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The Janice Forsyth Show: 17/05/2016

Liz Lochhead/Jimmy Chisholm/Siobhan Redmond

17/05/2016

BBC Radio Scotland - The Janice Forsyth Show, 17/05/2016

Janice Forsyth talks to Liz Lochhead, Siobhan Redmond, Jimmy Chisholm and Maggie O'Farrell

Janice Forsyth talks to writer Liz Lochhead and actors Siobhan Redmond and Jimmy Chisholm about new play Thon Man Moliere, plus novelist Maggie O'Farrell discusses her new novel.

Actors Siobhan Redmond and Jimmy Chisholm, and writer Liz Lochhead discuss Liz's new play for Edinburgh's Royal Lyceum Theatre, Thon Man Molière, a playwright she's been fascinated by throughout her career.

Maggie O'Farrell tells Janice about her seventh novel This Must Be The Place, an epic, time-shifting, story of a marriage.

QI Elves, Andrew Hunter Murray and Anna Ptaszynski, two of the researchers behind the panel show, talk about getting their own TV programme, No Such Thing As The News.

Role Shift is a new play from Birds of Paradise Theatre company, about a sign language interpreter who finds herself caught up in the on-stage action.

Plus the Tuesday Review: Stuart Kelly, Hannah McGill and Jonathan Whitelaw review the new book from US literary great Don De Lillo, exhibition The Scottish Endarkenment at Edinburgh's Dovecot Gallery, and TV series Love, Nina, adapted by Nick Hornby and starring Helena Bonham Carter.

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