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The Janice Forsyth Show: Grant Stott talks about The Handmaid's Tale and the popularity of dystopian fiction

Grant Stott

30/05/2017

Grant Stott talks about The Handmaid's Tale and the popularity of dystopian fiction

BBC Radio Scotland - The Janice Forsyth Show, Grant Stott talks about The Handmaid's Tale and the popularity of dystopian fiction

Grant discusses The Handmaid's Tale with Phil Miller, Rebecca Monks and Paul Whitelaw.

Grant Stott, Catrina Rose, Heath Sheridan and Bruce Findlay review the 50th anniversary edition of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club band, Fargo and BBC Radio 4's Book at Bedtime.

Phil Miller, Rebecca Monks and Paul Whitelaw discuss dystopian fiction, from the new Channel 4 series The Handmaid's Tale to Auldous Huxley's Brave New World.

We have the latest in our Talking Pictures series with Janice Kirkpatrick and art historian Anne Ellis.

Author David F Ross talks to Grant about the final part of his DISCO DAYS trilogy: THE MAN WHO LOVED ISLANDS.

On this week's Tuesday Review critics Heath Sheridan and Catrina Rose join former Simple Minds manager and record store owner Bruce Findlay to give their thoughts on The Beatles Sgt. Pepper's 50th Anniversary edition, Fargo: Season 3 and F Scott Fitzgerald: The Lost Stories, Book At Bedtime.

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