The Afternoon Show with Michelle McManus

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The Afternoon Show: The Women's Prize for Fiction, and a new Bee Gees biography

The Women's Prize for Fiction, and a new Bee Gees biography

BBC Radio Scotland - The Afternoon Show, The Women's Prize for Fiction, and a new Bee Gees biography

Michelle speaks to the newly crowned winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction

Michelle hears from Barbara Kingsolver, who has just won the 2023 Women's Prize for Fiction. And she talks to Bob Stanley, who has written a new biography of The Bee Gees.

Michelle speaks to Barbara Kingsolver, whose novel Demon Copperhead has just won the Women's Prize for Fiction 2023.

Riley Keough, Gina Gemmell and Franklin Sioux Bob talk about their debut film War Pony, set on a Native American reservation in South Dakota.

A new series of Charlie Brooker's satire Black Mirror has just landed on Netflix. Michelle talks to Myha'la Harrold and Samuel Blenkin, who star in an episode called Loch Henry, set in Scotland and filmed in Arrochar.

Saint Etienne's Bob Stanley tells Michelle about his new biography of the Bee Gees.

And Anna Welander is in the Borders for this week's Upload on the Road.

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