Can & Dec’s Thursday Night Takeaway

Series Two
(February – June, 2022)

Episode 1 – Kavi Pau
7pm, Thursday 18th February

This week’s guest is Kavi Pau! In today’s episode we discuss the upcoming launch of the Third Culture Collective, a project founded by Kavi to celebrate music from both the Western art tradition and the Indian classical tradition – and everything in between!

If you missed the radio broadcast, you can catch up on snippets of our conversation and listen to the music featured below:

Chaiyya Chaiyya (1998)
A.R. Rahman,
adapted for Western forces by Kavi Pau

Ashray Pad (2020)
Kavi Pau

Raga Yaman (????)
Kanniks Kaneswaran

Shanta Karam (????)
Traditional, arr. Kavi Pau

Ich habe genug (1727)
J.S. Bach,
adapted for Western forces by Kavi Pau

Wachet auf ruft uns die stimme (1731)
J.S. Bach,
adapted for Western forces by Kavi Pau

Unending Love (2017)
Roxanna Panufnik

Episode 2 – Lucy Walker and Mary Offer
7pm, Thursday 4th March

In celebration of International Women’s Day (8th March 2021), this week’s guests are Lucy Walker and Mary Offer! Lucy is organising this year’s Minerva Festival Composition Competition, which Mary won last year. In today’s episode we discuss different approaches to setting texts, as well as the emotion and collective connection inherent in choral music.