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Podcast: Arts & Ideas
Episode: Sound, conflict and central heating
Description: Recordings in sub-zero temperatures and the hottest day on record have fed into the sound of Erland Cooper's latest composition. Ahead of a performance at the Barbican Centre, he discusses the way his Folded Landscape piece thaws through seven movements.New Generation Thinker Sam Johnson-Schlee is researching the social history of central heating, how its changed what we do in the home, and why climate change and global geopolitics are leading to questions about its' future.Sarah Jilani has suggested reading for the Nigerian take on the impact of the oil industry, which has produced...