we had to leave when i was four managing the child said his p.t.s.d. also good he was irish unable to go home after the war so he spent some time in or working on the snowy mountains scheme it came to light that he did that to save money to give to a month's family who died because my dad felt for him having taken the last place on a rescue boat fearless says in this awful bricks of madness this sure as wonderful it's very moving to hear alex talking to the survivors but he says quite an amazing show in a long past year a completely new item of history for me and one that deserves full retelling great tribute to all who lost their lives and to the survivors too and the pain they had to go through their after best says my friend's dad was on it he was lucky enough to survive john says my wife's uncle was a lancaster just survivor he was forced it to be able to throw himself overboard and then was in the water under attack from german gunfire terrifying and finally

un says a terrible loss my grandpa was on the lancaster he survived a sinking boat suffered all his days with survivor guilt the british government kept a secret but my mom and dad were part of the campaign to get the wreck recognized as a war grief thank you all so much for your messages now last year we interviewed former labor m.p. and independent scottish prabhat member dennis kind of then about the progress in his campaign to make scotland's national day and national holiday now he's back to report a fascinating development and they said i'm duty committee plotting alex spoke to denish recently in edinburgh. and there really evil sometime tuesday on the way to be joined by the secretary of the same time tuesday committee then as kind of a dallas secretary of the same time does the committee what do you have judy's until is it more difficult and bigger m.p.l. m.s.b. well the course party group in the scottish parliament for st andrews the was just set up just a few weeks ago tom arthur m.s.p.

is the convener and i am the secretary under him is a fairly simple first of all to get way to recognition of the scene andras the holiday and secondly to promote the celebration of sin on tuesday and means trying to give the people of scotland opposite all the people of scotland inclusively the opportunity to celebrate our national identity cultural diversity under membership of the international community. along parliamentary career at westminster holyrood one of the highlights was you have legislation to establish sometimes as the as a whole it is if you've managed to successfully rally the parliament behind that legislation why are you still campaigning for years later an interesting question well the legislation was eventually after

a great deal of effort it was eventually passed unanimously on this no seen on dru's the bank holidays scotland act two thousand and seven sin and is the is no officially a bank quality but what does a bank holiday mean a person or a business is a load to postpone a financial transaction until the next working day but it doesn't oblige any employer not even the banks to give their workers a day off so the recognition of the holiday is unfortunately still very patchy the scottish government recognises that the scottish parliament ever had. on a member summer holiday for your staff yes the scottish parliament recognises it but. in a local government i'm afraid that a sponsor has been very disappointing and that's the idea because look i thought jobs in charge of the schools and many people would argue that what makes a whole idea real holiday is of a school holidays so that families can can enjoy it to go without you even

objective and right into local authorities and i firmly believe that if if it was a school holiday there will be a huge increase in the recognition because most parents would want to stick the d. off to celebrate with the children and not in turn would put more pressure on employers both in the public sector and in the private sector to get wider recognition of the scene on tuesday holiday because one of the rational arguments against some lisa tamil skeptics of scottish life from the c.b.i. for example was if you have another holiday will lose so much productivity will lose so much business etc but you don't quite see it that way do you when you look at the international comparison scotland is near the bottom of the international league in terms of the number of public holidays and we are one of the few countries of the world that doesn't have a national holiday i mean the french have got by still the the ideas of what st

patrick's day the united states of america even which is a very business oriented capitalistic country they've got to at least two big national holidays namely independence day and thanksgiving day and thanksgiving the always falls on our own under days. i don't see why we shouldn't have us in on tuesday holiday in order to give all the people of scotland the opportunity to celebrate national identity the cultural diversity on the membership of the international community so when you're successful as i'm sure you will be on your track record of persuading a local thought. to start a school holiday make it a family occasion one of these families going to be doing and what's this new initiative that the suntan duce d fear saturday's bill this was an initiative that was started in bilbao zero in the basque country and it began as a kind of until two black friday black faith is very much well most of consumerism

. is the epitome of a greedy grasping selfish chrysalis society fear such that it is an antidote to that because they're trying to promote fairness to try to pull a caring sharing society under doing it through the celebration of a cultural events and scotland for the first time this year is no shearing in not places like d.c. and law school and middle of the in which are already committed and i would hope that in time there will be many cities towns and communities through scotland to join in the scene andries fear started these other british ns and towards the the last saturday of november and this is an opportunity for people to buy attending cultural events of some of the revenues going to good causes i think we can probably safely say the patron saint sometime there with a smile the man in the stuff well of course as the the the cost cost who he.

was and the fishes and the sea of that around so many people and i do think that if we are into the spirit of seed andriy then trying to promote a caring sharing society and encouraging encouraging individuals to just on scene on tuesday to think not just of themselves but of what they can do to help other people i think that would be a great thing and i'm pleased to see that the scottish government is promoting the initiative it's called make someone's day come down a bit loaves and fishes but you haven't title to the exam and quick for appearing on the program to. so where are the new listeners for saddam as the and i have no need to tell the set of the same under the committee the drill. thank you very much alex i make sure that is filled up with something suitable once in and is the. us thank you very much thank you. the leadership in the first saturday campaign came from the basque country and is quickly spread internationally alex has been

speaking to you already about the genesis of the movement and why sit and see for saturday as a welcome addition to international rate you are down but either you're after welcome to the comic salman show thank you alex it's great to be on thank you yeah dave tell us a bit about the genesis the beginnings of the fair site of the movement this is a crazy idea born in two thousand and fourteen he does he'll be in the region of of this scale in the basque country a group of young people we were quite worried about the kind of war we were created for the future so complex times sometimes we are much more focused on destroying groups is between countries and cultures so we we thought about. build another day different day to day after black friday way not to try to mobilize to provoke a massive mobilization our own culture and instead of doing that by reducing the crisis by doing that by social empathy so every cultural event that participates

should shoot for a social cause a project of the choice so this is how we have started. with only seventeen choirs and now we are trying to grow globally speaking so as black friday is all about receiving fair saturday is all about giving so many countries participating from that small beginning and twenty fourteen and bubble these year this year in two thousand and eighteen we have our own six hundred and seven hundred events of the war one hundred c.d.'s and if things seven eight different countries and we are grew we mean so yardy that is seven hundred events and one hundred said yes over yet seven countries it countries yet we are close in new c.d.'s for the next year probably the first in the states for example so how exciting. of the fate of south of the movement that this year for the first state in scotland is participating in

the fair centime to saturday yeah i mean this trial is one of the best news for the movement we start the conversation through the british council and in we have been so used to share the project we've with many people think it to you alex as well we've shared a project with the scottish government are we in the skin or he's the up and unsure as was rarey especially because if there isn't a nation. folk use and culture and show and buffy this is scotland because how humble a simple idea of a very powerful is being embrace for a whole nation and make you need it date for giving it a to be in a share and it's trying to shape the around culture and social impact it so what would the message from the fans south of the movement and to nationally and from you and bobo be to the same time tuesday fair saturday movement engaging in its

first celebration of sometime tuesday fair saturday our message would be that we want to create breeds of bridges between different trust of whole among the sense and one of the bears wasted today is through a culture because through culture we be able to reach too bad there should be it's will like to say to all the scottish people to be part of creed and to but you see base reporting the schools are going to because they will be supporting churchill courses at the same time and he's a good new great or thank you john d. but i think i've congratulations on the fair saturday movement and best wishes for for this year's event. coming up after the break i'll be speaking to some of scotland's imagine a plastic talent who comparing notes with some of our more to stop list international stars join us.

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the fate of julian assange is unclear washington has determined that he sent to the u.s. to face criminal charges most likely under the one nine hundred seventy s. . the british government is more than happy to make this happen even the ecuadorians are. we are watching unfold in front of our eyes is that criminalization journey. welcome back in our burns night special we featured the music of robbie's namesake. who had just launched his first cd we had a great reaction to ryan's reworking of traditional brands love song. i was caught up with ryan edge and to see how his career is developing. and i'm delighted to be joined once again on the excitement show but ryan jones of bobbins ryan the.

g.o.p. of cia for newcastle to show and security to a popular online so let me tell me how you record been doing since and what's happening is based the actually is. the first album has that kind of been gathered steam and still clean shows. that this will has just audience an extra audience to my music so it's been since i last in his been it's been going well and you have one of the scottish young scottish off the sort of i did on you and tapper teisho you dimension to the robot buns and magnificent body a walk i think robot buns would have been quite pleased as namesake was taking is his material in a different direction would you know well i would like to think so with the seven songs i just thought that everything was maybe a bit was a little you know short they didn't tighten with a button so i thought finding and tell them i'm a bit differently look at it from a different angle and use a bit of a punk and so so there's a couple here there's been

a change you know sucker status is being given to be all that sex drugs and rock'n'roll rock star life but i was talking to you just a bit to see who became a father killing robot buns for the first time so yeah my life has changed slightly in the last couple weeks but for the bit of the house and stared baby for two weeks it's been great brady is a fully responsible. absolutely absolutely absolutely. fully responsible adult of that something he have to do at the baby's head so you can take the oath of alex salmond quick thank you so much she was right i got to thank you. we have a lot. of. kids

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known to. worse. for the. city i just take of scotland the opportunity to celebrate its music and all of its forms she know wellington is one of scotland's best known to dish no cigar is famous for her performance at the grand don't make of the scottish parliament in one thousand nine hundred ninety killing his quote as a classical musician at the very start of her career studying at guildhall alex and i spoke to him an edge into about the contrast between that experience and musical styles. she did wellington killing him welcome to this very special scene of the alex i'm unsure here from edinburgh we had of course to discuss music across the generations and kitman if i may start with you about a young musician studying at kyoto people see starting out for sale i think it may

be sorry. for selling what for tonight but gill told what to q. and your studies to london from scotland ever i could stay in scotland i would. love it here but unfortunately just the option to get. the sheer amount of our teacher is things like that. kind of second to none if you want to get in the scene to be there obviously there are opportunities there when you when you play events and you've got to give us an idea of what if you please but if you don where very lucky obviously being a music college you get to play a lot it's nice because sometimes you'll get an email and so and so. tomorrow for this concert can you come and it is just great never really know what's going to pop up yeah it's just all around the place really she did you see can you understand from from point of view why she might despite wanting to study and all the calendar if you are going to go to london for music the guildhall is the place

to go and. i think there is a critical mass when it comes to be particularly classical music and a really big city like london would have all the number of orchestras and things is going to combine. traditional scottish i mean obviously tremendous audiences and scotland but that's giving you an international reach as well i'm sure you've been really. sparse we have to get to hear more of that. amazingly when they always when you're saying that i've been through this we're on the front about it turns a great company i knew it was said that scotland coming being a traditional musician from. wind is a calling card it's a great calling card we've got a great reputation girl so world for music it's not just bolton's it's it's the other things it's all the bones of people. so that you have called me round which of course have been very much project based clearly extends to our artists. and

it's beginning i think to extend to classical as well because we are producing some really fine young classical musicians across the disciplines which is great i mean i want to see school would producing the best and everything and in terms of sort of the future. where what's next for you to go top because obviously it's going to be there and you've heard from from. you know if you're going to study in london not that it's a place to go what are you what are your plans for the future less plans more hopes i think. for me a freelance career would be the dream i love the fact that as a student people have to drop you into all sorts of crazy things so like musicals and chamber music and some recordings an orchestra or whatever i think keeping that variety really keeps it alive and you don't get stuck in your little one class communication bubble so you know if you were to turn the clocks back to caitlin's

young and untasted here is anything in your career in your musical career that you might have done differently anywhere you just pleased with what you've done and ditch mendis of might you be cheap because i want to listen to you if you've been tempted by the bright lights. so young woman did you feel that london was going to be any point twenty four hours in london this is usually enough you could even when i was younger i was never going to i think money i keep on people my career has been an accidental and i think all the basic things that into a i'm delighted that caitlin wants to do freelance because so much more exciting so states let's translate it try. for makes it good and you get all sorts of opportunities. when you're freelance and i think i think i've just kind of fallen into a let's amanda's a special and i know that show you someone who's love to sing a scottish songs that people very familiar with but also look to positive abundance

melody to go back to the original melody that bobbins actually said to that to the watch so give us an example of that well this is a this is probably one of most famous ones of my life why i dread rule which jokes thompson is editor sent to a tune called were down in the balloon because he didn't like the major theme of into the ticket which was bottoms to i think. one that thompson said it is a one of a delicious yes. it is like that of the ones that are still a one c. is a good tennessee. the other one is. that's new.

mahbubani. to. the line and they're a bite melting with a thud which brings me on to. my education and. of education free education for young people how important a part does news of course should music clearly an education of our children from prime you want upward crucial. actually before primary one it should be in the

nursery it's at is more in the nursery it's when you get into primary one you get teachers to but i think all this kind of think it's getting in some places it's getting better. but music is a integral part of it and it can get out so much everywhere i'm sure you do get even a hard time we had someone come in and speak to us i ask you once and they said the music actually is one of the most employers will decrease because if you've gone and done a music degree and you go off into the world people see that you're a musician that you're disciplined you can force yourself to practice when you need to you know you organize if you're not like most musicians going to ask basically you know you've got all of these life skills that you need but it's mostly of course we've heard from you peter for thinking that was wonderful she now will get to hear from you kate when they enter the show when you going to give us a piece on you opal but in the meantime alex has the gift from people well i still owe my best political life. you have some of your greatest songs some bombs or

original set to go off my loves like a red rose but forms also said that freedom and whiskey going together and so. should. the whiskey of. all your musical friends. we should go to a bigger quake but i mean. she think it and thank you very much for inspiring great thank you. sometimes just fear saturday is a wonderful concept as a counterpoint to black phrasing at hilsey of giving rather than receiving of which from what we know of i'm just from the gospels he would have approved it might provide the city i'm just a committee with the impetus to secure the national family day of celebration for which they have long strived as well as giving the country an opportunity to make a statement of solidarity with those up against it at home and internationally let

us hope in any event the celebration of scotland's national day will always provide a showcase for the best in emerging artistic talents and so what better way to end our special program than to be played out by kit led on her favorite instrument the oval. live. life. on. my.

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