Live at the Wigtown Book Festival (2019)

Episode 139,   Oct 04, 2019, 11:55 AM

In a packed show Red Szell and Robert Kirkwood report from the Wigtown Book Festival with ...

Former Home Secretary Alan Johnson on his book, 'In My Life: A Musical Memoir' (Starts at 1.34)

Kerry Hudson on Lowborn (Down the Chipper) (7.00)

Shaun Bythell has some 'Confessions of a Bookseller' (13.41)

Sarah Jane Douglas treats illness and grief as 'Just Another Mountain' (21.08)

Chair of RNIB Scotland Sandra Wilson on sponsoring a Talking Book (25.03)

Music from, and chat with, The Bookshop Band (27.08)

We go 'Under the Wig' with William Clegg QC (36.00)

Richard Frazer describes his 'Travels with a Stick' (41.04)

Jon Day races pigeons and combines memoir, philosophy and culture in 'Homing' (44.49)

And we get the Books of Your Life from stand up classicist Natalie Haynes. (51.03) 

Thanks to @MarkMcKie1 for the cover picture depicting fireworks over Wigtown.