Kick Over The Statues?

Kick Over The Statues? Steve Gribbin with Angela Barnes; ALICE IN STASILAND


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Self-confessed simultaneous idolater/iconoclast of the Statue, comedian & podcast presenter Steve Gribbin talks to comedian, writer, actor and broadcaster Angela Barnes about Alice in Wonderland, Central Park, "Interactive statues", Lewis Carroll, troubling photography, Woody Allen, and Giant Talking Vegetables. Cecil Rhodes, The Robocop of Imperialism, makes an appearance, as does Brighton Seafront,  Steve Ovett, Sebastian Coe, Zombie statues, and the East German State  Apparatus of Surveillance, including Stasi Taxi Drivers, where YOU do the talking & they do the recording. We swerve into spooky Ships' figureheads, Gargoyles, Warding off evil spirits and then alight on The Kinks & "Waterloo Sunset", sibling rivalry, Oasis, and the 1951 Festival Of Britain, the Skylon, The South Bank, the beauty of concrete, especially in Matters of The Heart, and the spitefulness of Winston Churchill. Plus a whole section on the  utter wonderfulness of the mighty Linda Smith!

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Kick Over The Statues?By Stephen Gribbin