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Kirsty Wark

Nicholas Hytner

Jennifer Harris

Eliza Carthy

Jules Evans

Katy Hickman

Start the Week: Eliza Carthy and Nicholas Hytner: Art for All

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24/04/2017

Eliza Carthy and Nicholas Hytner: Art for All

BBC Radio 4 - Start the Week, Eliza Carthy and Nicholas Hytner: Art for All

Kirsty Wark with Nicholas Hytner, Eliza Carthy, Jennifer Harris and Jules Evans.

Cultural discussion programme. Kirsty Wark discusses the value of art with Nicholas Hytner, Eliza Carthy, Jennifer Harris and Jules Evans.

On Start the Week Kirsty Wark asks whether it's possible to produce art for all. 

She's joined by the former Director of the National Theatre Nicholas Hytner who looks at the balancing act between art and show business but argues for the power of a national theatre to become part of the cultural bloodstream. 

The designer Lucienne Day made the link between mass production and fine art, and the curator of an exhibition of her fabrics, Jennifer Harris, says her abstract designs could be seen in households across the country. 

Singer-songwriter Eliza Carthy is a member of one of British folk's great dynasties, and has helped popularise folk music for new generations, combining tradition with innovation. 

Nietzsche suggested that 'art raises its head where religions decline' and the philosopher Jules Evans who studies human ecstasy, asks whether art galleries and theatres can really help us come together, lose control and connect with something beyond ourselves.

Producer: Katy Hickman

Image: Eliza Carthy and The Wayward Band 
Photographer: Steve Gullick.

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