Hepworth, Moore, landscape and cows' backs; fiddle player John McCusker; novelist Victoria MacKenzie
Hepworth, Moore, landscape and cows' backs. Fiddle player John McCusker on 30 years of music making. Victoria MacKenzie's novel about mystics Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe.
A new exhibition at The Hepworth Wakefield celebrates the relationship that two of the UKβs greatest sculptors, Barbara Hepworth and Henry Moore, had with the Yorkshire landscape they grew up in. Eleanor Clayton, the curator of the exhibition, Magic in this Country, joins the landscape photographer Kate Kirkwood - who has just published a new book, Cowspines, that blends the landscape of the Lake District with the backs of the cows that graze upon it β to discuss the power of landscape to draw an artistβs eye.
John McCusker discusses and performs live from his new βBest of βAlbum, which celebrates his 30-year career as one of Scotlandβs most acclaimed fiddle players and musical collaborators.
Writer of fiction and poetry Victoria MacKenzie tells Shahidha Bari about her first novel, For Thy Great Pain Have Mercy On My Little Pain, which is based on the lives of two extraordinary, trail-blazing fourteenth-century Christian mystics, Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe.
Presenter: Shahidha Bari
Producer: Eliane Glaser
Main image from Cowspines by Kate Kirkwood
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