Kraftwerk's Karl Bartos, the Spooky Mens Chorale, playwright Lucy Kirkwood

Published: July 18, 2022, 7:20 p.m.

Karl Bartos, musician and composer, on his life in the German band Kraftwerk - as told in his new memoir The Sound of the Machine.

Playwright and screenwriter Lucy Kirkwood on her play Maryland - devised in response to normalisation of violence against women, and originally staged at Royal Court Theatre in London in 2021, it has now been adapted for BBC TV screens.

The Spooky Men\u2019s Chorale: the strangely comedic but musically marvellous and popular Australian male voice choir stop off in the middle of their UK tour to sing and talk to Samira Ahmed about Georgian polyphony, Swedish folk band Abba, and not being a men\u2019s group.

Presenter: Samira Ahmed\nProducer: Julian May

Image credit: Markus Wustmann