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03/04/2012

Actor Fiona Shaw asks us to look for the poet within us, plus a look at digital pinboarding v old fashioned scrap booking, and immersive street gaming.

Actor Fiona Shaw calls on the British public to suggest their favourite love poems, for Peace Camp: A Coastal Installation. Glowing encampments will appear in eight coastal locations around the British Isles in July - and Fiona lets us know how we can suggest and even record poetry for the camps soundscape.

Barack Obama joins the latest social networking craze which has taken the States by storm, and making its way to the UK. The American president has joined Pinterest, where he shares politically themed images and pictures of the food he loves, including a recipe for Chilli! We find out how this digital pin-boarding compares to good old fashioned scrapbooking.

If you're fed up playing virtual games with strangers on line, and a regular board game is just too boring - what about navigating your way across a real city, while protecting yourself from blood thirsty zombies? 2.8 Hours Later is an immersive street game, which turns Glasgow into a city under siege from zombie attackers - and you could get in on the action.

A new 3 city festival explores international networks of underground music - from Korean folk to American Blues, and Japanese psychedelia to Scottish indie-pop - Counterflows hits Glasgow, London and Berlin.

And Anne Ellis heads to Culzean Castle to meet guide Simon Davidson for this week's Talking Pictures, where they tackle a picture of France's most iconic leader.

45 minutes

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Tue 3 Apr 2012 13:15

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