Thursday 1 January, BBC Radio 4
6.00-9.00am and 4.30-5.00pm
Join Jarvis Cocker as he hosts the first Today Programme of the year, 6.00-9.00am on January 1st. Later in the day voyager Quentin Cooper hosts a special The Material World Cape Farewell Show on New Year’s Day, with a programme billed as a ’science-meets-art-meets-a-fair-bit-of-music special from the cold but not quite as cold as they used to be waters off the west coast of Greenland’, 4.30-5.00pm.
The Material World on BBC Radio 4 ›

Listen to Shlomo’s new Podcast, recorded during the expedition. It features exclusive new material from Martha Wainwright, music from Feist, Jarvis Cocker and interviews with Marcus Brigstocke, Vanessa Carlton and Laurie Anderson.
Listen at: shlo.co.uk/podcast ›

Listen to Shlomo’s new Podcast, recorded during the expedition. It features exclusive new material from Martha Wainwright, music from Feist, Jarvis Cocker and interviews with Marcus Brigstocke, Vanessa Carlton and Laurie Anderson.
Listen at: shlo.co.uk/podcast ›

Friday 9 January 2009, 8pm
Ballroom Floor, Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre

“I feel like I could live in Uummannaq, it feels like a good town with good people in it.”
KT Tunstall, 1 Oct 2008

Join Arctic voyagers Shlomo, Lemn Sissay and Quentin Cooper for an evening of Arctic stories and performances at Southbank Centre, guided by local Uummannaq resident Ludvig Hammeken. The most northerly settlement we visited during the Disko Bay 2008 expedition was Uummannaq, hometown of our Inuit guide Ludvig and home to 1400 people and 3000 howling dogs will inspire Uummannaq evening at the Southbank Centre, January 2009.

Come share the Uummannaq love on Friday 9 January 2009
Join Arctic voyagers Shlomo, Lemn Sissay and Quentin Cooper for an evening of Arctic stories and performances at Southbank Centre, guided by local Uummannaq resident Ludvig Hammeken. Uummannaq is the most northerly settlement we visited during the expedition, home to our Inuit guide Ludvig, 1400 people and 3000 howling dogs. This unique place will inspire a day of school workshops and evening of film and performance at London’s Southbank Centre.
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