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Janice Forsyth is in conversation with Scottish debut novelist Alan Gillespie, a secondary school teacher living and working in Glasgow. His Tartan Noir book The Mash House is set in the Highlands, inspired by a year Alan spent living and teaching between Fort William and Ardnamurchan, and has already lead to the audiobook rights being acquired and his filming an event for the upcoming Aye Write Book Festival.

Janice talks to multi-award winning playwright, screenwriter and director Zinnie Harris about her debut short film A Glimpse, which just won the Short Drama award at this year’s Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival International Film Awards. Kirsty Stuart and Jordan Young talk about starring in Zinnie’s film about a young mother who accidentally opens a window on her past self, at a time when she was struggling with pregnancy, and doubting everything in her life, and looks at how she can now help her past self through this distressing time and see hope in the future.

As part of The Afternoon Show’s commitment to Mental Health Awareness Week we bring you Breaking Point, a series of hard-hitting monologues based on real men’s testimony to describe their experiences of mental health crisis. Today we hear Ahmed’s Story, and Janice is joined by psychotherapist John McCormack and Scottish Ballet's Jamie Reid

For today’s Tuesday Review, this week’s critics Kiaz Trepte, Pauline Moore and Catherine Montgomery take on the Â鶹ԼÅÄ Two single-part drama Danny Boy, exploring the true story of Brian Wood – a soldier accused of war crimes after returning from Iraq; Â鶹ԼÅÄ One drama set in Northern Ireland focussing on the country’s strict abortion laws Three Families; and Some Kind of Heaven, an Amazon Prime documentary by first-time feature director Lance Oppenheim.