Becoming Victoria Wood, Giant and The Northern Isles

Available for 23 days

In the ten years since her death in April 2016, Victoria Wood’s legacy has begun to take shape, and now a new documentary directed by Catherine Abbott sheds light on the person she was – both in front of and behind the scenes, using Wood's personal archive and contributions from Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders, Maxine Peake and Michael Ball. Becoming Victoria Wood is being screened at various cinemas, and Catherine Abbott joins Len to speak about bringing the film together. The Northern Isles is a new exhibition that’s just opened at The Scottish Gallery in Edinburgh. Bringing together 25 artists connected to Orkney and Shetland, the show explores how light, weather, craft and island life continue to shape contemporary Scottish art. Rather than a traditional landscape show, The Northern Isles focuses on lived experience and making: painting, printmaking, furniture, jewellery and ceramics. Christina Jansen, director of The Scottish Gallery in Edinburgh and curator of this exhibition, and Samantha Clark, one of the artists from the exhibition who is Orkney-based, join Len. Writer and director Rowan Athale talks about his new film, Giant. Executive produced by Sylvester Stallone and starring Amir El-Masry and Pierce Brosnan, it tells the powerful true story of British Yemeni boxing star Prince Naseem 'Naz' Hamed. He went from humble beginnings to world champion under his trainer from the age of seven, Brendan Ingle.