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I, Spie: as heard on BBC radio

The Telling

You may have heard our playwright/soprano/Artistic Director Clare Norburn on BBC Radio Shropshire, Merseyside and Cumbria in recent days. Clare will also be on BBC Radio West Midlands (WM) and Radio 4's Front Row on Monday 18th October.


Clare has been chatting to local radio presenters about The Telling's brand new concertplay (where music and theatre collide): I, Spie. The extraordinary tale of composer John Dowland’s brush with the Secret Service as he inadvertently manages to foil a plot on Elizabeth I. An explosion of drama and music: think Blackadder meets Spooks in a surreal setting, with lively Elizabethan street, tavern and courtly music from The Telling. Get your spy fix!


Starring Danny Webb (Alien3, Netflix's The Dig, ITV's Liar, Channel 4's Humans), Dominic Marsh (Kneehigh Theatre, The Globe) and Alice Imelda (The Old Laundry Theatre, HBO's My Dinner with Hervé).



TOUR DATES FRIDAY 15 OCTOBER 2021 St Mellitus Church Hall, Tollington Park, Finsbury Park, London N4 3AG Stroud Green Festival ​TICKETS ​​ WEDNESDAY 20 OCTOBER 2021 St George's Church, St George's Road, Kemptown, Brighton BN2 1ED Brighton Early Music Festival TICKETS

​THURSDAY 21 OCTOBER 2021 The Mount Hotel Great Hall, Mount Road, Tettenhall, Wolverhampton WV6 8HL TICKETS FRIDAY 22 OCTOBER 2021 St George's Hall Concert Room, St George's Place, Liverpool L1 1JJ TICKETS ​SATURDAY 23 OCTOBER 2021 Victoria Hall, Main Street, Grange-over-Sands LA11 6DP TICKETS SUNDAY 24 OCTOBER 2021 The Arts Centre, Treaty Centre, High Street, Hounslow, London TW3 1ES

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