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The Afternoon Show: Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Catch-22, and the man who shaped Britpop

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Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Catch-22, and the man who shaped Britpop

BBC Radio Scotland - The Afternoon Show, Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Catch-22, and the man who shaped Britpop

Janice Forsyth speaks to the publicist and writer described as the mastermind of Britpop.

Janice Forsyth speaks to Phill Savidge, known as the man who shaped Britpop, plus reviews of the new Kate Atkinson novel, and Catch-22, a TV adaptation of Joseph Heller's novel.

Janice speaks to Phill Savidge, who ran a PR company in the 1990s representing bands like Blur, Pulp, Suede and Elastica.  He is even credited with instigating Britpop. 
He now recounts those days in his memoir Lunch With the Wild Frontiers.

Playwright Rona Munro tells Janice about adapting Louis de Bernieres bestselling novel Captain Correlli’s Mandolin for the stage, as the touring show comes to Edinburgh and Glasgow.

In Independent Bookshop Week, the Afternoon Show’s Anna Welander goes on a bookshop crawl across Edinburgh, and hears about the city's literary scene.

Plus the Tuesday Review:  James Crawford, Marie Moser and Heath Sheridan visit the new Bridget Riley exhibition at the Scottish National Gallery, read Kate Atkinson’s new book Big Sky, which sees the return of private investigator Jackson Brodie, and watch Catch-22, the George Clooney directed television adaptation of Joseph Heller’s satire.

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