Arena Tuesday 12 November 2019
On Monday night's show, the best music books of 2019 with Tony Clayton Lea, the rise of K-pop and the legal, ethical questions raised with the resurgence of dead film stars aided by CGI...
On tonight's show....Shooting the Darkness the new book following on from the acclaimed documentary, Roland Hagenberg's exhibition on Jean-Michel Basquiat's, an interview with Marina Warner and Abie Philbin Bowman previews comedian Hannah Gadsby, whose new show ‘Douglas’ is on this Sunday in the Bord Gais Energy Theatre.
Photographers Alan Lewis, Crispin Rodwell and producer Thomas Kelly from the acclaimed documentary are discussing the new book Shooting The Darkness. They talk about the photographs they took - how they got the shot; what it cost them to take the photograph; and reflect on whether it was worth it.
Photographer Roland Hagenberg's exclusive exhibition of never seen before photographs in Ireland of the iconic American artist Jean-Michel Basquiat will launch in Dublin 13th November 2019 at Sal Fine Art. Roland joins us live in studio.
Last week, the Irish Humanities Alliance launched a new initiative, By Imagination We Live. This initiative was launched by writer and humanities champion, Marina Warner, author of such groundbreaking work as Alone Of All Her Sex: The Cult Of The Virgin Mary, and Monuments and Maidens: The Allegory Of The Female Form.
Song For The Moon
Mairead Buicke (Soprano)
4:00
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