Episode 5 - Home
Stellar Quines hosted by Hannah Lavery and Caitlin SkinnerAbout
How do we feel at home when we find ourselves without a place to live? How does our relationship to home change when we move countries? When does a home give us the independence and a sense of self and what happens when you lose it?
For this final episode of season one of Quines Cast hosts Hannah and Caitlin invite reflections on home from folk guitarist and singer Jenn Butterworth, novelist and tv writer Kerry Hudson, Iranian American poet Marjorie Lotfie and playwrights Alyson Woodhouse and Tim Barrow.
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Jenn Butterworth is an acoustic folk guitarist and singer based in Glasgow, Scotland, who was awarded the title Musician of the Year at the 2019 Scots Trad Music Awards, and was nominated for the same title at the 2019 BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards. She was a founder member of Kinnaris Quintet, who won the Belhaven Bursary for Innovation in Scottish Music at the 2019 Scots Trad Music Awards.
Aly Woodhouseis a blind, freelance director, dramaturg and Audio Description Consultant who specialises in creating drama which is fully accessible for Visually Impaired and deaf audiences. Her projects include adaptations of classic texts and pieces of new writing. She has been funded and supported by Creative Scotland, Playwrights Studio, National Theatre Scotland, VocalEyes and Engage2Stage.
Kerry Hudson was born in Aberdeen. Her first novel, Tony Hogan Bought Me An Ice-Cream Float Before He Stole My Ma was published in 2012 by Chatto & Windus (Penguin Random House) and was the winner of the Scottish First Book Award while also being shortlisted for the Southbank Sky Arts Literature Award, Guardian First Book Award, Green Carnation Prize, Author’s Club First Novel Prize and the Polari First Book Award. Kerry’s second novel, Thirst, was published in 2014 by Chatto & Windus and won France’s most prestigious award for foreign fiction the Prix Femina Étranger. Her latest book and memoir, Lowborn, takes her back to the towns of her childhood as she investigates her own past and what it means to be poor in Britain today. It was a Radio 4 Book of the Week, a Guardian and Independent Book of the Year. It was longlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize and Portico Prize Kerry was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2020. She founded The WoMentoring Project and Breakthrough Festival.
Marjorie Loftiwas born in New Orleans, spent her childhood in Tehran, and lived in New York before moving to the UK in 1999. A former corporate lawyer in New York and London, Marjorie is now a poet, the Development Director for Open Book and the Deputy Chair of StAnza, Scotland’s international poetry festival. Her poems have won prizes, been widely published in the UK and USA, and performed on BBC Radio 4.
Tim Barrow is an Edinburgh-based actor, writer and film-maker. His plays have been performed at the Lyceum, Traverse, Oran Mor, London's Pleasance Theatre, the Hibs Supporters Club and Tynecastle Park football stadium. He founded Lyre Productions to create Scottish feature films and has written & produced award-winning The Inheritance, Edinburgh love story The Space Between and Scottish schizophrenia love story road movie Riptide.