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Comedian Kim Blythe chats about her new show Puzzle, and Maureen Beattie and Brian Ferguson join Grant to chat about a new stage adaptation of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie.

Comedian Kim Blythe chats about her new show Puzzle, and Maureen Beattie and Brian Ferguson join Grant to chat about a new stage adaptation of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. It comes to Edinburgh Lyceum theatre on 2 October, a fitting location, since Christina Kay, the real-life teacher who inspired the novel’s famous lead character, was born in Grindlay Street, right next to where the play will be staged.

Jeremy Vine shares the film that shaped him in our third of 5 things this week, and in today's Radio Scotland Rewind, Grant takes us back in time to the year Big Country had a hit with Wonderland, and their second album Steeltown reached number 1 in the UK charts, Bill Murray starred in the highest-grossing film of the year - Ghostbusters - and the Scottish rugby team won the Grand Slam for the first time since 1925. But what is the year?

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Music Played

  • Ultravox

    Love's Great Adventure

    • The Collection.
    • Chrysalis.
    • 15.

  • Madonna

    Holiday

    • (Single).
    • Sire.
    • 34.

  • Nik Kershaw

    Wouldn't It Be Good

    • Now 1984 - The Millennium Series.
    • EMI.
    • 1.

  • Sade

    Your Love Is King

    • The Greatest Love Vol.2 (Various).
    • Telstar.
    • 1.

  • Bronski Beat

    Why?

    • Young at Heart (Various Artists).
    • Reader's Digest.

  • U2

    Pride (In The Name Of Love)

    • U2 - The Best Of 1980-1990.
    • Island.
    • 1.

  • M People

    Moving On Up

    • The Best Of M People.
    • BMG.

  • Ella Langley

    Choosin' Texas

    • Choosin' Texas.
    • SAWGOD/Columbia.
    • 1.

  • Giorgio Moroder & Philip Oakey

    Together In Electric Dreams

    • Our Friends Electric (Various Artists.
    • Telstar.

  • Callum Beattie

    Pins And Needles

    • Pins And Needles.
    • Cooking Vinyl.
    • 1.

  • Bob Marley & The Wailers

    Three Little Birds

    • Bob Marley & The Wailers - Legend.
    • Island.

  • Phil Collins

    Against All Odds (Take A Look At Me Now)

    • Phil Collins ...Hits.
    • Virgin.

  • Sheryl Crow

    All I Wanna Do

    • The No.1 Acoustic Rock Album (Variou.
    • Polygram Tv.

  • The Script

    The Man Who Can't Be Moved

    • The Man Who Can't Be Moved.
    • Sony.
    • 1.

  • Iggy Pop

    The Passenger

    • Lust For Life.
    • Virgin.

  • Wet Wet Wet

    Wishing I Was Lucky

    • Fantastic 80's - 3 (Various Artists).
    • Sony Tv/Columbia.

  • The Verve

    Bitter Sweet Symphony

    • Now 37 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • Ashford & Simpson

    Solid

    • The 80's Love Album (Various Artists).
    • Virgin.
    • 2.

  • The Proclaimers

    You May Offend

    • single.
    • Cooking Vinyl.

  • Bryan Adams

    When You're Gone (feat. Melanie C)

    • Bryan Adams - The Best Of Me.
    • Mercury.

  • Hozier

    Take Me To Church

    • Take Me To Church.
    • Island.

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  • Wednesday13:30
    BBC Radio Scotland