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The Janice Forsyth Show: Phil Differ, Craig Hill and Fern Brady on comedy, plus Adam Holmes

11/01/2017

Phil Differ, Craig Hill and Fern Brady on comedy, plus Adam Holmes

BBC Radio Scotland - The Janice Forsyth Show, Phil Differ, Craig Hill and Fern Brady on comedy, plus Adam Holmes

Phil Differ, Craig Hill and Fern Brady talk about preparing for a comedy festival.

Phil Differ, Craig Hill and Fern Brady talk about preparing for the Glasgow International Comedy Festival, plus Janice Forsyth is joined by singer-songwriter Adam Holmes.

The Glasgow International Comedy Festival officially launches its 2017 programme tomorrow; Phil Differ, Craig Hill and Fern Brady, all on the bill, join Janice to discuss what it takes for a comedian to prepare for a festival.

Singer-songwriter Adam Holmes joins us ahead of a busy few months; he's performing in the Celtic Connections Opening Concert, supporting Eddi Reader on tour and doing a solo tour of his own.

We meet the newly-appointed Professor of Comics at The University of Dundee, Chris Murphy.

Good Me Bad Me: we meet the author of one of the most talked about debut novels of 2017, Ali Land.

Jill Murphy's The Worst Witch series of books, featuring Mildred Hubble, has been a hit with generations of children from the publication of the first title in 1974. Over 4m copies have been sold. As a new TV adaptation comes to the screen, we ask Nicola Meighan, fan of the books, and her nine year old daughter to preview the new CBBC series.

And- Irvine Welsh was recently announced at the patron of the Leith Theatre Trust, so we get a sense of the history of the venue and what it means to the local community.

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