank you for asking. One of my favourite programmes on the beeb. Thankfully, I can download via BBC iPlayer sometime later.
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