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Nicola Meighan with ideas and inspiration for fun things to do around Scotland in the days ahead and a soundtrack to kick start your weekend.

The Friday Afternoon Show: Soft Cell, Great Tapestry of Scotland, and The Royal Scottish National Orchestra

Soft Cell, Great Tapestry of Scotland, and The Royal Scottish National Orchestra

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Soft Cell's Dave Ball chats to Nicola about his autobiography

As one half of Soft Cell, Dave Ball has just released his autobiography 'Electronic Boy: My life In And Out Of Soft Cell'.

As one half of Synth Pop duo Soft Cell, instrumentalist Dave Ball spent much of the 1980s touring the globe, making music and having fun with bandmate Marc Almond.   Dave has now written an autobiography Electronic Boy: My Life In And Out Of Soft Cell, and he joins Nicola to chat about his life in music. 

Our Make A Difference discussion this week takes a look at what one care home will be doing for Fathers Day this Sunday. 

This Saturday is Make Music Day, when we’re all encouraged to pick up an instrument, and get into our creative side. However, what if you don’t have an instrument lying around? Well the Royal Scottish National Orchestra has got you covered!  Through a series of videos on their social media channels, they’ve been teaching us how to make some rudimentary instruments, so we decided to test them out.

This week saw the launch of a Scotland wide competition calling for amateur and professional artists of all ages to record their artistic reflections of Scotland during the pandemic, to provide a vital record of the Covid-19 lockdown for generations to come.  Some of the most inspiring entries will feature in a new REFLECTIONS OF A NATION exhibit in the new purpose-built GREAT TAPESTRY OF SCOTLAND GALLERY AND EXHIBITION CENTRE when it opens in spring 2021. Nicola hears more about the project from Sandy Maxwell Forbes- Great Tapestry of Scotland Centre Director.

While we’ve all been spending more time inside our homes and in our gardens if we have them, Tricia Brown has been finding that her tenement has felt more like a community than ever… 

And we hear how one theatre group in Dumfries and Galloway has been encouraging local kids to get creative and become playwrights.

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