To share tips about how to be a poet. The doorbell used to say ding dong but now it bursts out in two solved. Could i be wrong . Have i falle n two solved. Could i be wrong . Have i fallen in love with my wife . You are the big boss. The ramrod, the head honcho. The boss of all bosses. Of poetry. I am going to ask you a favour, can you give me some advice because i will be on the open mike stage performing one of my poems. Im glad you asked me that. I am only too pleased to help. Number one, dressed carefully. I nearly died ofa one, dressed carefully. I nearly died of a broken heart, i havent seen my wife four days. You obviously in your casuals now. The thing is, you have got to feel comfortable, but also maintain an aura of authority. Be sharp and give them something to look at, maybe a shirt and jacket. You have to cut some kind of silhouette. We are getting up to point number two now, find a comfortable vocal pitch. Let me be your vacuum find a comfortable vocal pitch. Let me be your vacuum cleaner, breathing in yourdust, me be your vacuum cleaner, breathing in your dust, let me be morris marina, i will never rust. If you like your coffee pot, let me be your coffee pot. I want be yours. You will be talking to them in between poems and discussing what is coming up poems and discussing what is coming up and thanking them for their applause, but when you are talking to them it is conversation and you have a mike and it is conversational, but when you are snacking to a poem, that is a number so snacking to a poem, that is a number so you snacking to a poem, that is a number so you are snacking to a poem, that is a number so you are not using the same pitch. Number three, dont be too chummy. Merchandise, available in the lobby, oh, yes, it is there in the lobby. You could play leicester or a you could pay less for a t shirt. Ill be honest with you. Not too much back and forth. The whole show in bells speech so you will become all too accessible so you dont want to get involved. You know, people feel it incumbent upon them to comment upon what you are doing. It is not a conversation, is it . Not a conversation. You are there to tell a story. You must nip that in the bud. I could chew the fat all night but there is the ticket price to consider. So we have dressed carefully, find a comfortable vocal pitch, dont get too chummy. They are the three golden rules. Thank you very much. Hopefully you might be there to see me in action. |j you very much. Hopefully you might be there to see me in action. I will be there to see me in action. I will be there to see me in action. I will be there to see how carefully you have dressed. Dont miss out. Kingston upon hull. Have dressed. Dont miss out. Kingstonuponhull. With advice like that, i will be a professional performance poet in no time. Why not . Hull has a great reputation for poetry. It is also great in producing ballet dancers. Some of the finest in the country took their first lessons here and hull. They have returned here with the royal ballet for the gala opening of the hull new theatre. They dance with some of the worlds best ballet companies. In september, they made a triumphant homecoming, performing in a special one off gala in the city where they took their very first ballet steps. This is where you took your first ballet lesson . Yes, i was eight years old. Xander parish now lives in russia after being the first british person to dance for the mariinsky ballet company. On a rare trip home he went back to his childhood ballet school, which he left more than 20 years ago. Shall we go in and see your old Dance Teacher . Lets go. Vanessa. Lovely to have you back. It has been a long time. Hasnt changed. Since i was la st time. Hasnt changed. Since i was last there. I get older but the studios remain the same. |j last there. I get older but the studios remain the same. I used to stand here on the bar. Your little legs shaking like that. They have got a lot stronger since then. |j know, here you have come a long way since. Vanessa hope and her mother taught a string of children who have made careers in ballet. Andrew mcnichol as a choreographer and at birmingham royal ballet michael ohare isa birmingham royal ballet michael ohare is a ballet master. At the royal ballet there are two ballerinas as well as the man in charge. Victim care unit each generation has its dancers from hull. Vanessa and her mum before really knew how to engage with the young dancers, and give them a sense of purpose, taking it seriously and professionally. There are hundreds of these schools around the country, but i dont think many have this track record. To celebrate about kevin ohare has brought some former stu d e nts kevin ohare has brought some former students together to rehearse for a harley gala show. Demelza parish will be dancing a new piece. |j harley gala show. Demelza parish will be dancing a new piece. I never thought i would be performing back in hell because we dont do regional tours with the royal ballet so i did not think i would ever be coming back to perform and it feels like a once in a lifetime kind of really. It is gala night and inside Xander Parish is among the dancers getting ready to perform. This theatre has a special place for me because it is where i did my first performance in the pickwick papers at a street urchin. With Harry Secombe . Yes, i was a young kid, i was eight or nine, eighti was a young kid, i was eight or nine, eight i think. That was what got me hooked on performing. Whenever i say i am from hull i get a similar reaction because there are so many people from hull hula dancers and the real for the names andi dancers and the real for the names and i dont understand how so many amazing dancers have come from hull, it is quite incredible. Theatre seats were sold out in 5000 others watched on big screens in a nearby park. After the show the dancers boarded a bus and got ready to surprise them by appearing in person for the curtain call. The theatre looked amazing and the dancers were incredible and then to see so many people out here was really thrilling. So many dancers who took their first ballet steps in thrilling. So many dancers who took theirfirst ballet steps in hull have made huge leaps towards the top of their profession. The gala show brought some of them back to where their journey began. Later we brought some of them back to where theirjourney began. Later we will hear from theirjourney began. Later we will hearfrom an theirjourney began. Later we will hear from an oscar winner, jeremy irons, who has come to the city to celebrate hull in poetry. We will find out how you move the worlds most talked about art show from london to the city of culture. First ta ke london to the city of culture. First take a look at everything we have been up to in the past few months. The tenth annual Freedom Festival for hull celebrated william wilberforce, the anti slavery campaigner, with over 200 events. There were Live Performances and pop up there were Live Performances and pop up surprises and a lecture from kofi anna, the former un secretary general. To paraphrase william wilberforce, we may choose to look the other way, but we can never say again that we did not know. There have been more brilliant theatre premiers, in including a play by john godber and the adaption of a novel a short history of tractors in ukrainian. There was a celebration of mick ronson and his journey from a hull Housing Estate to rock stardom as the guitarist for david bouley. David bowie. An old office block was turned into a 19805 south Korean Police station. It was one of the best buy creepie5t thing5 i have done each year. If i dont make it out, tell my mum and my dad and my sisters are my brothers that you cannot touch my stuff. On the 15t you cannot touch my stuff. On the 1st of october hundreds of iconic cream phone boxes run 5imultaneou5ly and the people who answered 5poke cream phone boxes run 5imultaneou5ly and the people who answered spoke to and the people who answered spoke to a character from the year 2097. The whole future is the subject of five sci fi films that run alongside an interactive app. We are now well in to the Fourth Season of hull 2017 that runs from october to december. Highlights include these photographs by Olivia Arthur and martin parr, capturing the essence of what makes hull unique. A new play by maxine peake will tell the story of a woman who campaign for safe conditions for trawlermen and as the year draws to a close there are more large scale art installations in store, including a light show involving robotic art. So much good stuff so far but one of the highlights of the year is still to come. In december the stage will disappear and this will be the venue for giving out the turner prize. Tell us how to get the most prestigious art show out of london and into hull . |j most prestigious art show out of london and into hull . I have been finding out. Some love it, some hate it, but pretty much everyone has an opinion on the annual turner prize. Over the years the competition has become notorious. Their world works like the pickled cows from damien hirstand an like the pickled cows from damien hirst and an unmade bed from tracy and then and lights going on and off and then and lights going on and off and some have asked if it is really art. This year the turner prize has grown up a bit. Changing the rules means that two of the artists are over 50 and the techniques are more traditional, printmaking and photography and painting and the subject matter is more political. One thing that started to take me down this road was the idea of someone forgetting where they were. There are people from the caribbean or the rest of the world in britain but they could not forget where they were, they had to be constantly aware. The painter Hurvin Anderson is one of four short listed artists vying for the praise. Andrea buttner isa vying for the praise. Andrea buttner is a print maker from vying for the praise. Andrea buttner is a print makerfrom germany vying for the praise. Andrea buttner is a print maker from germany and exploring issues like shame and begging. Game there are hardly any artist who have researched this iconography of the beggar. It is important for me and coming from my interest in shame there is a discourse of poverty in art. Lubaina himid pencil crockery newspapers and looks at black identity. Sometimes the pattern is on the newspaper to give the black person a kind of talisman to balance up what the text, which is oftenjuxtaposed talisman to balance up what the text, which is often juxtaposed from quite another story, is doing to undermine that black person. Finally Rosalind Nashashibi is showing two films. Everything i shoot is on 16 millimetre up until now. It is not that i am thinking it is the style decor looks a certain way, it is more that it captures a certain liveliness in the image. When there isa liveliness in the image. When there is a permanent state of crisis and war, there are things that are not seen. War, there are things that are not seen. The actual human beings are lost. Every other year the turner prize travels out of london and this year it has come to the city of culture. How do you move this hugely popular show from tate britain to a small, regional gallery . Iwent behind the scenes as an army of curators and technicians and builders got to work. You might think that getting ready for the show just involve think that getting ready for the showjust involve taking down the old art and giving the walls a lick of paint, but take a look at this. Getting ready for the turner prize isa getting ready for the turner prize is a full on construction project. The turner prize co creator showed me around as they built two proper cinemas to show the films of Rosalind Nashashibi. We want people to feel comfortable and spend time to feel comfortable and spend time to watch the whole film. Sometimes ina you to watch the whole film. Sometimes in a you on an uncomfortable bench in the room is too cold and the soundis in the room is too cold and the sound is bad and we wanted to eradicate all of that nms people in the film. There was a lot of painting to do before the real paintings came in but even that is more complicated than you think. Lot of people who come in and see the show will not realise that all the show will not realise that all the walls are different shades of white. How many test boxes have you gone through . Hundreds of them. We we re gone through . Hundreds of them. We were joking about 50 shades of artistic grey each artist worked with the curators to install their exhibitions and four Lubaina Himid showing outside of london has proved no less stressful than being in the capital. The pressure in hull or a city that is not a capital, the pressure is real people, people that you actually have seen in the shopping area are going to be in here looking at this work, just by taking six steps in. That is a huge pressure, whereas in london it is some other intangible thing. Then there is the pressure of the judging. In december we will find out which of these four artists will ta ke out which of these four artists will take away the turner prize. Since the exhibition came to hull people have lined up to see it. What do the locals think . I think it is good and it has a good contrast between modern art and oldish art. It is lovely to see paint used so well. They are very painterly and the colour is amazing. Well. They are very painterly and the colour is amazinglj well. They are very painterly and the colour is amazing. I like the colours of them and how they are different colours of green and stuff. It is not what i would have expected for the turner prize. I have looked around about here and i thought it was going to make the bed by tracy m in like a masterpiece. No merit whatsoever. It should be piled high, satellite and let the roaring flames go up to the sky. That would be art. Amateur art exhibitions critics from all over have been having their say including the voice of puppets. I do not understand how people get famous of this art, i dont understand. This one here, their bum cheeks on mac, what for . Is identity . But what do you think about the art . You might be speechless like that puppet, you might love it, you might hate it, but whatever you think about the turner prize, you are right. We are back at contains Strong Language and kate tempest is on stage. For a rising star as accomplished so much. The winner of the ted hughes poetry prize and a Mercury Prize nominee. One of the other highlights of the festival has been this, poetry written in or about file and read by two actors. Written in or about town mac. Two actors. Written in or about townmac. I, by the town of humber would complain. He is one of the few actors to excel on the stage and the small and big screen, winning a tony and an emmy and an oscar. Do i know you . He is still making hollywood blockbusters but he always has time for a bit of poetry. I love being introduced to new poets, which i have been in this poem. I knew Philip Larkin but i didnt know some of the poets i am reading in this. Stevie smith of course. Due write anything yourself . No. I used to. When i was 14 i did. I am worried about my shirt, very worried indeed. I think it is too short shirt for my trousers and a safety pin is what i need. There is a gap in the middle, its not that i mind, itsjust that i think it lacks taste. Im sure they would be happy to gather. I am not sure of their sex but i think they would make a good man and wife. It would be so simple indeed to fix them together for companionship s sake, yes, safety pinsjust what i need. Marvellous and well remembered rather surprised myself actually. You mentioned before about Philip Larkin and andrew marvell, who is the best . I never compere, i never compare who is the best . I never compere, i never compare love rs who is the best . I never compere, i never compare lovers poets music, it isjust difference. Never compare lovers poets music, it is just difference. I never compare lovers poets music, it isjust difference. I am glad we do not have oscars for poets, it is ridiculous enough actors but for poets it would be stupid because it is about communication. Whenever you read a poem, you will get it differently to you and that is the glory of it. Whenever i get a bad review i think, yes, but somebody might have liked it. Younger people are getting involved in poetry, what you think of that . I think it is fantastic. I did a lot of reading the Josephine Hart was trying to get poetry into schools but i think rap has got a lot to do with it. So much of the time kids spend in this ridiculous shortened language on facebook and twitter and all of that, that actually they are beginning to have fun with language. Researchers found that you have the perfect male voice. Can you give us some tips on how to deliver a poem perfectly . I recently did a lot of elliott. From radio 4. Yes, and as an act you try to be the connection between the writer and listen and not get in the way. That is what i try to do with poetry, not perform, but actually work as a communicator of the writer s ideas. I say to people when they are listening to elliott, which is very long, if you nod off, that is fine because he says for instance that it is often in that half dream state between waiting and sleep between waking and sleeping that you are really open to influences. You read Philip Larkin 5 poetry today. Has hull improved since he wrote his verse . |j am improved since he wrote his verse . am so improved since he wrote his verse . am so ashamed of what i have got to say. I have been in hell for the first time in my life for about three hours. No you in this room . Yes in the war from the station on the train ride into harl. I am not someone tojudge how, but i am i am not someone tojudge hull but i am not someone tojudge hull but i am intrigued by the affection people have for it. You have to extend your stay guild thank you for spending 24 and within hull. Has been a real pleasure and i think i will have to come back. Even if i cant pleasure and i think i will have to come back. Even ifi cant we decided. That is all from us tonight. We will be back with a very special episode, looking back at the whole of the year for hull as city of culture. It is nearly over, it is so sad. If you want your cultural fix you can head over to this website. Goodbye. Hello. It will get much colder this weekend and we have proper arctic maritime airon weekend and we have proper arctic maritime air on the way. At the moment it may not feel like it but we have tropical air coming in through the atlantic and tied into the weather systems here. An area of rain and what is left of a tropical storm. It is bringing stronger winds through southern parts of england and is. Most of that is overnight. It drifts further south and peters out on saturday. It is a miserable and damp day in southern england and south wales but here will be the highest temperatures. A slice of cloudy skies all the way up to Northern Ireland and under that it will feel colder temperatures similarto will feel colder temperatures similar to further north but here we will have sunshine and wintry showers in northern scotland that will continue overnight as well. Another spell of rain further south. That scoots through and again it could be heavy at times but then we start to draw down the colder air proper with showers coming in and temperatures tumbling as well. Look at the isobars, all the way up to the north pole and the arctic, this is where our area is coming from behind the weather system and the rain overnight. Temperatures will drop as that colder air pushes down across the whole of the country. Some showers, initially across Northern Ireland and wales in the south west should tend to fade away. They should go along the north sea coast and all the while they will be in northern scotland. Many inland areas will be dry and sunny but it will feel cold in the wind. It is dry airand will feel cold in the wind. It is dry air and temperatures of the six or9 dry air and temperatures of the six or 9 degrees. There could be a frost particularly in scotland and england and wales as the High Pressure tends to toppling and the weather systems begin to arrive in the north west. For many monday start cold and frosty and bright with some the milder air comes in behind that and the weather fronts topple in. In england and wales there will be clad around rain and drizzle, particularly over the hills. Temperatures start to creep up hills. Temperatures start to creep up again. By wednesday the rain is further north and into central and southern scotland, perhaps Northern Ireland as well. Brighter in england and wales but on the mild side. To sum up, as we head into next week it 5ta rts sum up, as we head into next week it starts cold and frosty monday and then gradually turns milder with more of an atlantic influence. Some rain, although there wont be much. Further ahead and into later next week there is an idea of pressure coming in from the atlantic. Phil discussed this yesterday with High Pressure building in across the uk. This is one scenario. We may get wind and low pressure but it doesnt look as though the High Pressure will build on right now. It will be further south, towards biscay, so we have low pressure, quite a big one. Slowly moving across the uk and it means stronger winds and outbreaks of rain showers. It moves away slowly as we head towards next weekend and it migrates into the near co nsta nt weekend and it migrates into the near constant and this allows us to get back to where we are and we draw down the north westerly wind and once again it will get colder. Goodbye. 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