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The Janice Forsyth Show: James Kelman, Aidan Moffat and Malcolm Middleton, plus Michele Stodart in session

13/07/2016

James Kelman, Aidan Moffat and Malcolm Middleton, plus Michele Stodart in session

BBC Radio Scotland - The Janice Forsyth Show, James Kelman, Aidan Moffat and Malcolm Middleton, plus Michele Stodart in session

James Kelman, Aidan Moffat and Malcolm Middleton, plus Michele Stodart in session.

Booker Prize-winning author James Kelman discusses his new novel, Aidan Moffat and Malcolm Middleton talk about reuniting as Arab Strap, and Michele Stodart plays a live session.

Booker Prize- winning author James Kelman talks about his stunning new novel, Dirt Road.

Aidan Moffat and Malcolm Middleton join Janice to talk about reuniting as Arab Strap, 20 years after announcing the end of the band.

Michele Stodart of The Magic Numbers gives a solo session.

Stranger Things, Netflix's new 1980s-set small town supernatural thriller, and The Secret Agent, the BBC's new Victorian terrorism drama, are reviewed by critic Paul Whitelaw.

Scottish tenor Nicky Spence explains why he and a group of fellow opera stars are cycling from Glasgow to London to raise money for fellow musicians, giving performances en route.

How can specialist bookshops survive? Edinburgh's George Street is about to lose another bookshop as a branch of Waterstones closes; Janice is joined today by James Daunt, Waterstones managing director and Marie Moser of The Edinburgh Bookshop to discuss.

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