Ep50: Experimental Words (Part 2)

December 13, 2017 in Season 3

Sara Hirsch performing on stage. Image credit: Jess Wade.

Five poets and five scientists meet on stage in Kings Cross. Five performance pieces based around their joint experiences. This episode shares parts of those performances.

Paul Cree and Edward Bracey. Image credit: Stuart Higgins

I think I might have just shared something incredibly personal with a room full of strangers

This is the second episode about the engagement project Experimental Words. To find out more, listen to episode one first.

In this episode you’ll hear extracts of performances by: Keith Jarrett, Caroline Teague, Paul Cree, Emily Harrison, Sara Hirsch, Jess Wade, Jessica Sells, Edward Bracey and Carole Kenrick.

Carole Kenrick and Emily Harrison on stage. Image credit: Stuart Higgins

You can find out more about Experimental Words, Dan Simpson and Sam Illingworth on their website.

Note: The final performance features music by the composer Kevin MacLeod, the credits for these pieces are: Luminous Rain, Perspectives, Vision of Persistence: Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com). Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

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