Culture Zone
From the front row at the opera to a tent at your favourite festival, cultural highlights from the Radio Scotland archive.
Culture Zone - 03/12/2010
Musician, broadcaster and lecturer Davie Scott is joined by some of his commercial music students from the University of the West of Scotland to play the best of their new music.
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Culture Zone - 05/02/2010
Alex Reedijk, General Director of Scottish Opera mines the BBC Radio Scotland archive for programmes reflecting his cultural experiences spanning 20 years in Scotland.
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Culture Zone - 07/01/2011
Edi Stark presents a collection of her own interviews with great novelists such as Ian Rankin, Alasdair Gray, James Kelman, Val McDermid, Jessie Kesson and Christopher Brookmyre.
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Culture Zone - 08/01/2010
Stephen Duffy offers a taste of what's to come in our brand new Culture Zone with music from Camera Obscura and Little Boots, poetry by Robert Burns and lively chat from the Book and Movie Cafes.
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Culture Zone - 13/05/2010
John Sessions presents another collection of radio dramas broadcast on BBC Radio Scotland including plays about 8th Century monks, bickering psychoanalysts and daring mountain rescues
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Culture Zone - 15/10/2010
Janice Forsyth introduces her favourite musical guests including Paolo Nutini, Tom Jones, Little Boots, Calvin Harris, Keane, Franz Ferdinand, KT Tunstall and The Proclaimers.
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Culture Zone - 17/12/2010
Mary Ann Kennedy presents a Culture Zone exploring Africa's influence on music and art featuring archive audio of Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Alexander McCall Smith and Wole Soyinka.
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Culture Zone - 19/03/2010
Davie Scott introduces programmes about the human voice, including new drama In For A Penny, Rab C Nesbitt, Leonard Cohen, Jack White and Christopher Brookmyre.
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Culture Zone - 26/11/2010
Gavin Reid, director of the BBC SSO, marks the 75th anniversary of the orchestra with archive performances, documentaries and interviews with past conductors, soloists and players.
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Culture Zone - 29/07/2010
Mary Ann Kennedy presents a Culture Zone exploring Africa's influence on music and art, featuring archive audio of Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Alexander McCall Smith and Wole Soyinka.
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Culture Zone - African Culture
Mary Ann Kennedy presents a Culture Zone exploring Africa's influence on music and art, featuring archive audio of Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Alexander McCall Smith and Wole Soyinka.
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Culture Zone - An A-Z of Jazz celebrating the Glasgow Jazz Festival
To celebrate the Glasgow Jazz Festival, Stephen Duffy presents an A-Z of Jazz with interviews and music from stars such as Louis Armstrong, Miles Davis and Ryan Quigley.
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Culture Zone - An Entertaining A-Z of Jazz
Stephen Duffy presents an entertaining A to Z of Jazz with interviews and music from stars such as Louis Armstrong, Miles Davis and Ryan Quigley.
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Culture Zone - Authors Special
AL Kennedy, Sue Lawrence, Sir Terry Pratchett, Quintin Jardine, Tony Parsons, Andrew O'Hagan, Jacqueline Wilson and Anthony Horowitz all reveal their Life in Five Books.
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Culture Zone - Behind the Scenes
Pauline McLean finds out what makes some of our leading cultural figures tick including writer Louise Welsh, arranger Herb Alpert, composer James MacMillan and animator Nick Park.
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Culture Zone - Classic Scottish Albums Marathon
Davie Scott presents a marathon catch up of his series on Classic Scottish Albums, featuring Deacon Blue, Cocteau Twins, The Proclaimers, Blue Nile, and Belle and Sebastian.
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Culture Zone - Culture Zone
A glimpse behind the scenes to see how some of our leading arts and cultural figures master their crafts.
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Maureen Beattie introduces a great selection of radio dramas including work by Alexander McCall Smith, David Greig, Jo Clifford, Chris Dolan and Alison Peebles.
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Musician, broadcaster and lecturer Davie Scott is joined by commercial music students Akira and Sarah Beth Brown from the University of the West of Scotland to play the best of their new music.
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Culture Zone - Edinburgh Festival Special
Pauline McLean introduces programmes related to the 2010 Edinburgh Festival featuring archive interviews with Jonathan Mills, Donald Runnicles, Alan Cumming, Tommy Smith and Sir Charles Mackerras
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Culture Zone - Edwin Morgan Special
Liz Lochhead presents a celebration of the late, great Scottish poet Edwin Morgan, featuring archive BBC interviews and programmes recorded throughout his life.
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Culture Zone - Glasgow Film Festival
Janice Forsyth with a special Glasgow Film Festival edition, featuring Peter Mullan, Juliette Lewis, Kevin MacDonald, Mark Millar, Bill Forsyth, Mogwai, Mairearad Green and David Lynch.
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Culture Zone - Great Architecture
Clare English presents a collection of programmes focusing on great cultural buildings such as the Brill Building in New York, the Glasgow Apollo and Edinburgh's Festival Theatre.
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Culture Zone - Janice Forsyth's Favourite Musical Guests
Janice Forsyth introduces her favourite musical guests including Paolo Nutini, Tom Jones, Little Boots, Calvin Harris, Keane, Franz Ferdinand, KT Tunstall and The Proclaimers.
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Culture Zone - Letters to Sibelius
Gavin Reid, director of the BBC SSO introduces a delightful series of documentaries produced for Radio NZ about one man's appreciation of the Finnish composer Sibelius.
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Culture Zone - Oscars Special
It's Oscars Season in LA and the Culture Zone is celebrating the ceremony with some of the best international movie star interviews from the Radio Scotland archive.
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Culture Zone - Richard Demarco's Edinburgh
Richard Demarco celebrates the Edinburgh Festival with a look at the city's cultural past featuring programmes on Robert Louis Stevenson, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Muriel Spark and Ian Rankin.
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Culture Zone - Scotland's Landscape
A Zone celebrating culture inspired by Scotland's landscape, featuring the music of Deacon Blue, the writing of Lewis Grassic Gibbon and the poetry of Sorley MacLean.
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Culture Zone - T In The Park Special
Paul English presents highlights and interviews from the 2010 T in the Park Festival including big names like Calvin Harris, Faithless, Paolo Nuttini and The Proclaimers.
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Culture Zone - The Complete Burns
Esme Kennedy catches up with The Complete Burns project as it crosses the halfway mark, including a stirring range of poetry readings, alongside several engaging documentaries.
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Culture Zone - The Complete Burns
Esme Kennedy introduces Brian Cox, John Sessions, Robbie Coltrane, Robert Carlyle, Hannah Gordon, Richard Wilson, Alan Cumming, Denis Lawson, Daniela Nardini, Liam Brennan, Midge Ure, Alan Cumming.
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Culture Zone - Visual Artists
Pauline McLean celebrates the visual arts with interviews from Jolomo, John Byrne, John Bellany, Lotte Glob, Sandy Stoddart, Joyce Cairns, Izzy Sanderson and Hannah Frank.
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