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Nicola Meighan sits in for Janice

Nicola Meighan reviews the week's new cinema releases with Alison Rowat of The Herald and film critic Neil Hepburn.

Film critics Alison Rowat and Neil Hepburn discuss this week's big film releases including Mother! about a couple whose relationship is tested when uninvited guests arrive at their home and disrupt their tranquil existence, animated feature The Jungle Bunch adapted from a popular French children's TV series, and Victoria and Abdul based on the true story of Queen Victoria striking up an unlikely friendship with a young Indian clerk named Abdul Karim.

Paul English speaks to John Connolly who he appeared at Glasgow's Panoptican this week.

30 years after the release of Appetite For Destruction, Paul Elliott, the only UK journalist at the album's LA launch party in 1987 discusses what it was really like behind the scenes in his latest book Guns N' Roses: The Life and Times of a Rock 'n' Roll Band.

Glasgow University's Senior Lecturer in film and TV studies David Archibald talks about the new Ken Loach boxset which contains three of the acclaimed filmmaker's movies Riff Raff, Raining Stones and Ladybird Ladybird.

Plus Fiona Shepherd gives us the inside track on this year's Mercury Music Prize shortlist ahead of the winner being announced tonight.

1 hour, 55 minutes

Last on

Thu 14 Sep 2017 14:00

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  • Thu 14 Sep 2017 14:00

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