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Radio 4 sitcom Unite, Chris Connelly & Monica Queen and Tuesday Review

Janice speaks to Mark Steel and Claire Skinner about their new Radio 4 sitcom Unite and Chris Connelly and Monica Queen discuss collaborating for The Birthday Poems album.

Mark Steel and Claire Skinner chat about their new Radio 4 sitcom Unite which sees sparks fly when working class Tony falls in love with upper class Imogen and their sons are forced to live together under the same roof.

Chris Connelly and Monica Queen tell Janice about their new album The Birthday Poems which is a fictionalized account of the romance between celebrated Scottish poet and author George Mackay Brown and his muse Stella Cartwright.

Janice announces The Afternoon Show’s Single Of The Week.

And in Tuesday Review, critics Sara Sheridan, Catrina Rose and Jenny Niven give their thoughts on new Marvel series Loki, Apple TV’s film Physical starring Rose Byrne as a tormented housewife who is empowered when she discovers aerobics, and ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Two’s Together which is a love story set in lockdown with James McAvoy and Sharon Horgan.

2 hours

Music Played

  • Emeli SandΓ©

    Heaven

    • Now That's What I Call R&B.
    • Universal Music TV.
    • 3 / 2.
  • Sister Sledge

    We Are Family

    • Disco Fever (Various Artists).
    • Global Television.
  • Fine Young Cannibals

    Good Thing

    • The Raw & The Cooked.
    • London.
  • Madonna

    La Isla Bonita

    • Madonna - The Immaculate Collection.
    • Sire.
    • 3.
  • Olivia Newton‐John

    Physical

    • Back To Basics (The Essential Collection 1971-1992).
    • Geffen.
  • Bob Marley & The Wailers

    Get Up, Stand Up

    • Bob Marley & The Wailers - Legend.
    • Island.

Broadcast

  • Tue 15 Jun 2021 14:00