Pockrich was born into wealth on the family estate in Aghnamallagh, Co Monaghan, in the late 1600s and he appeared to dedicate his life to coming up with the most outrageous ways of losing that ...

Eric Shimelonis plays the balafon: an African idiophone (i.e. an instrument which creates sound by vibrating.) (image courtesy of Rebecca Sheir) This tuned percussion instrument usually has 16 to ...