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Canadian rockers Nickelback discuss what's kept them 20 years in the business, and their new album.

It wasn't her deeply musical family that prompted Scottish actress and director Gerda Stevenson to write and release her debut album of songs, but rather the local primary school. She'll be in studio to explain all.

As Previously...Scotland's history festival is happening across the country just now and Gerda stays on and theatre critic Joyce Macmillan joins us to talk about recent successes in dramatising Scotland's past, such as the James Plays that wowed the Edinburgh International Festival in the summer.

Edinburgh's Botanic Gardens have been experiencing large crowds to see their Botanic Lights exhibition. Nick Balneaves goes along to experience the illuminations for himself.

And singer-songwriter Yvonne Lyon and project founder Alec Galloway talk about the finale of Absent Voices, an archive of material built by eight local artists to explore and preserve in words, pictures, song and sound the legacy of Greenock's once mighty sugar industry.