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The Afternoon Show: Jon Richardson, Greg McHugh and The Narcissistic Fish

Jon Richardson, Greg McHugh and The Narcissistic Fish

BBC Radio Scotland - The Afternoon Show, Jon Richardson, Greg McHugh and The Narcissistic Fish

New music from Rebecca Ferguson. Grant finds about Jon Richardson's futuristic podcast.

Rebecca Ferguson discusses her new single, Jon Richardson chats about his podcast and rising star Joshua Grant on the surprise success of his brand new track Edinburgh.

Comedian Jon Richardson and futurist Ed Gillespie tell Grant about their podcast Jon Richardson and The Futurenauts which aims to counteract the doom and gloom of the current global situation by exploring the many ways in which we can all make the world a better place through the power of science and cultural understanding. 

Rebecca Ferguson talks about her new single Nothing Left but the Family which she wrote with Nile Rodgers.

Up and coming musician Joshua Grant introduces his new song Edinburgh, which has gone to No. 24 in the iTunes charts, which is about his experiences of growing up in the Capital, and his love for the city. 

Jack Clark from The Portobello Bookshop tells us how his independent bookshop is staying connecting to the book-loving community in Lockdown.

This week Paul English is Getting to Know - Greg McHugh aka Gary Tank Commander by testing him to see how many questions he can answer about himself in 3 minutes. Will he do better than Jane McCarry’s score of 9, or Janey Godley, who’s at the top of the leader board with 16 questions?

We hear about Scottish Opera’s short film The Narcissistic Fish launched this week, featuring the company’s first ever digital opera. Filmmaker Antonia Bain talks about her passion to create brand new piece of digital operatic work that would appeal to new audiences, as well as existing ones, and Jenni Fagan talks about creating a libretto in Scots for the Opera, which was composed by Samuel Bordoli. Now that live performances cannot go ahead, will Scottish Opera’s first every purely digital opera be a success?

Plus, we find out how people are Making a Difference around Scotland.

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