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The Afternoon Show: Filming Paloma Faith, plus novelist Ann Cleeves and the week's movie reviews

Filming Paloma Faith, plus novelist Ann Cleeves and the week's movie reviews

BBC Radio Scotland - The Afternoon Show, Filming Paloma Faith, plus novelist Ann Cleeves and the week's movie reviews

Grant hears about a new documentary about Paloma Faith, and speaks to writer Ann Cleeves.

Grant speaks to the director of Paloma Faith: As I Am. Plus Shetland writer Ann Cleeves, and reviews of Ammonite, and Eddie Izzard's thriller Six Minutes to Midnight.

Paloma Faith: As I Am is a new documentary followingthe singer as she juggles touring and having a toddler.  Director Jane Mingay talks about following Paloma for a year to make the film.

Novelist Ann Cleeves tells Grant about the reissue of her Shetland novel Blue Lightning – aiming to draw attention to the Fair Isle bird observatory which was destroyed by fire two years ago.

As we continue to mark a year since lockdown started, Grant hears how two of Scotland’s independent cinemas, the Glasgow Film Theatre and the Bo'ness Hippodrome have been affected by the pandemic restrictions.

And in the Film Review Hour, critics Raisah Ahmed and Graeme Virtue share their thoughts on: Ammonite, starring Kate Winslet as palaeontologist Mary Anning, and Saorise Ronan as the young woman she grows close to.   Plus Six Minutes to Midnight, Eddie Izzard’s thriller set in a finishing school for German girls, on the eve of the Second World War; and H is for HAPPINESS, a quirky Australian family drama.

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