SO_UI_U10_PODCAST.doc

Upper Intermediate Unit 10 Video Podcast Script

V = Val              A = Andrew                            H = Hannah                            Ad = Adela

S = Susan              R = Rob              An = Adrian                            Al = Alice              B = Bob

Su = Sue

V:              Hi. I enjoy lots of areas of the Arts, particularly photography and dance. I go to a lot of art and photography exhibitions and I like the small, intimate ones the most. Today, I’m at Tate Modern in central London asking people about the Arts. What areas of the Arts do you enjoy?

A:              I particularly like painting, sculpture and dance.

H:              Well, I very much enjoy theatre and reading and when I get the opportunity, to go and see some pictures.

Ad:              I really enjoy photography. I studied it at college.

S:              I enjoy all sorts of art, but at the moment I am doing a Master of Arts in contemporary art.

R:              Particularly I like literature; I like books but I enjoy most areas of the – music too. 

An:              I like drawing, actually: sketches of people’s faces, I love that. And sculpture: anything in wood and stone, I enjoy that.

Al:              I’m an illustration student, so I enjoy contemporary graphic art and illustration and drawing. 

B:              All, all kinds, I mean, I’m a graphic designer by profession: but visual arts, all kinds of visual arts. Also, illustration, web sites, I mean art is everywhere now, it’s kind of ubiquitous.

V:              Tell us about a recent exhibition or performance you went to.

A:              Yeah, I went to see Michael Clark at the Saddler’s Wells which was a, sort of, yeah, a mixture of modern dance and ballet with, kind of, contemporary music and lots of, kind of, mad costumes.

H:              It was a performance of Oh! What a Wonderful War by a company whose name I can’t remember and which I didn’t enjoy very much.

S:              I’ve just been to the Saatchi Gallery and I saw some Indian art, some contemporary Indian art which was extremely interesting.

B:              I saw the Dieter Rams exhibition recently – that was at the Design Museum.

Al:              A print show at Somerset House, which is a collection of illustration collectives and print makers.

An:              Well, the last thing I went to see was Spymonkey, who are a physical theatre/ kind of improvisation comedy group and they were doing their version of Moby Dick at one of the London theatres and it was fantastic because I was only second row – right bang in the middle, the second row. So, great performance, great night. 

V:              Do you think the Arts are important?

H:              Very much so, yes, they’re part of our culture. We all need art, need art to enrich ourselves spiritually, really. And to expand our horizons: to learn about other people, other cultures ... Terribly important.

An:              I think it was Einstein who said that imagination is more important than intellect. So, in a world without art, where’s the imagination?

Ad:              I think they are because it’s a way of expressing yourself or expressing who you are. And you can do it in all different ways – it doesn’t have to be in one specific way.

Su:              Very much so. Absolutely. Children learn through art more than anything else I think.

Al:              It’s an important way for people to understand all aspects of life, I think.

R:              It’s what makes me feel most alive, and what, what erm, what inspires me most: be it a good book or, or a performance or anything that really moves me. Yeah, for this reason: to feel intense emotions.