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As the National Theatre at Ö÷²¥´óÐã continues its programme of streamed productions with Small Island, the adaptation of Andrea Levy’s novel of first-generation Jamaican immigrants in post-war Britain, theatre critic Lyn Gardner and editor of The List Arusa Qureshi join Janice to talk about whether the experience of watching productions from home has connected us as audiences- and to ask if it’s something that should stick around beyond lockdown.

Writer Doug Johnstone discusses his new crime novel, the second in a new series about the Skelf family, The Big Chill.

Make a Difference: Lymphoma Action is starting a new virtual support group for people with blood cancers living in Scotland. Janice hears from Karen Bonell from the organisation.

The Last of Us is the most critically-acclaimed video game in recent times and has recently been confirmed for a television adaptation for HBO by the team that created the recent award-winner Chernobyl. Fans have been waiting six years for the sequel, but it was released on Friday and writer and broadcaster Graeme Virtue has spent the weekend immersing himself in The Last of Us Part II, to give us the verdict.

And we’ll be checking in again with Amy Gear from Shetland arts centre and workshop Gaarda, which for three months now has been documenting artists’ experience of lockdown in a zine, Quarantzine. Amy will be joined by a new art school graduate, Courtney Barr, who is finishing her course in challenging times but has been contributing to the zine and doing her best to get her work out there.