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Singer Alfie Boe talks about his new album Serenata, and how he has carved a career moving between opera, musicals and the small screen.

Jane Smiley is a Pulitzer prize winning author who set herself the challenge of writing a book in every literary genre. Her new novel, Some Luck, is the first part in an epic trilogy spanning a century in the life of one family.

Russell Brand is now setting his sights on a new audience - he's written his first children's book. He tells Janice why he has created Trickster Tales, a modern retelling of the Pied Piper of Hamelin.

Plus Janice finds out about a party with a difference at the Neon Digital Arts Festival in Dundee, and writer Jodi Picoult on how she's managed to bring together mother-daughter relationships, psychics and the study of elephants in her new novel Leaving Time.