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The Culture Café: 14/06/2011

14/06/2011

BBC Radio Scotland - The Culture Café, 14/06/2011

Clare English interviews worldwide creative advertising director of BBH, John Hegarty.

Clare English interviews creative advertising director of BBH, John Hegarty, the man behind countless iconic advertising campaigns and winner of the Lion of St Mark at Cannes.

We hear the third edition of our family legends stories from BBC Radio Scotland and Scottish Book Trust competition winner Mark McGowan. 

Worldwide Creative Director of international advertising agency, BBH, Sir John Hegarty is the man responsible for the Levi's jeans ad in the Eighties that featured Nick Kamen undressing in a launderette as well as countless other memorable campaigns. He tells Clare about his forty-five year career in advertising, being awarded with the Lion of St Mark at Cannes, and his new book.

How far can studying fashion in Scotland take you? Clare asks fashion critic John Davidson, New York fashion editor, stylist, correspondent and motivational speaker Derek Warburton, and Edinburgh College of Art fashion student and Best Menswear winner at the Graduate Fashion Week Gala Awards Felix Chabluk Smith how difficult it is to break into the fashion world in this current economic climate. 

Peapod Productions is a theatre company set up last year by young actor Philip Kingscott. The company's latest show 'The Garden' is a new open-air play by Alistair Rutherford, which begins its tour of gardens in Scotland and England on Wednesday. Alistair's play Happy New Year was produced by BBC Radio Scotland last year. Clare asks Philip and Alistair how confident they were in working together considering how new to thatre producing Philip is, and all about The Garden theatre tour. 

Michael TRB Turnbull has updated Jimmy Black's Glasgow Graveyard Guide. Clare asks him who would want a graveyard guide, where the tour of graveyards leads, and about the strange anecdotes it contains.

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