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Start the Week: Kate Tempest: Everyday Epic

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08/05/2017

Kate Tempest: Everyday Epic

BBC Radio 4 - Start the Week, Kate Tempest: Everyday Epic

Andrew Marr with Kate Tempest, Tracy Chevalier, Hanif Kureishi and Lewis Hyde.

Cultural discussion programme. Andrew Marr discusses the epic in the everyday with Kate Tempest, Tracy Chevalier, Hanif Kureishi and Lewis Hyde.

On Start the Week Andrew Marr talks to the writer and performer Kate Tempest about her desire to bring out the epic in everyday lives, and to show the poetry in lived experience. Tracy Chevalier has taken the themes of Shakespeare's Othello and transported them to a US elementary school, while Hanif Kureishi mines the dark world of jealousy and revenge in his latest novel. Lewis Hyde looks back to mythical mischief makers from Hermes to Loki to celebrate modern day rule breakers as the shapers of culture.
Producer: Katy Hickman

Image: Kate Tempest Photographer: Hayley Louisa Brown.

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