The Afternoon Show with Michelle McManus

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The Afternoon Show: Charlie from Busted, Dundee Fringe and The Lost Flock

Charlie from Busted, Dundee Fringe and The Lost Flock

BBC Radio Scotland - The Afternoon Show, Charlie from Busted, Dundee Fringe and The Lost Flock

Michelle McManus hears about this year's Dundee Fringe. Plus Busted's current tour.

Michelle hears about this year's Dundee Fringe, and meets a woman whose love of knitting led to her moving to Orkney to keep sheep. Plus Catrina Rose chats to Charlie from Busted.

Michelle McManus chats to JD Henshaw, founder and organiser of the Dundee Fringe. 

Jane Cooper's passion for knitting led to her moving to Orkney, where she found herself custodian of a rare Scottish breed of sheep, she tells Michelle about her new book The Lost Flock. 

Artist Juli Bolaños-Durman talks about her new artwork Our Common Humanity, created after workshops with patients at the Royal Edinburgh Hospital.

Catrina Rose talks to Charlie from Busted about their new Greatest Hits 2.0 album and 20th anniversary tour.

And writers Hannah Lavery and Pippa Goldschmidt talk about writing short stories for The Poet and the Echo, a BBC radio series and now book, in which writers are asked to create a new piece of writing inspired by an out-of-copyright poem.

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