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Last broadcast on Tue, 18 Aug 2009, 19:15 on BBC Radio 4.
Synopsis
Dialect coach Penny Dyer gives Mark Lawson a masterclass in speaking with an accent, explaining that using physicality and imagination is as important as using one's ears.
Three Glasgow crime writers, Craig Russell, Caro Ramsay, and Denise Mina, discuss how they each go about setting their stories in the same hometown.
Poet and playwright Liz Lochhead reviews The Enlightenments, Edinburgh International Festival's celebration of 18th-century Scottish intellectual and aesthetic ideals.
Film critic Andrew Collins assesses Afterschool, a new film which explores the effect of the torrent of modern media on American schoolchildren.
The Enlightenments
Above is Greg Creek's Edinburgh Drawing: Chatter Shapes, one of the artworks included in The Enlightenments.
Edinburgh International Festival's The Enlightenments continues until 6 September.
Glasgow crime-writers
Still Midnight, by Denise Mina, is published by Orion.
Lennox: A Man For Hire, But Not For Sale, by Craig Russell, is published by Quercus.
Singing To The Dead, by Caro Ramsay, is published by Penguin.
All are available now.
Afterschool
Afterschool is released in selected cinemas on Friday, 21 August, certificate 18.
Broadcast
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Tue 18 Aug 200919:15
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