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The Afternoon Show: Howard Jacobson, Joan As Police Woman and Karl Whitney.

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Howard Jacobson, Joan As Police Woman and Karl Whitney.

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Janice Forsyth talks to Joan As Police Woman about her career retrospective album.

Howard Jacobson on his latest novel, LIVE A LITTLE.  Plus Joan As Police Woman tells Janice about Joanthology, her career retrospective album and her UK tour.

Joan As Police Woman catches up with Janice ahead of her gigs in Glasgow and Edinburgh as part of her JOANTHOLOGY TOUR.
Howard Jacobson talks to Janice about LIVE A LITTLE, his latest book, described as "a funny, tender, wickedly observed novel about love in old age". 
Hit Factories : A Journey Through the Industrial Cities of British Pop tells the story of British pop through the cities that shaped it.  Writer Karl Shipney tells Janice about tracking down the places where music was performed, recorded and sold, and the people – the performers, entrepreneurs, songwriters, producers and fans – who made it all happen.  It includes a fascinating chapter on Glasgow.
Our Tuesday Reviewers,  Hannah McGill, Andrea McKinnon and Kat Gollock give their verdicts on STRANGER THINGS – the series about the disappearance of a young boy and the supernatural events surrounding it.   Dark Mon£y – a new BBC drama series focussed around an ordinary working class family who have an impossible decision to make.  Plus an exhibition at Edinburgh’s Stills gallery about the original Selfie Queen, American photographer CINDY SHERMAN, renowned for her series of photographs featuring hundreds of characters modelled by the artist herself.

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