A Celebration of the Pub in Culture
Al Murray, Eliza Carthy and David Mark on finding inspiration down their local and how the arts are helping keep pubs open.
We consider the connection between the public house and the arts. Why do pubs make such great settings, provide so much inspiration and serve as great venues for the arts?
Al Murray ponders the longevity of his pub landlord and what this character allows him to explore about Britishness, as literary journalist Suzi Feay considers the representation of pubs in books and TV.
Musician Eliza Carthy remembers her first ever public performance in The Bay Hotel in Robin Hood鈥檚 Bay, where she was a regular at the folk club there, while crime novelist David Mark tells us how he finds inspiration from the host of intriguing characters he meets down his local, the Samson Inn in Gilsland, Cumbria.
But, as pubs continue to be in decline 鈥� 25% of pubs have closed since 2001 - we consider how some hostelries are reinventing themselves as cultural destinations. Dawn Badland runs The Inn Crowd, a project which supports rural pubs to host spoken word performances, and Adam Lacey is manager of The Old Joint Stock, a Birmingham pub with its own 100 seater theatre.
Presenter: John Wilson
Producer: Hannah Robins
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The Old Joint Stock pub and theatre
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with Mark Grist and Tim Clare
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Inn Crowd is a partnership between Applause Rural Touring, Creative Arts East and the National Centre for Writing - with support from Arts Council England.<?xml:namespace prefix = "u5" />
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with Martin Carthy and The GIFT Band starts on 02 May
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