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Alasdair Gray artwork, Oor Wullie, and the Tuesday Review

Oor Wullie the musical, and an exhibition featuring the last works of Alasdair Gray

Writer Ajay Close tells Janice about her novel What We Did in the Dark, set in the early 20th century, it’s a fictionalised account of the first marriage of writer Catherine Carswell, now regarded as a trailblazing Scottish female writer.

Bronwen Livingstone goes behind the scenes of Whatever Happened to the Jaggy Nettles? - a new play about a 1970s punk band, performed by young people with experience of the care system.

The cast of Oor Wullie are midway through their Scottish tour, Janice hears how it’s going.

And Glasgow Print Studio’s workshop manager Claire Forsyth talks about Omnium Gatherum, a new exhibition of prints by Alasdair Gray, some of which he was working on until just before his death at the end of last year.

In the Tuesday Review: Karen Campbell, Rebecca Smith and Gerry Hassan visit the Alasdair Gray exhibition at Glasgow Print Studio, and watch The Split, Abi Morgan’s drama about a family of divorce lawyers, and new Sky drama The End, with themes of elderly care, palliative care, and family relationships.

1 hour, 55 minutes

Music Played

  • Lord Cut-Glass & Alasdair Gray

    A Sentimental Song

    • Ballads Of The Book.
    • Chemikal Underground.
    • 5.
  • FFS

    Johnny Delusional

    • Domino.
  • KT Tunstall

    Suddenly I See

    • (CD Single).
    • Relentless Records.
  • Del Amitri

    Always The Last To Know

    • Now 1992 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

Broadcast

  • Tue 11 Feb 2020 14:00