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Ceramicist AJ Simpson won The Great Pottery Throwdown in 2022. AJ lives and works in Aberdeen, and shares a studio with partner Celda. We join them as they go back to their old high school to inspire the next generation of north eastern Scottish potters.

Birmingham-born, Glasgow-based children's author Maisie Chan is passionate about creating better Asian representation in literature. Her first book was shortlisted for the 2020 Blue Peter Book Award. As Maisie prepares to launch her second novel, Loop learns how her role as a young carer to her adoptive parents shaped the narrative in Keeping Dancing, Lizzie Chu.

Elsewhere, from her studio in the Tweed Valley, Moy Mackay creates vivid felted paintings. Taking inspiration from the beautiful countryside on her doorstep, Moy reveals the secrets of felting with merino wool and coloured thread as she creates one of her unique landscape artworks.

Also in this episode, poet Matt Kinghorn gives an exclusive performance of Sometimes.