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The Afternoon Show: Sparks, Jonny and the Baptists and Tuesday Review

Sparks, Jonny and the Baptists and Tuesday Review

BBC Radio Scotland - The Afternoon Show, Sparks, Jonny and the Baptists and Tuesday Review

Sparks discuss their 24th album and Jonny and the Baptists chat about their virtual tour.

Musical comedy duo Jonny and the Baptists discuss their virtual tour, Sparks chat about their new album and Janice has reviews of Hamilton, Rodham and Mrs America in Tuesday Review

Janice talks to Ron and Russell Mael, aka Sparks, about their 24th album, A Steady Drip Drip Drip.
In this week’s Arts Venue Check-In, Janice hears about the online workshops and virtual events Ayr Gaiety Theatre is staging for locals.
In Make A Difference Janice hears about Trees For Life - a project set up by a handful of volunteers who have been voluntarily isolating themselves at the charity’s flagship Dundreggan rewilding estate to save more than 100,000 native young trees.
Musical comedy duo Jonny and the Baptists - Jonny Donahoe and Paddy Gervers, chat about their latest tour which is a socially distant, streamed gig, tailored to the venues across the country they would have normally played, and are splitting the proceeds of their shows with.
And in the Tuesday Review; Jane Graham, Kelly Apter and Stuart Cosgrove discuss the Disney+ stream of Lin Manuel Miranda’s Broadway hit musical Hamilton, Curtis Sittenfeld’s novel Rodham, imagining what would have happened had Hillary not married Bill Clinton and Mrs America, a miniseries about the 1970's fight to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment, starring Cate Blanchett.

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