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April is National Poetry Writing Month so Loud Poets Katie Ailes and Kevin McLean tell Janice how they are encouraging people to get writing poetry at home, with daily prompts on social media and a weekly podcast. Ted Hughes award winning poet Hollie McNish talks about scheduling live streaming poetry for people to interact in real time with her after her scheduled poetry events had to be cancelled and Scotland’s former Makar Liz Lochhead gives listeners expert tips on how to write poetry in isolation.

Alexander McCall Smith talks about the latest novel in his Detective Varg series, The Talented Mr Varg, and the paperback release of A Gathering: A Personal Anthology of Scottish Poems which he picked by hand.

Best-selling author Marian Keyes, talks about her critically acclaimed novel Grown Ups.

Musician Kris Drever tells us about planning his virtual folk festival.

Janice checks in with Gary Tank Commander to hear about his experience of being part of the comedy line up for The Stand Comedy Club’s live stream. We also hear from Julia Sutherland who is part of the team behind The Stand Comedy Club’s streaming events and find out about the idea behind the broadcast, putting it all together, and the massive and unexpected positive response they’ve had.

Music blogger and podcaster Craig Gornall talks about the plethora of live streams he’s been watching, and how he’s supporting musicians releasing new music in Scotland, and about the podcast he started with Catrina Rose and Jen Imrie talking about live streams and new music after the three recorded a conversation for Janice on The Afternoon Show two weeks ago.

Arts journalist Neil Cooper talks about the rise of artists of all kinds streaming content, and analyses whether we should be supporting these live streaming events, encouraging people to consume artists’ work for free at a time when they will be struggling for financial support.