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Front Row: Roddy Doyle, Gairloch Museum, Kronos Quartet, Dr Blood's Old Travelling Show

16/10/2020

Roddy Doyle, Gairloch Museum, Kronos Quartet, Dr Blood's Old Travelling Show

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Roddy Doyle, Gairloch Museum, Kronos Quartet, Dr Blood's Old Travelling Show

Roddy Doyle on his new novel Love, and The Kronos Quartet celebrate Pete Seeger.

Roddy Doyle discusses his new novel Love; Gairloch Museum, a winner of Art Fund Museum of the Year; Dr Blood’s Old Travelling show; The Kronos Quartet celebrate Pete Seeger.

Roddy Doyle talks about his latest novel, Love. In the course of one summer’s evening in Dublin, two old drinking buddies revisit the pubs and the love affairs of their youth, and talk openly about their marriages and other relationships, downing several pints of stout along the way.

Gairloch Museum in the Highlands of Scotland is one of the winners of the 2020 Art Fund Museum of the Year prize. Its curator Karen Buchanan explains how they renovated a local nuclear bunker to house the museum and how the local community helped raise the £2.4m needed for the project as well as curating the exhibitions on Gaelic culture inside.

As theatres attempt to work around the current restrictions, many are putting on outdoor performances and at the Leeds Playhouse last week, imitating the dog put on Dr Blood’s Old Travelling show, which is now touring. Nick Ahad went to see his first show since March and reports back. He’ll also discuss a nationwide project, Signal Fires, which sees theatres across Britain uniting in storytelling around the fire.

The Kronos Quartet have just released their latest album, Long Time Passing. It is a celebration of the music and life of Pete Seeger, singer, banjo player and activist. Violinist David Harrington explains why one of the most renowned classical quartets is playing If I had a Hammer and Where Have All the Flowers Gone? This is a collaboration with several other artists and we hear from one, the Ethiopian-American singer, Meklit.     

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