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Front Row: Miles Davis's Bitches Brew, Gaming, Cressida Cowell in the Culture Clinic

03/04/2020

Miles Davis's Bitches Brew, Gaming, Cressida Cowell in the Culture Clinic

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Miles Davis's Bitches Brew, Gaming, Cressida Cowell in the Culture Clinic

Soweto Kinch on Miles Davis's album Bitches Brew, and Children's Laureate Cressida Cowell.

Bitches Brew, Miles Davis's double album, released 50 years ago, Cressida Cowell on keeping house-bound children entertained and educated; best video games in a time of lockdown.

Miles Davis released his seminal album Bitches Brew 50 years ago this week. Saxophonist Soweto Kinch and Michael Carlson consider the impact of the double album, and discuss the recent documentary Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool.

What video games should we play while we’re self-isolating? Video games expert, journalist and broadcaster Jordan Erica Webber gives us her top picks and tips for first-time gamers. And as even the World Health Organisation recommends 'playing active video games' during lockdown, we look at the mental and physical health benefits of gaming.

This week The Front Row Culture Clinic is looking at how to keep children entertained and educated whilst under lockdown, with portrait painter Lorna May Wadsworth who is launching a painting competition for the under 12s - the winner will have their painting hung in a prestigious London gallery. Children's Laureate Cressida Cowell, who is reading a chapter of How To Train Your Dragon every day from her garden shed with Book Trust Home Time, considers how to keep house-bound kids happy and motivated.

As the Scottish Ensemble string orchestra celebrate their 50th anniversary this year, concert violinists Jonathan Morton and Clio Gould from the Ensemble perform two short inventions by Bach, live from their home.  

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