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Best-selling author Katie Fforde joins Grant to celebrate the 15th anniversary of the Quick Reads scheme, which aims to improve adult literacy by inspiring emergent readers, as well as those with little time or who have fallen out of the reading habit, with entertaining and accessible writing from the very best contemporary authors, so that everyone can access the benefits of reading for pleasure.

As the Edinburgh International Children鈥檚 Festival gears up to start this weekend, we hear what鈥檚 in store and how the festival hopes to step into the gap in children鈥檚 creative and imaginative lives created by the pandemic.

Musicians Kathryn Joseph and Andrew Wasylyk talk about their gig which they will be live streaming from Dundee Rep on Friday, in celebration of live music.

And in Tuesday Review: crime drama Before We Die, thriller The Beast Must Die and musical podcast The Ballad of Anne and Mary are all up for discussion by reviewers Kelly Apter, Bronwen Livingstone and Doug Johnstone.