The Specials' Terry Hall, the plays of Athol Fugard, Artemisia Gentileschi
Terry Hall on The Specials' new album and we profile baroque artist Artemisia Gentileschi.
When The Specials released their new album Encore recently, their first new music with Terry Hall since the classic Ghost Town in 1981, it went straight to Number One. Nearly four decades on from their split, the Coventry band’s lead singer Terry Hall discusses the new album and how he found himself back in the recording studio with his long-term collaborators Lynval Golding and Horace Panter after all these years.
This year is the 25th anniversary of the first universal democratic elections in South Africa which resulted in Nelson Mandela becoming President of the new rainbow nation. Athol Fugard’s plays dramatise the injustices of apartheid and were part of the struggle that led to those elections. Now two of his plays are about to open in the UK, 1961’s Blood Knot, and, A Lesson, which was first performed in 1978. Directors Janet Suzman and Matthew Xia discuss the importance of Fugard and how, 25 years after the end of apartheid, his plays speak to us today.
As the National Gallery's newly acquired self-portrait by Artemisia Gentileschi begins a grand tour of the UK starting at the Glasgow Women’s Library, curator Letizia Treves discusses the significance of this early 17th Century painting and Gentileschi's extraordinary career as one of the leading artists of the Baroque.
Music journalist Dorian Lynskey looks at the life of Keith Flint, lead singer of dance band The Prodigy.
Presenter, John Wilson
Producer, Dymphna Flynn
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Terry Hall
The Specials album, Encore is out now, and British and Irish leg of theÌýEncore 40th Anniversary Tour starts in Dublin on 12 and 13 April 2019, Ìýand finishes with 4 nights in Coventry from 09 - 12 July 2019, Ìývisiting Bournemouth, Portsmouth, Brighton, Plymouth, Exeter, Cardiff, Blackburn, Leicester, Birmingham, Liverpool, Manchester, Leeds, Carlisle, Glasgow, Newcastle, Middlesborough, Scarborough, Scunthorpe, York, Sheffield, Cambridge, Southend, Margate, Brixton, Kentish Town in between.Ìý See website for more details.
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Main image above: Terry Hall
Image to the left: John Wilson with Terry Hall.
Keith Flint remembered
Artemisia Gentileschi
Artemisia Gentileschi's self portrait as St Catherine is at Glasgow Women's Library from 06 - 19 March 2019.
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Image:
Artemisia GentileschiÌý (1593 - 1654 or later)
Self portrait as Saint Catherine of Alexandria
About 1615 - 1617
Oil on canvas
(c) The National Gallery, London
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Athol Fugard
Two of Fugard's plays have UK productions:
directed by Janet Suzman is at the Finsborough Theatre, London until 23 March 2019.
Blood Knot directed by Michael Xia is at The Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond from 08 March - 20 April 2019.
Image: Athol Fugard at the ±«Óãtv in 1979.
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