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The Afternoon Show: Live from Dundee Repertory Theatre, Nicola Meighan and guests share some of the best cultural highlights in Dundee

Live from Dundee Repertory Theatre, Nicola Meighan and guests share some of the best cultural highlights in Dundee

BBC Radio Scotland - The Afternoon Show, Live from Dundee Repertory Theatre, Nicola Meighan and guests share some of the best cultural highlights in Dundee

A celebration of Dundee culture live from the city of jute, jam and journalism.

Live from Dundee Repertory Theatre, Nicola Meighan and guests share some of the best cultural highlights in Dundee including theatre, dance, spoken word and music.

The Afternoon Show broadcasts live from Dundee Repertory Theatre bringing us a whopping 'what’s on' in the city.  The show is brimming with Dundee talent and a soundtrack celebrating the best music to have come out of the city.

Nicola Meighan is joined by the director and some of the cast of the Rep’s riotous reimagining of the classic story Don Quixote to bring us Don Quixote – Man of Clackmannanshire.  

We’ll hear from Dundee Ambassadors about the music and cultural impact of Dundee from journalist and writer Lorraine Wilson,  singer, musician and choir director Alice Marra, Dundee Culture website creator Andrew Batchelor and Le Freaks Record shop own Jack Le Fevre.   

Artistic Director of Scottish Dance Theatre, Joan Cleville tells Nicola about the last minute rehearsals of Ray which is about to head to London before returning next month for the Dundee Future Festival.

Two young Dundonian creatives, actor Taylor Dyson and director Calum Kelly talk about Dolly Parton Saved My Life, a theatre production they are touring for free in community centres across Dundee.  

And award winning author James Robertson tells Nicola about translating the Julia Donaldson classic Stick Man into Scots.

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