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Sparks, Jonny and the Baptists and Tuesday Review

Musical comedy duo Jonny and the Baptists discuss their virtual tour, Sparks chat about their new album and Janice has reviews of Hamilton, Rodham and Mrs America in Tuesday Review

Janice talks to Ron and Russell Mael, aka Sparks, about their 24th album, A Steady Drip Drip Drip.
In this week鈥檚 Arts Venue Check-In, Janice hears about the online workshops and virtual events Ayr Gaiety Theatre is staging for locals.
In Make A Difference Janice hears about Trees For Life - a project set up by a handful of volunteers who have been voluntarily isolating themselves at the charity鈥檚 flagship Dundreggan rewilding estate to save more than 100,000 native young trees.
Musical comedy duo Jonny and the Baptists - Jonny Donahoe and Paddy Gervers, chat about their latest tour which is a socially distant, streamed gig, tailored to the venues across the country they would have normally played, and are splitting the proceeds of their shows with.
And in the Tuesday Review; Jane Graham, Kelly Apter and Stuart Cosgrove discuss the Disney+ stream of Lin Manuel Miranda鈥檚 Broadway hit musical Hamilton, Curtis Sittenfeld鈥檚 novel Rodham, imagining what would have happened had Hillary not married Bill Clinton and Mrs America, a miniseries about the 1970's fight to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment, starring Cate Blanchett.

2 hours, 28 minutes

Music Played

  • Bow Wow Wow

    I Want Candy

    • Young at Heart (Various Artists).
    • Reader's Digest.
  • Belle and Sebastian

    The Party Line

    • Girls In Peacetime Want To Dance.
    • Rough Trade.
  • Janis Joplin

    Piece Of My Heart

    • The Essential.
    • Columbia.
    • 7.
  • Neneh Cherry

    Buffalo Stance

    • Now 1988 - The Millennium Series.
    • Now.
  • Mike Vass

    They Never Found Me

    • Save His Calm.
    • Self-Released.
  • Madonna

    Into The Groove

    • (CD Single).
    • Sire.
    • 8.
  • CeeLo Green

    Forget You

    • (CD Single).
    • Warner Music UK.
    • 1.

Broadcast

  • Tue 7 Jul 2020 13:30