Crafts in lockdown, VĂkingur Ă“lafsson performs Glass, Netflix series Hollywood and Lionel Shriver novel reviewed
How craft can help mental wellbeing in lockdown, VĂkingur Ă“lafsson performs live, Tony Allen obituary and Lionel Shriver novel and Netflix series Hollywood reviewed
Icelandic pianist VĂkingur Ă“lafsson, Front Row’s Lockdown Artist in Residence, continues his weekly live performances from the empty Harpa Concert Hall in Reykjavik. Tonight he plays an energetic piece by the American minimalist composer Philip Glass, Etude No.9.
What has been the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on our mental health and how might being creative at home help our mental wellbeing at this challenging time? Dr Daisy Fancourt is leading the UK’s biggest study looking at the impact the coronavirus crisis has had on our mental health. She explains their findings so far and the potential impact craft can have on mental wellbeing. And embroiderer Ekta Kaul and maker Joe Hartley discuss how their own practice has changed under lockdown, the online tutorials they’ve been running and how you can start making at home yourself.
We mark the loss of the great afrobeat drummer Tony Allen whose death has been announced at the age of 79 with an interview for Front Row from 2014.
And novelist Sara Collins and critic Karen Krizanovich review Hollywood, the Netflix series from Glee co-creator Ryan Murphy, and the new Lionel Shriver novel The Motion of the Body Through Space.
Presenter: John Wilson
Producer: Sarah Johnson
Studio manager: Matilda Macari
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The UCL Covid-19 Social Study is the largest study on mental health in the UK during the pandemic with over 80,000 participants. Results are made publicly available each week as well as being provided to government and health and community organisations across the UK to inform advice and support being given to people.
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Tonight he plays Philip Glass, who you can hear speaking to John Wilson on Front Row in 2015 here.Ěý
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