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The Afternoon Show: Michael Morpurgo, Phil Daniels and film review day

12/04/2018

Michael Morpurgo, Phil Daniels and film review day

BBC Radio Scotland - The Afternoon Show, Michael Morpurgo, Phil Daniels and film review day

Grant Stott talks to writer Michael Morpurgo and actor Phil Daniels.

Grant Stott talks to writer Michael Morpurgo and actor Phil Daniels, as well as reviews the week's new movie releases: Rampage, Custody and Marlina the Murderer in Four Acts.

New movies Rampage, Marlina the Murderer in Four Acts and Custody are reviewed by critics Wendy Lloyd and Paul Gallagher.

Best -selling author of War Horse, Michael Morpurgo, discusses his new book, The Flamingo Boy, and how he drew on his family's own experiences to tell the story of Lorenzo, a young autistic boy who lives on his parents' farm in the South of France among the salt flats and the flamingos. It's 1942 and Lorenzo's world is about to be turned upside down as the Germans come and take the town.

Star of Quadrophenia and Eastenders, Phil Daniels, talks to Grant about performing the dual role in Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, a stage adaptation of the Robert Louis Stevenson classic that's touring the UK and in Edinburgh at the moment.

We hear about Cathy, a play that takes the 1966 Ken Loach classic film Cathy Come Home and updates it to reflect modern concerns about homelessness in the UK today. It's at the Citizens Theatre in Glasgow next week.

And forensic anthropologist Professor Dame Sue Black, who has advised crime writers like Val McDermid about their plots, has now written a book of her own, a memoir called All That Remains: A Life in Death. She'll be talking to Grant about telling her experiences and stories in her own words.

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