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The Janice Forsyth Show: Singer Tori Kelly, writer Kevin MacNeil and the Tuesday Review

01/03/2016

Singer Tori Kelly, writer Kevin MacNeil and the Tuesday Review

BBC Radio Scotland - The Janice Forsyth Show, Singer Tori Kelly, writer Kevin MacNeil and the Tuesday Review

Singer-songwriter Tori Kelly performs live, plus Kevin MacNeil talks about his new book.

American singer-songwriter Tori Kelly talks to Janice Forsyth and performs live, plus writer Kevin MacNeil talks about his new book, The Brilliant & Forever.

David Harrower's play Blackbird depicts a meeting between a middle-aged man and a young woman who had a relationship when he was 40 and she was only twelve years old. Director Gareth Nicholls and actor Paul Higgins talks about the challenges of staging the play, currently on at Glasgow's Citizens Theatre.

American singer songwriter Tori Kelly gained recognition after she started posting videos in 2007 on YouTube at the tender age of 14. She drops in for a chat with Janice and performs live.

Outer Hebrides award-winning writer Kevin MacNeil tells Janice about his new book The Brilliant and Forever, featuring an island literary festival and a talking alpaca.

Dirty Pakistani Lingerie interweaves the stories of six Muslim-American women at the chaotic juncture of two different cultures. We hear from the director Erica Gould and writer and performer Aizzah Fatima, as they set off on a UK tour.

The Dead Stations tells the story of what happens when a passenger steps off a train at an abandoned station in the middle of a forest. Written by Charlotte Hathaway with music and lyrics by Mike Vass, it combines live performance, animation, recorded actors and projections. Mike and Charlotte join Janice in studio to talk about the project.

And for this week's Tuesday Review our critics Jonathan Whitelaw, Paul English and Kirsty Logan offer up their thoughts on bestseller The Shepherd's Life by James Rebanks, BBC Two's Murder: The Third Voice and the Travelling Gallery's new exhibition Here Comes Everybody.

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