Sean Connery Exposed
I was in Edinburgh yesterday for a meeting between ´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio Scotland programme makers and delegates suggested by the Scottish Arts Council. This was a follow-up to the speed-dating session we'd organised in Glasgow earlier this year.
Morag Arnott from the SAC had arranged a great venue for the meeting: the Royal Scottish Academy on Princes Street. We talked through the areas where we'd made progress, how we could improve collaboration between ´óÏó´«Ã½ Scotland and the wider arts community and even talked through some specific ideas for the future.
I have to say, though, that my attention was distracted by a portrait of Sean Connery that was hanging on the wall straight ahead of me. It had been painted in 1952s when Sean had posed as a life-model for students at the Edinburgh College of Art.
Believe me, it's hard to concentrate with a near-naked Jame Bond looming over you. I was shaken, not stirred.
