Val McDermid

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Val McDermid joins Nikki Bedi and Richard Coles. The award-winning crime writer was inspired to write after reading Agatha Christie as a child. After attending Oxford University, Val started her career as a journalist and has drawn on these experiences in her latest thriller 1989. Kristin Mcilquham’s father suffered from a serious brain injury (three aneurysms) when she was child which changed her dad’s personality. Now an actor, she is performing her one-woman show Headcase about the impact this had on her life growing up, on her family and on her dad.Eileen Fitzgerald befriended The Rolling Stones as a teenager and exchanged letters with the fledgling rockers. Years later she sold the correspondence to help pay for her PhD.Trumpeter Alison Balsom shares her Inheritance Tracks: JS Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 by Trevor Pinnock with The English Concert and Con Alma by Dizzy Gillespie.Nihal Arthanayake started out as a recording artist before becoming an award-winning broadcaster. He talks about life growing up and why in his new book Let's Talk he's encouraging everyone to have better conversations.Producer: Claire Bartleet

Writer Val McDermid joins BBC Scotland DJ and writer Vic Galloway for Episode 6 of Whisky Talk: Malts & Music, brought to you by The Scotch Malt Whisky Society. Val describes her early introduction to whisky, her life and work and how these SMWS drams transported her to different times and places throughout her life. TUNES and DRAMS Cask No. 73.121: Meemaw’s Moonpie / Aztec Camera, Somewhere in my Heart Cask No. 39.209: Apple aperitif / Mungo Jerry, In the Summertime Cask No. 35:269: Banana balaclava / Nitin Sawhney, Nadia Cask No. 36.164: Bittersweet Xmas stocking treat / Alison Moyet, The Coventry Carol Cask No. 10.204: Pineapples ahoy / Mike Vass, Settled in Clay You can watch a video of the conversation on the SMWS YouTube channel here Spotify link can be found hereSpecial Guest: Val McDermid .

I interview Val McDermid about her latest book “1979” and review “Book Love” by Debbie Tung, “American Dirt” By Jeanine Cummins, “Golden Hill” by Francis Spufford and “Rachel’s Holiday” by Marian Keyes.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week’s wonderful Star Trek Dumteedum tune is from our Stephen and we are lucky enough to hear thoughts from: Rob, Carol from the Highlands, God Squad Mia, Ambridge Pony Club Jen, Alex, Witherspoon, the one and only Rosie Porty, Brian, Sazza from Kent, Tracy from California, Katherine, Nathalie from Torquay, Helen from Rotherham, Chris From York, Charles, Darcy and Anon of Ambridge. Plus: Tweet of the week, Facebook roundup and a welcome for new members of our Facebook group, information about our brand new instagram account, predictions for next week. Not forgetting the DumteeBOOKdum item, with bestselling author Val McDermid! Please call in to the show using this link: https://www.speakpipe.com/dumteedum Do keep your call to a maximum of two minutes and minimum age for contributors is 18.To support the show visit us at: https://www.patreon.com/dumteedum Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Gloria Allred is probably the best known women’s rights lawyer in the US. Equally loved, feared and deemed controversial by some, for nearly half a century she's represented women in high profile cases involving Bill Cosby, Jeffrey Epstein, Harvey Weinstein, R Kelly, Donald Trump. She talks to Woman's Hour about the situation facing the Duke of York, the possible retrial of Ghislaine Maxwell & her admiration for Ruth Bader Ginsburg.Vile text messages have come to light which were shared between police officers belonging to the Metropolitan Police. The IOPC has said: "We believe these incidents are not isolated or simply the behaviour of a few 'bad apples'." The Met has said that it is 'sorry'. We get reaction from Zoe Billingham, former Her Majesty's Inspector of Constabulary and Shabnam Chaudhri, who served as an officer in the Met for 30 years.Monica Ali wrote her bestseller Brick Lane nearly 20 years ago. Her new book is called Love Marriage. It's about two families who are brought together when Yasmin and Joe fall in love. Scottish crime writer, Val McDermid, has stopped sponsoring a football club that's been part of her life since she was a baby. She's finished supporting Raith Rovers because it's signed up David Goodwillie who, in a Scottish civil case in 2017, was found to have raped a woman. He was fined £100,000. Val says she can't see herself ever going back to Raith Rovers.

This short story is read by Christina Young and is included in Val McDermid’s chilling short story collection ‘Christmas Is Murder’--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/christina-young31/message

Scottish crime writer Val McDermid's new book, 1979, is the beginning of a new series inspired by her own experience as a newspaper journalist in the 1970s and 80s.Also, to celebrate International Day of People With Disability we have some recommendations for speculative fiction novels that centre disabled characters, and

Scottish crime writer Val McDermid's new book, 1979, is the beginning of a new series inspired by her own experience as a newspaper journalist in the 1970s and 80s.Also, to celebrate International Day of People With Disability we have some recommendations for speculative fiction novels that centre disabled characters, and

The queen of crime returns to Stark Talk for a second time, one of the very few guests to do so... and there is much to say.