#bibi june

Hello again. We took a bit of a break from this (for reasons explained here), but now we’re back with a couple of podcasts recorded during this year’s Edinburgh Fringe. Firstly we’re talking to the four writers and performers behind A Matter of Time, a debut fringe show from Ellen Renton, Shannon MacGregor, Ross McFarlane and Bibi June. They chose two poems each.

The poems they have chosen are as follows (click on the links for more info):

Mid-Term Break - Seamus Heaney - Death of a Naturalist (1966)

Autumn - Paolo Nutini - These Streets (2006 album)

Anthem - Leonard Cohen - The Future (1992 album)

Unsolicited Advice To Adolescent Girls With Crooked Teeth and Pink Hair - Jeanann Verlee

Disasterology - Jeffrey McDaniel

July - Boy - Mutual Friend (2011 album)

Shake the Dust - Anis Morjani

Fourth of July - Sufjan Stevens - Carrie and Lowell (2015 album)

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