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Blackbird
Brett Westwood investigates our obsession with the beautiful song and folklore of the blackbird. From 2017
From their beautiful song that ushers in the spring to our rhymes of birds stuffed in pies, Brett Westwood explores the cultural significance of the blackbird with contributions by Mark Cocker, composer Hanna Tuulikki and the poem Adlestrop by Edward Thomas. From 2017
Producer: Tim Dee.
Archive Producer : Andrew Dawes
Last on
Sun 14 Mar 2021
06:35
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Mark Cocker
Mark Cocker is a naturalist and author of 'Claxton: Field Notes from a Small Planet', 'Birds and People', which was a collaboration with the photographer David Tipling, and the New Angle Prize-winning 'Crow Country'.
In 2016, he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Literature from the University of East Anglia, where he has recently placed his archive.
In 2016, he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Literature from the University of East Anglia, where he has recently placed his archive.
Hanna Tuulikki
is an artist, composer and performer based in Scotland, who specialises in working with voice to create ethereal spaces that unearth ‘mnemonic topographies – the land encoded in the song, the lore embedded in the land’.
In research-led, multi-disciplinary projects she considers how sound, gesture, and language frame our connection with our environment, the more-than-human, and each another, re-imagining resonant stories of contemporary relevance.
Recent works include Tidesongs; ;Ìý;Ìý;ÌýÌý²¹²Ô»åÌý.
Photograph: Away with the Birds, Hanna Tuulikki, photograph by Alex Boyd, 2014
In research-led, multi-disciplinary projects she considers how sound, gesture, and language frame our connection with our environment, the more-than-human, and each another, re-imagining resonant stories of contemporary relevance.
Recent works include Tidesongs; ;Ìý;Ìý;ÌýÌý²¹²Ô»åÌý.
Photograph: Away with the Birds, Hanna Tuulikki, photograph by Alex Boyd, 2014
Broadcasts
- Tue 11 Jul 2017 11:00Â鶹Éç Radio 4
- Mon 17 Jul 2017 21:00Â鶹Éç Radio 4
- Mon 28 Dec 2020 14:30Â鶹Éç Radio 4 Extra
- Tue 29 Dec 2020 02:30Â鶹Éç Radio 4 Extra
- Sun 14 Mar 2021 06:35Â鶹Éç Radio 4
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