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The Janice Forsyth Show

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The Janice Forsyth Show: 24/07/2017

24/07/2017

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Live music from bluegrass AC/DC tribute band Hayseed Dixie and new drama by Patrick Gale.

AC/DC tribute band Hayseed Dixie are live from Studio 1 in Glasgow. Novelist Patrick Gale talks about his TV debut, BBC Two's Man in an Orange Shirt.

AC/DC tribute band Hayseed Dixie play live from Studio 1 in Glasgow.

How would you feel if you discovered a stash of your husband's old love letters and then found out they'd been written by the best man at your wedding? Novelist Patrick Gale draws on a family secret to write BBC Two's "Man in an Orange Shirt".

Imagine a perfect world where everything's open; a world without poverty, hatred and death. Would everyone be happy? Nicola Barker talks about her latest novel "H(A)PPY?"

Viper broth? A ragoo of larks? A quaking cake? Janice explores some of the recipes found in ancient cook books on display at Aberdeen University Library's exhibition "Cooking the Books".

Janice peeks inside the lucrative but dangerous world of kidnap and ransom, the backdrop to KJ Howe's debut novel "The Freedom Broker".

And what do you get when you add Freudian psychology and a virtual reality headset to a theatrical performance that blurs consciousness and unconsciousness? WHIST is on at the Festival Theatre Edinburgh.

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