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The Afternoon Show: Simon Mayo, Glasgow Garden Festival and the Tuesday Review

24/04/2018

Simon Mayo, Glasgow Garden Festival and the Tuesday Review

BBC Radio Scotland - The Afternoon Show, Simon Mayo, Glasgow Garden Festival and the Tuesday Review

Janice Forsyth talks to Simon Mayo and remembers the 1988 Glasgow Garden Festival.

Simon Mayo tells Janice about writing a historical novel, and Abi Morgan talks about new TV drama The Split.

Simon Mayo has written a historical novel Mad Blood Stirring, inspired by his stumbling across an amazing "footnote of history".

Playwright Frances Poet tells Janice about her play Gut - exploring questions about who you can trust with that most precious of things: your children.

Reporter Paul English visits the Mitchell Library as they hold drop-in sessions to remember the 1988 Glasgow Garden Festival.

Screenwriter Abi Morgan talks about her new BBC1 drama The Split, about a mother and daughter firm of divorce lawyers.

And in the Tuesday Review, critics Sophie Good, Amy Taylor and Jonathan Whitelaw give their thoughts on The Split, new podcast Sandra, starring Ethan Hawke and Kristen Wiig, and the touring production of War Horse, currently at Edinburgh's Festival Theatre.

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