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The Janice Forsyth Show: 18/02/2014

18/02/2014

BBC Radio Scotland - The Janice Forsyth Show, 18/02/2014

Cellist Calum Ingram plays live and Stuart Maconie talks about his book and radio series.

Janice Forsyth has live music from jazz cellist Calum Ingram, plus Sean O'Hagan talks about why images of urban decay fascinate both photographers and viewers.

Classically trained jazz cellist and singer/songwriter from Paisley, Calum Ingram and fellow musicians treat us to some live tunes.

George Clooney's Nazi art caper The Monuments Men hits the cinema this weekend and recently London's V&A published online the only known copy of a complete list of 'Entartete Kunst' or 'Degenerate Art' confiscated by the Nazi regime mostly during 1937 and 38. Senior Curator at the V&A, Douglas Dodds and the BBC's Arts Editor Will Gompertz unpack fact from fiction.

An exhibition of the lost and abandoned architecture of Glasgow is currently running at the Lighthouse in Glasgow. Photographer responsible, academic Joe Shaldon talks to Janice about his passion for Glasgow architecture and photography writer for The Guardian, Sean O'Hagan looks at why images of decay and abandonment seem to be endlessly fascinating to photographers and viewers alike.

Popular and prolific presenter, journalist, columnist and author Stuart Maconie is touring Scotland with his new book and epic radio series, The People's Songs, a social history of modern Britain told through pop singles.

And ITV is launching a new free-to-air channel aimed at a young female audience. All The Only Way is Essex and the Real Housewives reality series - what more could a girl want.....? TV critic Paul Whitelaw and Deborah Coughlin of the Feminist Times discuss.

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