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Dark Places

With an audience at Sage Gateshead for an overnight festival, crime writer Ann Cleeves, theologian Mona Siddiqui, poet Jake Morris-Campbell and sea expert Thom Linley on darkness.

Crime writer Ann Cleeves, theologian Mona Siddiqui, deep sea fish expert and podcast host Thomas Linley and poet Jake Morris-Campbell join Matthew Sweet to explore areas beyond the reach of light, both literally and metaphorically, as part of Radio 3's 2022 overnight festival at Sage Gateshead.

What darkness makes someone commit a murder? Shetland and Vera are two TV series developed from the crime novels of Ann Cleeves. Her most recent book is The Heron's Cry featuring detective Matthew Venn and his colleague Jen Rafferty, played on TV in an adaptation of The Long Call by Ben Aldridge and Pearl Mackie.

Poet and New Generation Thinker Jake Morris-Campbell writes about the mining communities of Northumberland and Durham and the experience of working in darkness.

Professor Mona Siddiqui joined the University of Edinburgh’s Divinity school in December 2011 as the first Muslim to hold a Chair in Islamic and Interreligious Studies

Dr Thomas Linley hosts The Deep-Sea podcast and researches the behaviour of deep sea fish. He's based at Newcastle University. You can read the paper he co-authored 'Fear and loathing of the deep ocean: why don't people care about the deep sea?' here: https://bit.ly/3IBHsPT

Producer: Torquil MacLeod

You can find Â鶹Éç Proms concerts recorded at Sage Gateshead available to listen on Â鶹Éç Sounds and a conversation about Writing and Place with North Eastern writers Jake Morris-Campbell and Jessica Andrews talking to Radio 3's new writing programme The Verb's Ian McMillan

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44 minutes

Last on

Mon 21 Aug 2023 22:00

Music Played

  • Edward Elgar

    Sea Slumber Song (Sea Pictures Op.37)

    Singer: Janet Baker. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: John Barbirolli.
    • Elgar: Cello Concerto/Sea Pictures: Du Pre/Baker/Barbirolli.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 9.

Broadcasts

  • Thu 24 Mar 2022 22:00
  • Mon 21 Aug 2023 22:00

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