145. THE SHOW MUST GO ON: why we need to save the arts
Reasons Revisited
Geoff Lloyd
4.8 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 28 June 2020
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Hello! With 70% British theatres on the brink of collapse and hundreds of thousands of arts jobs at risk, we’re talking about the need to save our arts and culture sector. Playwright James Graham sets out the threat to theatres and what government needs to do. Our FDR expert David Woolner is back to explain the huge art programmes in the New Deal. Then Berlin-based journalist Kate Brown talks about Germany’s ambitious culture bailout.
Plus poet Lemn Sissay on lockdown, judging the Booker Prize, and his powerful memoir ‘My Name is Why’.
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