August 12, 2019

At the Edinburgh Festivals, including The Secret River and the Pet Shop Boys Musical, Musik

50 minutes

We're at the Edinburgh Festivals, including the Pet Shop Boys/Jonathan Harvey musical starring Frances Barber: Musik. Also the stage adaptation of Kate Grenville's best-selling novel about the collision between settlers and Indigenous Australians, The Secret River. As well as the Bridget Riley retrospective at The National Gallery of Scotland and Blinded By The Light - the film of Safraz Mansoor's story about growing up in Luton and his love for the music of Bruce Springsteen.

Also we find out what wonders members of our audience have come across.

Tom Sutcliffe's guests Denise Mina, Louise Welsh and Don Paterson. The producer is Oliver Jones

Audience recommendations:

Samson Young at talbot Rice Gallery, Twice Over at Greenside, Bystanders at Summerhall, Something About Simon at Assembly George Square, The Edinburgh Night Walk at The Fruitmarket Gallery , Scottish Ballet's The Crucuble

PodcastExtra recommendations:

Denise -My Favourite Murder podcast

Don - Succession

Louise - Robert McFarlane's Underland

Tom -Documentary Now. And Crocodile Fever at The Traverse. And Peter Gynt at The Festival Theatre

also Cora Bissett - What Girls Are Made Of at The Assembly Hall

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