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Jeanette Winterson in conversation, Isla Ratcliff on Vivaldi, and BBC Radio Scotland's Young Jazz Musician 2025 Roan Anderson

BBC Radio Scotland's Young Jazz Musician 2025 winner, drummer Roan Anderson joins Len, and Jeanette Winterson talks about her new book One Aladdin Two Lamps.

BBC Radio Scotland's Young Jazz Musician 2025 winner, drummer Roan Anderson joins Len, to talk about how he got started playing drums and transitioned from disliking jazz to it becoming his passion.

The award winning author of Oranges are Not the Only Fruit Jeanette Winterson talks about her new book One Aladdin Two Lamps, how she weaves memoir and fiction together, and about the importance of fiction in enabling us to change the narrative of our lives.

Innovative violin player Isla Ratcliff tells Len about her new album The Scottish Four Seasons, in which she re-imagines Vivaldi's Four Seasons with Scottish Folk music, and reads one of the accompanying poems she has written.

30 minutes

Music Played

  • Roan Anderson

    Emotionally Unintelligent

Broadcast

  • Mon 10 Nov 202515:30