The Afternoon Show with Janice Forsyth

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The Afternoon Show: Maggie O'Farrell, Tim Burgess and Blur's Dave Rowntree

Maggie O'Farrell, Tim Burgess and Blur's Dave Rowntree

BBC Radio Scotland - The Afternoon Show, Maggie O'Farrell, Tim Burgess and Blur's Dave Rowntree

Maggie O'Farrell's new novel, plus some inspiring community stories.

Maggie O'Farrell talks about her new novel, Hamnet, and Tim Burgess of The Charlatans and Dave Rowntree from Blur on quarantine online listening parties.

Artist Luke Jerram is best known in the UK for his Moon sculpture and Street Pianos project. For the last 15 years, he has also made glass sculptures of viruses. 8 weeks before the pandemic, he created a glass version of coronavirus for an American university.

Tim Burgess of The Charlatans has been hosting nightly album listening parties on Twitter, as quarantine entertainment. He and Blur’s Dave Rowntree tell Janice about them.

Novelist Maggie O'Farrell talks about her new book Hamnet, about the live of Shakepeare’s son who died age 11.

TV critic Scott Bryan on how televiion channels have reacted to the pandemic restrictions, and some of the changes to TV schedules to look out for.

Plus in the Tuesday Review, Scott Bryan, writer Gerrry Hassan and author Karen Campbell discuss Netflix documentary Tiger King, BBC Three comedy This Country, and the reshowing of Scottish classic Your Cheatin' Heart, starring Tilda Swinton and John Gordon Sinclair. 

And from the Kitchen Cafe archive, something useful if access to fresh bread is limited, James Morton on how to make your own sourdough starter.

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