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Front Row: Bobby Gillespie, Karla Black, Audience Anxiety

Bobby Gillespie, Karla Black, Audience Anxiety

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Bobby Gillespie on his new album of duets with Jehnny Beth.

Bobby Gillespie on new album Utopian Ashes, audience anxiety about returning to theatres and mass events, and artist Karla Black.

We speak with Bobby Gillespie, front man of Primal Scream who has released a new album, Utopian Ashes, comprised of duets with French singer Jehnny Beth from Savages. Themed around a disintegrating marriage, it’s a richly orchestrated album that doesn’t necessarily fit into fans’ expectations for either singer. 

After Public Health Scotland revealed yesterday that over 1,000 people who attended Euro 2020 matches went on to contract COVID 19, throwing the success of the Government’s Events Research Programme (of which the matches were a part) into doubt, Anne Torreggiani, CEO of The Audience Agency, joins us to explore just how confident the public are about returning to mass entertainment events, if government plans to remove all restrictions go ahead on July 19th. A recent survey conducted by The Audience Agency found that only a third of theatre audiences would be “happy to attend”. More concerningly, this was only a 2% increase on the response to an equivalent question asked in late February.

Karla Black, the Glasgow-based, Turner Prize-nominated artist, discusses her new exhibition in Edinburgh, which reopens the city’s Fruitmarket Gallery after a two-year, £4.3m expansion and refurbishment.

Presenter:  John Wilson
Producer:  Simon Richardson

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