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Great Architecture

Clare English presents a collection of programmes focusing on great cultural buildings such as the Brill Building in New York, the Glasgow Apollo and Edinburgh's Festival Theatre.

Clare English presents a collection of archive programmes featuring great cultural buildings. From theatres, to cinemas to educational institutions, this is a celebration of the bricks and mortar that house the arts.

Among the buildings featured are Glasgow's City Halls - home to the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Dundee's proposed Victoria & Albert museum, The Scottish National Portrait Gallery, The Brill Building in New York - the hit factory home to songwriters such as Paul Simon, Burt Bacharach and Neil Diamond, The Number One Ladies' Opera House in Botswana, The Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, the Glasgow School of Art and the Citizens Theatre.

5 hours, 30 minutes

Last on

Fri 21 Jan 2011 00:30
Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio Scotland

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Chapters

  • Countdown To City Halls

    Muriel Gray tours Glasgow's City Halls in 2006 to explore how renovation work is progressing at the home of the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Scottish Symphony Orchestra.

    Duration: 54:24

  • Culture CafΓ©: Dundee’s Victoria & Albert Museum

    Kaitlin Smith reports on plans to build a branch of the famous London museum in the docklands of Dundee.

    Duration: 09:19

  • Culture CafΓ©: The Scottish National Portrait Gallery

    Bob Dixon reports on the redevelopment work taking place in 2010 at The Scottish National Portrait Gallery in Edinburgh.

    Duration: 07:42

  • 1619 Broadway : The Brill Building

    Richard Melvin and Owen Parker travel to New York to explore the history of America's number one pop factory.

    Duration: 28:42

  • Number One Ladies' Opera House

    Pauline McLean hears how novelist Alexander McCall Smith converted a disused garage in Botswana into an Opera House for the people.

    Duration: 28:30

  • Singing School: Blue

    Janice Forsyth meets some of the students as they experience life at Scotland's most famous centre for the performing arts.

    Duration: 27:12

  • Scotland's Music: Dunvegan Castle

    John Purser explores the history and music that would have filled the rooms and gardens of Dunvegan Castle in the seat of the MacLeods in 1667.

    Duration: 26:27

  • The Temple Of Apollo

    More than twenty years after it was razed to the ground by fire, Phil Differ remembers one of Glasgow's best-loved music venues.

    Duration: 28:37

  • Leaving Queen Margaret Drive

    Head of Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio Scotland Jeff Zycinski chats to former assistant controller Pat Walker about memories of working at the Glaswegian home of the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ.

    Duration: 27:18

  • Festival Stooshies: The Hole In The Ground

    Colin Bell tells the story of securing Edinburgh's Festival Theatre from a hole in the ground.

    Duration: 20:22

  • Scotland's Century: The Arts

    Colin Bell examines a century of Scotland's artistic institutions.

    Duration: 27:30

  • A Place In My Mind: Glasgow School Of Art

    Scottish designer Janice Kirkpatrick takes Keith Aitken on a tour of the building that has helped shaped some of Scotland’s greatest artists, actors and musicians.

    Duration: 27:01

  • Macgregor's Gathering: The Citizen's Theatre

    Jimmie Macgregor chats to director of the Citizens Theatre in 1990, Giles Havergill.

    Duration: 13:14

Broadcast

  • Fri 21 Jan 2011 00:30
    Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio Scotland