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Billy Connolly talks about his art exhibition Born on a Rainy Day and Karine Polwart performs music.

Sir Billy Connolly tells Janice Forysth about his foray into art and his latest collection of artwork Born on a Rainy Day on location at Castle Fine Art gallery in Glasgow.

Janice will be chatting to Billy Connolly about his foray into art and his latest collection of artwork Born on a Rainy Day which is being exhibited in Glasgow this month.

We鈥檒l have a live music session from Karine Polwart with songs from her new album Laws of Motion, and we鈥檒l hear her talk about the book she鈥檚 written A Wee Bird Was Watching with illustrator Kate Leiper.

We鈥檒l celebrate the 鈥楻ebels鈥� theme of Book Week Scotland with our own 鈥楻ebel Book Group鈥� members - writer and broadcaster Hannah McGill, writer, publisher and activist Kevin Williamson, and poet and creative director Hannah Lavery 鈥� who will share their favourite rebel read, and Kevin will talk about the Rebel Inc film being released on Friday the 23rd of November as part of Book Week Scotland 鈥� about the iconic Scots counter-culture publishing company and literary journal he founded which gave a platform to writers such as Irvine Welsh, Alan Warner, Laura Hird, before any of them had books in print.

We鈥檒l hear about Scotland鈥檚 only sci-fi magazine Shoreline Infinity from its editors Russell Jones and Noel Chidwick.

Our Single of the Week is Beds by OK Button.

We鈥檒l hear about street art and live motion capture animations which are set to bring to life the story of Scotland鈥檚 oldest brewery ahead of the opening of a new Tennent鈥檚 Visitor Centre from Frank Calikes the Visualisation Manager at The School of Simulation and Visualisation (SimVis) at Glasgow School of Art, and graffiti artist Conzo Throbb.

1 hour, 55 minutes