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The Janice Forsyth Show: Lauren Aquilina, Ladybird Books for adults and Tipping the Velvet

Lauren Aquilina, Ladybird Books for adults and Tipping the Velvet

03/11/2015

BBC Radio Scotland - The Janice Forsyth Show, Lauren Aquilina, Ladybird Books for adults and Tipping the Velvet

Lauren Aquilina performs live and talks about her new EP, Ocean.

Lauren Aquilina plays live and chats to Nicola Meighan about her new EP, plus Janice talks to members of the Distant Voices project, which explores crime and punishment via music.

'Distant Voices' is an on-going body of work resulting in a festival exploring crime and punishment through music, writing and film. Janice is joined by musicians and speakers from the project who examine how music and the arts can help aid desistance from crime.

In November 1915 Albert Einstein published his now world famous General Theory of Relativity and to mark the centenary Freight Books are publishing 'I Am Because You Are' a collection of new fiction and non-fiction from novelists and science writers, all inspired by the theme of Relativity.

A celebration of Aberdeen and its people. Past, present and future - Simon Sharkey and Prof Pete Stollery talk about their new project 'Granite'.

Senior Curator at Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art Alice Strang drops by to discuss highly anticipated 'Modern Scottish Women Exhibition'.

Lauren Aquilina chats to Nicola Meighan and performs for us live.

And on this week's Tuesday Review our panel of critics; Kelly Apter, Mark Fisher and Hannah McGill will share their verdicts on new stage production 'Tipping The Velvet', a new collection of Ladybird books for grown-ups and BBC Two documentary 'Dominic Sandbrook: Let Us Entertain You'.

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