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The Janice Forsyth Show: Jonathan Glancey, The A Word, and music from the Swiss Family Orbison

22/03/2016

Jonathan Glancey, The A Word, and music from the Swiss Family Orbison

BBC Radio Scotland - The Janice Forsyth Show, Jonathan Glancey, The A Word, and music from the Swiss Family Orbison

Janice Forsyth with architecture critic Jonathan Glancey, and actor Lee Ingleby.

Janice Forsyth with stars of 'The A Word', Lee Ingleby and Morven Christie. Plus architecture writer Jonathan Glancey, and live music from the Swiss Family Orbison.

Architecture and design critic Jonathan Glancey talks about his new book which promises a crash course in urban architecture.

Dundee band the Swiss Family Orbison, featuring members of Danny Wilson and Deacon Blue, play live.

Actors Lee Ingleby and Morven Christie tell Janice about new drama The A Word, about a family whose youngest son is diagnosed with autism.

Janice talks to Laurence Grove and Peter Black from the University of Glasgow, curators of Comic Invention, a new exhibition at the Hunterian Art Gallery which includes what might be the world's oldest comic, published in Glasgow.

Plus the Tuesday Review: this week's critics are Graeme Virtue, Nicola Meighan and Peter Ross, who discuss TV series The A Word; Sweet Dreams Are Made of This, the memoir of Dave Stewart from The Eurythmics; and Post Pop Destruction, the new album from Iggy Pop.

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