Keith Brymer Jones and Marj Hogarth in conversation, Tariq Ashkanani, and Paisley Opera's Carmen.

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The man known best for shedding many tears over clay on The Great Pottery Thrown Down, Keith Brymer-Jones, and his wife, Scottish actor and designer Marj Hogarth, join Len to talk about their upcoming tour, and how clay, craft and design has fed into every aspect of their partnership and lives as they discuss the third series of Channel 4's Our Welsh Chapel Dream, based on the restoration of Capel Salem, a Grade II-listed 19th-century chapel in north Wales. The current winner of The McIlvanney Prize for best Scottish Crime Novel, Tariq Ashkanani, joins Len live in the Edinburgh studio to talk about his new novel, The Hollow Boys, being longlisted for the Theakston’s Old Peculiar Crime Novel of the Year, and his novel The Midnight King being made Waterstones’ Scottish Book of the Month. He tells us about the spooky and thrilling plot of his new book as he rides the waves of literary success. And we hear about how Paisley Opera have given Carmen a football twist – as the famous opera production has been taken away from sunny Seville into a mill in Paisley in the booming 1960s, swapping bullfighting for football, and with the finale of the opera set at a Scottish Cup final, where St Mirren win. This is a community project featuring the 60-strong Community Chorus of Paisley Opera, children from local primary schools, right2dance, professional guest soloists, and the orchestra of Scottish Opera. Artistic director Simon Hannigan talks about how thrilled they were when life seemed to imitate art following St Mirren’s Scottish Cup success, and Rose Lavery talks about taking on the iconic role of Carmen in a football setting, and getting to perform with Scottish Opera’s Orchestra.