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Hello, Lauren LeVern here.

Desert Island Disks is taking its usual Easter break at the moment,

so to keep you entertained in the meantime,

we've chosen some fabulous editions from our back catalog for you.

As usual, this is a podcast,

so the music has been shortened for rights reasons.

We do hope you enjoy listening.

Music

My cast away this week is the artist, Lubaina Himid.

She made headlines when she won the Turner Prize in 2017,

but her career began 40 years ago when she decided to issue set design

for a different kind of theatre.

Many art catalogs talk about immersive installations,

but hers really walk the walk.

One piece boasts 100 life-size figures that the audience must weave amongst

and other features huge flags hung on giant pulleys,

which we are invited to move and rearrange.

Black identity, creativity, politics,

and the lives of the people of the African diaspora

are recurrent themes in her work.

She describes herself as a fillerine of gaps,

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