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The Janice Forsyth Show: Liz Lochhead on being awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry 2015

Liz Lochhead on being awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry 2015

22/12/2015

BBC Radio Scotland - The Janice Forsyth Show, Liz Lochhead on being awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry 2015

Liz Lochhead on being awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry 2015.

Cera Impala and The New Prohibition perform live and Liz Lochhead talks about being awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry 2015.

Cera Impala & The New Prohibition drop in and perform live.

Liz Lochhead talks about being awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry 2015.

Especially for Christmas, Anne Ellis discusses 'Adoration of The Kings' (1452) - a painting by Venetian artist Jacopo Bassano which depicts the nativity scene.

Janice finds out about a new volume of poetry which traces the experience of the country during WWI specifically through the words of its poets - 'Beneath Troubled Skies: Poems of Scotland at War, 1914-1918'

Lauren McQuistin the young, soprano, opera singer who hails from rural Stranraer and currently lives and studies in the USA drops in to have a chat with Janice whilst she's home for Christmas.

And for this week's Tuesday Review our panel of critics; Susan Morrison, Kirsty Logan and Neil Cooper choose their top picks of 2015 in books, theatre and TV.

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