Summary
From dance to prayer, servants to scientists, knees ups to being on our knees - Matthew Sweet talks to art critic Louisa Buck, historian and New Generation Thinker Joe Moshenska, author Tracy Chevalier and dancer and choreographer Russell Maliphant.
Tracy Chevalier's novels include A Single Thread - a novel depicting the work of "broderers" creating cushions and kneelers for Winchester Cathedral in the 1930s.
Russell Maliphant formed Russell Maliphant Company in 1996 and has worked with companies and artists including Sylvie Guillem, Robert Lepage, Isaac Julian, Balletboyz and Lyon Opera Ballet. He created Broken Fall for Sylvie Guillem and Balletboyz which premiered at the Royal Opera House and received an Olivier award for best new dance production.
Producer: Paula McGinley
If you are interested in craft you might like our discussion on the joy of sewing with Clare Hunter and Jade Halbert https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0002mk2 or The Woolly episode https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0009bw4 with Esther Rutter & Alex Harris
or Darian Leader and Seb Falk join Lisa Le Feuvre and Thrishantha Nanayakkara to look at Hands with Matthew Sweet https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03z2nbj
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| 0:37.3 | There's a definite hierarchy to the human body. |
| 0:40.5 | It works partly by altitude, I think. |
| 0:43.0 | The skull and what it contains. |
| 0:45.3 | The eye, the mouth. |
| 0:47.1 | There's a literature for all of these. |
| 0:49.3 | There's a poetry and a theory. |
| 0:51.4 | But what happens if you go south? |
| 0:53.4 | Well, the heart, of course, that has a lot of semiotic thickness and the theory. But what happens if you go south? Well, the heart, of course, that has a lot of |
| 0:55.9 | semiotic thickness, and the hand. I presented a free thinking programme about the hand, in which |
| 1:01.9 | one of the contributors suggested that the hand needed its due when we come to think about where |
| 1:07.4 | consciousness lies. But this programme is going to tackle a body part that finds itself |
| 1:12.9 | in a strange position, and that position is roughly halfway between the ankle and the pelvis. |
| 1:18.7 | Yes, I'm talking about the knee. It has poetry, it has its theory, it expresses the workings of |
| 1:26.3 | power, and it can also be a zone of sexual danger. |
| 1:29.9 | But it's also neglected, unheroic, absurd even. Have knees ever been the subject of 45 minutes of |
| 1:37.0 | radio before? No, not to my knowledge. So let's fix that. And we're doing that under coronavirus conditions, of course. I'm in the studio |
| 1:45.3 | here at Broadcasting House in London. My guests are on a variety of lines. They're good ones, |
| 1:50.7 | though. That's the guests, not the lines. We don't know about the lines. But the art historian, |
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