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12/12/2011
Author Ian Rankin chooses the music he can't live without in a special literary themed edition of the show. Find out which band he wishes he'd been in and the best new act he's discovered this year.
Last on
Fri 16 Dec 201122:05
BBC Radio Scotland
Music Played
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Belle and Sebastian
Wrapped Up In Books
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Elvis Costello
Every Day I Write The Book
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Idlewild
Roseability
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PJ Harvey
Let England Shake
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Burnt Island
Hiding Out
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Josef K
Sorry For Laughing
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Franz Ferdinand
Ulysses
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The Beatles
I Am The Walrus
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Doug Johnston
Keep It Afloat
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The Smiths
Cemetary Gates
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The Burns Unit
Future Pilot AKC
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Biffy Clyro
Booom, Blast & Ruin
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Aidan Moffat & The Best-Ofs
The Sixth Stone
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The Rolling Stones
Street Fighting Man
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Elbow
Neat Little Rows
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Boards of Canada
Chromakey Dreamcoat
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Star Wheel Press
Subbuteo
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Mississippi Sheiks
The Jazz Fiddler
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Joy Division
Atmosphere
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The Edinburgh School for the Deaf
Of Scottish Blood and Sympathies
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John Martyn
Solid Air
Broadcasts
- Mon 12 Dec 201120:05BBC Radio Scotland
- Fri 16 Dec 201122:05BBC Radio Scotland
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