For the series finale of the Green Man Podcast 2024 please enjoy Huw Stephens chatting to Jude Rogers recorded live at the Talking Shop this August.
Huw Stephens broadcasts on BBC Radio 6 Music on his daily drivetime show, guest presents on BBC Radio 4's Saturday Live and hosts weekly shows in both English and Welsh on BBC Radio Wales and Radio Cymru. He co-founded the Welsh Music Prize and Cardiff's Sŵn Festival. His new book, Wales: 100 Records, offers a multifarious encyclopedia of Welsh music, from Tom Jones and Bonnie Tyler, to Manic Street Preachers and Super Furry Animals, via Dafydd Iwan, Cate Le Bon, Gwenno, and Underworld, bringing us a vivid portrait of the irreverent spirit of this country.
Jude Rogers is the author of The Sound Of Being Human: How Music Shapes our Lives, an arts and culture journalist for The Guardian, The Observer and others, makes radio programmes for BBC Radio, and runs arts projects. She moved back to Wales in 2016 thanks to her love of the Green Man Festival, which she has attended since 2005, where she's interviewed the likes of Shirley Collins and John Cale, and co-run the Saturday quiz in recent years.
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Fiona Stewart, Tiggy Pettifer, Esyllt Sears & Little Amal
A joyous return to the fields of Green Man 2024 with none other than festival MD Fiona Stewart herself. She is joined by former royal nanny and keen fisher Tiggy Pettifer, to discuss the River Usk that runs along the Green Man site, and the importance of conservation efforts needed in Wales.
Then we rejoin comic and Welsh wonder Esyllt Sears, who spends Sunday afternoon at Green Man meeting Little Amal, the 12-foot puppet of a Syrian refugee child, and a global symbol of human rights. Amal has travelled to over 166 towns, this is her first time in Wales, and she not only led the Little Folk parade but also joined the crowds for the burning of the Green Man at the festival's close.
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Maruja, Big Special, Megan Broadmeadow, Angela Davies
As we come towards the end of our 2024 series, we’re taking things up a notch with Manchester band Maruja, known for going hell-for-leather in their punk jazz vigour, joined in our studio (read: tent) by Big Special, whose working-class anger melds with anthemic punchy pop, and left crowds reeling at their Sunday night Rising stage headline set.
And then it’s time to get lost in the world of Welsh myth and legend, exploring the relationship between the magic of old and the technology of new. Megan Broadmeadow’s exhibition in the woods, Dewiniath (or Sorcery) mixes AI and superstition, and she’s joined in conversation by fellow visual artist Angela Davies, whose work Aequus uses a lido in north Wales to question constructs of space and greener energy solutions.
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Tomiwa Olowade in conversation with Jude Rogers
Tomiwa Olowade is a British Nigerian writer and critic.
In his debut book ‘This Is Not America’, he looks at how a split away from American views on race and identity might help build an anti-racist agenda in Britain.
Here he speaks to journalist and author Jude Rogers.
Conversation recorded at the Talking Shop 2024.
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Smokin’ Jo in conversation with Kate French-Morris
Smokin’ Jo is the only female DJ to have won DJ Magazine’s DJ of the Year Award, and stands as a pioneer of the 90s dance scene. She has gigged all over the world, from Ibiza to Miami, China to Brazil, and collaborated with many major figures in music, film and fashion. Her memoir, You Don’t Need a Dick to DJ, tells of a childhood spent in a children’s home, the elation, euphoria and community she found in the burgeoning acid house scene, drink, drugs, and the misogyny, racism, prejudice and homophobia she encountered in the course of her phenomenally successful career.
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