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The Afternoon Show: Spice Girls' Wannabe at 25 and author Christy Lefteri on her latest novel Songbirds

Spice Girls' Wannabe at 25 and author Christy Lefteri on her latest novel Songbirds

BBC Radio Scotland - The Afternoon Show, Spice Girls' Wannabe at 25 and author Christy Lefteri on her latest novel Songbirds

25 years after its release, we look at the impact of The Spice Girls' debut single Wannabe

Glasgow's Merchant City Festival, Romeo and Juliet at The Scottish Crannog Centre and best-selling author Christy Lefteri on her latest novel, Songbirds.

This week is the 25th anniversary of release of The Spice Girls debut single, Wannabe and we look at the impact it had on the charts at that time

Also on the show, Nicola will be hearing about the outdoors Merchant City Festival taking place in Glasgow this weekend which includes a 5 metre high set of swings!

Author of the best-selling 'Beekeeper of Aleppo', Christy Lefteri, will be chatting about her latest novel, Songbirds.

And we check in with The Scottish Crannog Centre after the fire there that destroyed the reconstructed Iron Age Crannog and look ahead to the Centre staging a production of Romeo and Juliet.

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