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The Afternoon Show: Slavery: Scotland's Hidden Shame and singer Sam Fender

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Slavery: Scotland's Hidden Shame and singer Sam Fender

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Mezzo soprano Andrea Baker celebrates the 200th anniversary of Frederick Douglass' birth.

Composer Gareth Williams, Louis Abbott and Polish soprano Klaudia Korzeniewska talk about Navigate the Blood by Noise Opera - a collaboration between Gareth and Admiral Fallow.

David Hayman talks to Janice about presenting the two-part series Slavery: Scotland’s Hidden Shame which starts on Tuesday the 6th of November at 9pm on BBC Two Scotland.

And Edinburgh based mezzo soprano Andrea Baker brings us a report from a special exhibition at the Scottish National Library to celebrate the 200th anniversary of Frederick Douglass' birth featuring up to now unseen letters, writings and photos of Douglass - the most photographed man in the world at the time.

Children’s book author and teacher Pamela Butchart talks about ‘Gmorning, Gnight! little pep talks for me and you’, a new book of tweets by Hamilton creator and star Lin Manuel-Miranda, illustrated by Jonny Sun. 

BBC Sound of 2018 artist Sam Fender performs in our Edinburgh studio ahead of his gigs at the Mash House and King Tut’s in Glasgow, and talks about his current single and upcoming EP Dead Boys which confronts issues around male suicide. 

Following their session at Classics Unwrapped, we hear about Navigate the Blood by Noise Opera - a collaboration between Admiral Fallow and composer Gareth Williams. This is an opera set in the world of whisky and gin manufacturing and will be touring distilleries throughout Scotland from Friday the 2nd of November until Sunday the 25th of November. Gareth Williams, Louis Abbott of Admiral Fallow and Polish soprano Klaudia Korzeniewska talk about the process of bringing it together, and we hear a track from their Classics Unwrapped performance.

We look ahead to the second year of the Alternative Peers Ball in Edinburgh’s Assembly Rooms with Vic Galloway and The Skinny’s Editor Tallah Brash who have collaborated on the event with a lineup including some of Scotland’s most exciting artists including Bossy Love, Kobi Onyame, Fatherson and Martha Ffion.

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