Kyoto, Nathaniel Rateliff, Midsummer Day poetry
A play inspired by the 1997 UN climate conference, live Americana from Nathaniel Rateliff, and poems that celebrate and evoke midsummer.
The UN climate conference in Kyoto in 1997 is the setting for a new play at the RSC. Its writers Joe Murphy and Joe Robertson talk about the dramatic potential they saw in that moment and in the decade leading up to it.
Nathaniel Rateliff is a singer songwriter based in Denver, Colorado whose style of Americana and collaboration with the Nightsweats has garnered a steady following of fans due to his talent in storytelling and performance. He joins us to play live.
We celebrate Midsummerβs Day with poems that explore this heady midpoint in the year. Critic Tristram Fane Saunders chooses some of the most evocative midsummer verses, and Forward Prize-winning poet Sasha Dugdale reads βJuneβ, a brand new poem specially commissioned for todayβs Front Row.
Presenter: Samira Ahmed
Producer: Torquil MacLeod
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