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The Afternoon Show: Jason Watkins, Tala Gouveia, Biffy Clyro and Educating Rita

Jason Watkins, Tala Gouveia, Biffy Clyro and Educating Rita

BBC Radio Scotland - The Afternoon Show, Jason Watkins, Tala Gouveia, Biffy Clyro and Educating Rita

Biffy Clyro on their new single Instant History and 30 years of King Tut's music venue

Jason Watkins and Clara Gouveia on new crime drama, McDonald & Dodds, Andrew Hunter Murray on his debut novel and Single of the Week

On Monday’s show Janice chats to actors Jason Watkins and Tala Gouveia who both star as an unlikely partnership between two detectives in a new crime drama, McDonald and Dodds.

Biffy Clyro return to the scene with the first song, Instant History and Craig Gornall has been finding out about that single and their new 8th album which is out in May.  Biffy Clyro are big fans of the King Tut’s which celebrates its 30th anniversary this year and we’ll be mulling over the past 3 decades of Glasgow’s iconic music venue with music journalists Billy Sloan and Craig Gornall.

The much-loved Willy Russell play, Educating Rita is on its 40th anniversary tour and Janice will be chatting to its stars, Stephen Tompkinson and Jessica Johnson.

Writer, comedian and QI Elf, Andrew Hunter Murray tells us about his debut novel  - the Last Day – a cli-fi (climate fiction) novel set in a  world whose rotation has ground to a halt, half the world is permanently facing inward towards the sun and the other half is facing out towards the cold frozen universe 

We hear about the Nollywood Travel Film Festival coming to Glasgow this week, which is a platform to showcase African independent filmmakers from Nigeria.  We find out what Nollywood films are all about from Festival director Mykel Parish and also Scottish based Nigerian film-maker Olumie Fadeyibi.  

And our single of the week is revealed! This week it’s Glasgow singer songwriter Cara Rose  who was the only artist to play more than one show at this year’s Celtic Connections and she tells Janice about her latest release LEARN TO SPEAK.

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