Wondermentalist Cabaret

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Edinburgh Special2012081220120817 (BBC7)
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Comedy, bonhomie, poetry, music and audience creativity in the company of Matt Harvey and guests.

The slightly interactive, comedy-infused poetry cabaret.

From the 2012 Edinburgh Festival.

Showcasing Matt Harvey's peerless poetry.

With his nemesis, side-kick and one man house band, Jerri Hart,

Plus peerless guest poets:

Kate Fox

Elvis McGonagall

Like luxury muesli, Wondermentalism is a faith that contains sparkly, shiny multigrains of truth, wit, wisdom and laughter. Vitamin supplements for the soul.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 2012.

Laughter, poetry, music and audience creativity in the company of Matt Harvey and guests.

02Cheltenham Literary Festival20111011Matt Harvey presents a comedy-infused, musically-enhanced, interactive poetry cabaret, joined by one man house band Jerri Hart, fellow poet AF Harrold, and musical comedian, Helen Arney. The Cheltenham Literary Festival audience will contribute a crowd-sourced poem on a theme of their own choice. In past shows it's ranged from the delights of gerbils to garden sheds. What will they choose?

Matt Harvey presents a comedy-infused interactive poetry cabaret from Cheltenham.

02Cheltenham Literary Festival20150414Matt Harvey presents a comedy-infused, musically-enhanced, interactive poetry cabaret, joined by one man house band Jerri Hart, fellow poet AF Harrold, and musical comedian, Helen Arney. The Cheltenham Literary Festival audience will contribute a crowd-sourced poem on a theme of their own choice. In past shows it's ranged from the delights of gerbils to garden sheds. What will they choose?

Matt Harvey presents a comedy-infused interactive poetry cabaret from Cheltenham.

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Matt Harvey is a poet, performer and enemy of all that's difficult and upsetting.

Recorded with an audience in Bristol, Matt brings his own comedy-infused, musically-enhanced, slightly interactive poetry cabaret to the airwaves.

Elvis McGonagall

One man house-band, Jerri Hart.

Fellow poets Lucy English and Byron Vincent battle it out with Elvis in a Dead Poets' Slam.

And the audience compose their own poem on the subject of Sundays.

Matt Harvey hosts a comedy-infused, musically enhanced, mildly interactive poetry cabaret.

Matt Harvey's comedy-infused, musically-enhanced, mildly interactive poetry cabaret. With Elvis McGonagall. From February 2011.

0102Swindon2011020820150328 (BBC7)
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Poet, performer, enemy of all that's difficult and upsetting, Matt Harvey presents this comedy-infused, musically-enhanced, slightly interactive poetry cabaret.

Poet and musician, Zena Edwards

One man house band - Jerri Hart.

Recorded with an audience at the Swindon Arts Centre.

Fellow poets AF Harrold and Kate Fox battle it out with Zena in a Dead Poets' Slam, while the audience compose their own highly flavoured poem on the subject of cheese.

Matt Harvey hosts his own comedy-infused, musically enhanced, poetry cabaret.

Matt Harvey hosts a comedy-infused, musically-enhanced, interactive poetry cabaret. With Zena Edwards and Jerri Hart. From 2011.

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Poet, performer, enemy of all that's difficult and upsetting, Matt Harvey presents this comedy-infused, musically-enhanced, slightly interactive poetry cabaret.

Poet, Murray Lachlan Young

One man house band - Jerri Hart.

Recorded with an audience at The Royal Seven Stars in Totnes, Devon.

Fellow poets Liv Torc and Nathan Filer battle it out with Murray in a Dead Poets' Slam, while the audience compose their own poem on the subject of gerbils.

Matt Harvey hosts a comedy-infused, musically-enhanced, interactive poetry cabaret.

Matt Harvey hosts a comedy-infused, musically-enhanced, interactive poetry cabaret. With Murray Lachlan Young. From 2011.

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Matt Harvey's warm-hearted poetry cabaret.

Recorded with an audience at the Comedy Box, Bristol.

With poets:

Les Barker

Pete Hunter

Jude Simpson

And one man house band - Jerri Hart

In Dead Poets' Slam, expect deathless words of best-loved poets from the past.

The audience compose their own crowd-sourced poem (the subjects of which can vary wildly, from reflecting on the delights and demerits of cheese, to Sunday mornings, and the winter habits of gerbils).

Matt Harvey and guests with a lively poetry cabaret recorded at Bristol's Comedy Box.

Matt Harvey hosts a lively, warm-hearted poetry cabaret in Bristol. With Les Barker, Pete Hunter and Jude Simpson. From 2011.

0201Listening To More Than Words2013040220161215 (R4)Recorded at Radio 4's 'More than Words' festival of listening in front of an audience at St George's, Bristol, Matt Harvey presents this comedy-infused, musically-enhanced, interactive poetry cabaret. The series begins, suitably enough, with this show on the theme of listening, exploring the spaces between words.

Joined by one man house band, Jerri Hart, and fellow poets Byron Vincent and Sally Jenkinson, Matt Harvey encourages the Bristol audience to surprise themselves with their own creativity, as they crowd-source and group-think a poem on the subject of ears: 'as hearing fades, with hand I cup, they are what hold my glasses up'.

Matt Harvey's musically-enhanced, interactive poetry cabaret comes from Bristol.

02022013040920161222 (R4)There's more poetry-infused comedy and cabaret from Matt Harvey, who is joined by Alex Horne, fellow poet Mab Jones, and an appreciative audience at the Swindon Festival of Literature, whilst being needled by his one man house band, Jerri Hart. For their part, the audience have no choice but to be creative, by contributing a crowd-sourced poem.

Matt Harvey presents his poetry cabaret from the Swindon Festival of Literature.

02032013041620161229 (R4)Matt Harvey is joined by fellow poets Molly Naylor and Jonny Fluffypunk for poetry, laughter and cabaret in front of an appreciative audience at the Ways with Words festival at Dartington in south Devon. All this whilst one man band, Jerri Hart, continues to needle Matt from the sidelines.

Matt Harvey and guests with more poetry and cabaret, from Dartington in south Devon.

0204 LAST2013042320170105 (R4)Matt Harvey is joined by fellow poets Caroline Bird and Mark Gwynne Jones for more comedy, poetry and music from the Ways with Words festival at Dartington Hall in south Devon. The appreciative audience contribute a crowd-sourced poem, whilst one man band Jerri Hart snipes from the sidelines.

Matt Harvey and guests with comedy, poetry and music from the Ways with Words festival.