The Afternoon Show with Janice Forsyth

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The Afternoon Show

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The Afternoon Show: Val McDermid chooses her Desert Island Poems and live music from Alannah Moar.

Val McDermid chooses her Desert Island Poems and live music from Alannah Moar.

BBC Radio Scotland - The Afternoon Show, Val McDermid chooses her Desert Island Poems and live music from Alannah Moar.

We hear Lewis Capaldi in his first ever Scottish radio session, with Janice, back in 2017.

Janice speaks to Irish writer Michael Patrick about new BBC 3 series My Left Nut, based on his own experience of an enlarged testicle, and Val McDermid shares her favourite poems.

Janice Forsyth is talking about body parts with Irish writer Michael Patrick who shares a very personal story in new BBC 3 comedy drama series My Left Nut.

Pamela Carter talks about observing real life heart transplants to research her new play We Are In Time and we hear from vocalist Jodie Landau and Director Stewart Laing. 

Our Single of the Week is Million Miles by Scottish singer songwriter Greg Pearson. Greg Facetimes Janice from his home in Dubai. 

Val McDermid shares the poems she would take to a proverbial Desert Island and Alannah Moar performs live music and talks about performing with the likes of Alan Cumming and KT Tunstall ahead of Stanza International Poetry Festival in St Andrew’s in which they’re both taking part. 

Janice shares a clip and performance from Lewis Capaldi’s first ever music session on Scottish radio with her in 2017 ahead of his Glasgow gigs next week. 

Ellen Renton talks about her spoken word theatre show - a one-woman performance about running, the Paralympics, and disability.

Grace Campbell talks about her new comedy show coming to Edinburgh, and what it’s like being a feminist activist, comedy writer and telly star when you’re also Alastair Campbell’s daughter.

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