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Radio Scotland,31 Mar 2026,30 mins

SeriesThe Arts Mix

Actor Kara Tointon, Short Attention Span Theatre and debut novelist Abigail Abbas

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Eastenders star and stage actor Kara Tointon drops in for a chat about her latest project The Constant Wife which opens at Edinburgh’s Festival Theatre this week. Debut novelist Abigail Abbas discusses her new book The Driving Seat which sees a woman fleeing to a Scottish castle with her baby to escape her psychopath ex-husband. Short Attention Span Theatre are back with a new show, billed as a mini fringe event, six short plays are to be performed back-to-back, for one night only, at Edinburgh’s Gilded Saloon. Len meets actor Sarah Pieraccini who performs in two of the plays.

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