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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Arifa Akbar

Keli review – music, mining and a maelstrom of emotions in brass band drama

Gripping … Anna Russell-Martin plays Keli.
Gripping … Anna Russell-Martin plays Keli. Photograph: Sandy Butler

Keli is a three-part audio drama about brass band contests and their connection to former mining towns. If that sounds like a history lesson on the legacy of Britain’s industrial past, it is, to some extent.

An audio montage of sorts, it begins as part documentary, part fable, part story-in-the-making, all these threads set to the rumble of brass sounds (music by Whitburn Band).

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