Forth 1 at the Edinburgh Festivals: Recent Episodes
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Forth 1 welcomes the Edinburgh International Festival and Edinburgh Fringe to the city every August. Listen to some of our special Takeover shows with some of the funniest comedians. Plus, we invited some acts to the studio to 'Sell Me the Show'.
We let Patrick Monahan take over Forth 1 for 4 hours. Here are some of the best bits from his show. He was joined by guests Ed Byrne, Jess Robinson, Stephen Buchanan and Daliso Chaponda.
This week on the Barrel of Laughs we were looking for jokes that contained the word 'Whiskey'. We had a fine selection of jokes but this one from Donna properly made us laugh. "How do you know if a shark is drunk on whisky...?"
Westlife admit they never thought they would ever be able to play the Hydro. Boogie & Arlene caught up with the band as they released their first new single in 7 years. Listen to find why they never thought they would be able to play there.
Boogie & Arlene caught up with Calvin Harris to talk about his new song 'Giant' with Rag 'n' Bone Man. He told us how we still get called by his real name Adam and that hardly anyone calls him Calvin. He also tells us how he liked that he managed to bag a collaboration with Sam Smith ahead of David Guetta.
Taron Egerton talks to Boogie about the new Robin Hood film. He tells us what it's like playing such an iconic character, jokes about Bryan Adams and working with Elton John.
Gerard Butler joined Boogie to chat about his new movie Hunter Killer. He tells us more about the film and how he spent a few days on an submarine in preparation for the movie. He also revels how often he gets back home to Scotland, how he still follows Scottish football and why he is considering changing his name...
The girls from Little Mix join us and revealed that they want to achieve more global success as well as talking about their new single