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Last broadcast on Mon, 28 Mar 2011, 19:15 on BBC Radio 4.
Synopsis
Kirsty Lang meets the writers of the newTV comedy Candy Cabs, Elliot Hope and Johanne McAndrew.
Folk musicians from the US and Canada have spent a week in Shropshire working alongside British musicians to produce a new album inspired by the folk song collector Cecil Sharp and the time he spent in the Appalachian Mountains. Andy Cutting, Caroline Herring and Jackie Oates discuss their collaboration.
Kirsty and film critic Adrian Wootton discuss Essential Killing, a thriller directed by Jerzy Skolimowski, which stars Vincent Gallo as an unidentified prisoner on the run from a US secret detention centre in snowy Europe, trying to return to his unidentified desert homeland. Gallo's role is completely wordless - and no other character or location is identified...
With the prospect of an eventual digital switch-over on the horizon, will traditional analogue radio become obsolete? Artist Sean Dockray's piece Public Monument aims to explore this by creating an audio time capsule, never to be listened to until its planned future transmission on a dormant FM channel in 2021. Kirsty visits his temporary recording studio at the Royal College of Art, London.
Producer Rebecca Nicholson.
Candy Cabs
Candy Cabs begins on BBC One on Tuesday 5 April at 9pm and runs for three weeks.
Cecil Sharp Project at the Shrewsbury Folk Festival
All eight musicians in the Cecil Sharp Project will be performing at the Shrewsbury Folk Festival which is over the August Bank Holiday and a CD of the songs they have written will be available this summer.
Shrewsbury Folk Festival
Essential Killing
Essential Killing is released around the UK on Friday 1 April, certificate 15.
Sean Dockray's Public Monument
Shadowboxing
Shadowboxing is on at the Royal College of Art, London until 3rd April. Admission free.
Chapters
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Essential Killing
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Chapter 1
Film critic Adrian Wootton reviews Essential Killing, a thriller directed by Jerzy Skolimowski.
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Candy Cabs
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Chapter 2
Kirsty Lang meets the writers of the new TV comedy Candy Cabs, Elliot Hope and Johanne McAndrew.
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Cecil Sharp Project
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Chapter 3
Andy Cutting, Caroline Herring and Jackie Oates discuss their collaboration to produce folk music.
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Public Monument (to Analogue Radio)
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Chapter 4
With the prospect of an eventual digital switch-over on the horizon, will traditional analogue radio become obsolete?
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Broadcast
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Mon 28 Mar 201119:15
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