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The Janice Forsyth Show: 04/11/2014

04/11/2014

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Janice Forsyth talks to Alfie Boe, plus Russell Brand talks about his new children's book.

Janice Forsyth talks to Russell Brand about his children's book, novelist Jane Smiley discusses her 100-year trilogy, and singer Alfie Boe talks about his new album.

Singer Alfie Boe talks about his new album Serenata, and how he has carved a career moving between opera, musicals and the small screen.

Jane Smiley is a Pulitzer prize winning author who set herself the challenge of writing a book in every literary genre. Her new novel, Some Luck, is the first part in an epic trilogy spanning a century in the life of one family.

Russell Brand is now setting his sights on a new audience - he's written his first children's book. He tells Janice why he has created Trickster Tales, a modern retelling of the Pied Piper of Hamelin.

Plus Janice finds out about a party with a difference at the Neon Digital Arts Festival in Dundee, and writer Jodi Picoult on how she's managed to bring together mother-daughter relationships, psychics and the study of elephants in her new novel Leaving Time.

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