Name: A Lament for Sir John Franklin by Peterchrisp
Duration: 4 min 43 s
Description: Bowhead whales and A.L.Lloyd singing for Sir John Franklin. Bowheads live to be 200, so there are whales in the Arctic today who would have seen Franklin's ships in 1845

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'Audio Arthole' is a weekly audio broadcast by the 2016 Arthole Artist's Award recipient Marcia Farquahar.

Arthole is a new LADA initiative intended to plug a hole in art funding for open-ended research and professional development.

The annual Award supports a groundbreaking and inspirational UK-based artist working in Live Art with £10,000 to undertake a self determined year-long research and artistic development programme. The Award particularly encourages research into a range of critical, cultural, and practical concepts; dialogues and intergenerational collaborations; and ideas of legacy and future potentials.

Marcia Farquhar is a London based artist known for her work in performance, installation, video and object making. Conceptual in nature, much of her practice revolves around the stories and interactions of everyday life, as well as the engineering of unexpected social interactions in which the distance between audience and performer is frequently breached. Her site-specific events have been staged and exhibited internationally in museums and galleries, as well as in cinemas, kitchen showrooms, pubs, parks and leisure centres.

Image credit Jem Finer

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Prelude and Opening Chorus to 'Lord God' - another collaboration between author Philip Reeve and playwright and composer Brian Mitchell, writers of the acclaimed musical comedy 'The Ministry of Biscuits' and the recent stage adaptation of Reeve and McIntyre's 'Pugs of The Frozen North'.

Lyrics by Reeve and Mitchell, Music by Mitchell

LYRICS:

The stained-glass windows that you see in your church
Have got the hereafter all wrong.
If Burne-Jones and Rosetti had done their research
Then there'd be no need for this song.
The kind of afterlife envisioned by Morris and Co
Is fusty and old-fashioned and like no place we know.
We're far less Pugin, rather more Mies Van Der Rohe, 
A paradise with pep and plenty of get up and go....

Chorus:

Here up in Heaven everything is shiny and new
Here up in Heaven everything's a feast pour les yeux
Our so-superior home
Is decked with mirrors and chrome
And every wall is a fresco-secco -
Even our angels are Art Deco!
Here up in Heaven everything is chic and unique;
All of our pots are Clarice Cliff, our lamps are Lalique.
Paradise could not be finer
When it looks like one great ocean liner -
Here up in Heaven everything is divine.

 Here up in Heaven everything is shiny and new.
Here up in Heaven everyone's an Erte statue.
Our silver harps are inlaid
With jasper, coral and jade
And all the souls who arrive make their case
At the top of a sweeping staircase.
Here up in Heaven everything is striking and bold.
Here up in Heaven we've no use for anything old.
There's radio and telephone too!
Here up in Heaven 
Here up in Heaven
Every blessed thing is shiny and new!

'Here Up In Heaven' from 'Lord God'

Bowhead whales and A.L.Lloyd singing for Sir John Franklin. Bowheads live to be 200, so there are whales in the Arctic today who would have seen Franklin's ships in 1845

A Lament for Sir John Franklin

Peterchrisp

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