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Back to EpisodesKraftwerk's Karl Bartos, the Spooky Men’s Chorale, playwright Lucy Kirkwood
Published 3 years, 10 months ago
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Karl Bartos, musician and composer, on his life in the German band Kraftwerk - as told in his new memoir The Sound of the Machine.
Playwright and screenwriter Lucy Kirkwood on her play Maryland - devised in response to normalisation of violence against women, and originally staged at Royal Court Theatre in London in 2021, it has now been adapted for BBC TV screens.
The Spooky Men’s Chorale: the strangely comedic but musically marvellous and popular Australian male voice choir stop off in the middle of their UK tour to sing and talk to Samira Ahmed about Georgian polyphony, Swedish folk band Abba, and not being a men’s group.
Presenter: Samira Ahmed Producer: Julian May
Image credit: Markus Wustmann