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The Afternoon Show: Douglas Day Stewart, John Newman and Kirsty Logan

17/04/2018

Douglas Day Stewart, John Newman and Kirsty Logan

BBC Radio Scotland - The Afternoon Show, Douglas Day Stewart, John Newman and Kirsty Logan

Janice Forsyth talks to Douglas Day Stewart, screenwriter of An Officer and a Gentleman.

Janice Forsyth talks to Douglas Day Stewart, whose experiences inspired him to write An Officer and a Gentleman. Plus John Newman on his new single Fire in Me.

Douglas Day Stewart based his screenplay for An Officer and a Gentleman on his own experiences at naval college. Janice talks to him as a musical based on the film goes on tour across the UK.

Writer Kirsty Logan will be telling Janice about her new book The Gloaming, billed as an enchanting queer mermaid love story.

Singer John Newman explains why the title of his new single, Fire In Me, sums up his current attitude to music.

Former children's book editor turned author Ele Fountain will be talking about her debut novel Boy 87, which follows the plight of a child refugee.

Plus the Tuesday Review: critics Heath Sheridan, Gayle Anderson and Kelly Apter review a new BBC adaptation of Wilkie Collins's The Woman in White, new Netflix offering The Alienist, and a compilation album, Johnny Cash - Forever Words, in which contemporary musicians put the singer's poems to music.

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