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Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly.

Friday 9 May 2008 21:45-22:30 (Radio 3)

Ian McMillan presents Radio 3's weekly cabaret of language, featuring Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly. alias singer and songwriter Sam Duckworth. His opinionated lyrics have led to comparisons with Billy Bragg and he joins Ian to talk about his work and perform songs from his new album.

Duration:

45 minutes

Roger McGough

Roger discusses his translation of Moliere's Tartuffe.

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Ian McMillan talks to poet Roger McGough about his new translation of Moliere's seventeenth century play Tarfuffe. And he and Ian even attempt to perform a short extract.

Also on the programme, Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly., also known as up and coming singer songwriter Sam Duckworth, talks to Ian about his writing and his interest in regional dialects, poet Elisabeth Bletsoe reads from her work which celebrates the history, language and geology of Dorset and there's a brand new story from novelist Niven Govinden.


Further information

Tartuffe, by Moliere, trans. Roger McGough, published by Methuen Drama on 9 May 2008.

Roger's translation of Tartuffe is being performed at the Liverpool Everyman Theatre until the end of May, and then at the Rose Theatre in Kingston.

Get Cape, Wear Cape, Fly's most recent album is 'Searching For The Hows and Whys', on the Warner Label.

Landscape From A Dream by Elisabeth Bletsoe is published by Shearsman.

Graffiti My Soul by Niven Govinden is published by Canongate Books.

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