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Ian McMillan presents a new season of Radio 3's Cabaret of The Word.

Janice Galloway writes and performs an especially commissioned new story about how a visit to Glasgow for her fourteenth birthday opened up a new world for her - the world of art, and in particular the artist Bruegel. Janice talks about the importance of using detail in her writing, which has won praise for its perception of childhood. Her new memoir All Made Up covers her youth, and she explains that as a child she was very quiet, but keenly observed the world around her, in readiness for any unpleasantness.

Mike Scott, of the band The Waterboys, has created a suite of Yeats's poetry set to music. He performs two pieces in The Verb studio, Before The World was Made and Song of Wandering Aengus.

David Bellos is Professor of French at Princeton University. He and Ian discuss his new survey of translation theory, Is That a Fish in Your Ear?, where David lays out his theory that it's an illusion that language consists of words, and that the translator's task is more than mere translation of the words on the page. He imagines how the linguists working on Janice Galloway's memoirs will approach translating Scottish cultural references - like a Scotty dog ashtray, into Italian.

And there's more from The Verb's new voices, a scheme run between Radio 3 and the Arts Council, supporting emergent talent on the spoken poetry scene. This week we feature poets from Birmingham and their mentors, Sean O'Brien and Aoife Mannix.