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Simon Mayhew-Archer and Mandip Gill on Can You Keep a Secret? Carlos Acosta on Nutcracker in Havana.

Creator and writer of new Dawn French sitcom Can You Keep a Secret? Simon Mayhew-Archer and actor Mandip Gill join Len Pennie, and Dougie McHale discusses his new novel.

Choreographer and former ballet dancer Carlos Acosta discusses his reinterpretation of one of the world's most famous and familiar ballets and his decision to give it a contemporary Cuban twist as he bring The Nutcracker in Havana to Inverness and Edinburgh.

Creator and writer of new Dawn French sitcom Can You Keep a Secret? Simon Mayhew-Archer and actor Mandip Gill join Len Pennie to talk about what inspired the series, and Simon talks about his own unorthodox family.

Dunfermline-based writer Dougie McHale discusses his new novel, The Island Between Us, which is set between Edinburgh and Skiathos, and about how he went from being a dockyard worker and musician to writing books described as women's fiction which allow him to indulge in his love of history research.

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