The Afternoon Show with Janice Forsyth

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The Afternoon Show: Janice Forsyth talks to playwright Roy Williams and to Andy McCluskey of OMD. Plus our weekly Tuesday Review.

Janice Forsyth talks to playwright Roy Williams and to Andy McCluskey of OMD. Plus our weekly Tuesday Review.

BBC Radio Scotland - The Afternoon Show, Janice Forsyth talks to playwright Roy Williams and to Andy McCluskey of OMD. Plus our weekly Tuesday Review.

Janice Forsyth talks to playwright Roy Williams and to Andy McCluskey of OMD.

Janice Forsyth talks to playwright Roy Williams and to Andy McCluskey of OMD. Plus our regular Tuesday Review.

Janice Forsyth talks to long-time member of Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark Andy McCluskey about the 40th anniversary of the band’s Architecture & Morality album and about their forthcoming live dates in Edinburgh and Glasgow.

Janice also interviews one of the UK’s leading playwrights, Roy Williams, about his new play History, which interweaves the stories of members of the black community and is set against archive of major events such as the Brixton Riots,  9/11 and the death of George Floyd.

We highlight poet Morven Gow, who performed at one of our BBC Upload specials as part of our coverage of the Edinburgh Festivals last month.

And in this week’s Tuesday Review, our critics Heath Sheridan and Catherine Wilson join Janice to discuss:

Y: The Last Man, the new series from Disney + which takes place in a post-apocalyptic world where a mysterious cataclysmic event simultaneously killed every mammal with a Y chromosome but for one man, Yorick Brown (Ben Schnetzer), and his pet monkey Ampersand. 

Foundation, the epic new science fiction series on Apple TV based on the series of novels by Isaac Asimov.

& the new series of Sex Education on Netflix.

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