Matthew Sweet presents an episode of Radio 3’s Arts and Ideas programme looking at the identity of The Black Country past and present. His guests are: the poet Liz Berry, linguist Dr Esther Asprey, artist and producer Dawinder Bansal and historian Simon Briercliffe.
Join them for a conversation that ranges from the travels of William Cobbett and the writings of Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler and Anthony Cartwright to the ways in which the region’s landscape and history is being remembered and recreated in words and installations.
Matthew Sweet presents an episode of Radio 3’s Arts and Ideas programme looking at the identity of The Black Country past and present. His guests are: the poet Liz Berry, linguist Dr Esther Asprey, artist and producer Dawinder Bansal and historian Simon Briercliffe.
Join them for a conversation that ranges from the travels of William Cobbett and the writings of Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler and Anthony Cartwright to the ways in which the region’s landscape and history is being remembered and recreated in words and installations.
