Viv Albertine, Southbank Centre's Queen Elizabeth Hall reopens, Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Three controller Damian Kavanagh
Musician Viv Albertine on her new memoir To Throw Away Unopened and, after two years exclusively online, how Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Three is attracting young audiences.
Viv Albertine was the guitarist in the cult punk band The Slits and a key player in British counter culture before working as a film maker and launching a solo career. Her new memoir, To Throw Away Unopened, unpicks family secrets which shaped her childhood and her early creative influences. This book begins when she is at the launch party for her hugely successful first book Clothes, Clothes, Clothes, Music, Music, Music, Boys, Boys, Boys and her sister calls with news that their mother is dying.
After a two-year Β£35m refurbishment, the Queen Elizabeth Hall and the Purcell Room on London's Southbank re-open this week. The architect Richard Battye and Gillian Moore, Director of Music at the Southbank, give Samira a guided tour of the Brutalist buildings, which have been updated to cater for an even wider range of music, dance and performance for the 21st century.
Damian Kavanagh, the Controller of Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Three, discusses how the platform is different online to on air, considers why it has been a success with younger audiences, and what this means for the future of television.
Plus, we gauge the public reaction to Tracey Emin's new artwork, named I Want My Time With You, unveiled at St Pancras Station in London today.
Presenter : Samira Ahmed
Producer : Dymphna Flynn.
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Viv Albertine
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Tracey Emin
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Southbank Centre
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Viv Albertine
Samira Ahmed and Viv AlbertineΒ
Viv Albertine's bookΒ To Throw Away Unopened is out now
Main image: Viv AlbertineQueen Elizabeth Hall and Purcell Room re-open
Queen Elizabeth Hall interior
Photo credit: Jerome Weatherald
The Queen Elizabeth Hall and Purcell Room are open to the publicCredits
Role Contributor Presenter Samira Ahmed Interviewed Guest Viv Albertine Interviewed Guest Richard Battye Interviewed Guest Gillian Moore Interviewed Guest Damian Kavanagh Producer Dymphna Flynn Broadcast
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