Jimmy McGovern, Tania Bruguera, Arts and insomnia
Screenwriter Jimmy McGovern on his new ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ One drama Care; Cuban performance artist Tania Bruguera explains why she is continuing to protest a new law in Cuba; arts and insomnia
Screenwriter Jimmy McGovern talks about his new ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ One drama Care, starring Sheridan Smith, Alison Steadman and Sinead Keenan, which looks at the personal challenges of caring for a parent with dementia and the struggle to find good and affordable care.
Cuban performance artist Tania Bruguera talks to us from her home in Havana and explains why she is continuing to protest over Decree 349, a new law that will require artists to obtain a government licence, despite Bruguera being arrested twice this week by the authorities. ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Correspondent in Havana, Will Grant, explains the context and implications of the new law.
How can the arts help people with insomnia? We speak to two artists making work to fall asleep to – Richard Talbot of band Marconi Union, who worked with a sound therapist to write the soporific track Weightless, and Phoebe Smith, Sleep Storyteller-in-Residence for the sleep app Calm.
Presenter John Wilson
Producer Edwina Pitman
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Tania Bruguera
Jimmy McGovern
Sheridan Smith and
Alison Steadman in Care
Image credits: ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ/LA Productions/Dan Prince
Care begins on ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ One on
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- Thu 6 Dec 2018 19:15³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Radio 4
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