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Grand Designs; author James Campbell; Ballet Black, Dancebase and diversity in dance

Gus Unger-Hamilton from Alt-J celebrates 10 years since the band’s debut album with a new album 'Dream' and tour, and James Campbell talks about his memoir Just Go Down to the Road.

Janice meets Ben and Joanna, a Scottish couple featuring in the new series of Grand Designs, to hear about their ambitious new home built in the style of an American ranch in Glasgow.

Gus from Alt-J celebrates 10 years since the band’s debut album, telling Janice about their new album Dream and tour.

Janice is joined by Cassa Pancho, who is celebrating 20 years of Ballet Black, the company she founded as response to the lack of professional Black and Asian ballet dancers in the UK, to hear about their double bill of shows coming to Edinburgh, and Dancebase Artistic Director Tony Mills gives us his take on diversity in the Scottish dance scene.

Our Single of the Week is Nobody’s Fool by 15 year old Glasgow boy Paddy Mac – he tells Janice all about himself and the song.

Glaswegian journalist and writer James Campbell talks about his memoir Just Go Down to the Road, which recounts his years as a teenage delinquent and young adulthood spent on the road before he found his place in the world of literature.

2 hours, 28 minutes

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Mon 2 May 2022 13:30
Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio Scotland

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Music Played

  • Aretha Franklin

    Respect

    • Aretha Franklin - Queen Of Soul.
    • Atlantic.

  • The Waterboys

    The Whole of the Moon

    • Now 1991 - The Millennium Series.
    • Now.

  • Lizzo

    About Damn Time

    • Special.
    • Atlantic.

  • Eagles

    Take It Easy

    • The Best Of Eagles.
    • Asylum.

  • Fine Young Cannibals

    She Drives Me Crazy

    • And Then She Kissed Me Vol.1 (Various.
    • Debutante.

  • Camila Cabello

    Bam Bam (feat. Ed Sheeran)

    • Familia.
    • Epic.

  • Paddy Mac

    Nobody's Fool

  • Queen

    Crazy Little Thing Called Love

    • The Game.
    • Island.
    • 5.

  • Bruce Springsteen

    Thunder Road

    • The Essential Bruce Springsteen.
    • Columbia.

  • Bonnie Raitt

    Feels Like Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ

    • Randy Newman's Faust.
    • Reprise.

  • America

    Ventura Highway

    • Country Roads (Various Artists).
    • Polygram Tv.

Broadcast

  • Mon 2 May 2022 13:30
    Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio Scotland