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The Janice Forsyth Show: Clare Morrall, Trainspotting and the Tuesday Review

23/02/2016

Clare Morrall, Trainspotting and the Tuesday Review

BBC Radio Scotland - The Janice Forsyth Show, Clare Morrall, Trainspotting and the Tuesday Review

Janice talks to author Clare Morrall and marks the twentieth anniversary of Trainspotting.

Author Clare Morrall talks about her new novel, Robbie Fraser and Aonghas MacNeacail discuss a tribute to Hamish Henderson, and Janice marks the 20th anniversary of Trainspotting.

Janice speaks to author Clare Morrall about her new novel, When The Floods Came, set in a virus-ravaged, dystopian Britain. 
Robbie Fraser and poet Aonghas MacNeacail talk about new film Hamish, paying tribute to Scottish cultural colossus Hamish Henderson: poet, soldier, intellectual, activist and musician. 
Janice marks the 20th anniversary of the cinema release of Trainspotting, and there's live music from West Lothian 'Skindie' band, The Begbies.
Scottish theatre company Vanishing Point's latest production The Destroyed Room opens at the Tron Theatre in Glasgow this week. Director Matthew Lenton and actor Pauline Goldsmith talk uncomfortable truths.
Plus the Tuesday Review: up for discussion are China Mieville's new novella This Census Taker; new ITV drama Churchill's Secret, starring Michael Gambon, and a production of Arthur Miller's The Crucible in Edinburgh.

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