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The Janice Forsyth Show

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Janice Forsyth tunes into what is happening and what is buzzing in the arts world.

The Janice Forsyth Show: Amy Liptrot, The National Television Awards and film director Ashvin Kumar

The Scottish Women’s Hospitals exhibition

20/01/2016

Amy Liptrot, The National Television Awards and film director Ashvin Kumar

BBC Radio Scotland - The Janice Forsyth Show, Amy Liptrot, The National Television Awards and film director Ashvin Kumar

Janice Forsyth talks to Amy Liptrot and she hears about a John Bellany exhibition.

Janice Forsyth talks to Amy Liptrot about her new book, The Outrun, plus she hears about an exhibition of the work of Scottish painter John Bellany.

Author Amy Liptrot on her stunning first book The Outrun, a memoir about how returning to Orkney helped her recover from alcoholism. For many book critics it's already one of the highlights of 2016.

The Scottish Women's Hospitals Exhibition- a new exhibition of previously unseen works by the late, great Scottish painter, John Bellany, go on display at the Parliament in Edinburgh from today - Janice hears about it from John's widow and daughter-in-law. 

We'll hear from India's youngest ever Oscar nominee, writer-director, Ashvin Kumar, who's in the UK to cast his latest film. 

There's a preview of tonight's National Television Awards from critic Jane Graham, who'll also stay on to talk about BBC Three's hard-hitting and remarkable drama, Murdered by My Boyfriend, which gets another screening tonight on the channel. The young lead actress, Georgina Campbell, beat the likes of Sarah Lancashire and Sheridan Smith to the Leading Actress BAFTA last year.

The exhibition Bad Entertainment opens at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery in Edinburgh at the end of the month. The artists are young people from across Scotland who've been working with the National Galleries of Scotland Outreach team to create artworks or films that show how their everyday lives and communities connect with the fantasy world of media culture. One of the artists Jasper Williams, and Robin Baillie, from the NGS Outreach team tell us more.

And there's music as Linden play a session for Janice.

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