The Panopticon, Jojo Moyes, two new TV thrillers

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The Afternoon Show: The Panopticon, Jojo Moyes, two new TV thrillers

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Janice Forsyth talks to Jenni Fagan about adapting her novel The Panopticon for the stage.

Writer Jenni Fagan on adapting her novel The Panopticon for the National Theatre of Scotland, plus Jojo Moyes on writing about an intriguing slice of US history.

The Panopticon is the National Theatre of Scotland’s stage adaptation of Jenni Fagan’s celebrated novel about a young woman growing up at a young offenders’ institution, written for the stage by Jenni herself. She speaks to Janice along with director Debbie Hannan and actor Anna Russell Martin.

Jojo Moyes tells the Afternoon Show’s Kate Florio about her new novel The Giver of Stars, set in 1930s Kentucky, it’s about the power of reading to change lives, and the importance of female friendship. 

Writer Gary McNair has adapted Ben Johnson’s Jacobean farce The Alchemist, starring Grant O’Rourke and Louise McCarthy as a pair of confidence tricksters. The three of them join Janice in studio.

And in this week’s Tuesday Review:  critics Kelly Apter, Claire Sawers and Doug Johnstone discuss two very different TV thrillers – BBC One’s Dublin Murders, starring Killian Scott and Sarah Greene as detectives investigating two murders in Ireland, and BBC2/Netflix co-production Giri/Haji, an international drama set in London and Toyko, starring Kelly Macdonald. And they share their thoughts on Wham! George & Me, the new memoir from Andrew Ridgeley.

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