Podcasts Culture Front Row Hepworth, Moore, landscape and cows' backs; fiddle player John McCusker; novelist Victoria MacKenzie

Hepworth, Moore, landscape and cows' backs; fiddle player John McCusker; novelist Victoria MacKenzie

Published: Jan. 18, 2023, 8:11 p.m.

A new exhibition at The Hepworth Wakefield celebrates the relationship that two of the UK\u2019s greatest sculptors, Barbara Hepworth and Henry Moore, had with the Yorkshire landscape they grew up in. Eleanor Clayton, the curator of the exhibition, Magic in this Country, joins the landscape photographer Kate Kirkwood - who has just published a new book, Cowspines, that blends the landscape of the Lake District with the backs of the cows that graze upon it \u2013 to discuss the power of landscape to draw an artist\u2019s eye.

John McCusker discusses and performs live from his new \u2018Best of \u2018Album, which celebrates his 30-year career as one of Scotland\u2019s most acclaimed fiddle players and musical collaborators.

Writer of fiction and poetry Victoria MacKenzie tells Shahidha Bari about her first novel, For Thy Great Pain Have Mercy On My Little Pain, which is based on the lives of two extraordinary, trail-blazing fourteenth-century Christian mystics, Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe.

Presenter: Shahidha Bari\nProducer: Eliane Glaser

Main image from Cowspines by Kate Kirkwood