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Radio Scotland,12 Jan 2026,30 mins
Available for 29 days
Len is joined by The Ayoub Sisters as they celebrate ten years performing together. They’re unveiling their most ambitious work yet: a brand new Arabic Symphony with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra at Celtic Connections. Artists Shona Reppe and Alan Grieve take Len on a sensory micro adventure with their show Trolleydarity - an inventive arts-in-health project that uses scratch-and-sniff postcards and immersive soundscapes to transform hospital wards into places of imagination, comfort and escape. A decade after David Bowie turned his own final months into the artistic statement that became Blackstar, filmmaker Jonathan Stiasny shares how he pieced together Bowie’s final chapter for his documentary Bowie: The Final Act.
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