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#Pantisocracy Season 5 Episode 3 ‘When Things Fall Apart’ What do you do when everything falls apart, and your best laid plans collapse in the eye of a global storm? In this episode of Pantisocracy host Panti Bliss is with three people, photographer Ruth Medjber, novelist Gavin McCrea and singer/songwriter Emma Langford, who each had to answer that question and reinvent their work and world during the pandemic. For Ruth Medjber, 2020 was meant to be a globe trotting series of music tours, festivals and exhibitions, but forced into lockdown, she began capturing the mood of the nation with her twilight walks and window portraits. Gavin McCrea, was happily working away on a novel, when lockdown brought him back to Dublin to look after his elderly mother, and in the midst of quarantine, Gavin began writing a very personal memoir, capturing that time, and his mother’s dementia. Emma Langford, as her overseas tour and gigs vanished, began video blogging from her bedroom, hosting sing songs and requests and found a new way of creating and connecting. During the show, Emma performs two of her songs, ‘The Winding Way Down to Kells Bay’ and ‘Goodbye Hawaii’ while Gavin shares the opening prologue of his powerful new work. This episode was recorded in the beautiful surroundings of Belvedere House, in Dublin's north inner city. For more go to pantisocracy.ie/s5e3/ www.gavinmccrea.com/ For Gavin's work emmalangfordmusic.com/ For more about Emma and her music www.ruthlessimagery.com/ to see more of Ruth's gorgeous photography https://drive.google.com/file/d/1dQ6aIcFsStSI-hcxzUuLVQGAyZ3EtVE5/view?usp=sharing for the episode transcript