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Emily Tesh and the Hugo Awards; Dating shows; Kelly Jones

Hugo Award winner Emily Tesh on Some Desperate Glory; Kelly Jones on her new play My Mother's Funeral: The Show; New dating shows - are they breaking the mould?

This year’s WorldCon - the World Science Fiction Convention - took place in Glasgow and pop culture critic Gavia Baker-Whitelaw reports on the international gathering where the winners of the Hugo Awards 2024 were announced last night.

Emily Tesh on winning the Best Novel prize at this year’s Hugo Awards with her debut novel, Some Desperate Glory.

Young playwright Kelly Jones discusses her Edinburgh Fringe debut play My Mother's Funeral: The Show, a play-within-a-play about a young playwright whose mother has just died and who has to turn her death into a play in order to afford to pay for her mum's funeral.

And a look at whether the latest crop of TV dating shows are really breaking the mould with Scott Bryan and Olivia Petter.

Presenter: Tom Sutcliffe
Producer: Ruth Watts

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