After Dark Festival: Equinox
An archaeologist, a cosmologist and two pagans join Matthew Sweet to uncover the meanings that humanity has given to the moment when the length of day and night is equal.
Matthew Sweet and his guests begin coverage of the After Dark Festival - an overnight extravaganza recorded at Sage Gateshead for the equinox weekend. What meanings and interpretations has humanity given to the equinox moment - when the length of day and night is equal and to other key points of the solar year? Cosmologist Carlos Frenk from Durham University, archaeologist Penny Bickle from the University of York, Kevin Lapping from the Pagan Federation and his wife Kirsten discuss the significance of the changing seasons, what we learn from the solar alignment of Neolithic monuments and the vaster galactic and cosmic cycles that are we are also a part of.
Producer: Torquil MacLeod
Part of Radio 3鈥檚 After Dark Festival, a major new live music festival for 2022 in partnership with Sage Gateshead and TUSK Music, featuring some of the biggest names in contemporary, classical and experimental music. For all related content, search 鈥淎fter Dark Festival鈥 in 成人快手 Sounds.
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