Manchester International Festival 2015

Kirsty Wark and Mark Radcliffe present interviews and performances from the Manchester International Festival. Songwriter and musician Damon Albarn and writer Moira Buffini discuss wonder.land, their musical adaptation of Lewis Carroll's Alice - set very much in the digital age. Actor Maxine Peake discusses her shapeshifting role in a revival of Caryl Churchill's play The Striker. Choreographer Wayne McGregor and Mercury Prize winning musician Jamie xx on their new ballet Tree of Codes, inspired by Jonathan Safran Foer's book and devised in collaboration with artist Olafur Eliasson. And Turner Prize winning artist Douglas Gordon and actor Charlotte Rampling talk about their exploration of the wolf, Neck of the Woods. Plus performances from singer-songwriter Josephine and two Brooklyn-based street dancers.