Trailer - Trump Dodges a Bullet, Has Social Media Trumped our Broadcasters and BBC Scotland Under Fire / with Shona Craven, Catriona Stewart and Ruth Wishart

It's girl power this morning here at Talk Media Control. Eamonn is hopefully safe and well in Spain this week and not being chased down a cobbled street by a bull!!!!!

At the end of the Show a question from Ian MacKinnon.

Recommendations:

Ruth

Homecoming: The Scottish Years of Mary, Queen of Scots - Rosemary Goring

In this book, Rosemary Goring tells the story of Mary’s Scottish years through the often dramatic and atmospheric locations and settings where the events that shaped her life took place and also examines the part Scotland, and its tumultuous court and culture, played in her downfall. Whether or not Mary Stuart emerges blameless or guilty, in this evocative retelling she can be seen for who she really was.

https://www.waterstones.com/book/from-our-own-fire/william-letford/9781800173439 - William Letford

This prose and poetry tour de force of storytelling has the narrative punch of a novel. It is a new departure for the poet, and for poetry itself. It takes the reader into the not-too-distant future: an artificial intelligence rules the world, and a working-class family use their wits to live off the land. William Letford blends prose and his inimitable poetry: sci-fi and hunter-gatherer are merged into a coherent story in the pages of a stonemason's journal.

Americast - BBC Sounds

Shona

Dancing for the Devil - Netflix

After TikTok dancers join a management company and its associated church, unsettling details about the founder and their dark realities come to light.

Catriona

AMERICA'S SWEETHEARTS: Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders - Netflix

Follow the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders from auditions to training camp and the NFL season as they chase their dreams and a coveted spot on the squad.