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The Afternoon Show: Sigrid, John Barrowman and Fair Saturday

Sigrid, John Barrowman and Fair Saturday

BBC Radio Scotland - The Afternoon Show, Sigrid, John Barrowman and Fair Saturday

Norwegian singer Sigrid is on tour, plus John Barrowman on his new Christmas album

John Barrowman tells Janice about his Christmas album, and Dancing on Ice. Plus winner of the BBC Sound of 2018 Sigrid, and Fair Saturday - an artistic antidote to Black Friday.

Janice speaks to Norwegian pop star and winner of the BBC Music Sound of 2018 Sigrid who is in Edinburgh, touring her debut album Sucker Punch.

John Barrowman talks about his seasonal album  - A Fabulous Christmas – and looking forward to being a judge on Dancing on Ice alongside Torvill and Dean.

And in an antidote to Black Friday, Janice hears about an event organised for Fair Saturday at Edinburgh’s Summerhall called Fair Play – celebrating music, writing and art, and featuring acts from Summerhall’s Artist Development Programme. Jenni Fagan and Matt Regan talk about work created during their time as writer and musician in residence respectively.

And the Tuesday Review will feature the new exhibition at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Paula Rego: Obedience and Defiance, which covers topics such as gender discrimination, FGM and political tyranny.  Plus Cold Call, Channel 5’s original drama is a psychological thriller about a woman seeking revenge on scammers, written by Scots Mark Buckland and Karyn Dougal Buckland and starring Sally Lindsay, Paul Higgins and Daniel Ryan. Plus the theatrical spectacle of Bjork’s Cornucopia tour at the Hydro in Glasgow.  Reviewers are Fiona Shepherd, Kelly Apter and Neil Cooper.

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