The Culture Café - 31/08/2010

On Tuesday's Culture Café: We hear all about BLISS: TEN years in the making, Opera Australia's production of Bliss, is a major new production. Based on Peter Carey's novel of the same name, it has all the drama of the tragi-comic original. Clare is joined by male lead, Peter Coleman-Wright and Director Neil Armfield. The Crews - We hear about the Independent TV Pilot which is being dubbed The Scottish Sopranos. The show is set in Glasgow and revolves around two crime figures; Tommy Granger and Mick Turner and their attempts at going straight. Voytek the Bear - Polish War Hero - a location report on the remarkable story of an abandoned Syrian bear cub, which was adopted by Polish soldiers during the Second World War - and ended up on a farm in the Borders and the the project to have Voytek - who ended his days in Edinburgh Zoo - immortalised in bronze by the Scottish sculptor Allan Herriot. Into The Wilds: news of a large scale public art project for Battlehill Wood looking at "Wilderness" in the collective imagination. The project will involve members of the Huntly community and three international collaborators working on a large scale site-specific project for the Battlehill Woods as a film which will be shown at the end of a performance / cinematic trail don't miss it!