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The Afternoon Show: Bob Harris on The Beatles, and Len Pennie on new film Seize Them!

Bob Harris on The Beatles, and Len Pennie on new film Seize Them!

BBC Radio Scotland - The Afternoon Show, Bob Harris on The Beatles, and Len Pennie on new film Seize Them!

Michelle talks to Bob Harris about The Songs The Beatles Gave Away.

Michelle McManus talks to Bob Harris about the songs The Beatles wrote for other artists, and poet Len Pennie reviews historical comedy Seize Them!

Michelle McManus presents!

Nick Frost's latest film is a comedy set in the Dark Ages, starring Sex Education's Aimee Lou Wood and Derry Girls' Nicola Coughlan, as a Queen facing an uprising, and the peasant facing her down. Scots poet and presenter of BBC Radio Scotland's history podcast House of the Lion, Len Pennie, shares her thoughts on it. 

Broadcasting legend Bob Harris talks to Michelle about his career on air, and the show he's bringing to Scottish theatres with his friend Colin Hall. It's called The Songs The Beatles Gave Away, about the music the Fab Four wrote for other people. 

The new Afternoon Show Single of the Week is Half Price Fantasy by Grayling.

And critics Kambole Campbell and Siobhan Synnot review Dev Patel's directorial debut, action film Monkey Man.

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