Chris Redmond is a writer, performer and musician whose work often focuses on cross-media collaboration. A regular at UK music and literature festivals, he has performed on BBC Radio One, BBC Radio Four, Sky Arts, BBC Scotland's Culture Show and Scroobius Pip's XFM show The Beatdown. Chris is the creator and host of Tongue Fu, where poets, comedians and storytellers perform with improvised music and films. In 2016, he toured ‘Animal (Are you a Proper Person?)’, a spoken word musical comedy co-written with poet Anna Freeman and the Tongue Fu band (developed with support from Bristol Old Vic's Ferment and Arts Council England). His book, ‘Let the Pig Out’, is published by Burning Eye Books.

https://www.tonguefu.co.uk/

Twitter: @Chris_Redmond_

Transcript: https://www.dropbox.com/s/j7cu890yt41nnkf/5%20Chris%20Redmond%20Interview%20060422%20FINAL_otter_ai.docx?dl=0

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