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The Culture Café: 12/07/2011

12/07/2011

BBC Radio Scotland - The Culture Café, 12/07/2011

David Annand and Sandy Stoddart tell us about the art of making busts and sculptures.

We hear from Her Majesty's sculptor Sandy Stoddart and David Annand, who sculpted Alex Salmond, about about the apparent return of the bust and sculpture.

Following the SNP's decision to commission a bust of himself, we hear from the man who sculpted him - David Annand, and Her Majesty's sculptor Sandy Stoddart, who tell us about sculpting famous figures, and about the apparent popular return of the bust and the sculpture. 

We hear from Sir Kenneth Calman, Christine Borland and participants of the Art in Hospital Creative Space project about the importance of art in medicine. 

As the seventh National Festival of Youth Theatre returns to Fife for a second consecutive year, Colin Bradie CEO of Promote YT and Producer of the National Festival of Youth Theatre and Chloe and Bradley, two of the young people involved, tell us what to expect. 

We'll be hearing about a day of film screenings, coracle-making, sailing workshops and dance performances taking place in Skye and Lochalsh from ATLAS. 

The Forgotten Island : A new family visitor attraction inspired by the imagination of children and local communities opens on the Banks of the Clyde. Developed by artists, gardeners and designers it includes a cycle powered sound forest and a labyrinth. Rich Preston investigates.

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