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The Janice Forsyth Show: 09/04/2013

09/04/2013

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Janice talks to Gordon Ferris, Eddi Reader, Peggy Shaw, Ian Brown and Nicola McCartney.

Janice talks to Gordon Ferris about his latest book and Eddi Reader shares her tips on making it in the music industry. Plus Peggy Shaw on taking to the stage after a stroke.

Best-selling author Gordon Ferris talks about his new novel Pilgrim Soul set in the worst winter in memory in 1947. The Jewish community in Glasgow asks Douglas Brodie, ex-policeman turned journalist, to solve a series of burglaries.

We hear from Mani Sumal and Umar Ahmed, the writer performers of How to Make a Killing in Bollywood which tells the tale of fast food workers who dream of making it big in the Hindi film industry.

Playwrights old and young join together for Four Decades, a week of readings celebrating 40 years of the Scottish Society of Playwrights with Ian Brown and Nicola McCartney.

How do aspiring young bands build a music career in 2013? As music conference Wide Days kicks off in Edinburgh, we'll discuss the challenges with aspiring musician Siobhan Wilson and conference organiser Olaf Furniss. Plus there's some sage advice from an elder statesman of the Scottish music industry.

New York performance artist Peggy Shaw had a stroke in 2011. Now 68, her new show Ruff is both a lament for the holes left by the stroke, and a celebration of her brain's ability to recover.

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