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Front Row: Christos Tsiolkas, Victoria Canal, Baillie Gifford festival sponsorship

Christos Tsiolkas, Victoria Canal, Baillie Gifford festival sponsorship

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Christos Tsiolkas, Victoria Canal, Baillie Gifford festival sponsorship.

Christos Tsiolkas on his new novel The In-Between. Plus Ivor Novello Award-winner Victoria Canal performs and Baillie Gifford's festival sponsorship discussed.

Christos Tsiolkas, the Australian writer best known for The Slap, talks about The In-Between, his visceral yet tender new novel about two men finding love in their fifties. 

Victoria Canal performs her Ivor Novello award winning song Black Swan and talks about her life in music.

And with several literary festivals severing their ties with Baillie Gifford, Martha Gill and Grace Blakeley discuss the growing story behind the sponsorship row along with Adrian Turpin, Director of the Wigtown Book Festival in Dumfries and Galloway

Presenter: Tom Sutcliffe
Producer: Ciaran Bermingham

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