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- Season 0 The Culture Show: Edinburgh Festival 1
- Season 0 The Culture Show: Edinburgh Festival 2
- Season 0 The Culture Show: Edinburgh Festival 3
- Season 0 Michael Jackson Special
- Season 0 A History of the World: Culture Show Special
- Season 0 The RIBA's Best Buildings of 2011 Special
- Season 0 Steven Spielberg Special
- Season 0 Into Orbit: A Culture Show Special
- Season 0 Sigur Rós Special
- Season 0 Who on Earth Was Ford Madox Ford? A Culture Show Special
- Season 0 The Knight Errant: Lee Child - A Culture Show Special
- Season 0 Ice Age Art: A Culture Show Special
- Season 0 Your Paintings
- Season 0 The Magic Tricks of JJ Abrams
- Season 0 Not Like Any Other Love: The Smiths
- Season 0 Swinging into the Blitz
- Season 0 The Mormons Are Here!
The Culture Show - Season 0 Episode 8 Into Orbit: A Culture Show Special
5.80 60 minutes Anish Kapoor and Cecil Balmond's Orbit sculpture is the most spectacular artistic creation of 2012 - a gravity-defying, breathtakingly dynamic scribble of crimson steel. Standing twice the height of Nelson's Column, it now towers over the Olympic Park, and has already inspired strong reactions. It is the biggest piece of public sculpture this country has ever seen - a bold statement of artistic ambition and a giant engineering challenge.
In this one-off special, The Culture Show goes behind the scenes to follow it from commission to completion, and discovers just how difficult it is to build a tower for the 21st century.
Featuring interviews with Boris Johnson and Lakshmi Mittal along with exclusive access to Kapoor and Balmond as they strive to realise their vision in the face of some Olympian challenges.
