Martin Bright, Jude Kelly, Nii Sackey and David Worthington were our e.i. breakfast panel this morning at the Royal Festival Hall (chaired by John Wilson of BBC Radio 4's Front Row) where we chewed over the current savage cuts in the Arts thanks to the Tory Government's cuts package. (Over night, Tory led Somerset CC had voted to end all funding of the Arts.)
Once again it was another packed house for the 0830 start (despite the awful weather) and there was a pretty lively debate.
I called for an Arts microfinancing fund to be set up for young people.
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