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The Janice Forsyth Show: Singer Paul Carrack, Zadie Smith's NW and remembering Leonard Cohen

Singer Paul Carrack, Zadie Smith's NW and remembering Leonard Cohen

14/11/2016

BBC Radio Scotland - The Janice Forsyth Show, Singer Paul Carrack, Zadie Smith's NW and remembering Leonard Cohen

Janice Forsyth chats to singer Paul Carrack and screenwriter Rachel Bennette.

Janice Forysth chats to Paul Carrack about his new album, hears about the TV adaptation of Zadie Smith's NW from screenwriter Rachel Bennette, and pays tribute to Leonard Cohen.

Paul Carrack joins Janice for a chat about his brand new album, his Mastermind chops and the experience of working with a charity choir.

Almost 40 years after his death, music journalist Ray Connolly - one of the few writers to interview Elvis - revisits the tumultuous life and times of The King in his new biography, and examines what it was really like to be the world's first rock star when the chips were down.

The screen adaptation of Zadie Smith's acclaimed novel NW hits our screens tonight. Janice speaks to screenwriter Rachel Bennette about the task of translating the novel for a television audience, and the challenge of staying faithful to the original text. 

One of the most influential singer-songwriters of all time, Leonard Cohen, has died at the age of 82 - just a month after releasing his last album. Janice delves into the archive to pay tribute to one of Canada's finest.

With the highly publicised closures of Inverleith House in Edinburgh and the exhibition space in the Glasgow Sculpture Studios, arts journalist Phil Miller and Scottish Contemporary Art Network's Seonaid Daly discuss the importance of cultural venues in Scotland today in the creation and promotion of art, and what closures could mean for Scotland's emerging talent.

Photographer and former Buzzcocks drummer John Mayer chats about his latest exhibition of Outer Hebrides photographs touring the Highlands and Islands aboard the Screen Machine mobile cinema.

Plus, Janice reveals this week's Single of the Week, and which musical greats are going head to head in this week's Vinyl Verdict.

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