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Ian Rankin, author of the Inspector Rebus crime novels, has recently completed a book left unfinished by the father of the \u2018tartan noir\u2019 genre William McIlvanney who died in 2015. Ian explains how he pieced together the fragments and notes left by McIlvanney and wrote his own sections of The Dark Remains, a prequel to McIlvanney\u2019s Laidlaw series. He also reveals that the experience of working on the novel may mean a new lease of life for Rebus.

With summer music festivals linked to spikes in Covid cases and new pilot data released from the Government\u2019s Events Research Programme, social psychologist Professor John Drury from the University of Sussex explains the risks posed by large crowds and the policy and behaviour changes he believes are needed to ensure live events can continue safely.

For the first time in history, 12 violins made by the finest violin maker of all time, Antonio Stradivari, have travelled across the world to feature in a ground-breaking new album with violin player Janine Jansen. She joins Samira Ahmed to discuss the end result, as well as the film she made to accompany it.

Operatic tenor Neal Cooper talks about singing both the roles of Tristan and Melot at last night\u2019s Prom performance of Wagner\u2019s Tristan and Isolde at the Royal Albert Hall, when Simon O\u2019Neill who was cast as Tristan lost his voice after the second act.

Presenter: Samira Ahmed\nProducer: Oliver Jones

Main image: a crowd at a music festival