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Spice Girls' Wannabe at 25 and author Christy Lefteri on her latest novel Songbirds

Glasgow's Merchant City Festival, Romeo and Juliet at The Scottish Crannog Centre and best-selling author Christy Lefteri on her latest novel, Songbirds.

This week is the 25th anniversary of release of The Spice Girls debut single, Wannabe and we look at the impact it had on the charts at that time

Also on the show, Nicola will be hearing about the outdoors Merchant City Festival taking place in Glasgow this weekend which includes a 5 metre high set of swings!

Author of the best-selling 'Beekeeper of Aleppo', Christy Lefteri, will be chatting about her latest novel, Songbirds.

And we check in with The Scottish Crannog Centre after the fire there that destroyed the reconstructed Iron Age Crannog and look ahead to the Centre staging a production of Romeo and Juliet.

1 hour, 55 minutes

Last on

Fri 9 Jul 2021 14:00
Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio Scotland

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Music Played

  • Duran Duran

    Rio

    • Duran Duran - Greatest.
    • EMI.

  • The Pointer Sisters

    I'm So Excited

    • The Best Of The Pointer Sisters.
    • RCA.

  • Spice Girls

    Wannabe

    • Bad Girls (Various Artists).
    • Sony Music TV.

  • Queen

    Crazy Little Thing Called Love

    • The Game.
    • Island.
    • 5.

  • Altered Images

    I Could Be Happy

    • Hits Of The 80's - Various Artists.
    • Columbia.

  • Irene Cara

    Flashdance (What A Feeling)

    • Flashdance.
    • Casablanca.

  • The Killers

    Mr Brightside

    • Hot Fuss.
    • Lizard King.
    • 2.

  • Joe Jackson

    Steppin' Out

    • Ultimate Eighties Volume 2.
    • Demon Music Group.
    • 2.

  • The Beatles

    Blackbird

    • The White Album.
    • Parlophone.
    • 11.

  • The Divine Comedy

    National Express

    • 21st Century Rock.
    • Divine Comedy Records UK Ltd.
    • 12.

  • Bunkhouse

    Middle Management

  • The Cure

    The Love Cats

    • The Cure - Staring At The Sea.
    • Fiction.

  • The Go-Go's

    Our Lips Are Sealed

    • Go Go's Greatest.
    • A&M.
    • 1.

Broadcast

  • Fri 9 Jul 2021 14:00
    Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio Scotland

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