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SOUND AND VISION - PJ HARVEY AND SEAMUS MURPHY (320kbs-m4a/129mb/56mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 3rd November 2019
Miranda Sawyer is joined by PJ Harvey and Seamus Murphy to talk about their new film A Dog Called Money, a uniquely intimate journey through the inspiration, writing and recording of a PJ Harvey record.
Writer and musician Polly Harvey and award-winning photographer Seamus Murphy, hatched a collaboration. Seeking first-hand experience of the countries she wanted to write about, Harvey accompanied Murphy on some of his worldwide reporting trips, joining him in Afghanistan, Kosovo, and Washington DC. Harvey collected words, Murphy collected images. Back home, the words become poems, songs, then an album, which is recorded in an unprecedented art experiment in Somerset House, London. In a specially constructed room behind one-way glass, the public - all cameras surrendered - are invited to watch the 5 week process as a live sound-sculpture.
Murphy exclusively documents the experiment with the same forensic vision and private access as their travels. By capturing the immediacy of their encounters with the people and places.
PJ Harvey - The Wheel [Island]
PJ Harvey - Let England Shake [Island]
PJ Harvey - Chain Of Keys [Island]
PJ Harvey - The Community Of Hope [Island]
PJ Harvey - The Orange Monkey [Island]
PJ Harvey - Dollar, Dollar
PJ Harvey - The Ministry Of Social Affairs
PJ Harvey - A Line In The Sand
PJ Harvey - Medicinals [Island]
PJ Harvey - A Dog Called Money
PJ Harvey - The Crowded Cell
PJ Harvey - Red Right Hand [UMC/Island]
PJ Harvey (Feat. Gillian Andeson) - The Sandman
Mica Levi - Lee Harvey Oswald
Jonny Greenwood - Phantom Thread I
Colin Stetson - Morning Of
Thom Yorke - Suspirium [XL Recordings]
Mica Levi - Lee Harvey Oswald
PJ Harvey - River Anacostia
PJ HARVEY: IN HER OWN WORDS (320kbs-m4a/129mb/56mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 28th September 2019
Another chance to hear an intimate portrait of the enigmatic artist in her own words from interviews recorded across her career.
Hailed as the world’s best songwriter by Rolling Stone magazine on the release of her first album, Dry, in 1992, PJ Harvey is the only artist to have won the Mercury Music prize twice.
But the Dorset-based musician has long maintained an aura of mystery around her work, preferring to let her music and art do the talking, and comparatively little is known about her personal life.
From her formative years growing up on a farm listening to blues, meeting her lifelong friend and collaborator John Parish, sharing her love of Captain Beefheart with John Peel, to the writing processes and inspirations behind her songs, 6 Music offers a rare glimpse into the PJ Harvey’s world.
First broadcast in 2017.
PJ Harvey - To Bring You My Love [Island]
PJ Harvey - 50ft Queenie [Island]
PJ Harvey - The Glorious Land [Island]
Howlin' Wolf - Who's Been Talking
The Rolling Stones - Dead Flowers [Virgin]
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - From Her To Eternity (Radio 1 Session, 28 Mar 1984)
PJ Harvey - O Stella [Too Pure]
PJ Harvey & John Parish - Rope Bridge Crossing [Island]
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band - Gimme Dat Harp Boy [EMI]
PJ Harvey - Snake (Peel Session, 5 Sep 1996)
PJ Harvey - Down By The Water [Island]
PJ Harvey - The Garden (Radio 1 Session, 23 Sep 1998)
PJ Harvey - Is This Desire? [Island]
PJ Harvey - Good Fortune [Island]
PJ Harvey - Big Exit [Island]
PJ Harvey - White Chalk [Island]
PJ Harvey - The Devil [Island]
PJ Harvey - Let England Shake [Island]
PJ Harvey - On Battleship Hill [Island]
PJ Harvey - The Words That Maketh Murder [Island]
PJ Harvey - The Last Living Rose [Island]
PJ Harvey - A Line In The Sand [Island]
PJ Harvey - River Anacostia [Island]
BEHIND THE SCENES: PJ HARVEY (320kbs-m4a/64mb/28mins)
BBC Radio 4 broadcast: 12th February 2019
John Wilson follows PJ Harvey as she creates the score for a new West End theatre production of All About Eve.
Singer songwriter Polly Jean Harvey is the only artist to have twice won the Mercury Prize for Album of the Year – for Stories from the City, Stories From the Sea in 2001 and Let England Shake a decade later. After 12 critically acclaimed albums and more than 25 years as an international touring artist, she is now focussing on her work as a soundtrack composer, having written scores for theatre and television for more than a decade.
Starring Gillian Anderson (making her first return to the stage since her acclaimed 2014 performance in A Streetcar Named Desire) and Lily James (star of Downton Abbey and Mama Mia), All About Eve is one of the most anticipated theatrical events of 2019. Adapted from the 1950 film, which was nominated for 14 Oscars and won six including Best Actress for Bette Davis, it’s a story of an ageing Broadway star and a young fan who usurps her place in the spotlight.
Over several weeks in the run up to opening night, Polly shows John how she works at home, writing and recording demos for the soundtrack to the play, and how one musical element of the original film – Liebestraume by Franz Liszt – has become the creative touchstone for her own compositions.
Presented and Produced by John Wilson.
A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4
