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The Cute Verb
Manage episode 401358427 series 1301171
This week it’s the ‘cabaret of cuteness’ as this week Ian McMillan and his guests examine all things small, fluffy, wide eyed and sleepy in The Cute Verb. Ian is joined by poet Isabel Galleymore who reads from her new collection Baby Schema which asks what we ask cuteness to do for us and follows Mickey Mouse’s journey towards cuteness across the past one hundred years. Tom Morton Smith wrote the smash-hit RSC adaptation of My Neighbour Totoro, here he helps us consider being cute as well as being big, noisy, smelly, and a little bit scary. Karen McCarthy Woolf’s new experimental verse novel is ‘Top Doll’, a story told by a chorus of cute and not so cute dolls. And finally Kate Fox imagines a meet-cute between a cute creature and a not so cute one – can cute be an eco-strategy?
Presenter: Ian McMillan Producer: Jessica Treen
284 episodes
Manage episode 401358427 series 1301171
This week it’s the ‘cabaret of cuteness’ as this week Ian McMillan and his guests examine all things small, fluffy, wide eyed and sleepy in The Cute Verb. Ian is joined by poet Isabel Galleymore who reads from her new collection Baby Schema which asks what we ask cuteness to do for us and follows Mickey Mouse’s journey towards cuteness across the past one hundred years. Tom Morton Smith wrote the smash-hit RSC adaptation of My Neighbour Totoro, here he helps us consider being cute as well as being big, noisy, smelly, and a little bit scary. Karen McCarthy Woolf’s new experimental verse novel is ‘Top Doll’, a story told by a chorus of cute and not so cute dolls. And finally Kate Fox imagines a meet-cute between a cute creature and a not so cute one – can cute be an eco-strategy?
Presenter: Ian McMillan Producer: Jessica Treen
284 episodes
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