The Afternoon Show with Janice Forsyth

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The Afternoon Show: Grand Designs; author James Campbell; Ballet Black, Dancebase and diversity in dance

Grand Designs; author James Campbell; Ballet Black, Dancebase and diversity in dance

BBC Radio Scotland - The Afternoon Show, Grand Designs; author James Campbell; Ballet Black, Dancebase and diversity in dance

Janice meets Ben & Joanna whose Glasgow house features in the new series of Grand Designs.

Gus Unger-Hamilton from Alt-J celebrates 10 years since the band’s debut album with a new album 'Dream' and tour, and James Campbell talks about his memoir Just Go Down to the Road.

Janice meets Ben and Joanna, a Scottish couple featuring in the new series of Grand Designs, to hear about their ambitious new home built in the style of an American ranch in Glasgow.

Gus from Alt-J celebrates 10 years since the band’s debut album, telling Janice about their new album Dream and tour.

Janice is joined by Cassa Pancho, who is celebrating 20 years of Ballet Black, the company she founded as response to the lack of professional Black and Asian ballet dancers in the UK, to hear about their double bill of shows coming to Edinburgh, and Dancebase Artistic Director Tony Mills gives us his take on diversity in the Scottish dance scene.

Our Single of the Week is Nobody’s Fool by 15 year old Glasgow boy Paddy Mac – he tells Janice all about himself and the song. 

Glaswegian journalist and writer James Campbell talks about his memoir Just Go Down to the Road, which recounts his years as a teenage delinquent and young adulthood spent on the road before he found his place in the world of literature.

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