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Dearbhla Mescal on finding joy (and being Paul's mum!)

Dearbhla Mescal on her debut book - Finding Joy, The Traitors' Harriet Tyce on her latest crime fiction and TV critic Scott Bryan on the Baftas.

This week Anna is joined by Dearbhla Mescal, mum of Oscar nominated actor Paul, to talk about how her mission to find joy in the everyday became her new book, how she is overcoming a major health setback and parenting her famous children.
BBC's "The Traitors" contestant Harriet Tyce had viewers gripped in the recent series of the show. She was the ex barrister who told everyone at the Round Table to banish her when she suspected Rachel was a traitor! She's hoping readers of her new crime novel will be as equally enthralled, but will it have a happier ending than she did on the show?

And speaking of shows, the stars of stage and screen will be out in force at the BAFTAs. TV critic Scott Bryan gives Anna his predictions and, in art imitating life, Scott also chats about his cameo in 'How to Get to Heaven from Belfast' and his role as a red carpet interviewer

Plus classic tracks from the Sunday Songbook, the perfect soundtrack to your Sunday.

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1 hour, 53 minutes

Music Played

  • Peter Gabriel

    Solsbury Hill

  • Bob Marley

    Is This Love

  • Wilson Phillips

    Hold On

  • Whitney Houston

    One Moment In Time

  • The Beatles

    Let It Be

  • Clifford T. Ward

    Home Thoughts From Abroad

  • Rod Stewart

    Rhythm Of My Heart

  • Maxine Nightingale

    Right Back To Where We Started From

  • Fleetwood Mac

    Little Lies

  • Elvis Presley

    Suspicious Minds

  • Starship

    Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now

  • Elton John

    Sad Songs

  • Mike + the Mechanics

    Over My Shoulder

  • Whitesnake

    Here I Go Again

  • Kate Bush

    Wuthering Heights

Broadcast

  • Sun 22 Feb 202611:03