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Don McLean; Roddy Woomble on Best Scottish Poems 2017 and live session - Blossoms

Grant hosts a music session from Roddy Woomble and Andrew Mitchell of Idlewild. Roddy talks about editing the Scottish Poetry Library's online anthology Best Scottish Poems 2017.

Grant chats to American songwriter Don Mclean ahead of his gigs in Glasgow and Edinburgh next week.

Mancunian band Blossoms tell Grant about their second album Cool Like You.

Idlewild frontman Roddy Woomble performs music in our Edinburgh studio and talks about guest editing the 2017 edition of the Scottish Poetry Library's online anthology of the year's 20 Best Scottish Poems.

Michael McCabe, the producer of Wicked and Helen Woolf who plays Glinda come in to talk about the hit musical opening at Edinburgh's Playhouse.

Young author Laurie Canciani tells Grant about her debut novel, The Insomnia Museum.

Amy Conway talks to Grant ahead of the Aberdeen performance of her play Amy Conway's Super Awesome World which is part of the Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival. It uses the prism of video games to explore depression and what it's like to fight it by inviting the audience to face difficult questions and go on quests for sparks of joy.

1 hour, 55 minutes

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  • Wed 9 May 2018 14:00