The ‘cabaret of conversations’ with Panti Bliss brings together interesting folk doing inspiring things. From scientists to singers, poets to polemicists, writers to readers – Panti’s parlour is an intimate gathering of story and song. Pantisocracy broadcasts on RTE Radio 1 for 7 weeks from Thursday, July 9th 2020 10pm
What happens when the things you’ve been planning, the projects you have been dreaming of, get postponed, cancelled or become impossible to do? In the first episode of a new season of Pantisocracy, Panti Bliss is hosting a gathering of storytelling and song, with three people who found themselves launching their beloved projects, the results of years of work, in the middle of a global pandemic and lockdown. With her are writer Mark O’Connell, whose book ‘Notes on An Apocalypse’ – explores our obsession with the end of the world and the Indian-Irish novelist Cauvery Madhavan, whose novel ‘The Tainted’ is a love story set against the background of the Irish soldiers, serving in India with the British army, who mutinied in 1920. With them is singer/actor Lisa Lambe who will be performing from her new album ‘Juniper’ launched in lockdown, after a few years of work, and whose plans to perform it were postponed, cancelled and parked.