Tricky, Ratched reviewed, live theatre returns to The Playhouse Londonderry, NSSA nominee Jack Houston
Tricky on his new album, Fall to Pieces. Plus live theatre returns to Northern Ireland with Damian Gorman's play at The Playhouse in Londonderry.
Twenty five years ago Bristol musician Tricky pioneered a new genre of downtempo hip-hop with his album Maxinquaye. As he releases his 14th studio album, Fall to Pieces, Tricky joins us from his Berlin studio.
Live theatre returns to Northern Ireland this evening with the play Anything Can Happen: 1972 at The Playhouse in Londonderry, in which people whose lives were affected by the Troubles tell their stories. We hear from playwright Damian Gorman, cast member Susan Stanley, whose brother was killed in a bombing, and Sarah Feeney-Morrison, who has contributed a photo of her aunt, shot by an IRA sniper.
Netflix's new drama this week is Ratched, the origin story of Nurse Ratched from One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. It stars Sarah Paulson, Cynthia Nixon, Judy Davis and Sharon Stone. Karen Krisanovich reviews.
Our latest interview with an author shortlisted for the 2020 Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ National Short Story Award is Jack Houston, whose powerful story Come Down Heavy is about two people struggling on the edges of society, in a world of homelessness and drugs.
Presenter: Samira Ahmed
Producer: Timothy Prosser
Studio Manager: Giles Aspen
Main image: Tricky
Image credit: Erik Weiss
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Anything Can Happen 1972
Image: "sunlit absence" objects - mementoes lent by community members affected by The Troubles used to fill the empty seats in the Derry Playhouse auditorium.Β Image credit: Aine McCarron
Ratched reviewed
Image: Sarah Paulson as Nurse Mildred Ratched
Image credit: Courtesy of Netflix (c) 2020
Jack Houston
Readings of the stories can be heard on R4 at 3.30pm until 18 September,Β or on the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Short Story podcast.
The Award ceremony is live on Front Row on 06 October 2020.Image: Jack HoustonImage credit: John Houston
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