Listen "Kate Tempest: Everyday Epic"
Episode Synopsis
On Start the Week Andrew Marr talks to the writer and performer Kate Tempest about her desire to bring out the epic in everyday lives, and to show the poetry in lived experience. Tracy Chevalier has taken the themes of Shakespeare's Othello and transported them to a US elementary school, while Hanif Kureishi mines the dark world of jealousy and revenge in his latest novel. Lewis Hyde looks back to mythical mischief makers from Hermes to Loki to celebrate modern day rule breakers as the shapers of culture.
Producer: Katy HickmanImage: Kate Tempest Photographer: Hayley Louisa Brown.
Producer: Katy HickmanImage: Kate Tempest Photographer: Hayley Louisa Brown.
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