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The Janice Forsyth Show: Priscilla Presley on Elvis live, music writer Martin Aston, The Gorbals Vampire and Summerhall's Festival of Death

25/10/2016

Priscilla Presley on Elvis live, music writer Martin Aston, The Gorbals Vampire and Summerhall's Festival of Death

BBC Radio Scotland - The Janice Forsyth Show, Priscilla Presley on Elvis live, music writer Martin Aston, The Gorbals Vampire and Summerhall's Festival of Death

Martin Aston talks to Janice about his new book on gay performers in pop music.

Music writer Martin Aston talks about his new book on gay performers in pop music, plus Priscilla Presley talks about the new Elvis Presley album and live tour.

Music writer Martin Aston tells Janice about his new book Breaking Down the Walls of Heartache - a history of gay performers in pop and rock music.
Playwright Johnny McKnight talks about the Citizens' Theatre's community production, The Gorbals Vampire, based on real events at Glasgow's Southern Necropolis on a September evening in 1954 when hundreds of school children descended on the graveyard to find the 'Man with the Iron Teeth' who they believed had abducted and eaten two local boys.
Priscilla Presley talks about the recent release of The Wonder of you: Elvis Presley with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and accompanying arena tour next month.
Summerhall in Edinburgh are putting on a Festival of Death - a season of art and performances exploring death and the taboos around it. Janice talks to organiser Angie Dight, who has created the event in tribute to her late partner and co-founder of Mischief La Bas, Ian Smith. Plus Pauline Goldsmith on resurrecting Bright Colours Only, her one woman play set at at a wake, and performance artist Victoria Melody - who is creating a show with her father Mike. He was diagnosed with a terminal disease, and Victoria learnt how to become a funeral director as she organised his funeral. A year later, the diagnosis was found to be wrong... and they've turned the experience into a show, Ugly Chief.
Plus the Tuesday Review - this week Kelly Apter, Vic Galloway and Nicola Meighan review the BBC adaptation of Wilkie Collins' The Moonstone; the new Lady Gaga album Joanne, and Leonard Cohen's new album You Want It Darker.

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