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The Afternoon Show: Lyra, André Rieu, and Maw Goose

Lyra, André Rieu, and Maw Goose

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Michelle talks to violinist André Rieu, and hears about Stirling's panto Maw Goose

Alison Millar on her powerful documentary Lyra, and André Rieu tells Michelle about his Christmas album.

Director Alison Millar talks about her film Lyra, a portrait of her friend, Belfast journalist Lyra Mckee, who was murdered in 2019.  

Brian James O'Sullivan and Amy Conachan tell Michelle about performing in Maw Goose at Stirling’s MacRobert Arts Centre.
 
Global superstar violinist and classical phenomenon, André Rieu, talks about his new Christmas album. 

Anna Welander is back with more Upload highlights, this week on the theme of Freedom.

In December’s Audiobook Group comedian Jamie Macdonald and writer Jane Graham review JRR Tolkien’s Letters from Father Christmas, and The Greatest Gift by Philip Van Doren Stern, the short story which inspired It’s A Wonderful Life.

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