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Listen to Lankum’s “Freak Zone Playlist” 

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Ian Lynch of Mercury-nominated Irish folk group Lankum picks a playlist of favourite acts.

Ian Lynch of Mercury-nominated Irish folk group Lankum picks a playlist of favourite acts from the Supersonic Festival.

Lankum play the Birmingham based experimental music festival in September and are the first of four acts from this years line-up to curate a special playlist for us.

Lankum formed in Dublin twenty years ago. Their fourth album False Lankum was released in March 2023 and has been nominated for this year’s Mercury Prize

Source: Freak Zone Playlist – Lankum – BBC Sounds

Cromer peregrine falcon nest attracted more than 13,000 bird fans

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More than 13,000 people have visited a “watchpoint” to view a peregrine falcon nest in Cromer.

A nesting box was first set up after a peregrine was seen on Cromer Parish Church in Norfolk in 2018.

This year’s annual “peregrine watchpoint” attracted thousands of visitors over its five months.

The Cromer Peregrine Project (CPP) said this year the birds successfully reared two female falcons.

Source: Cromer peregrine falcon nest attracted more than 13,000 bird fans

The Folk Show with Mark Radcliffe – Yusuf / Cat Stevens joins Mark 

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Legendary songwriter Yusuf/Cat Stevens speaks to Mark about his new work.

This week, legendary songwriter Yusuf/Cat Stevens speaks to Mark about his new album King of a Land.

Yusuf is also playing this month’s Glastonbury Festival, in the famous ‘legends’ slot on the Sunday afternoon.

Listen at: The Folk Show with Mark Radcliffe – Yusuf / Cat Stevens joins Mark – BBC Sounds

This Cultural Life – Glenda Jackson – BBC Sounds

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Actor Glenda Jackson reveals the influences that inspired her work on stage and screen.

Actor and former MP Glenda Jackson reveals the influences and experiences that inspired her work on stage and screen. One of the greatest actors of her generation, Glenda won Academy Awards for Women in Love and A Touch Of Class, and was Oscar nominated for Sunday Bloody Sunday. She has also won Tony, Emmy and Golden Globes awards for her theatre and television work. In 1992 she gave up acting to become a Labour MP, winning her seat five times. But in 2016 she returned to the stage, playing King Lear in London and New York, and to television for a BAFTA winning performance as an elderly women with dementia in Elizabeth Is Missing.

Glenda Jackson recalls her working class upbringing in Birkenhead, and how she won a scholarship to the drama school RADA with help from the manager of the Boots chemists’ where she worked at the time. She chooses the director Peter Brook as a major influence on her work, having starred in his radical 1964 stage production of the play Marat/Sade, and the version he subsequently adapted for cinema. She remembers also working closely with the director Ken Russell on several films, including the Oscar-winning Women in Love, adapted from the DH Lawrence novel. Glenda’s comic appearances on the Morecambe and Wise Show in the early 1970s are recalled as career highlights. Glenda Jackson also chooses Margaret Thatcher as huge influence on her life and career, as it was the policies of the former Prime Minister which prompted her to give up acting for 23 years while she served as a Labour MP.

Source: This Cultural Life – Glenda Jackson – BBC Sounds