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Issue 85 2020
Norfolk & Norwich Festival Does Radio Local Norfolk & Norwich Festival have announced a new free, hyper-local project running from 8 - 24 May, the 17 days across which the Festival would have taken place this year. Norfolk & Norwich Festival does Radio Local will be an hour-long live show each day at 3pm on Norwich’s Future Radio and online, hosted by Live Art collaborators and comedy duo Hunt & Darton. The show will celebrate everything about what it means to be local and will be built with, by and for residents of the county. Radio Local had originally been part of the 2020 Festival line-up, with the pair planning to
broadcast from Norwich city centre for 24 hours straight and to work with communities in Great Yarmouth, Kings Lynn and Diss before arriving. Hunt & Darton’s previous work includes their award-winning pop-up installation, the Hunt & Darton Café which has been presented at Tate Britain, Edinburgh Fringe and Latitude Festivals, and 3 cities in China with the British Council. From the charmingly mundane to the quite extraordinary to the borderline ridiculous, Norfolk & Norwich Festival does Radio Local is a celebration of community. The Festival alongside Hunt and Darton will build a show with local people over the phone, via Zoom workshops and through online networks about
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