with the Radio 2 Arts
Programme
A West Country edition, featuring dance troupe
Roughshod who bring clog dancing from the Appalachian Mountains to the Cotswolds. Jazz composer Mike Westbrook talks about coming home to Devon. Poet Patricia Beer reads some new poems. Playwright Frank Dunne introduces scenes from his new play Players and the Painted Stage, which launches a new season of pub theatre in Bristol. Musician John Lowe explains how the very first Beatles record spent 20 years in his linen cupboard, and Bristol writers tackle crime in an anthology of local stories and poems. A Tony Staveacre production