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Jeremy Deller

Michael Berkeley's guest is artist Jeremy Deller. He’s won the Turner Prize and represented Britain at the Venice Biennale.

Jeremy Deller is a difficult artist to pin down. He’s won the Turner Prize and represented Britain at the Venice Biennale, but you’re just as likely to find his work on our streets as in a gallery.

In 2016, marking the centenary of the Battle of the Somme, thousands of young men in World War One uniforms appeared unannounced in stations, shopping centres and towns across the UK. Each participant represented a soldier who died on 1 July 1916. Jeremy called this work We’re Here Because We’re Here. 15 years earlier, he recreated the clash between striking miners and police officers in the Battle of Orgreave. He’s toured a rusting car from a street bombing in Iraq around the USA, and in 2012 he created a life-sized inflatable version of Stonehenge which you could bounce on.

His musical choices are suitably wide-ranging and sometimes unexpected: taking us on a journey with sounds from across the world, but including Beethoven, Monteverdi and Vaughan Williams.

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39 minutes

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Sun 10 Sep 2023 12:00
Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Symphony No.7 in A major (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Kirill Petrenko.
    • Beethoven · Tchaikovsky · Schmidt · Stephan.
    • Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra.

  • The Fairey Band

    Can U Dance?

    • Acid Brass.
    • Mute.
    • 1.

  • Claudio Monteverdi

    Beatus vir a 6

    Choir: The Sixteen. Conductor: Harry Christophers.
    • CORO.

  • Jeremy Deller

    Bat Sounds

    • Biophilia Live.
    • One Little Indian.
    • 10.

  • Traditional Vanuatu

    Water Drumming

  • Jaki Liebezeit

    Drum Solo

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Symphony No.5 (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Bernard Haitink.
    • Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 5, Norfolk Rhapsody No. 1 & The Lark Ascending.
    • Warner Classics.

  • Sabreen

    Get Back

    • Live in Jerusalem 2010.
    • 4.

  • Orbury Common

    Constant Billy (feat. Boss Morris)

    • Devil Gurning.
    • PRAH Recordings.
    • 2.

Broadcast

  • Sun 10 Sep 2023 12:00
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