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Grant Stott has music and conversation with Lighthouse Family!

They are back with their first album and tour in 18 years; one of the most popular bands of the 1990鈥檚 their new album is called Blue Sky in Your Head, and includes 鈥榯he Essentials collection鈥� to mark their 25th anniversary, including remastered versions of all their classic songs such as 'Lifted' and 'Ocean Drive'. He will also hear about their planned UK tour for later this year, finishing at the London Palladium.

Julie Fowlis and Karine Polwart will be discussing The Lost Words: Spell Songs - a new musical companion piece to The Lost Words book - where musicians unfold the 鈥渄reams and songs鈥� living within the pages of the book. The book began as a response to the removal of everyday nature words from a widely used children鈥檚 dictionary, but then grew to become a much broader protest at the loss of the natural world around us, as well as a celebration of the creatures and plants with which we share our lives, in all their 鈥榗haracterful glory鈥�.

He will also hear about Cut and Paste: 400 Years of Collage - the first survey exhibition of collage ever to take place anywhere in the world. Collage is often described as a twentieth-century invention, but this show spans a period of more than 400 years and includes more than 250 works. Highlights include a three-metre-long folding collage screen, purportedly made in part by Charles Dickens; a major group of Dada and Surrealist collages, by artists such as Kurt Schwitters, Joan Mir贸, Hannah H枚ch and Max Ernst; and major postwar works by Henri Matisse, Robert Rauschenberg, and Peter Blake, including the only surviving original source photographs for Blake鈥檚 and Jann Haworth's iconic, collaged cover for the Beatles鈥� album Sergeant Pepper鈥檚 Lonely Hearts Club Band.

Bard in the Botanics is gearing up for its 18th birthday season which will run outdoors in Glasgow鈥檚 Botanic Gardens and in the Kibble Palace. This year Scotland鈥檚 only annual outdoor Shakespeare festival will present a 鈥淢use of Fire鈥� programme, showcasing four of Shakespeare鈥檚 most iconic characters: Hamlet, Henry V, Richard III and Rosalind. Grant will be chatting to artistic director Gordon Barr and actor Nicole Cooper.

All that and our regular Book Group Discussion: 120 years (this month) since the birth of Ernest Hemingway鈥� we revisit his classic title The Old Man and the Sea - a short novel set in 1951 in Cuba, and published in 1952. It was the last major work of fiction by Hemingway that was published during his lifetime.