The Afternoon Show with Grant Stott

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Grant Stott hosts the second of our special programmes at Cottiers Theatre in Glasgow.

Live performance and interviews with a stellar line up of guests including Amanda Anne Platt and the Honeycutters, Chrys Salt and Alan Bissett, Rowan Rheingans and Djana Gabrielle.

Amanda Anne Platt and the Honeycutters play Appalachian influenced folk-rock from North Carolina.  

Julia Taudevin and Kieran Hurley talk about their production Move/Gluasad, the first from their new company Disaster Plan, exploring migration, grief and loss. It premieres in community venues on Lewis before coming to Celtic Connections.

Poet Chrys Salt’s event at the festival centres on the poems she wrote when her son was deployed with the TA to Iraq in 2003 – “as I was on an anti-war march, he was buying desert boots”.

Writer Alan Bissett tells Grant about his new BBC Scotland documentary, going Inside the Mind of Robert Burns.

New writing meets folk music in multi-instrumentalist and singer Rowan Rheingans’ show Dispatches from the Red Dress, telling the true story of her German grandmother's youth in 1940's Germany.

Glasgow band Sister John play live, and Ian Smith from their record label Last Night From Glasgow explains how the project he set up as a hobby has become one of Scotland’s busiest independent record labels (and he still has his day job running an insurance company).

And French-Cameroonian songwriter Djana Gabrielle reveals how she made Glasgow her home on whim, looking at a map – and performs her tribute to the city.

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