Mike Barson

Live at Eden: Series 1

Live at Eden: Series 1: Episode 2: Madness

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Episode 2: Madness

Madness

BBC Four - Live at Eden, Series 1, Madness

Madness live at Cornwall's Eden Project in June 2017 performing fourteen of their songs.

Madness live at Cornwall's Eden Project in June 2017 performing fourteen of their well-known songs including House of Fun, Baggy Trousers, It Must Be Love and Night Boat to Cairo.

Madness live at Cornwall's Eden Project in June 2017 performing fourteen of their well-known songs including House of Fun, Baggy Trousers, It Must Be Love and Night Boat to Cairo, as part of The Eden Sessions. The Sessions began in 2002 and are unique concerts in the beautiful setting of the Eden arena against the backdrop of the biomes. 

Madness are one of the most successful British pop groups and have had fifteen singles in the UK top ten and a number one single with House of Fun. The band are from Kentish Town in London, formed forty years ago and became a hit band of the late 1970s and early 1980s, and have remained at the forefront of British pop music.

Saturday Drama

Saturday Drama: Mark Davies Markham - The Liberty of Norton Folgate

BBC Radio 4

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09/02/2013

Mark Davies Markham - The Liberty of Norton Folgate

BBC Radio 4 - Saturday Drama, Mark Davies Markham - The Liberty of Norton Folgate

Inspired by, and starring members of, Madness - a tale of London's melting pot of cultures

4 Extra Debut. Inspired by, and starring members of, Madness - a tale of London's melting pot of cultures and ensuing struggles. From February 2013.

London's rich past as a melting pot of cultures is one of the themes of Madness's 2009 album - The Liberty of Norton Folgate, which has inspired Mark Davies Markham's play. Gazi and Sitara have been serving full English breakfasts at the Union Café on London's Norton Folgate for thirty years. But now the council have served a demolition order, and it looks as if their son Aki's girlfriend's father, Ralph Burke, is behind the plan to develop the site. No one is going to let the Union go without a fight, and soon Gazi and Sitara find that they have the support of pop royalty in the form of Suggs, Chas Smith and Mike Barson from Madness.

Directed by Jeremy Mortimer

Mark Davies Markham writes scripts for TV, theatre and radio. 'Taboo' the West End musical he wrote for Boy George was nominated for an Olivier Award . 'Eric' his recent play for the Liverpool Everyman was also about the music industry.

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