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The Janice Forsyth Show: Tracy Chevalier, the Feeling, Mamma Mia! and Aye Write 2016

09/03/2016

Tracy Chevalier, the Feeling, Mamma Mia! and Aye Write 2016

BBC Radio Scotland - The Janice Forsyth Show, Tracy Chevalier, the Feeling, Mamma Mia! and Aye Write 2016

Tracy Chevalier discusses her new book, At the Edge of the Orchard.

Mamma Mia! creator Judy Craymer talks to Janice, authors Tracy Chevalier and Garth Greenwell discuss their new books, and the Feeling drop in to chat about their new album.

Janice pays tribute to Sir George Martin, producer of The Beatles, who has died aged 90.

Tracy Chevalier is best known for her second novel, 'Girl with a Pearl Earring' which was adapted for the big screen in 2003 starring Scarlett Johansson and Colin Firth. She talks to Janice about her brand new book 'At the Edge of the Orchard' which is about an American pioneer family with a secret, struggling to make a living from the land.

The UK's biggest country music festival 'Country 2 Country' comes to Glasgow for the first time. BBC Radio Scotland presenter Ricky Ross, whose show Another Country will be covering the festival, joins Janice to give a flavour of this celebration of country music.

'Aye Write! 2016' begins tomorrow. Programmer Bob McDevitt and author Denise Mina come in to talk about the festival highlights.

Judy Craymer is theatre producer and creator of 'Mamma Mia!'. She talks to Janice as tickets go on sale ahead of the show arriving in Edinburgh in November on its first UK tour.

The Feeling shot to fame after releasing their debut album 'Twelve Stops And Home' in 2006. A year later they won a prestigious Ivor Novello Award as Songwriters Of The Year. The band drop by to discuss their self-titled fifth album.

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