Scottish Independence Podcasts

James E interviews - Joy McNaughton

James E chats to Joy McNaughten, mother of Olympic Champion swimmer Duncan Scott about the making of a champion, the cost and the frustrations of the lack of media coverage for a sport in which Scotland excels.Scots are 8% of the Uk population yet make up 14% of the British Olympic Team, 21% of the Olympic swimming team and achieved 25% of the medals. Yet the sport barely gets any coverage in mainstream media.Next on the sporting calendar is the International Swimming League which you can follow on youtube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBoEDuW0Lg7AmCkts1j8LyQ and next year will be another busy year with European Championships and Commonwealth Games.You can find out more about the Scottish Swimming team here https://www.scottishswimming.com/compete/swimming/national-squads.aspx
Duncan Scott is the ONLY British Olympian to win 4 medals in a single games and he is still only 24 . He is also an ambassador for the Learn to Swim programme - an essential life skill for Scottish children in a country with 90% of the UK's fresh water supply. Find out more here https://www.scottishswimming.com/learn-to-swim.aspx
We are grateful to Joy for joining us to help promote Scottish sport and once again, our congratulations to Duncan and all those who took part in the Olympic Games 2021.
#DuncanScott #ScottishSports #Olympics2021

Commonweal policy podcast #97 - Thinking outwith the box

In the week collectively known across Scotland as "GERSmas", when the estimated accounts of Scotland as an administrative region of the UK are published,  Dr Craig Dalzell urges us to think outwith the box.  
This week, Craig talks to SNP Policy Development Convenor Chris Hanlon and Agnes MacAuley from SNP Greenock & Inverclyde about the latest GERS figures and what they mean (and don’t mean) for Scotland, independence and the post-pandemic recovery. They then discuss up and coming motions to the SNP conference that have been influenced by or based on Common Weal policies including one for a National Transport Company designed to help decarbonise our cars and other vehicles. Finally, they discuss the role of non-party think tanks in Scottish politics and what they can do that party affiliated policy groups cannot.
You can find out more about Commonweal, including access to all the policy papers in their policy library on their website   https://commonweal.scot/
 
 

The Locker Room 20th Aug

This week's episode of the Locker Room including Olympic action, swimming and yet more football

Indylive.Radio Team Talk - July-august issue

Hi, welcome to the Indylive.radio team' audio newsletter for July and August!  Find out what we've been up to as Covid restrictions start to ease and meet some new team members.  Also, hear about our plans for the next few months
Get in touch with us studio@indylive.radio if there is anything you would like us to cover in the next issue
You can also see the video version of this newsletter on our Youtube channel if you're curious about the faces behind the voices!

Commonweal Policy podcast - IPCC special

Very important discussion on the impact of the newly published IPCC report on the climate emergency hosted by Dr Craig Dalzell, head of Policy Development at Commonweal
#climateEmergency #commonweal #IPCCreport

Changing Minds: Dignity in dying

This week's Changing Minds discussion is on the sensitive, but very important topic of dignity in dying.
The Indylive.radio team is grateful to SNP Commonweal group for sharing this discussion with us.

The Daytime Show: Reclaim the Space

We are grateful to the Women for Independence organisation for sharing this event with us, focused on the experience of women in politics and how we can better support each other to reclaim that space
#WFI #indyliveradio #scottishpolitics

The Week in Holyrood - Summer special 2

Holyrood returned from recess for the second time to update on Covid regulations and Charles Fletcher was there to bring us a  summary of events in the second of his two summer specials.