For details of the 2021 AGM taking place on Sunday 11 July online, click on the Festival tab.
‘The Meeting’ project
The film of the panel discussion about ‘The Meeting’ (poem and song versions) – recorded in Cambs in late April – is now live and online. Another strand of the project – an album of Julian’s newly-composed fiddle music and more poetry readings by Toby (audio this time) – will be available later this summer.
Hugh Lupton ‘On Common Ground’
A performance of this will take place at the Peterborough Key Theatre Studio on Sunday 15 August at 3pm. Click here to book.
Carry Akroyd exhibition in Peterborough from 8 July 2021
Carry is once more exhibiting in Peterborough – starting in July. Hope you can catch it!
BBC radio programmes on Clare which you can catch online
All sorts of stuff on John Clare online, as listed below (click on the links):
BBC World Service (1991) ‘Omnibus: John Clare’
Ted Hughes reads John Clare ‘Nightingale’s Nest’, Westminster Abbey (1993)
BBC Radio 4 Programme (2004) ‘Open Country’
BBC Radio 4 Programme (2008) ‘John Clare The Lament of Swordy Well’
BBC Radio 4 Programme (2018) ‘In Our Time: John Clare’
BBC Radio 4 (2015) ‘Great Lives: John Clare’
Happy listening!
John Clare Society website 