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The Afternoon Show: Sara Pascoe, Scot Squad's Karen Bartke and Liz Lochhead

Sara Pascoe, Scot Squad's Karen Bartke and Liz Lochhead

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Grant interviews Sara Pascoe and Paul English gets to know Scot Squad's Officer Karen

Grant discusses the rescheduling of Pantos all around the country due to the pandemic with Fiona Gibson, CEO at Edinburgh's Capital Theatres and Panto writer and star Alan McHugh.

Sara Pascoe talks to Grant about her book Sex Power Money and the accompanying podcast.

Edi Stark tells Grant about her new podcast which revisits her Stark Talk radio series, featuring interviews with incredible names including Norman MacCaig, Mo Mowlam and Irvine Welsh.

We find out how Jennifer Gill has been Making a Difference to families with children who have Cancer through hers and her husband's charity Love Oliver, named after their baby boy who died at just 24 weeks old. 

Following the announcement of the rescheduling of Sleeping Beauty, the Edinburgh King's Theatre Panto starring Grant Stott, Andy Gray and Allan Stewart, Grant discusses the rescheduling of Pantos all around the country due to the pandemic with Fiona Gibson, CEO at Edinburgh's Capital Theatres and the man who writes so many of the Pantos around the country and who was set to star in Beauty and the Beast at His Majesty's Theatre in Aberdeen Alan McHugh.

Paul English is Getting to Know Karen Bartke aka Officer Karen in our weekly Scottish celebrity challenge.

This month Grant's Book Group is lead by former Makar Liz Lochhead who has gotten her poet friends Hollie McNish and Michael Pedersen to read one of her favourite books, 2018 Man Booker Prize winning novel Milkman by Anna Burns, which is set during the Troubles in Northern Ireland.

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