Broadcast history

BBC Radio 3

On The Trail of The Snail

11 December 2010
Produced by Alan Hall

On the Trail of the Snail Feature-makers from different parts of the world re-imagine Henri Matisse's Snail, one of Tate Modern's most iconic images, in an audio equivalent of the artist's cut-out collage.

With contributions from Dinah Bird, Chris Brookes, Sherre DeLys, Kari Hesthamar and Pejk Malinovski.

Press

"These short works, decidedly experimental and diverse in approach, were then linked together by producer Alan Hall with music that was simultaneously jangly and exuberant. [...] The five micro-features shared an alluring, brief intensity and brought to radio the same mix of unthreatening delight and rather more complex responses that the Matisse seems to invite."
Elisabeth Mahoney, The Guardian, 13.12.10

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