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The Afternoon Show: Ash drummer Rick McMurray, Funshine on Leith, Edinburgh International Culture Summit

Ash drummer Rick McMurray, Funshine on Leith, Edinburgh International Culture Summit

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Grant finds out about a new board game set in Glasgow and the Funshine on Leith tour.

Rick McMurray from band Ash and Nick Stewart of Sneaky Pete’s talk about Passport: Back to Our Roots, the new campaign to raise money for grassroots music venues at risk of closure

Leah Pisar is President of The Aladdin Project, which combats extremism by teaching the universal lessons of the Holocaust and building bridges of knowledge among Jews, Christians, and Muslims. She is also the daughter of the youngest survivor to come out of the Nazi concentration camps; Charlotte Eager is an award-winning filmmaker and foreign correspondent, novelist and producer who was inspired to establish the Trojan Women Project with William Stirling in 2013 through her experience  with refugees as a foreign correspondent in Syria. They talk to Grant about their roles in this year's special edition of the Edinburgh International Culture Summit.

Rick McMurray from band Ash and Nick Stewart of Sneaky Pete’s talk about Passport: Back to Our Roots, the new campaign to raise money for grassroots music venues at risk of closure

Glasgow singer songwriter Laura Donnelly’s debut album ‘Let Your Listening be Wide’ is out this Friday. She talks to Grant about her career which involved being part of band Laki Mera, and her excitement at releasing her first solo album. 

Paul English goes onto the set of River City to find out how filming is going now that it's resumed during the pandemic.

Mandela Fernandez-Grandon talks to Grant about his new board game Glasgow, which is all about trying to be the most successful merchant in the ‘new' city of Glasgow in the 1880's, and Bronwen Livingstone tries it out with her family.

Paul English is Getting to Know Scottish actor, star of Line of Duty and Still Game, Scott Reid. How many personal questions will he answer in 3 minutes?

Grant hears all about the Funshine on Leith comedy tour from tour guide Paul Stewart, and Catrina Rose and Holly Gardner give it a go.

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