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Karine Polwart

Exploring the art of storytelling in song, with the award-winning musician and writer Karine Polwart.

An exploration of the art of storytelling in song, with the musician and writer Karine Polwart.

Karine has won six Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 2 Folk Awards, including 2018 Folk Singer of The Year. Her seventh album, Laws Of Motion, was released in October, with songs spanning moments from history and her own life.

One song, which she first performed at Celtic Connections in 2017, addresses Donald Trump from the point of view of the ancient, metamorphic rock lying beneath the Isle Of Lewis.

In 2016, Karine wrote, musically directed, and performed in Wind Resistance, a critically acclaimed theatrical meditation on midwifery, ecology, sanctuary, and solidarity.

Karine’s radio work, meanwhile, includes several compositions for the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ’s ground-breaking Radio Ballads series, which marked the centenary of the end of the First World War - as we feature Hospitals broadcast on Radio 2 as part of The Ballad Of The Great War: 1917.

We also revisit an essay Karine delivered on Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 3, My Life In Music: Craigie Hill, which reflects on family, loss, memory and the power of a good song.

Made for Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4 Extra and first broadcast in March 2019.

1 hour

Last on

Wed 6 May 2020 04:00

Broadcasts

  • Tue 5 Mar 2019 11:00
  • Tue 5 Mar 2019 21:00
  • Tue 5 May 2020 11:00
  • Tue 5 May 2020 16:00
  • Tue 5 May 2020 21:00
  • Wed 6 May 2020 04:00