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Front Row: Piper Kathryn Tickell performs, film director Terence Davies remembered, author Jhumpa Lahiri, £200 million for Heritage Places

Piper Kathryn Tickell performs, film director Terence Davies remembered, author Jhumpa Lahiri, £200 million for Heritage Places

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Northumbrian piper Kathryn Tickell performs live from her new album, Cloud Horizons.

Northumbrian piper Kathryn Tickell performs, film director Terence Davies remembered, Pulitzer Prize winning author Jhumpa Lahiri's Roman Stories, £200 million for Heritage Places.

Kathryn Tickell and The Darkening’s new album, Cloud Horizons, fuses synthesizers  with a bone flute, a sistrum – very old Egyptian instrument - and lyrics based on an inscription in Latin carved on a stone in Northumberland nearly 2 millennia ago. Kathryn talks to Samira about this ancient Northumbrian futurism and plays her smallpipes, live.   

We remember the film director Terrence Davis, perhaps best known for the film Distant Voices, who has died aged 77. Samira spoke to him for Front Row last year, about his Netflix drama Benediction, which followed the life of the war poet Siegfried Sassoon.

Samira talks to Jhumpa Lahiri, the Pulitzer Prize winning novelist, essayist and editor. Her latest offering Roman Stories marks a return to shorter fiction, presenting snapshots of a city and its unnamed residents in flux. 

Today the Heritage Fund announces nine ‘Heritage Places’ across the UK- the first of twenty to receive a share of £200 million in National Lottery funding over the next 10 years to support local heritage. We hear from Eilish McGuinness, Heritage Fund Chief Executive about how the money will be spent and from Eirwen Hopkins,  founder of the heritage group Rich History in Neath Port Talbot, one of the nine places to receive the cash injection.

Presenter: Samira Ahmed
Producer: Olivia Skinner

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