Bespoken Scottish podcasts
@bespoken.bsky.social
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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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/...
She's in today's Times Scotland.
www.thetimes.com/uk/scotland/...
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
www.thetimes.com
July 5, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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/...
She's in today's Times Scotland.
www.thetimes.com/uk/scotland/...
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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...
podcastingtoday.co.uk/rock-music-s...
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.
podcastingtoday.co.uk
May 12, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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...
podcastingtoday.co.uk/rock-music-s...
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
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Sound Design: Barney Philbrick and Joel Cox
BBC Radio 4 - Archive on 4, A Succession of Repetitive Beats
The rave that changed Britain, 30 years on from the Castlemorton Common festival.
www.bbc.co.uk
May 13, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Sound Design: Barney Philbrick and Joel Cox
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Rock music, sport and Cold War collide in Amazing Sport Stories podcast podcastingtoday.co.uk/rock-music-s...
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.
podcastingtoday.co.uk
April 30, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Rock music, sport and Cold War collide in Amazing Sport Stories podcast podcastingtoday.co.uk/rock-music-s...
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This podcast episode on Georgian feasting and polyphonic singing is simply wonderful
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Radio 4 - Illuminated, A Georgian Polyphonic Feast
Come to a banquet of Georgian song, food and wine.
www.bbc.co.uk
March 25, 2025 at 8:07 AM
This podcast episode on Georgian feasting and polyphonic singing is simply wonderful
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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This is an absolute gem of a listen. #Music #Georgia #Polyphonic #Singing www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Illuminated - A Georgian Polyphonic Feast - BBC Sounds
Come to a banquet of Georgian song, food and wine.
www.bbc.co.uk
March 23, 2025 at 7:38 PM
This is an absolute gem of a listen. #Music #Georgia #Polyphonic #Singing www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Our programme ‘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
BBC Radio 4 - Illuminated, A Georgian Polyphonic Feast
Come to a banquet of Georgian song, food and wine.
www.bbc.co.uk
March 23, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Our programme ‘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
✌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.
⭐ 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.
March 6, 2025 at 6:21 PM
✌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.
⭐ 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.
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...
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...
February 12, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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...
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...
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
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
February 12, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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
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
This was a brilliant performance. @lyceumedinburgh.bsky.social
"I see Shylock as the voice of Shakespeare himself. I feel Shakespeare siding with the oppressed and the marginalised through him."
Such a pleasure to chat to John Douglas Thompson, ahead of him appearing in The Merchant Of Venice @lyceumedinburgh.bsky.social.
www.thestage.co.uk/features/joh...
Such a pleasure to chat to John Douglas Thompson, ahead of him appearing in The Merchant Of Venice @lyceumedinburgh.bsky.social.
www.thestage.co.uk/features/joh...
John Douglas Thompson: ‘Anyone that wants to do Shakespeare should get the chance. Let them loose’
English-American actor John Douglas Thompson is travelling to Scotland for the first time to perform in The Merchant of Venice at Edinburgh’s Royal Lyceum. He tells Fergus Morgan about how being stood...
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January 23, 2025 at 7:37 AM
This was a brilliant performance. @lyceumedinburgh.bsky.social
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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.
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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.
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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December 2, 2024 at 3:03 PM
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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.
podfollow.com/scottishdram...
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.
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.
December 2, 2024 at 2:31 PM
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.