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The Janice Forsyth Show: 21/04/2015

21/04/2015

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Janice Forsyth talks to crime writer Hania Allen, plus she has live music from Prides.

Janice Forsyth talks to crime writer Hania Allen, who was formerly a trainee astronaut. Plus she has live music from Prides.

Today, Janice talks to writer Hania Allen, who once came very close to being an astronaut, but who now writes crime fiction.

Composer James Macmillan and scientists from Edinburgh's Napier University talk about using a new technology which allows musicians from across Europe to link up and play together - without leaving their home towns.

Janice discusses some of the issues surrounding corporate sponsorship of the arts, with activist Mel Evans, author of Artwash: Big Oil and the Arts, and cultural commentator Tiffany Jenkins.

Poets Robert Allan Jamieson and Pamela Beasant talk about Writing the North, a project uniting musicians and artists from Orkney and Shetland.

Plus, Glasgow synthpoppers Prides are live in session; and how well are gay characters represented in historical fiction?

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