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Booker Prize winning author Howard Jacobson is the latest writer to take part in the Hogarth Shakespeare series, retelling the Bard for the 21st century. He tells Janice about his version of The Merchant of Venice.

Amy Conway reveals how creating her play 30:60:80 has brought her closer to her mother and grandma, as she compared their lives at age 30 to her own.

Continuing our Me and My Instrument series, musician Matt Hardy talks about playing the timpani.

Songwriter Chris Isaak is about to release his twelfth album, Here Comes the Night.

And writer Jenny Colgan talks about her new book The Little Shop of Happily Ever After, which she has dedicated to readers.

Plus the Tuesday Review: Jenny Colgan and critics Neil Cooper and Nicola Meighan on the musical Blood Brothers, new HBO series Vinyl, created by Martin Scorsese and Mick Jagger, and Rebus: A Question of Blood, a radio dramatisation of the Ian Rankin thriller.