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The Janice Forsyth Show: Gary Tank Commander, Mika and Janice Galloway

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22/06/2015

Gary Tank Commander, Mika and Janice Galloway

BBC Radio Scotland - The Janice Forsyth Show, Gary Tank Commander, Mika and Janice Galloway

Janice Forsyth talks to Gary Tank Commander, Mika and Janice Galloway.

Gary Tank Commander, aka Greg McHugh, talks to Janice Forsyth about his series of live shows taking place in 2016, plus platinum-selling popstar Mika chats about his new album.

The hilarious Greg McHugh, in character as Gary Tank Commander talks to Janice about his series of live shows which will take place at the Hydro next year.

Multi-platinum pop-star Mika joins Janice to talk about the release of his much anticipated new album 'No Place In Heaven' which is out today.

Swedish author Katarina Bivald's debut book 'The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend', was published in Sweden the autumn of 2013 and since then has been sold to 21 countries. Katarina drops in during her UK tour to discuss the book.

Independent Bookshop Week runs from 20-27th June and is part of the Books Are My Bag campaign. Author Katarina Bivald stays on to talk about the importance of Independent Bookshops and Barry Young from Young's Interesting Books in Glasgow gives his perspective on the health of Independent Book Shops in the UK.

Janice Galloway talks about her new book Jellyfish which is a collection of short stories about love, not-love, sex and raising children - and the sometimes dramatically unexpected fallout of each in everyday life.

The Vinyl Verdict this week is 'Paperback Writer' from The Beatles vs 'Lady Writer' from Dire Straits.

Plus our single of the week is 'Woods' by Glasgow band Wandering Sons.

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