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The Afternoon Show: Alan Cumming, James Strong, and Dancing On Tables Live in Session

Alan Cumming, James Strong, and Dancing On Tables Live in Session

BBC Radio Scotland - The Afternoon Show, Alan Cumming, James Strong, and Dancing On Tables Live in Session

Alan Cumming, James Strong, and Dancing On Tables Live in Session.

Alan Cumming has been performing his dance-theatre show, Burn, at the EIF. He chats to Zara about being back at the festival and taking the show on tour across Scotland.

From the minds of Line of Duty, Vigil and Karen Pirie comes STV’s new Drama ‘The Suspect’ starring Aidan Turner; Zara is joined by director and executive producer James Strong 
  
Alan Cumming has been performing his dance theatre show, BURN at the Edinburgh International Festival, he chats to Zara about being back at the festival and taking the show on tour across Scotland.  
  
Fife’s own pop-rock band Dancing on Tables are live in session in the middle of their UK tour and ahead of their debut album.  They’ll also give Zara an exclusive play of their upcoming single. 
  
Two of the Edinburgh Festival’s biggest comedy awards announced their winners over the weekend, Zara is joined by the winner of So You Think You're Funny? Joshua Bethania as they chat the impact these awards have on newcomers to the Edinburgh Festival.
  
The Wolf Hunters has just been nominated for an award at the Bloody Scotland crime writing festival, which takes place in September in Stirling this year; the book’s author Amanda Mitchison is in the studio to tell Zara all about it. 
  
Also Zara will have the first spin of our Single of the Week by Airdrie artist Louise Connel.

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