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The Janice Forsyth Show: Nieves in session, plus the Tuesday Review

19/04/2016

Nieves in session, plus the Tuesday Review

BBC Radio Scotland - The Janice Forsyth Show, Nieves in session, plus the Tuesday Review

Nieves play live, plus Janice Forsyth hears about a new biography of artist George Wyllie.

Glasgow band Nieves play live, Louise Wyllie and Jan Patience talk about their biography of artist George Wyllie, and actor Ian McDiarmid discusses Shakespeare's Timon of Athens.

Louise Wyllie and Jan Patience join Janice to discuss their new co-authored book Arrivals and Sailings: The Making of George Wyllie, about the artist's life and work.

In the first of a new series, My Shakespeare, in which actors pick speeches which have meant something to them, Ian McDiarmid talks about a passage from Timon of Athens.

Neil MacKay tells Janice about his new novel 'The Wolf Trial, based on the accounts of 16th century serial killer Peter Stumpf, who was tried as a werewolf.

Glasgow band Nieves play live in session.

Privilege is a new performance from The Women's Creative Company, exploring different experiences of power and entitlement. We talk to the director Lou Brodie and performers Lee Anthony and Margaret MacMillan.

Plus the Tuesday Review: Mark Fisher, Natasha Raskin and Yasmin Sulaiman will be tackling Bridget Riley's new exhibition at the National Galleries of Scotland, BBC Four's Arena documentary All the World's A Screen - Shakespeare on Film and Let It Be, the Beatles musical on at the Edinburgh Playhouse.

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