Alison Lapper: Queen for a Day
Come Christmas Day, once you've stuffed yourself with turkey and pudding, you'll be wanting to settle down in front of the TV and watch the Queen's Speech, won't you?
![Alison Lapper, wearing her regal crown](/staticarchive/d1e479ddc50630f30060c8de0f36d217efa0d89d.jpg)
Well, there's an alternative this year. If you're a digital viewer, tune into the and watch disabled artist and single mother broadcasting her to the nation. Amongst a range of subjects, Alison will be discussing her artwork, the DDA, and motherhood. She'll also be looking forward to 2005, when Marc Quinn's 15-foot marble sculpture of Alison, showing her naked and pregnant, will take its place on the vacant fourth plinth in London's Trafalgar Square.
Ouch links:
Éù Pregnant Alison sculpture not art? by Victoria Lucas
Éù Child of our Time: Alison Lapper by Emma Bowler