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The Janice Forsyth Show

Jonathan Safran Foer, Bernice L McFadden, The Citz Sessions

Duration: 1 hour, 55 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio OrkneyLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio Scotland Highlands and Islands

Janice talks to Jonathan Safran Foer about his first novel in a decade, Here I Am, which covers family breakdown, religion, and geopolitics.

Hazel McIlwraith, Vic Galloway and musician Chloe Philips from Teen Canteen talk about the Citizens Theatre in Glasgow's foray into music nights with The Citz Sessions.

American novelist Bernice L McFadden's The Book of Harlan tells the tale of a black musician who left Georgia for Paris, only to end up in the first concentration camp of the Second World War.

Playwright and producer Lisa Nicholl tells Janice about her new production Where the Crow Flies, developed in association with women's community groups in West Lothian.

Plus the Tuesday Review: critics Paul English, Fiona Shepherd and Heath Sheridan review Brian Wilson's autobiography, and series 2 of TV dramas The Missing and Ordinary Lies, both returning series with entirely new casts and settings. Show less

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