The Culture Café
Provocative discussions, inspiring guests and news about trends, fashion, music, theatre and art.
The Culture Café - 01/02/2011
Chris Kane hears why our handwriting is getting so bad and finds out about Scottish Opera's forthcoming shows featuring a cast of novices.
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The Culture Café - 01/06/2010
John Beattie previews a new radio drama - the dark and surreal Personal Best, which is set almost entirely inside the mind of a runner during a half-marathon.
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The Culture Café - 02/11/2010
Mirrors Beyond Prison - We preview this exhibition which presents a dramatic and thought-provoking display of portraits by inmates from five Scottish prisons.
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The Culture Café - 03/08/2010
To publish a photo or not - we hear from the photographer behind the controversial image of a US Marine dying in Afghanistan on display at Holyrood's World Press Photo exhibition.
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The Culture Café - 04/01/2011
Clare English is joined by a panel of experts to examine how fashion, society, technology and our cultural institutions will fare in the year ahead.
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The Culture Café - 04/05/2010
Provocative discussions, inspiring guests and news about trends, fashion, music, theatre and art with Clare English.
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The Culture Café - 05/10/2010
We preview David Tennant's latest foray into televison in Single Father, an emotionally powerful yet funny four-part TV drama.
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The Culture Café - 06/04/2010
Clare English looks at whether theatre can transfer well to television.
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The Culture Café - 06/07/2010
Provocative discussions, inspiring guests and news about trends, fashion, music, theatre and art with Clare English.
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The Culture Café - 07/09/2010
Multi award-winning writer Mark Millar discusses his new monthly magazine, Clint.
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The Culture Café - 07/12/2010
The Year in Television: The triumphs and the disasters. TV critics Eddie Harrison and Jane Graham chew over the bones of 2010's TV highs and lows.
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The Culture Café - 08/06/2010
Provocative discussions, inspiring guests and news about trends, fashion, music, theatre and art with Clare English.
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The Culture Café - 11/01/2011
Clare English discusses the impact of product placement on creativity in TV, hears about the enduring appeal of Arthur Miller, and asks what it is we love about antiques.
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The Culture Café - 11/05/2010
We ask who can afford to perform at the Edinburgh Festival. Are soaring venue fees threatening to put Edinburgh out of reach for many theatre companies?
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The Culture Café - 12/10/2010
Lip Service - We preview BBC Three's new seductive relationship drama following the lives of a group of twenty-something lesbians.
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The Culture Café - 13/04/2010
Featuring the Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art, Gene Hunt's popularity on Ashes To Ashes, 'outreach' amongst arts venues and Curtain Up - 40 Years of Scottish Theatre.
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The Culture Café - 13/07/2010
Hysterical headlines, national breast-beating and players held to account by presidents - why does media coverage of major sports events act as a metaphor for society at large?
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The Culture Café - 14/09/2010
This Is England '86 launched on the back of significant critical and promotional buzz. But is it any good? TV critics Jane Graham and Eddie Harrison deliver their verdict.
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The Culture Café - 14/12/2010
The Three Musketeers and the Princess of Spain: We hear all about an anarchic new production at the Traverse, based on the iconic characters created by Alexandre Dumas.
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The Culture Café - 15/06/2010
Provocative discussions, inspiring guests and news about trends, fashion, music, theatre and art with Clare English.
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The Culture Café - 16/11/2010
The History of the High Street: Authors Carol Foreman and Dr Lindsay Lennie discuss the changing face of the high street in Scotland.
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The Culture Café - 18/01/2011
The role of journalism in art, how cultural changes are reflected in language, the role of the puppet master, and we discuss the importance of artist residencies.
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The Culture Café - 18/05/2010
Everyone loves the effortlessly cool Italian style, but have you ever wondered just what makes Italian design so wonderful?
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The Culture Café - 19/10/2010
Award-winning novelists Louise Welsh and Zoe Strachan discuss their new play Panic Patterns - an edgy, suspenseful drama.
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The Culture Café - 20/04/2010
David Greig talks about his NTS adaptation of Peter Pan, plus artist Jimmie Durham discusses his exhibition Universal Miniature Golf.
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The Culture Café - 20/07/2010
Artist David Mach talks about his project of Biblical proportions - coathanger crucifixion. And can a curse be a blessing? Is it ever big or clever to swear on TV?
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The Culture Café - 21/09/2010
Sistema Scotland are hosting a party at the Scottish Parliament, but has the project proved successful? And what's the next stage?
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The Culture Café - 21/12/2010
Rebels with a Cause - The Jacobites and the Global Imagination: news of a major exhibition at the Scottish Parliament which challenges traditional assumptions.
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The Culture Café - 23/11/2010
Can public art change the image of a town? - A cultural debate.
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The Culture Café - 24/08/2010
We hear all about Breakfast Theatre - the Traverse is playing host to five world premieres of short plays by top writers from the UK and Ireland.
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The Culture Café - 25/01/2011
Clare English presents a live showcase of Robert Burns' poems and songs, featuring Karen Dunbar, Lorraine McIntosh, Gerda Stevenson and Crawford Logan.
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The Culture Café - 25/05/2010
Provocative discussions, inspiring guests and news about trends, fashion, music, theatre and art with Clare English.
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The Culture Café - 26/10/2010
Culture programme with Clare English. Is Ibsen's play A Doll's House still relevant today? Plus a special ghost story by Ewan Morrison.
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The Culture Café - 27/04/2010
Award-winning playwright and artist John Byrne talks to Janice Forsyth about his version of The Cherry Orchard, in a session recorded at Edinburgh's Lyceum Theatre.
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The Culture Café - 27/07/2010
Ambitious, visual, voyeuristic - but who is it for? Find out what the Edinburgh Art Festival 2010 has to offer you.
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The Culture Café - 28/09/2010
Award-winning composer Craig Armstrong, has written scores for Baz Luhrmann, Oliver Stone and Philip Noyce, discusses the music he helped create for Orlando.
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The Culture Café - 29/06/2010
Provocative discussions, inspiring guests and news about trends, fashion, music, theatre and art with Clare English.
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The Culture Café - 31/08/2010
Clare English hears all about Bliss - ten years in the making, Opera Australia's major new production comes to Scotland.
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The Culture Café - Norman MacCaig Special
To mark the centenary of his birth, another chance to hear poet Norman MacCaig in conversation with his fiddle-playing friend Aly Bain at the Traverse.
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The Culture Café - St Andrew's Day Special
In a St Andrew's Day Special, Billy Kay explores issues of status and identity in relation to the current state of the 'Scots' language.
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