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The Cute Verb

Ian McMillan presents Radio 3's Cabaret of Cuteness as this week we examine all things cute. With guests Tom Morton-Smith, Karen McCarthy Woolf, Isabel Galleymore and Kate Fox.

This week it’s the ‘cabaret of cuteness’ as this week Ian McMillan and his guests examine all things small, fluffy, wide eyed and sleepy in The Cute Verb. Ian is joined by poet Isabel Galleymore who reads from her new collection Baby Schema which asks what we ask cuteness to do for us and follows Mickey Mouse’s journey towards cuteness across the past one hundred years. Tom Morton Smith wrote the smash-hit RSC adaptation of My Neighbour Totoro, here he helps us consider being cute as well as being big, noisy, smelly, and a little bit scary. Karen McCarthy Woolf’s new experimental verse novel is ‘Top Doll’, a story told by a chorus of cute and not so cute dolls. And finally Kate Fox imagines a meet-cute between a cute creature and a not so cute one – can cute be an eco-strategy?

Presenter: Ian McMillan
Producer: Jessica Treen

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44 minutes

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Fri 23 Feb 2024 22:00

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  • Fri 23 Feb 2024 22:00

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