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The Afternoon Show: Pussycat Dolls, photographer Susan Wood and new play Smile

Pussycat Dolls, photographer Susan Wood and new play Smile

BBC Radio Scotland - The Afternoon Show, Pussycat Dolls, photographer Susan Wood and new play Smile

Pussycat Dolls and photographer Susan Wood.

Pussycat Dolls on their first new music in 10 years, plus photographer Susan Wood on working with John Lennon, Nora Ephron and on the set of Easy Rider.

Photographer Susan Wood is in Glasgow for an exhibition of her work at The Lighthouse, and a talk at Glasgow Film Festival.  She was the on-set photographer for Easy Rider, and over the decades has captured portraits of the likes of John Lennon and Yoko Ono, Susan Sontag, Jane Fonda and Nora Ephron.

Smile is a new play at Dundee Rep about legendary Dundee United manager Jim McLean.  Dundee United devotee, BBC Scotland Political Editor Brian Taylor, talks to playwright Phil Differ.

Pussycat Dolls are back!  Ashley Roberts and Jessica Sutta talk about the new single, React, their first new music in 10 years.

Plus theatre company Catherine Wheels on their celebrated production Lifeboat, as the company reaches its 20th year.

In the Tuesday Review, arts journalists Amy Taylor, Neil Cooper and Pauline Moore take a look at NT Live; Cyrano de Bergerac, the London theatre production starring James McAvoy as it was beamed into cinemas; Flesh and Blood, ITV new’s family drama starring Russell Tovey, Imelda Staunton and Francesca Annis; and TThis Thing of Darkness, an audio drama podcast looking at the psychological impact of murder on the people left behind.

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