Arena Monday 13 February 2017
On Thursday's Arena with Seán Rocks, poet Moya Cannon's anthology Collected Poems celebrating six collections and new poetry, film reviews with John Maguire and Aingeala Flannery and Kate Brennan Harding revisits Fugees The Score album at 25.
Neil Gaiman talks about his latest book "Norse Mythology", a collection of short stories that comically re-tell the ancient Norse myths about the creation of the world (published by Bloomsbury)
Keith Donald chats about his one-man show ‘NewBliss’ a musical memoir of his life from a troubled Belfast childhood to a successful career as a musician and recovery from alcoholism
Official website: www.keithdonald.com
Sorcha Kenny profiles the Lena Dunham tv series "Girls", examining why it was such an influential female-led tv series
Film-maker Paddy Cahill and performance artist Amanda Coogan talk about collaborating on “Amanda Coogan: Long Now”, a documentary about Amanda’s performance exhibition “I’ll Sing You A Song From Around The Town”
Further details: www.diff.ie / www.paddycahill.com / www.amandacoogan.com
Sara Baume with an essay about her relationship with her television
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Presenter: Seán Rocks