Dan Whitehouse in Stourbridge
Folk on Foot
Matthew Bannister
4.8 • 526 Ratings
🗓️ 10 October 2024
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
For four hundred years, Stourbridge in the West Midlands was at the heart of Britain’s glass making industry. The local landscape was dotted with distinctive brick built cones, or chimneys, where the glass was made. The local singer and songwriter Dan Whitehouse made an album called “Voices From The Cones” based on recordings of the memories of glass workers. In this extraordinary episode he takes us to a former glass works - now a college teaching craft skills to neurodivergent students - and sings the songs inspired by this fascinating industry. And Matthew gets to try his hand at glass blowing!
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| 1:04.1 | So thank you and enjoy the walk. Just got off the train in Stourbridge in the West Midlands, and we're here to meet an artist called Dan Whitehouse, who made this extraordinary project called Voices from the Cones, |
| 1:29.3 | all about the glass industry, |
| 1:30.9 | which was incredibly prevalent around here until very, very recently. |
| 1:34.8 | And we're not only going to hear his amazing songs, |
| 1:37.2 | but we're also going to see the places where the glass was made, |
| 1:40.7 | and I might even have a go at doing it myself. |
| 1:43.2 | Music made and I might even have a go at doing it myself. Dan, good morning. |
| 2:05.3 | Lovely to see you. |
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