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The Janice Forsyth Show: Suzi Quatro, Marti Pellow and Denise Mina

08/03/2017

Suzi Quatro, Marti Pellow and Denise Mina

BBC Radio Scotland - The Janice Forsyth Show, Suzi Quatro, Marti Pellow and Denise Mina

Janice is joined by Suzi Quatro, ex-Wet Wet Wet singer Marti Pellow and author Denise Mina

Janice Forsyth is joined by rock star Suzi Quatro, former Wet Wet Wet frontman Marti Pellow and author Denise Mina.

Rock star Suzi Quatro talks about the Legends Live UK arena tour, where she'll share the stage with The Osmonds, David Essex and Hot Chocolate.

Marti Pellow and Nicola Meighan discuss how the music Marti discovered in his childhood has shaped his career and new album, Mysterious, in the next instalment in our series Inside Tracks.

Denise Mina tells Janice about her new novel, The Long Drop, based on a famous Glasgow murder case of the 1950s.

GIRLS LIKE THAT winner of The Writers' Guild Award for Best Play for Young Audiences, explores the pressures caused by social media when a schoolgirls' naked photograph goes viral. The play written by Evan Placey is brought to The Traverse by the Lyceum Youth Theatre and we talk to the director Rachel Esdale and 2 of the cast.

And we hear from Australian poet Ally Cobby Eckermann what the winning of the prestigious prize the 2017 Windham-Campbell prize for poetry from Yale University means to her in terms of her writing about the topic so close to hear heart; the experience of the so-called lost generation of indigenous Australians.

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