Brighton Festival 2017 Podcast

Reverb's world music guru Mark Johnson interviews Guest Director Rokia Traore following her opening performance, and reviews 30 Years of Mr Bongo.

Gill Kay, the festival's classical music director, discusses the 2019 music programme.

Author Damian Barr discusses the compilation of working class writing, Common People.

Going behind the scenes of the Brighton Festival with Melita Dennett and Rebecca Sandles. On today's programme, Damian Barr on Common People, the compilation of working class stories; a look at the film season with Cinecity & Duke of York's Tim Brown; Gill Kay on the 2019 classical music programme; Soumik Datta on King of Ghosts, the original scoring of classical indian films; and Serge Clottey on his Current Affairs exhibition. Plus an interview with Guest Director Rokia Traore.

Pippa Smith, director of Children's Programmes, discusses what's on offer for young people at this year's festival.

Mark Johnson, host of RadioReverb's Slipstreem Worldwide Beats, shares his highlights and thoughts on the international music at this year's festival.

An interview with the British Para Orchestra's associate music Director Lloyd Coleman on performance piece The Nature Of Why.

Reporter Josh Sharp reviews the Malian photography exhibition Iron Men, and interviews attendees.

Melita investigates the ongoing Flight installation, which charts the journey of two refugee children.

Melita talks to childrens programmes director Pippa Smith and festival chief executive Andrew Comben at the Children's Parade.

In the first of this year's Brighton Festival podcast series on RadioReverb Melita and Rebecca hear about installations, exhibitions and performances including Flight, the Nature of Why and Iron Men. An interview with Guest Director Rokia Traore and a look at the Children's events at the festival.

As the end of Brighton Festival approaches, our reporter and reviewer Mark Johnson looks back at the last three weeks and shares his musical highlights with Melita and Rebecca. To find out more about Brighton Festival see : http://brightonfestival.org To find out more about RadioReverb - the Broadcast Media Partner of Brighton Festival 2018 see : http://radioreverb.com #Brighton #Arts #Culture

Aided by a witch, Jarvis Cocker, and magician-author Alan Moore, David Bramwell battles his own thalassophobia (the fear of ‘what lurks beneath’) to unearth little-known stories and myths that surround our rivers. The River Don is the focal point for this psycho-geographical journey that blends music, animation and film with captivating monologue.  David Bramwell joins Melita and Rebecca in studio.  Event Details: https://brightonfestival.org/event/13601/the_cult_of_water/ To find out more about Brighton Festival see : http://brightonfestival.org To find out more about RadioReverb - the Broadcast Media Partner of Brighton Festival 2018 see : http://radioreverb.com #Brighton #Arts #Culture

The Comedy of Errors is one of Shakespeare's most riotous and farcical plays, in which merchants, masters, parents, servants and a long-suffering wife find themselves comically entwined over the course of one hectic day. The Lord Chamberlain’s Men bring their open air production to this year's festival and Rebecca Sandles met up its Artistic Director Peter Stickney. Event Details: https://brightonfestival.org/event/11024/the_comedy_of_errors/ To find out more about Brighton Festival see : http://brightonfestival.org To find out more about RadioReverb - the Broadcast Media Partner of Brighton Festival 2018 see : http://radioreverb.com #Brighton #Arts #Culture

In this episode : we hear about Shakespeare in the open air; explore a fear of what lies hidden in deep waters; hear about some of the festival's music highlights and look back at some picks of the festival. To find out more about Brighton Festival see : http://brightonfestival.org To find out more about RadioReverb - the Broadcast Media Partner of Brighton Festival 2018 see : http://radioreverb.com #Brighton #Arts #Culture

As the end of Brighton Festival approaches, our reporter and reviewer Jack Claramunt looks back at the last three weeks and shares his highlights with Melita and Rebecca. To find out more about Brighton Festival see : http://brightonfestival.org To find out more about RadioReverb - the Broadcast Media Partner of Brighton Festival 2018 see : http://radioreverb.com #Brighton #Arts #Culture

A live string quartet plays along to readings which explore some of the more discomforting aspects of human existence in The String's Quartet's Guide to Sex and Anxiety. Dan went to see the show and joins Melita and Rebecca in studio to tell them what he thought. Event Details: https://brightonfestival.org/event/13557/thestringquartetsguidetosexand_anxiety/ To find out more about Brighton Festival see : http://brightonfestival.org To find out more about RadioReverb - the Broadcast Media Partner of Brighton Festival 2018 see : http://radioreverb.com #Brighton #Arts #Culture

Now in it's second year, Your Place is a community initiative at Brighton Festival which takes the festival out of the city centre and into outlying parts of the city over two weekends. Melita Dennett and Rebecca Sandles look back at the first weekend in Hangleton and preview what's coming to East Brighton.  Event Details: Hangleton: https://brightonfestival.org/event/13952/your_place/ East Brighton: https://brightonfestival.org/event/13954/your_place/ To find out more about Brighton Festival see : http://brightonfestival.org To find out more about RadioReverb - the Broadcast Media Partner of Brighton Festival 2018 see : http://radioreverb.com #Brighton #Arts #Culture

In this episode : we find out about a kaleidoscopic queer temple party; meet a music collaborator with Festival Guest Director David Shrigley and look forward to events in East Brighton at the weekend. To find out more about Brighton Festival see : http://brightonfestival.org To find out more about RadioReverb - the Broadcast Media Partner of Brighton Festival 2018 see : http://radioreverb.com #Brighton #Arts #Culture

The passion and the power of Tango are given an audacious new dimension by Tangomotán, a dynamic quartet that is weaving new musical sounds into the Tango tradition. The members’ classical training and international backgrounds have given them a richly diverse sound landscape on which to draw with often astonishing results.  Melita Dennett went along to meet the group as they were arriving at their venue. Event Details: https://brightonfestival.org/event/13491/tangomotan/ To find out more about Brighton Festival see : http://brightonfestival.org To find out more about RadioReverb - the Broadcast Media Partner of Brighton Festival 2018 see : http://radioreverb.com #Brighton #Arts #Culture