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The Afternoon Show: Douglas Maxwell, Tuesday Review and Scot Squad's Cameron Miekelson on the General Election.

Douglas Maxwell, Tuesday Review and Scot Squad's Cameron Miekelson on the General Election.

BBC Radio Scotland - The Afternoon Show, Douglas Maxwell, Tuesday Review and Scot Squad's Cameron Miekelson on the General Election.

Scot Squad, Douglas Maxwell, Eve Nichol, 20 murals for 2020 and Tuesday Review.

Scot Squad’s Cameron Miekelson on getting involved with politics, art project 20 murals for 2020, new play I Can Go Anywhere, plus our regular Tuesday Review.

Janice chats to Scot Squad’s Chief Commissioner Cameron Miekelson (in character) about his interviews with political leaders in Scotland ahead of the general election and actor Jack Docherty discusses  the inspiration behind the character.

We find out about “20 murals for 2020” an art project,  which will highlight ecological features and will spring up across Scotland in time for the UN global summit on international climate action which takes place in Glasgow in November next year.

Janice speaks to playwright Douglas Maxwell (The Whip Hand) and director Eve Nicol about I Can Go Anywhere, a new play that is described as “a big-hearted call to arms focusing on the relationship between a disillusioned academic and a young man seeking asylum in the UK”. 

Plus, in Tuesday Review, our critics Gayle Anderson, Jamie Crawford and Amy Taylor give their verdict on new TV thriller, Traces, from Val McDermid, starring Martin Compston and Laura Fraser, Leonardo Da Vinci: A Life in Drawing exhibition at the Queens Gallery which marks the 500th anniversary of the artist's death and the novella, This Is Pleasure by American writer, Mary Gaitskill which she wrote in response to the #metoo movement.

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