Episodes

  • From The Stables Theatre – After Miss Julie

    From The Stables Theatre – After Miss Julie
    Jan 11 2025

    It's election night 1945 and the working class is about to elect a new Labour government and herald a seismic change in British society that will alter the old order for good. Meanwhile in the bowels of a large country house, beautiful privileged Julie, daughter of an aristocrat, is playing a dangerous seductive game with John, his lordship's chauffeur.

    So begins Patrick Marber's brilliant update and adaptation of August Strindberg's 19th century classic Miss Julie. What follows is a night of brutal psychological cat and mouse, explored through Marber's typically searing dialogue. Themes of class, sex and money are dynamically explored and build over one fateful night to an explosive climax.

    This is an unmissable opportunity to see a great play reinterpreted for our times by an equally great contemporary playwright with a wonderful trio of Stables actors ready to bring it dramatically to life.


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    21 mins
  • The Frustrated Authors

    The Frustrated Authors
    Dec 5 2024
    Is an interest in writing a genetic thing? Does the ability to write get passed down in your DNA? That's what uncle and nephew Stuart and Richard Baillie set out to explore. Stuart's dad Peter (that's Richard's grandfather) was an author with ten novels and countless short stories published in the 1950s and Peter's sons and now one of his grandchildren have had aspirations to write the great British novel and follow in Peter's footsteps. But none of them ever have - can we get to the root of the problem? What's stopping them?

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    1 hr and 1 min
  • People and Landmarks of the UK - Mary Slessor

    People and Landmarks of the UK - Mary Slessor
    Nov 27 2024
    Mary Slessor was one of the first women to be commemorated in the Hall of Scottish Heroes half way up the Wallace Monument near Stirling. So who was she? What had she done to earn her place among such exalted company? Her story is a fascinating one; from Dundonian Mill Girl to missionary in remotest Africa and then becoming the first female magistrate in the British Empire. Mary Slessor certainly earned her place among the greats of Scotland.

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    17 mins
  • In Conversation With - Richard Fryer

    In Conversation With - Richard Fryer
    Nov 16 2024

    Richard Fryer doesn't object to being described as an adventurer in the true tradition of adventuring. This interview was recorded a few years ago just after the publication of his book Lost Odyssey.

    He discusses his passion for boats, the high seas and for the West Indies. He explains how he came to love boats and the sea and recalls how he survived 36 hours in a tropical storm in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. He also recalls the day he made Odyssey his own and the trials and tribulations of trying to sail his boat from Cuba to the USA.


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    39 mins
  • People and Landmarks of the UK - The Wallace Monument

    People and Landmarks of the UK - The Wallace Monument
    Nov 7 2024
    A short history of The Wallace Monument in Stirling and the man who inspired Braveheart.

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    15 mins
  • From The Stables Theatre - The Girl On The Train

    From The Stables Theatre - The Girl On The Train
    Oct 29 2024

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    15 mins
  • In Conversation With – Mark Jardine

    In Conversation With – Mark Jardine
    Oct 16 2024

    I count Mark Jardine as a friend, and one of long standing. His has been a life committed to the service of others whether in his profressional life as a funeral director

    or in his private life where, among many things he has been a bereavement counsellor and is founder of The People's Project. Mark's legacy though, will be in the creation of the Roucan Loch crematorium and woodland burial site https://www.roucanloch.co.uk/ it's a crematorium like no other and as we say in the podcast, it is very much one man's vision of how we should treat our loved ones on their final journey.

    Have a look at the Roucan Loch website by following this link https://www.roucanloch.co.uk/


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    1 hr and 6 mins
  • In Conversation With - Tom McAughtrie

    In Conversation With - Tom McAughtrie
    Oct 15 2024
    As a young reporter watching Councillor Tom McAughtrie in action was fascinating. Over four decades he has been involved in some of the big decisions that have shaped not just the town of Dumfries but of the region as a whole. Over the years, and thanks to the the advent of social media, Tom and I have kept in touch and when I started doing these podcasts I immiediately thought Tom, with his strong views and opinions, would make a great subject and listening back to the result of the couple of hours we spent together I don't think I was wrong. You'll not be disappointed, Tom's views are as forthright as ever, especially when it comes to council officials working from home and Labour party complacency in the last decade and a half.

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    1 hr and 19 mins