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The Janice Forsyth Show: Greg McHugh, Stella Rimington and the Sensational Alex Harvey Band

13/04/2016

Greg McHugh, Stella Rimington and the Sensational Alex Harvey Band

BBC Radio Scotland - The Janice Forsyth Show, Greg McHugh, Stella Rimington and the Sensational Alex Harvey Band

Featuring Greg McHugh, Stella Rimington and the Sensational Alex Harvey Band.

Actor and writer Greg McHugh talks about TV autism drama The A Word, plus writer and former MI5 director general Stella Rimington discusses Edinburgh University's Spy Week.

Actor and writer Greg McHugh talks to Janice about starring in current BBC autism drama The A Word, the recent finale of Channel 4 hit comedy Fresh Meat and discusses the process of turning his brilliant comic creation Gary: Tank Commander into stage shows for the Hydro in Glasgow this autumn.

For Director-General of MI5 turned thriller writer Stella Rimington talks about taking part in Edinburgh University's Spy Week, where the fictional and real worlds of spying and espionage are being explored.

Poet George Mackay Brown died 20 years ago today; biographer Maggie Fergusson looks at his impact on 20th century Scottish literature.

JRR Tolkien's remarkable story Leaf by Niggle was written while he was despairing of ever bringing to a conclusion his great work, The Lord of the Rings. Playwright and storyteller Richard Medrington will use ladders, bicycles, easels and heirlooms to translate the story to the studio stage of the Festival Theatre- with a soundtrack composed by Karine Polwart and Michael John McCarthy. Richard and director Andy Cannon join Janice.

The Sensational Alex Harvey Band- a magnificent new box set of CDs has been released. Janice talks to SAHB drummer Ted McKenna and Tim Barr, who wrote the sleevenotes for the set.

Allied Antagonists/ Northern Lights- we compare and contrast two exhibitions that place modern art in National Trust for Scotland traditional historic houses.

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