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The Afternoon Show: Janet Beat, Barber Shop Chronicles, and Elton John's memoir

Janet Beat, Barber Shop Chronicles, and Elton John's memoir

BBC Radio Scotland - The Afternoon Show, Janet Beat, Barber Shop Chronicles, and Elton John's memoir

Janice Forsyth speaks to pioneering electronic composer Janet Beat.

Janice speaks to pioneering electronic composer Janet Beat, plus reviews of His Dark Materials and Elton John's memoir, Me.

Janice speaks to some of the cast of Barber Shop Chronicles – a National Theatre production set in a series of barber shops across London, Johannesburg, Kampala, Lagos, Accra and Harare, all over the course of one day, as black men gather to cut hair, discuss the world and watch football. 

Aberdeen Art Gallery reopens on November 2nd after a long refurbishment. Aberdeen Art Gallery and Museums Manager Christine Rew and art critic Susan Mansfield talk about the £36 million redevelopment of this much loved gallery.

Janice will be chatting to Janet Beat who, back in the 1950s was a pioneering musician in the field of electronic music and was recently granted the first Lifetime Achievement Award by Scottish Women Inventing Music. 

And in the Tuesday Review, writers Catherine Simpson and Vonny LeClerc and comedian Craig Hill take a look at the first episode of the BBC One adaptation of Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials, NOW, the new exhibition at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art featuring work by Scottish artist Katie Paterson at the Scottish National Galleries; and Me, the revealing new memoir from Elton John.

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