The Afternoon Show with Michelle McManus

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The Afternoon Show: Barbara Rafferty, Susannah Constantine and Siobhan Wilson in session

Barbara Rafferty, Susannah Constantine and Siobhan Wilson in session

BBC Radio Scotland - The Afternoon Show, Barbara Rafferty, Susannah Constantine and Siobhan Wilson in session

Barbara Rafferty, Siobhan Wilson, Mousa Alnana, Susannah Constantine amd Love The Sinner.

Susannah Constantine chats about her memoir, Siobhan Wilson performs live and Barbara Rafferty discusses her one woman show Clyde Built.

Michelle meets Susannah Constantine who co-presented the TV series What Not to Wear, with Trinny Woodall.  Susannah will talk about her book Ready For Absolutely Nothing ahead of her appearance at Boswell Book Festival this weekend.

One of Scotland’s best loved character actors, Barbara Rafferty, chats to Michelle about her one woman show at the Beacon Arts Centre in Greenock, Clyde Built, where she reads and performs memories from her childhood in 1950s Glasgow.  

Poet and musician Imogen Stirling joins Michelle to talk about her multimedia show, Love The Sinner, where the seven deadly sins are alive and kicking in contemporary Scotland.  It’s a co-production with Vanishing Point directed by Matthew Lenton who also joins the conversation. 

Syrian artist, now based in Glasgow Mousa Alnana talks about his work which draws from his own experiences and represents people who have struggled with seeking asylum just because of who or what they are.

Plus singer songwriter Siobhan Wilson is live in session performing songs from her new album plus she tells Michelle about being the singing voice of a cinematic puzzle adventure game for Xbox & PC.

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