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The Janice Forsyth Show: Jimmy McGovern on Banished, plus author Kazuo Ishiguro and composer Paul Mealor

Jimmy McGovern on Banished, plus author Kazuo Ishiguro and composer Paul Mealor

04/03/2015

BBC Radio Scotland - The Janice Forsyth Show, Jimmy McGovern on Banished, plus author Kazuo Ishiguro and composer Paul Mealor

Jimmy McGovern talks about TV series Banished, plus Kazuo Ishiguro discusses his new novel

Screenwriter Jimmy McGovern talks about TV series Banished, plus Kazuo Ishiguro discusses his new novel, and composer Paul Mealor explains how to get into composition.

Screenwriter Jimmy McGovern talks about his new drama, Banished. Plus we have a review of that and the new BBC adaptation of Poldark from TV critic Paul Whitelaw.

Kazuo Ishiguro - the Booker Prize winning author talks to Janice about his first novel in ten years, The Buried Giant.

Paul Mealor, Chair in Composition at the University of Aberdeen and composer of a choral piece for the wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton in 2011, talks to Janice about the opportunities for young people to get into composition and how to build a career.

Katrina Marcal is a Swedish economist and broadcaster discusses her new novel on the women in the life of economist Adam Smith.

Ahead of International Women's Day we hear about The March of Women, a pageant and procession from The Glasgow Women's Library and the Royal Conservatoire Scotland.

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