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Aldeburgh
This week The Verb is live at The Aldeburgh Festival in Snape Maltings. Joining Ian and a studio audience are Lavinia Greenlaw, Fiona Sampson and Mark Padmore.
Presenter: Ian McMillan
Producer: Faith Lawrence
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Fri 7 Jun 2019
22:00
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Lavinia Greenlaw
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The writer Lavinia Greenlaw has published fiction and non-fiction books as well as six collections of poetry. She reads from her latest collection 'The Built Moment', (Faber), which examines her father's dementia.
Fiona Sampson
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Fiona Sampson's latest book is the biography 'In Search of Mary Shelley: The Girl Who Wrote Frankenstein'. She also reads from her forthcoming poetry collection.
Mark Padmore
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As part of this year's Aldeburgh Festival, tenor Mark Padmore will be preformingÌýBenjamin Britten’s extraordinary settings of John Donne and Thomas
Hardy. He is accompanied by pianistÌýLana Bode. ÌýÌý
Bastard Assignments
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Bastard Assignments are a collective of of composer-performers making experimental music and are Open Space Artists at Snape Maltings. Here, they perform a brand new commission for the The VerbÌý
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