The Culture Show Uncut - 2008/2009 - Episode 8

Lauren Laverne and Mark Kermode present a mix of cinema, super-size sculpture and great music. Mark takes director Terence Davies back to his native Liverpool. Davies's latest work, Of Time and the City, features his return to the city of his birth to examine its influence on his childhood and work, where he talks about his views on Liverpool past and present and how places shape us all. Lauren meets legendary Nigerian drummer Tony Allen to discuss the power of Afrobeat. Emerging in Nigeria in the late 60s, the heady mix of highlife melodies, jazz and yoruba drumming has influenced artists from James Brown and Brian Eno to more recently, Damon Albarn, Coldplay and Franz Ferdinand. With a contribution too from Tony Allen admirer, Damon Albarn. Andrew Graham Dixon takes to the skies in the second part of his tour of land art in Scotland and the north of England. His tour includes visits to Little Sparta, the garden of the late artist Ian Hamilton Finlay, in the Pentland Hills south of Edinburgh. He also flies by Britain's first permanent offshore sculpture, Couple by Sean Henry, and aerially reviews the Angel of the North. Plus Mark delivers his verdicts on the biggest films of the week, including the new batman film The Dark Knight, and Lauren talks to Bobby Gillespie and Mani of Primal Scream, who provide music in the studio. And the Fron Male Voice choir take on the Busking Challenge, with featured animation Magnetic Movie by Semiconductor.