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Literary Tunes and Chat from the Edinburgh International Book Festival

Anna Massie with The Bookshop Band, and Malachy Tallack recorded at the Edinburgh International Book Festival.

This week, we have a special programme of literary tunes and chat recorded at the Edinburgh International Book Festival.

Anna is joined by the Bookshop Band, who write songs inspired by books and play them in bookshops. She is also joined by Malachy Tallack, an award-winning author and singer-songwriter whose fiction and non-fiction books explore questions about community, memory and the relationship between people and places.

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1 hour, 55 minutes

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Thursday20:00
BBC Radio Scotland except Extra

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Music Played

  • The Bookshop Band

    The Binding

    • BBC Travelling Folk Recording.

  • Dan Tyminski

    Man of Constant Sorrow

    • Transatlantic Sessions Series 4- Volume One.

  • Jim Reid

    The Wild Geese / Norland Wind

    • I Saw The Wild Geese Flee.

  • Steve Byrne

    Howe O The Mearns

    • Songs of Home.

  • The Bookshop Band

    The River

    • BBC Radio Scotland Travelling Folk Recording.

  • The Bookshop Band

    We Are the Foxes

    • BBC Radio Scotland Travelling Folk Recording.

  • Malachy Tallack

    Wide Ocean Blue

    • BBC Radio Scotland Travelling Folk Recording.

  • Malachy Tallack

    The Atlantic Waltz

    • BBC Radio Scotland Travelling Folk Recording.

  • Rod Paterson

    The Lea Rigg

    • Burns: The Complete Songs, Vol. 1.

  • Niteworks

    Somhairle

    • NW.
    • CM001.

  • Dick Gaughan

    Tom Joad

    • Outlaws and Dreamers.

  • Jenna Reid

    Fetlar Lullaby

  • Rhiannon Giddens

    You’re The One

    • You’re The One.

  • Karine Polwart with Pippa Murphy

    Lark In The Clear Air

    • A Pocket of Wind Resistance.

  • Spell Songs

    Little Astronaut

    • Spell Songs.

  • Spell Songs

    In Thin Air

    • In Thin Air.

  • Spell Songs

    The Lost Words Blessing

    • Spell Songs.

  • The Bookshop Band

    Charm on, Goldfinch

    • BBC Travelling Folk Recording.

  • The Bookshop Band

    How To Imagine A Lost Word

    • BBC Travelling Folk Recording.

  • The Bookshop Band

    Eve In Your Garden

    • BBC Travelling Folk Recording.

  • Malachy Tallack

    Home

    • BBC Travelling Folk Recording.

  • Malachy Tallack

    When I Talk In My Sleep

    • BBC Travelling Folk Recording.

  • Aly Macrae, Annie Grace, Kathleen MacInnes and Brian O’Sullivan

    Tha Chartas Breun

    • Macbeth.

  • Simon & Garfunkel

    Bookends – Single Mix

    • Greatest Hits.

Broadcast

  • Thursday20:00
    BBC Radio Scotland except Extra