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The Afternoon Show: Six The Musical, and writer Emma Jane Unsworth

Six The Musical, and writer Emma Jane Unsworth

BBC Radio Scotland - The Afternoon Show, Six The Musical, and writer Emma Jane Unsworth

Janice talks to writer Emma Jane Unsworth, and rewatches 1996 TV classic This Life.

Janice talks to author Emma Jane Unsworth about her new novel Adults.  Plus the amazing success story of Six the Musical - from the Edinburgh Fringe to Broadway.

Emma Jane Unsworth tells Janice about her new novel Adults, in which central character Jenny negotiaties relationships with her friends and lovers, her mother and her smartphone.   Her last book, Adults, was made into an acclaimed film starring Holliday Grainger.

Six – The Musical arrives in Edinburgh as part of a UK tour this week.  It debuted as a student show in 2017 at the Edinbrugh Fringe, returning as a word of mouth hit in 2018, and it's come a long way since.  It’s in its second year in London’s West End, has sold out tours in the UK and Australia, and later this month it opens in New York, making Lucy Moss the youngest female director ever to direct on Broadway.  

The Stranger is a new Netflix thriller based on a Harlan Coeben novel, about a man who discovers his wife has a terrible secret – we hear from stars Richard Armitage and Hannah John-Kamen.

And in the Tuesday Review: author Jenny Colgan and critics Jonathan Whitelaw and Kelly Apter share their opinions of The Stranger, plus new BBC One Agatha Christie adaptation The Pale Horse, and as BBC Four reshows 90s classic drama This Life, our reviewers discuss how it feels watching it 24 years on.

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