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The Afternoon Show: Midge Ure, Paul Carrack and actress Synnove Karlsen

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Midge Ure, Paul Carrack and actress Synnove Karlsen

BBC Radio Scotland - The Afternoon Show, Midge Ure, Paul Carrack and actress Synnove Karlsen

Midge Ure discusses his upcoming tour and looks back over his career in music.

Grant Stott talks to  British Singer-Songwriter, Paul Carrack:  the hugely respected singer-songwriter, who is the voice of many of the landmark, British pop songs of the past 40 years, has just embarked on an extensive 30-date UK tour and will be coming to Scotland in February.

Ahead of its release this February, actress, Katie Goldfinch, will be talking about her role in Director Iain Ross-McNamee’s Gothic horror Crucible of the Vampire, and Jeff Zycinski, former head of BBC Radio in Scotland will be discussing his new memoir, The Red Light Zone - an account of 30 years of working in radio.  He reveals many career highlights in the book,  including accounts of numerous meetings with the rich and famous, like Margaret Thatcher, Richard Branson and Princess Anne; as well as various director generals of the BBC!

Grant will also be talking to Actress, Synnøve Karlsen who is set to star opposite Sean Bean and Daniel Sharman in the new Netflix show Medici: The Magnificent - a series first made popular by Richard Madden. Set for a worldwide January 25th release, it follows the Medici family in Florence in 1470. 

And the legend that is Midge Ure is bringing his special Songs, Questions And Answers tour to Scotland; he will be discussing it all and looking back over his career in music.

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