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Kurdish poet Bejan Matur; Katie Melua with Children in Need single; Pulitzer prize winning author Jennifer Egan

Janice is joined by Pulitzer prize-winning author Jennifer Egan, Alison Kerr talks about Gloria Grahame, and Katie Melua talks about her new single for Children in Need.

Katie Melua talks to Janice about releasing this year's official Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Children in Need single, 'Fields of Gold' in tribute to the charity's life president Sir Terry Wogan.

Lucy Rose performs a music session and catches up with Janice.

We hear about immersive theatre reclaiming the streets and lanes of Glasgow and telling the darker side of nursery rhymes - Nursery Crymes.

Alison Kerr talks about a restrospective of Gloria Grahame, and why she is so important to cinema.

Multi-award-winning Kurdish poet and writer Bejan Matur joins us live from Athens ahead of coming to Edinburgh for a Neu! Reekie! event on Friday. She is a leading figure in the bold new women's poetry emerging from the Middle East. She is the author of nine collections of poetry in Turkish, and has also written prose books and words for the stage. She is currently working on a new collection in Kurdish, her mother tongue.

Pulitzer Prize winning author Jennifer Egan talks about her new novel Manhattan Beach.

1 hour, 55 minutes

Broadcast

  • Wed 15 Nov 2017 14:00

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