Kick Over The Statues?

Kick Over The Statues? Steve Gribbin with Ria Lina: Christ The Redeemer, Dolphins, Kate Moss & Lucille Ball


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Podcast Host and lover of Statues Steve Gribbin talks to stand-up/musical comedian, writer, actor and Pub Quiz MC Ria Lina. They start off with her favourite statue Boy With A Dolphin by Sir David Wynn, and the freewheeling conversation takes in Ozric Tentacles, Altruism in Dolphins, Flipper on hallucinogenic drugs, Caligula and headless Gods, Prague, David Cerny, the prevalence of urinating statues, Franz Kafka, Harold Moody the Peckham GP who founded The League of Coloured Peoples in the UK in 1931 with CLR James & Paul Robeson, Kate Moss, Marc Quinn, YBA, Alison Lapper, Yoga poses, the History of Gold, John Lennon's killing, Lucille Ball and Simon & Garfunkel.

Along the way they touch on such topics as the glorification of War, the representation of art and Science in public monuments, Conceptual Art, vulgarity and the representation of the female form, why Ria's Biology Teacher made her a mixtape and the 1975 50p piece

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Kick Over The Statues?By Stephen Gribbin