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The Culture Café: 20/12/2011

20/12/2011

BBC Radio Scotland - The Culture Café, 20/12/2011

Billy Connolly and Brian Cox in Donal Q, plus a look at the cultural highlights of 2011.

Clare English goes behind the scenes with Billy Connolly and Brian Cox in The Quest for Donal Q, plus the highlights of 2011 and a look at cultural relations in the Eurozone.

In anticipation of BBC Radio Scotland's Christmas day highlight, The Quest for Donal Q, we go behind the scenes of this radio drama with the production team, and hear from 2 Scottish greats, Billy Connolly and Brian Cox! The play's writer, David Ashton, tells Clare why Connolly and Cox just had to take the lead roles. 

Now that the division between UK and the rest of Europe is growing, and it looks like we're very much going our own way politically & economically - where do we stand culturally? Clare and guests will be finding out if this divide will have an affect on arts and culture? 

And on the last live Culture Café before the new year, we cast our mind back over the cultural highlights of 2011. We reminise over the events that captured our imaginations, and remember those that we lost this year. 

Clare is joined today by Franco British journalist Agnes Poirier, arts writer Moira Jeffrey & theatre director Matthew Lenton.

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