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Grant Stott talks to the writer of Calendar Girls about his new play.

Grant Stott talks to Tim Firth, the writer of Calendar Girls and Kinky Boots about his new play, Sheila's Island. Plus two Scottish directors talk about their debut features.

Grant Stott talks to Tim Firth, the writer of Calendar Girls and Kinky Boots about his new play, Sheila's Island.

Plus two Scottish directors talk about their debut features: Ruth Paxton on her psychological drama centring on the relationship between a mother and her troubled daughter; and Jono McLeod on his film starring Alan Cumming, based on the case of a notorious imposter in 1990s Bearsden.

In our Audiobook Group Jamie Macdonald is joined by Jane Graham to review an unmade screenplay by Harold Pinter.

Plus poetry from one of our listeners, inspired by current events in Kyiv.

And A Place in the Sun presenter Jean Johansson faces a grilling in our Getting to Know You quiz.

2 hours, 28 minutes

Music Played

  • The Beach Boys

    Good Vibrations

    • Smiley Smile (Stereo Version).
    • EMI.
  • Electric Light Orchestra

    Confusion

    • Light Years - The Very Best Of ELO.
    • Epic.
  • 补鈥恏补

    Take On Me

    • Fantastic 80's Disc 1 (Various Artis.
    • Columbia.
    • 1.
  • Lulu

    The Man Who Sold the World

    • Million Sellers Vol.19 - The Seventie.
    • Disky.
  • Orange Juice

    Rip It Up

    • Acoustic 80s.
    • UNIVERSAL MUSIC TV.
    • 13.
  • The Wanted

    Glad You Came

    • Battleground.
    • Global Talent.
    • 1.
  • Corinne Bailey Rae

    Put Your Records On

    • (CD Single).
    • EMI.
  • Coldplay

    Higher Power

    • (CD Single).
    • Parlophone.
  • Rose Royce

    Car Wash

    • Now 12 (Various Artists).
    • Now.
  • Kylie Minogue

    Dancing

    • Golden.
    • BMG Rights Management (UK).
  • The Jam

    A Town Called Malice

    • Jam Story.
    • Universal.

Broadcast

  • Wed 2 Mar 2022 13:30