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The Book Café: 11/03/2013

11/03/2013

BBC Radio Scotland - The Book Café, 11/03/2013

John Barrowman, Sue Palmer and AL Kennedy join Clare English for the last ever Book Cafe.

John Barrowman, AL Kennedy, Denise Mina, Louise Welsh, Sue Palmer and Alison Miller join Clare English for the last ever Book Cafe.

An exciting line up for our last ever Book Café! John Barrowman, star of stage and screen, drops by to talk about collaborating with his sister Carole on BONE QUILL the second book in the HOLLOW EARTH trilogy. With International Women's Day just behind us Louise Welsh takes another trip to Glasgow Women's Library to catch up with Denise Mina and Alison Miller and find out what inspired them for 21 Revolutions. And AL Kennedy is in studio to talk about her involvement with the project and to tell us about her latest book ON WRITING. Plus child development expert, Sue Palmer is famous for her best-selling books TOXIC CHILDHOOD and 21ST CENTURY BOYS. Now's she's back with 21ST CENTURY GIRLS - a handbook for parents and carers everywhere about how to raise bright, balanced girls and why today's world needs them more than ever. She joins Clare English to discuss what went wrong with the sexual revolution and how the next generation of girls might be able to tackle some of society's most pressing problems.

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