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The Janice Forsyth Show: 29/04/2014

29/04/2014

BBC Radio Scotland - The Janice Forsyth Show, 29/04/2014

Janice's guests include John Byrne, Michael Emans, Jamie MacDougall and James Fox.

Writer John Byrne and director Michael Emans discuss their adaptation of Uncle Vanya, Jamie MacDougall chats about his Inspirations tour, and there is live music from James Fox.

On today's show writer John Byrne and director Michael Emans discuss Rapture Theatre's touring production of Uncle Varick which is John Byrne's contemporary adaptation of Chekov's classic Uncle Vanya set in the swinging 60's.

Jamie MacDougall drops in to chat about his Inspirations tour.

We check our letter box for another Commonwealth Poetry Postcard - and this time it comes all the way from Sierra Leone with poetry from Syl Cheney Coker.

Plus we celebrate another of the four great Scottish Colourists in our masterpiece stories from the national galleries of Scotland. Alice Strang guides Edi Stark through the life and work of J D Fergusson and we delve into the story of his lover and dance pioneer Margaret Morris who is depicted in many of his paintings. Her own story of unique dance development deserves to be remembered and retold in its own right and we welcome two Margaret Morris Movement practitioners to join Janice to chat about the history of Margaret Morris Movement and its relevance today - Kay Morrison and Sara Lockwood.

And James Fox performs live! The welsh pop singer, songwriter, pianist and guitarist represented the UK in the Eurovision song contest in 2004 and currently stars as Paul McCartney Beatles musical 'LET IT BE'. He chats about The Beatlemania musical which opened at the Kings Theatre in Glasgow last night.

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