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11
November
2014
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09:54
Europe/London

Elbow’s Guy Garvey visits John Rylands Library for BBC 6 Music special

Guy Garvey, lead singer of acclaimed band Elbow, visited The John Rylands Library to make recordings for his radio show.

The recordings featured in his BBC Radio 6 show , as part of 6 Music Celebrates Libraries.

Guy visited the John Rylands Library as well as two other ¼â½ÐÊÓƵapp libraries, The Portico Library and Central Library.

During his visit Guy was presented with the Gutenberg Bible; a 1,500-year-old papyrus fragment; a concrete poetry book; and a Charles Wesley hymn book including the original lyrics of ‘Hark! How All the Welkin Rings!’, more commonly known as ‘Hark the Herald Angels Sing’.

Guy Garvey’s Finest Hour – Library Special was broadcast on BBC Radio 6 Music on Sunday, 16 November at 2pm.

You can read an article about the making of the programme in the Independent: