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British multidisciplinary creative Es Devlin goes in-depth about her background, her new retrospective, and how she looks back to move forwards.

Atmospheric but ambiguous production, given extra weight by cast of rich voices. Opera review by Gavin Dixon

The director on his determination to portray ‘real people’ and being accused of pretension

5 May 2021 43 min listen This week we look back with a series of two episodes that attempt to explore the music, the man and the myth of composer Sir Harrison Birtwistle in his 80th year in 2014.   From the Archive sees us dig into our extensive contemporary and classical music and cinema podcast archive as we rediscover interviews and discussions with artists, with our long-standing producer and presenter, Ben Eshmade.  Subscribe to Nothing Concrete on Acast, Spotify, iTunes or wherever you ...