Culture

4:16 minutes (3.57 MB)

Jasmine goes to the Ska Baby Rave at Epic studios as part of the Norfolk and Norwich Festival

59:07 minutes (36.4 MB)

The Festivals are upon us ! On todays Platform - Peter Beck presents :

Kate Roma interviews Camille O'Sullivan about her appearance at the Theatre Royal as part of the NNF

Leila Lahfa reports from the lauch of the Norwich Fringe Festival and interviews performance poet Kate Tempest

Clare Pastorius brings us "Moment to Moment" a short documentary about the Voice Project rehearsing for thier show in the NNF

Kate Roma talks to Jai Chaudhuri at the Rock and Roll Public Library exhibition at the Gallery , NUCA.

19:38 minutes (44.94 MB)

Community Chest Jasmine talks to Shelly from Norwich Pride and members of Rabo de Foguete, which started out as a project by the founder of Norwich Samba Band, who are performing at Shake-Up on Saturday 15th May.

58:25 minutes (37.63 MB)

Matt Burman, Executive Producer of the Norfolk and Norwich Festival, introduces 12 tracks linked in with the festival's extensive lineup of arts, music, theatre, dance and exciting miscellany.

59:49 minutes (34.58 MB)

• On this weeks show: Will Wilson makes his debut as one of the Platform presenters: 
• We hear a couple of tracks from local guitarist Andrew Taylor recorded live at NAC.
• Henry Layte chats to Will all about the "Hack- in -the- Box" - an event taking place throughout the Festival season at the Book Hive in Norwich. 
• Mark Bond -Webster brings us this months Norfolk New Writing Forum.

21:30 minutes (10.91 MB)Erasing David: a documentary about privacy, surveillance and the database state. Director and subject of the new documentary David Bond joins Simone on the phone to talk about the film and its screening at Cinema City on Thursday 29th April at 8:30pm. The screening will be followed by a live satellite Q&A session with David, Shami Chakrabarti, MP David Davis, Will Self, Phil Booth and Michael Nyman. For further information on the film visit www.erasingdavid.com