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Podcast training, consultancy, and production in Scotland. We make programmes for BBC Radio 4, and look after the Scotland Audio Network.

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Karine Polwart: Gregory’s Girl landed big in Banknock The folk singer on her favourite family holidays, her first celebrity crush and the career she’d choose in a parallel life

You get to see Karine Polwart in two v different shows next month. Windblown (Aug 9-13, Ed Fringe) is a dreamlike theatre piece about the longest lived tree at the Edinburgh Botanics, and she's playing Kelvingrove Bandstand on Aug 5.
She's in today's Times Scotland.

www.thetimes.com/uk/scotland/...

05.07.2025 18:40 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Rock music, sport and Cold War collide in Amazing Sport Stories podcast The latest Amazing Sport Stories podcast tells the true story of how the Lithuanian basketball team made it to the 1992 Olympics with help from the US rock band, the Grateful Dead.

Dropping Monday 19th! A podcast I made for BBC World Service with @bespoken.bsky.social about the fall of the Soviet Union, the Grateful Dead and some amazing Lithuanian basketballers at Barcelona 1992 Olympics. Presented by the late Bill Walton.
podcastingtoday.co.uk/rock-music-s...

12.05.2025 10:57 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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BBC Radio 4 - Archive on 4, A Succession of Repetitive Beats The rave that changed Britain, 30 years on from the Castlemorton Common festival.

The rave that changed Britain - this Saturday night at 8pm, on BBC Radio 4. Political journalist Tom Barton meets some of those whose lives were turned upside down in the aftermath of Castlemorton Common in 1992.

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Sound Design: Barney Philbrick and Joel Cox

13.05.2025 13:09 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Rock music, sport and Cold War collide in Amazing Sport Stories podcast The latest Amazing Sport Stories podcast tells the true story of how the Lithuanian basketball team made it to the 1992 Olympics with help from the US rock band, the Grateful Dead.

Rock music, sport and Cold War collide in Amazing Sport Stories podcast podcastingtoday.co.uk/rock-music-s...

30.04.2025 10:37 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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BBC Radio 4 - Illuminated, A Georgian Polyphonic Feast Come to a banquet of Georgian song, food and wine.

This podcast episode on Georgian feasting and polyphonic singing is simply wonderful

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

25.03.2025 08:07 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Illuminated - A Georgian Polyphonic Feast - BBC Sounds Come to a banquet of Georgian song, food and wine.

This is an absolute gem of a listen. #Music #Georgia #Polyphonic #Singing www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

23.03.2025 19:38 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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BBC Radio 4 - Illuminated, A Georgian Polyphonic Feast Come to a banquet of Georgian song, food and wine.

Our programme β€˜A Georgian Polyphonic Feast’ was on Radio 4 tonight - and available to losten now at this link: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... #illuminated #bbcradio4

23.03.2025 22:05 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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✌double ✌award success!

⭐ LANTERN SCOTTISH POETRY -
for the 2nd year in a row, shortlisted for a Celtic Media Award.

⭐AMAZING SPORT STORIES: CHASING MOUNTAINS
Also this year, our nail-biting BBC series Chasing Mountains has been shortlisted in the Sport category.

06.03.2025 18:21 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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NEWS: Our BBC #podcast 'Amazing Sport Stories: Chasing Mountains' has been shortlisted for a global #Ondas award, run by PRISA Audio, Cadena SER, and El Pais.

It tells the story of 5 incredible women competing to climb all 14 of the world's highest mountains.

Listen: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w...

12.02.2025 13:24 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Don't forget our first SAN Q&A is this month!

Our guest is Mark Vernon, a Glasgow based artist who explores the concepts of audio archaeology, magnetic memory and nostalgia through his sound works.

If you haven't already, join our Google group for updates.
groups.google.com/g/scaud

12.02.2025 10:29 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This was a brilliant performance. @lyceumedinburgh.bsky.social

23.01.2025 07:37 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

"With opportunity, determination, and support, anything is possible." - Chris McCausland ❀️ #strictly

14.12.2024 20:50 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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A History Of Scottish Drama In Six Plays: Black Watch Episode six of A History Of Scottish Drama In Six Plays focuses on Gregory Burke's 2006 play Black Watch.What happened in Scottish theatre after Scottish devolution in 1997 and the reconvening of t...

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Produced with support from Scottish Society of Playwrights as part of their SSP@50 Fellowships, supported by Creative Scotland & @bespoken.bsky.social. Made in association with @traversetheatre.bsky.social.

02.12.2024 15:03 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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A meeting this morning at @edinburghnapier.bsky.social’s Craiglockhart campus - in the rooms where War Poets Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen famously spent time together.

02.12.2024 14:31 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Well it’s your fault we’re here 🀣

30.11.2024 19:24 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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