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The latest news from home and abroad, along with regular sport, travel and weather updates.
Also in the programme Paddy Higson, dubbed the 'mother of the Scottish film industry', do we need to talk about the positive aspects of masculinity, and can you shower without soap? Show more
News updates from Scotland and beyond, plus all your lunchtime sport, travel and weather.
The Afternoon Show
Best-selling author Peter May, the return of Frasier, singer and musician Siobhan Wilson and a review of Babylon
2 hours, 30 minutes
on BBC Radio Orkney
Film critic Anna Smith reviews Babylon starring Brad Pitt and discusses this year's BAFTA nominations. Crime writer Peter May tells us about his new novel, A Winter Grave. Show more
Who are musics’s greatest performers – those whose on stage persona brings more to the stage that just their music - remembering Janis Joplin who would have been 80 today. Show more
Travelling Folk
Allan Henderson with The Story of Burns & Sheena Wellington
1 hour, 55 minutes
on BBC Radio Orkney
Allan Henderson explores the story of Robert Burns through the music that immortalises him and is in conversation with national treasure, Sheena Wellington.
Eclectic playlist of music plus Natasha pays tribute to Little Feat’s frontman Lowell George in The Late Great feature and she has a rock classic from Peru in the A To B spot. Show more
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