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Front Row: Singer Bella Hardy, Poet Thomas Lynch, Birmingham 2022 Festival

25/07/2022

Singer Bella Hardy, Poet Thomas Lynch, Birmingham 2022 Festival

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Singer Bella Hardy, Poet Thomas Lynch, Birmingham 2022 Festival

Folk singer Bella Hardy performs; poet Thomas Lynch reads, art at the Commonwealth Games

Bella Hardy talks about her new album, Love Songs, and performs; poet Thomas Lynch reads from Bone Rosary, New and Selected Poems, and arts to coincide with the Commonwealth Games.

Singer and fiddle player Bella Hardy talks about her new album – her tenth – Love Songs, which sees this adventurous musician return to where she began, with the traditional songs she’s known all her life.

Thomas Lynch is an American poet with strong connections to Ireland. He is, too, an undertaker, a career that has informed his verse and essays, which dwell on life and death, faith and doubt, and also place. From his ancestral cottage in County Clare Lynch talks to Shahidha Bari about these things and reads from Bone Rosary, his New and Selected poems, just out.

The Birmingham 2022 Festival is the biggest celebration of creativity ever in the region, showcasing the work of artists within the Commonwealth. Ahead of the Commonwealth Games starting this week, the arts festival Executive Producer Raidene Carter and artist Beverley Bennett share their continued vision and excitement with Shahida Bari.

Presenter: Shahidha Bari
Producer: Julian May
Photo: Elly Lucas

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