The Afternoon Show with Janice Forsyth

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The Afternoon Show: The Wanted, Val McDermid and Jackie Kay, Strictly

The Wanted, Val McDermid and Jackie Kay, Strictly

BBC Radio Scotland - The Afternoon Show, The Wanted, Val McDermid and Jackie Kay, Strictly

The Wanted join Janice. Val McDermid and Jackie Kay talk about Book Week Scotland.

Janice talks to Max George and Jay McGuinness from The Wanted about their Greatest Hits album and Strictly, and Thomas Morris discusses his book The Dublin Railway Murder.

Janice Forsyth talks to The Wanted about their Greatest Hits album, Strictly and coming to Glasgow.

Two of Scotland’s greatest writers Val McDermid and Jackie Kay talk about the events they are taking part in for Book Week Scotland. 

Our Single of the Week is Better When You’re Around from 24-year-old Rhona MacFarlane’s new EP which came out on Friday.

Strictly podcast host and producer Kim Winston gives us her weekly Strictly round-up. 

Bryan Burnett meets some of the teenagers who benefit from Children in Need funded project Fife Gingerbread, who aim to help teen parents and their babies, as we encourage listeners to donate during Appeal Week.

Former BBC Radio producer, writer and historian Thomas Morris tells us about the extraordinary discoveries he made whilst raiding the Irish national archives to piece together a sensational true crime story from a railway terminus in Dublin in 1856 which is now a book called The Dublin Railway Murder.

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