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Aleks Krotoski wonders if it's really possible to convey a sense of joyful abandon online...

Producer: Victoria McArthur.

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Thu 30 Aug 2018 23:30
Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 4

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  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Bach Inventions - No. 1 in C Major

  • Andrew Bird

    Untitled

    • Weather Systems.

  • Beach House

    Black Car

  • Anderson .Paak

    Parking Lot

  • Eric Whitacre

    Sleep

  • Andrew Bird

    Plasticities

Orlagh O’Brien

Orlagh O’Brien
Orlagh O’Brien is a designer and visual thinker based in the southwestern edge of Ireland. Her ongoing research in question-asking and emotions began with a masters project called EmotionallyVague.com Since then she has been inviting groups of people to describe their experience of feelings in the body with drawings, colour and text, both on paper and digitally. She also explores participatory approaches to expression through visual scribing and bookmaking

Pádraig Ó Tuama

Pádraig Ó Tuama

Pádraig Ó Tuama is a poet and theologian based in Belfast. Since 2014 he has been the leader of the Corrymeela Community, Ireland’s oldest peace and reconciliation organisation. His work has been published by Canterbury Press (2012, 2013, 2017) and Hodder (2015).

Laurence Scott

Laurence Scott

Laurence Scott is the author of The Four-Dimensional Human:ÌýWays of Being in the Digital World and the forthcoming Picnic Comma Lightning: In Search of A New Reality (July 2018).  His writing has appeared in the Financial Times, Guardian, NewYorker.com, Wired, and the New Statesman, among many others. He is a lecturer at New York University in London, where he lives. 

Eric Whitacre

Eric Whitacre
Eric Whitacre is a Grammy-winning composer and conductor. His concert music has been performed throughout the world by millions of amateur and professional musicians alike, while his ground-breaking Virtual Choirs have united singers from over 110 different countries. A graduate of the prestigious Juilliard School of Music, Eric was recently appointed Artist in Residence with the Los Angeles Master Chorale having completed a five-year term as Composer in Residence at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge University, UK.

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  • Mon 18 Jun 2018 16:30
    Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 4
  • Thu 30 Aug 2018 23:30
    Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 4

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