Listen to this ODNB podcast to learn about the life of dramatist and diarist, Joe Orton (1933-1967), best known for the plays Loots and What the Butler Saw.

In the 1960s Joe Orton burst on the theatrical scene with a string of shocking, farcical, and very funny plays, including 'Entertaining Mr Sloane', 'Loot', and 'What the Butler Saw'. Orton had a disdain for taboos and social conventions which he set about undermining in his work, and in his life‚ serving time in prison for stealing and defacing library books. In 1967 at the height of his fame, Orton was murdered by his long-term partner Kenneth Halliwell. Orton's life is the subject of a biography and a film, 'Prick Up Your Ears', with a screenplay by Alan Bennett.

This life of Joe Orton, written by Michael Arditti, is taken from the 'Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'. Take a look at the ODNB Website to discover more about the people who shaped the history of the British Isles and beyond.

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Joe Orton (1933-1967), playwright and diarist

Who is Carmen? Is she really the exotic femme fatale of popular imagination, or is there more about her story that can be told? How could this be accomplished?

In this special instalment of Thinking With Opera, recorded live at a seminar in the Howard Assembly Room at Opera North in February 2022, Professor Edward Venn looks at the many ways in which different operatic components come together to create meaning in Carmen.

Focusing on Edward Dick’s 2021 production for Opera North, he hears from creative personnel from across Opera North, singers, a director and a conductor, the Head of Costume and Access Manager, and American academic Susan McClary, Professor of Musicology at Case Western Reserve University.

A DARE symposium in partnership with the University of Leeds, led by Professor Edward Venn from the School of Music, and supported by AHRC.

Carmen, Carmencita!

In this episode of the NVIDIA AI Podcast, recorded live at the GTC 2024, host Noah Kravitz sits down with Adam Wenchel, co-founder and CEO of Arthur. Arthur enhances the performance of AI systems across various metrics like accuracy, explainability, and fairness. Wenchel shares insights into the challenges and opportunities of deploying generative AI. The discussion spans a range of topics, including AI bias, the observability of AI systems, and the practical implications of AI in business. For more on Arthur, visit arthur.ai.

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Performance AI: Insights from Arthur's Adam Wenchel – Ep. 221

Lyrics: Malik Work & Timothy Trimingham Lee
Music: Rob Hart
Vocals: Malik Work & Justin Alexander Gordon
Image: Luke Pajak
"Abundance" is an excerpt from the new hip hop musical, BEGGAR TO THE AIR, by Malik Work, Timothy Trimingham Lee & Rob Hart. Terrell throws a coming home party for Venn T, who he has freed from prison with his wealth and influence. In a private concert, Terrell and Venn T perform "Abundance," Terrell's latest single for his label, Athen Records. When Terrell offers the floor to his  protégé, Venn T first thanks his mentor, but then criticises him for taking money from sources that are poisoning the community.

Abundance

For RA.1000, DJ Sprinkles' first mix in over a decade is a powerful meditation on the genocide in Gaza.

Dance music often relies on simple narratives: release, escape, unity. But those narratives can often feel inadequate, and even at times, hollow. Or, as Terre Thaemlitz might bluntly put it, just "shitty."

For her first mix in around 15 years, Terre Thaemlitz AKA DJ Sprinkles, challenges us to think differently. "I felt this 1000th podcast should reflect the moment in which it was made," she told us in her Q&A.

And what is this moment? Every day since Israel's 2023 assault on Gaza began, an average of 28 children have been killed. That's an entire classroom, every day, for over 600 days (at the time of writing). It's a staggering figure that only captures a fragment of the listless cruelty imposed on the strip.

Faced with such a genocide, what can music really do? How political can it truly be?  For their RA.1000, Thaemlitz gives us an unflinching rebuke to the idea that music should provide escapism. The mix weaves ambient fragments and jazz passages, woven around samples from Israeli media and the voices of outspoken Jewish critics like Gabor Maté and Norman Finkelstein. 

The result is not just a protest, but a document of our time. For Terre Thaemlitz, music is never just music. Her RA.1000 serves as a reminder that in an age of relentless suffering, the most political act is to reject the illusion of escape, and search for something greater.

Read the interview and find the tracklist at ra.co/podcast/1013. Listen to all RA.1000 mixes, as well as the complete history of the RA Podcast, at https://1000.ra.co

RA.1000 Terre Thaemlitz / DJ Sprinkles

Abstracting traditional music with a strung-up bamboo spear and unique, tremor-inducing vocals, the pair strike a thunderbolt between their avant-garde influences and strong connections to their cultural heritage. Black metal fans will rip the Venom badges from their jackets and techno-heads will weep for their mamas. This is high-grade bonkey tonks shizzle. £6.

DS033 - Senyawa (sample)

Lives of the Great Poisoners

Lives of the Great Poisoners (Assignation duet)

Playwrights Brad Birch and Elinor Cook talk about their new plays Black Mountain and Out Of Love - Paines Plough, Orange Tree Theatre and Theatr Clwyd co-productions for Roundabout. Both plays are in repertoire at the Orange Tree until 3 MArch 2018. OT Literary Associate Guy Jones chairs the discussion. 
www.orangetreetheatre.co.uk/whats-on/paines-plough-roundabout

Brad Birch & Elinor Cook talk to Guy Jones

Rose Lewenstein talks to OT Literary Associate Guy Jones about her new play Cougar about what – and who – we consume. It premieres at the Orange Tree Theatre in a co-production with English Touring Theatre in February 2019.
Find out more: www.orangetreetheatre.co.uk/whats-on/cougar

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This compact disc presents some of the most popular genres of Chechen folk music in performance by well-known masters, such as the celebrated singers, Sultan Magomedov (Vokkhachu stegan illi (Song of the Old Man) or Sedarchiyn bu’ysa (Starry Night)), Said Shaipov (Ditslur dats (I will not forget)), by the legend of the Chechen stage - Mariam Aidamirova (Yo’Ian dagaletsamash (Remembrances of a Girl)), or singer and instrumental performer Valid Daghaev (Lechanan illi (Song of the Falcon)), some instrumental compositions performed by Umar Dimayev (Beni-Yurtan khelkharan yish (Dance from Beni-Yurt), Khaza-yoI (Beautiful Girl)).

Abundance

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