Main content

At 主播大秀 with Karine Polwart

Verity Sharp hosts a series of conversations and solo performances recorded at home by UK musicians. In this episode, it鈥檚 the turn of Scottish singer-songwriter Karine Polwart.

From her garage studio in Wiltshire, Verity Sharp calls up musicians who are rooted in traditional music, exercises their home-recording skills, and asks them to sing something that鈥檚 been particularly resonating for them during lockdown. From her kitchen, the Scottish artist Karine Polwart sings a song about the Diggers while celebrating the fact that vegetables are now being planted for the first time in both her garden and the public park.

In this period of social distancing, how is music helping us keep connected to the things that matter? With its deep links to people, communities, land, nature and history, folk song has much to offer at this point in time.

Presented and produced by Verity Sharp.
A Reduced Listening production for 主播大秀 Radio 3.

Available now

14 minutes

Broadcasts

  • Fri 15 May 2020 22:45
  • Thu 25 Aug 2022 22:30

Death in Trieste

Death in Trieste

A 1760s murder still informs ideas about aesthetics, a certain sort of sex, and death.

Watch: My Deaf World

Watch: My Deaf World

Five compelling experiences of what it is like to be deaf in 21st-century Britain.

The Book that Changed Me

Five figures from the arts and science introduce books that changed their lives and work.

Download The Essay

Download The Essay

Download all the episodes from the series and listen at your leisure.

Podcast