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Radio 3’s flagship arts programme until 2013. Over 350 editions available in the archive.

Radio 3’s flagship arts programme until 2013. Search the extensive archive for interviews, debates and reviews. Go to Free Thinking for the new home of arts and ideas on Radio 3.

Night Waves: Portraits Day - Capturing a Likeness

Portraits Day - Capturing a Likeness

07/05/2012

BBC Radio 3 - Night Waves, Portraits Day - Capturing a Likeness

Philip Dodd examines the nature of portraiture at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery.

At the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Philip Dodd examines the tensions in capturing a likeness. Guests include writer Ian Rankin, artist Alison Watt and poet Robert Crawford.

In a special edition from the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Philip Dodd is joined by writer Ian Rankin, artist Alison Watt whose self portrait now hangs at the gallery, the poet and critic Robert Crawford, and John Leighton Director General of the National Galleries of Scotland to examine the nature of portraiture and the cultural tensions created when capturing a likeness in figurative and abstract painting, poetry and literature.

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