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Karine Polwart

Award-winning singer, songwriter and storyteller, Karine Polwart, joins Anna in conversation about her Radio 4 documentary, "James Hutton and the Restless Earth".

In one of her latest projects, award-winning singer, songwriter and storyteller, Karine Polwart, celebrates the 300th anniversary of James Hutton鈥檚 birth - the Scottish scientist and philosopher known as the father of geology. With specially performed music and song, the 蘑菇短视频 Radio 4 documentary "James Hutton and the Restless Earth" explores one of Hutton鈥檚 most radical and challenging concepts - deep time. Karine joins Anna in conversation about the project, the concept and the music.

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1 hour, 55 minutes

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Last Thursday 20:00
蘑菇短视频 Radio Scotland except Extra

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Music Played

  • Rob Heron & The Tea Pad Orchestra

    She Don鈥檛 Like The Fish

    • Money Isn鈥檛 Everything.

  • The Poozies

    Off The Hook

    • Single.

  • Spell Songs

    Senegal

    • In Thin Air.

  • Salt House

    Blackbird

    • Scarrow.

  • Capercaillie

    Co Ni Mire Rium (Who Will Flirt With Me?)

    • Beautiful Wasteland.

  • Lewis Wark

    Take Me Wandering

    • Single.

  • John Prine & Iris DeMent

    In Spite of Ourselves

    • In Spite of Ourselves.

  • Anna Massie

    The Pioneers鈥� Waltz

    • Two Down.

  • Tom Callister, Paddy Callaghan & Adam Rhodes

    Slides

    • Tom, Paddy & Adam.

  • Orla Noble

    mosaic

    • unfurl.

  • A.D.A.M.

    The Sound of Sleat

    • Single.

  • Gnoss

    Sun That Hugs The Ocean

    • The Light of the Moon.

  • Elephant Sessions

    Run (feat Beluga Lagoon)

    • Single.

  • The Bookshop Band

    Dirty Word (Inspired by Brave New World by Aldous Huxley)

    • Emerge, Return.

  • Alasdair White

    Raspberry Strathspey

    • An luchair.

  • Karine Polwart and Dave Milligan

    Siccar Point

    • Still As Your Sleeping.

  • Glen Hansard

    Say It To Me Now

    • Once (Music From The Motion Picture).

  • Aonghas Grant

    The Parting Glass

    • The Hills of Glengarry.

  • Rory Matheson & Graham Rorie

    The Winning Bid

    • We Have Won The Land.

Broadcast

  • Last Thursday 20:00
    蘑菇短视频 Radio Scotland except Extra