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Front Row: Kraftwerk's Karl Bartos, the Spooky Men’s Chorale, playwright Lucy Kirkwood

Kraftwerk's Karl Bartos, the Spooky Men’s Chorale, playwright Lucy Kirkwood

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Kraftwerk's Karl Bartos, the Spooky Men’s Chorale, playwright Lucy Kirkwood

Life in Kraftwerk, the Spooky Men's Chorale perform, Lucy Kirkwood on Maryland for TV.

Karl Bartos - the musician and composer on his life in Kraftwerk, playwright Lucy Kirkwood on taking Maryland from stage to TV screen, and The Spooky Men's Chorale play live.

Karl Bartos, musician and composer, on his life in the German band Kraftwerk - as told in his new memoir The Sound of the Machine.

Playwright and screenwriter Lucy Kirkwood on her play Maryland - devised in response to normalisation of violence against women, and originally staged at Royal Court Theatre in London in 2021, it has now been adapted for BBC TV screens. 

The Spooky Men’s Chorale: the strangely comedic but musically marvellous and popular Australian male voice choir stop off in the middle of their UK tour to sing and talk to Samira Ahmed about Georgian polyphony, Swedish folk band Abba, and not being a men’s group.   

Presenter: Samira Ahmed
Producer: Julian May

Image credit: Markus Wustmann

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