BBC Scotland & Colin Bell, Prince Charles on Climate Change, Flags and the Westminster Covid Report / with Ruth Wishart artwork
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BBC Scotland & Colin Bell, Prince Charles on Climate Change, Flags and the Westminster Covid Report / with Ruth Wishart

  • S3E87
  • 1:05:18
  • October 13th 2021

Stuart and Eamonn are joined for the first time by writer and columnist, Ruth Wishart. This week - Alex Massie’s Times article on BBC Scotland and Colin Bell’s legacy, Prince Charles and climate change, flags and the Westminster Covid report. At the end of the show, Stuart, Eamonn and Ruth share their media recommendations.

Alex’s Times article: www.thetimes.co.uk/article/scotland-is-poorly-served-by-an-incurious-bbc-d39d3xzdm

RECOMMENDATIONS:

Stuart: ‘The Family Roe’ - book by Joshua Prager (Norton Press)’ ('“A masterpiece of reporting on the Supreme Court’s most divisive case, Roe v. Wade, and the unknown lives at its heart.”) https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393247718

Eamonn: ‘Taste: My Life Through Food’ - book by Stanley Tucci (“From award-winning actor and food obsessive Stanley Tucci, comes an intimate and charming memoir of life in and out of the kitchen.”) https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Taste/Stanley-Tucci/9781982168018

Ruth:

  1. ‘Harlem Shuffle’ - novel by Colson Whitehead https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/608669/harlem-shuffle-by-colson-whitehead/
  2. ‘Dog Days: A Year with Olive & Mabelby Andrew Cotter’ (“Andrew Cotter takes you behind the scenes and into the pages of his diary to reveal just how extraordinary a year it has been, and what really happened after his lockdown superstar Labradors chewed up the internet and found it was quite tasty.”) https://www.oliveandmabelbook.com/order-the-book.html

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Broadcaster Stuart Cosgrove and Professor Eamonn O’Neill host Talk Media: a forensic analysis of how the media works, and who works the media. Packed full of candid commentary and informed opinion, Talk Media features a weekly guest commentator from the worlds of journalism, entertainment and politics.

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Professor Eamonn O'Neill
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A working journalist and writer -previously a senior writer for Vanity Fair and Esquire. Associate Professor of Journalism at Edinburgh Napier University and a 2020 JFK/Hemingway Grant Recipient.

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Former Head of Nations and Regions for Channel 4 and the prize-winning author of the Soul Trilogy (soul music and social change in Memphis, Detroit and Harlem).

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