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The Janice Forsyth Show: Alan Carr, Emma Kennedy and Ben Fogle

29/09/2015

Alan Carr, Emma Kennedy and Ben Fogle

BBC Radio Scotland - The Janice Forsyth Show, Alan Carr, Emma Kennedy and Ben Fogle

Janice talks to comedian Alan Carr and comedy writer Emma Kennedy.

Janice Forsyth talks to comedian Alan Carr and comedy writer Emma Kennedy, plus Ben Fogle talks about appearing in front of a theatre audience on his Call of the Wild lecture tour.

Janice talks to Emma Kennedy, about new BBC1 Friday night sitcom The Kennedys, set in 1970s Stevenage and based on her memoir of childhood camping holidays The Tent, the Bucket and Me.

Bronwen Livingstone has a report from Rothesay Pavilion's closing festival: it's about to be refurbished and transformed into a new cultural centre for the Isle of Bute.

Playwright Peter Arnott has just published his first book, Moon Country; he talks to Janice about how writing a novel compares to writing for the stage.

Ben Fogle has just begun a lecture tour Call of the Wild, visiting theatres across the country. He discusses why stories of adventuring have become such a popular form of entertainment.

Janice talks to comedian Alan Carr, currently on TV with the sixteenth series of Chatty Man, and on the road with his stand up show.

Plus there's the Tuesday Review: critics Gareth Vile, Paul English and Graeme Virtue discuss new Squeeze Album Cradle to the Grave; BBC1 sitcom The Kennedys, and a BBC Radio 4 documentary marking what would have been John Lennon's 75th birthday.

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