Adoption drama, classic opera, musical journeys, and big blue puppets.
The latest BBC Radio Wales Arts Show is now up on Sounds.
Great show this week - another all live event (after the Hay festival episode in front of an audience the other week), this time in the studio with some fantastic guests.
Daf James is in straight off the back of the enormous success of his new BBC drama, Lost Boys and Fairies, the story of a gay couple going through the adoption process.
Greg Eldridge associate producer at Welsh National Opera, is in to preview the new collaboration between WNO and Scottish Opera, Pucinni’s Il Trittico, which opens at the Wales Millennium Centre in Cardiff tonight.
Old friends of the show, Emma Schofield and Charles Williams join me to review the new Abi Morgan drama, Eric, with Benedict Cumberbatch searching for his missing son in 1980s New York with the help of a big blue puppet.
And we’ll be taking a loo at the new album from Georgia Ruth, her fourth, Cool Head.
We cram a lot in to our half hour, and you can hear it now on BBC Sounds.
Gary Raymond is a novelist, author, playwright, critic, and broadcaster. In 2012, he co-founded Wales Arts Review, was its editor for ten years. His latest book, Abandon All Hope: A Personal Journey Through the History of Welsh Literature is out now with Calon Books.