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Marian Keyes, Hera Lindsay Bird and the Tuesday Review

Janice Forsyth talks to Marian Keyes about exploring personal issues through writing, and New Zealand poet Hera Lindsay Bird has a tribute to Bruce Willis.

Aerial artist Sarah Bebe Holmes tells Janice about her new show, combining theatre, circus and dance. It's called Egg, and is inspired by her real experiences of donating an egg for her best friend to have a child.

New Zealand poet Hera Lindsay Bird has gained a cult following for her writing about sex, emotion and Monica from Friends. She's performing at three events in Scotland this week.

Marian Keyes is in Glasgow to talk about her latest novel The Break, and using writing a way of exploring personal issues.

Plus the Tuesday Review: Neil Cooper, Jenny Niven and Hannah McGill review Nothing Like A Dame, a documentary that puts Dame Maggie Smith, Dame Eileen Atkins, Dame Judi Dench and Dame Joan Plowright round a table and films their chat. Love is Dead, the third album from Chvurches, the Glasgow synth-pop trio now based in New York, and War Light, the new novel from Michael Ondaatje, returning to some of the themes he explored in The English Patient.

1 hour, 55 minutes

Broadcast

  • Tue 29 May 2018 14:00