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The Janice Forsyth Show: Turner Prize, Katy Carr and Gerard Burns

08/12/2015

Turner Prize, Katy Carr and Gerard Burns

BBC Radio Scotland - The Janice Forsyth Show, Turner Prize, Katy Carr and Gerard Burns

Janice Forsyth reflects on the Turner Prize, and artist Gerard Burns heads to Easterhouse.

Janice Forsyth reflects on this year's Turner Prize exhibition in Glasgow, and artist Gerard Burns explains why he's exhibiting in an Easterhouse shopping centre.

The Turner Prize has just been won by design collective Assemble. As well as hearing from the winners, Janice is joined in studio by art critic Jan Patience, and BBC Radio Scotland poet in residence Rachel McCrum, who will have a new poem written in response to the exhibition. Janice asks whether having the exhibition and ceremony in Glasgow has had an impact on the city.

Natasha Gilmore from Barrowland Ballet on Little Red, their seasonal reworking of the classic fairy tale.

There's another instalment of our occasional series Talking Pictures - Janice Galloway on a piece of art which has inspired her. 

Singer Katy Carr talks about her album Polonia, featuring songs inspired by Poland and its history.

Gerard Burns explains why his next exhibition is going to be in an Easterhouse shopping centre.

Plus the Tuesday Review: critics Kelly Apter, Sophie Good and Jane Graham on the Lyceum Theatre's The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, the new series of Luther, and Coldplay's album A Head Full of Dreams.

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