The Big Scottish Book Club - Season 2
Season 2
Episodes
Episode 1
Damian Barr looks at memoirs, with guests Janey Godley, Lemn Sissay and Alexandra Heminsley discussing their own very personal stories. There is also poetry from Janette Ayachi.
Episode 2
Damian Barr is at Lanark Memorial Hall with Neil Gaiman, Kirsty Logan, Dr Gavin Francis, and there is poetry from Harry Josephine Giles.
Episode 3
Writer Damian Barr is at Lanark Memorial Hall with guests Val McDermid, Richard Osman and Professor Dame Sue Black, and there is poetry from Iona Lee.
This week's book group tell Damian what they thought about Richard Osman's The Thursday Murder Club.
Episode 4
Writer Damian Barr is at Lanark Memorial Hall with guests Kathleen Jamie, Amanda Thomson and Luke Turner, and there is poetry from Heather H Yeung.
Damian and guests discuss their creative interpretations of the world around us and our relationship with the natural world, which has been heightened for many this year.
There is poetry from Heather H Yeung and the Open Book Grassmarket book group from Edinburgh tell Damian what they thought about Kathleen Jamie's Antlers of Water.
Episode 5
Writer Damian Barr is at Hamilton Town House with guests Kate Mosse, Kirsty Wark and Graeme Macrae Burnet.
This episode sees Damian and guests delve into the past, from 16th-century France to the Highlands in 1869 and a house full of secrets in 20th-century Galloway, as they discuss fact and fiction and the history they explore in their novels.
There is poetry from Andrés Nicolás Ordorica, and this week's book group tell Damian what they thought of Kate Mosse's The Burning Chambers.
Episode 6
Writer Damian Barr is at Hamilton Town House to discuss class with guests Jessica Fellowes, Paul McVeigh and Graeme Armstrong. There is poetry from Courtney Stoddart, and this week's book group tell Damian what they thought of Graeme Armstrong's The Young Team.
Episode 7
Writer Damian Barr is at Hamilton Town House to discuss family secrets with guests Andrew O'Hagan, Juno Dawson and Sathnam Sanghera. There is poetry from Nadine Aisha Jassat and this week's book group tell Damian what they thought of Andrew O'Hagan's Mayflies.
Episode 8
Writer Damian Barr hosts this episode - the last of this series - from Hamilton Town House.
From an intrepid pack of librarians on horseback to a brave and brilliant mother and a fictional pop star and protest queen, novelists Jojo Moyes and Kirstin Innes and American screenwriter Dustin Lance Black discuss the pure ‘gallus' characters at the heart of their books.
There's poetry from Jenny Lindsay and this week's book group, who come from Edinburgh and West Lothian, tell Damian what they thought of Kirstin Innes' Scabby Queen.
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