Gordon Buchanan: All Back To Mine (live from Edinburgh Fringe)
I’m joined by brilliant wildlife cameraman and film-maker Gordon Buchanan, whose hugely loved series include My Epic Camel Adventure, Life in the Snow, The Bear Family and Me - and Tribes, Predators and Me. Earlier this year, he published a terrific, enlightening and hugely engaging memoir - IN THE HIDE: HOW THE NATURAL WORLD SAVED MY LIFE…
Bloody Scotland with Tariq Ashkanani, David Goodman and Claire Wilson
We’re back at Scotland’s Crime Writing Festival, Bloody Scotland (and the Golden Lion hotel) for this episode - which is a whistle-stop blether with three of the many, many excellent writers who’re in my home town of Stirling this weekend: Tariq Ashkanani, David Goodman and Claire Wilson…
Ambrose Parry (Chris Brookmyre and Marisa Haetzman), recorded live at The Stand, Glasgow
In conversation with two of my favourites! Award-winning author Chris Brookmyre and his partner in crime - and wife - the writer and consultant anaesthetist Dr Marisa Haetzman, under their best-selling collaborative guise of Ambrose Parry.
They discuss their work, their books, their favourite Scottish albums, films and books, and - <checks notes> - the wonder of marrow tattie scones, and marrow pakora…
All Back to Mine with Grant Stott - live from The Stand at the Edinburgh Fringe…
I’m joined by actor and broadcaster Grant Stott, who regalled us with tales about music, showbiz and secretarial studies and talked about his family and childhood too - which was particularly lovely, as his dad and pals from his primary school were in the audience…
Recorded at the East Neuk Festival
This week, I’m hearing from one of our most gorgeous, and inventive musicians, Esther Swift, who’s a composer, harpist, singer, songwriter and - as it turns out - a pretty fierce conductor too
This week, I’m at Edinburgh’s Voodoo Rooms, for a chat with the goddess - the countess - that is Fay Fife…
The Rezillos and Revillos trailblazer - and the only person in the history of the universe to sing Top of the Pops on - yes - Top of the Pops… is playing at the Voodoo Rooms from August 12th to 17th- so we caught up for a coffee, to chat all about it…
This episode was recorded live at the brilliant Portobello Bookshop, in (near!) Edinburgh - thank you so much to Euan and the gang for making us so welcome - as ever - and to everyone at Birlinn. And thanks to the legend Val McDermid - folk singer; football fan; Fun Loving Crime Writer; creator of heroes like Lindsay Gordon, Wire in the Blood’s Carol Jordan and Allie Burns - and a newly-appointed doctor of letters. But we’ll get to that…
This week, we’re chatting about comedian, writer and director Paul Black's terrific new BBC short film - Govan Fair Queen - starring Elaine C Smith, Maureen Carr and Julie Wilson Nimmo, among others. We recorded this at the Pearce Institute in Glasgow. Watch on YouTube!
Well then. I always love chatting with Denise Mina, and I can’t wait to have a blether with her about her latest brilliant crime thriller, The Good Liar (I absolutely love it and am getting a BLOOD SPATTER PROBABILITY SCALE tattoo to prove it) - along with her wider work, and some of Denise’s favourite Scottish albums, films and books.
Tickets here. Hope to see you there!
Thrilled to be a part of the always brilliant Glasgow Americana festival, and in the finest company I could ask for… Jill Jackson is a legend of course (Paolo Nutini isn’t just anyone’s merch guy), and Carol Laula is one of our most glorious and unsung voices. I can’t wait to chat with both of them, and they’ll both play some songs live too. Join us for a really special night of conversation, reminicscing, live performance - and brilliant music, from two truly vital Scottish songwriters. Tickets and more info here!
To celebrate the legendary Stand in Glasgow moving to a fab new venue (the old Webster’s Theatre on the Great Western Road), they’ve invited me bring some guests along for a blether once a month, on a Thursday afternoon, and here is the first one! Almost a year since he first joined me on the podcast - as one of my first-ever guests - I’m thrilled that Chris Brookmyre’s BACK, this time as one half of best-selling crime-writing duo, Ambrose Parry.
In the first of a series of 'Scottish Album Social' events celebrating some of the country’s best-loved LPs, music icon Horse will join me to reflect on 35 years of the band's just-reissued debut, The Same Sky (which features timeless hits like Careful and The Speed of the Beat of My Heart) - and to perform a couple of stripped-back songs from the record.
