and they said i'm judy committee plotting alex spoke to dennis recently in edinburgh. and there really evil sometime tuesday on the way to be joined by the secretary of the same time tuesday committee denis 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.p. well the crossed party group in the scottish parliament for st andrews the was just set up just a few weeks ago tomas 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 under the holiday and secondly to promote the celebration of sin on tuesday and means trying to give the people of scotland opposite of 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 some time does 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 holiday 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 of record highs are in . on a member of the next 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 a thought dissolves in charge of the schools and many people would argue that what makes the whole idea real holiday is of a school holidays so that families can come enjoy it to go with him in 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 sin unto the holiday because one of the rational arguments against on these attendant 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 of good still 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 de fer saturday will 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 fate 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 places like d.c. and glass 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 britons 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 night and the stuff well of course there's the the the cost cost to hear about the loaves and fishes and the sea of that around so many people and i do think that if we are into the spirit of sudan true 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 the new list is for sometimes as the and i have no need to tell the setting of the sun under the committee the drill. thank you very much alex i make sure that is filled up with something suitable as in and is the. us thank you very much thank you. the leadership of the fair 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 since antifreeze saturday as a welcome addition to international rate you are down but either your editor welcome to the examine 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 the city and been the originals of this game the best country a group of young people we were worried about the kind of war we were created for

the future so complex times sometimes we are much more focused on destroying groups as between countries and cultures so we we thought about. build another day the friend 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 but this abates . for a social cause a project of the choice so this is how we started in bilbao 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 babalu 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 need so yardley that is seven hundred events and one hundred seventy s. over yet seven countries eight countries yet we are close in new cds for the next year probably the first in the states for example so how exciting. it of the fear of south of the movement that this year for the first time in scotland is participating in the fair centime to saturday yeah i mean this trolley is one of the best news for the movement we have started conversations through the british council and in we had the choice 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 and we've seen the skin on his lip and for us was rarey especially because if there isn't a nation. folk use and culture and social and buffy this is scotland because how humble a simple idea would be powerful is being embraced 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 air 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 mess it's with the beat that we want to create breeds this bridges between differend trust the whole among the sense and one of the bears wasted today is through culture because through culture we be able to reach too bad their society its will like to say to all the scottish people to be part of creed and to but you see they supporting 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 for the hour but i think you made our 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 a more established international stars join us said. you're producing a lot of oil and gas now are energy independent were as big as in russia and saudi arabia but as you're making there is that they're actually losing money on it.

i mean i didn't find most unwelcome even even in the slightest and i never thought . and i've been going this instance the late ninety's there is no doubt about the transformation of the city center and increasingly. is an incredible achievement it's one that's a very expensive achievement mosco has become at least in the movie was it a livable place to use this kind of job it also might be the long term effects of this an improvement will take will take a long time to be measured because these are really just beginning. and one of them but i think. one names we're body.

should have been there so. i don't want or i can just let me ask. you does that mean you're not a yank kind of whom he could think any kind of thing. thank you i think you made a lot of the love ya know i don't know why don't. i. welcome back in our brains night special we featured the music of robbie's namesake ryan barnes who had just launched his first cd we had a great reaction to ryan's reworking of traditional brands love songs if one case

alice caught up with ryan edge over 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 seeing a foreign cast of the show and security to a popular online so what would tell me how you should record been doing since and what's happening a space 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 a loss and he's been it's been going well and you have one of the scottish young scottish officer of audio on you and tapper teisho you dimension to the robot buns the magnificent bloody a walk i think robot bones would have been quite pleased as namesake was taking is his material in a different direction would you know well i have would like to think so with this

certain songs i just thought that everything was maybe a bit was a little lost and you know short they didn't tighten with a bun so i thought finding and tell them i'm a bit differently look at it from a different angle and he was a bit of a punk himself so there's a couple here there's been a change in your son says there's been just not 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. for the first time so yeah my life has changed slightly in the last couple of weeks but for the better. and the house and stared baby for two weeks it's been great very you know fully responsible. absolutely absolutely absolutely well some fully responsible adult of that something he have to do at the baby's head so you can take both of the alex salmond quick thank you so much just got to thank you.

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styles. she did wellington killing his welcome to this very special scene of the alex i mean she was 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 i went on to purcell and what for tonight guilt 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 inside the sheer amount of our construction teacher is things like that is 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 then. tomorrow for this

concert can you come and it is just great never really know what's going to pop up that yeah just all around the place really she did you see can you understand from from caitlin's point if you 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 particular to classical music and a really big city like london would always call the number of orchestras and things is create a form which you combine. obviously a tremendous audiences and scotland but that's giving you an international reach as well though i'm sure you've been maybe. parts we have to get to hear more than. amazingly and they always when you're saying that i've been through the film and front about it does a great company i knew it was said that scotland coming be in

a traditional musician. scotland is a calling card it's a great calling card we've got a great reputation girls the world for music it's not just bolton's it's it's the other things it's all the bonds of people. so that you've called me around which of course have been very much project based clearly extends to our artists music 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 wouldn't producing the basis of everything and in terms of some 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 she know high self-esteem 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 kind of drop 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 classical musician bubble so you know if you were to turn the clocks back to caitlin's young and fantastic here is anything in your career and 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 your only point twenty four hours in london is that usually enough. even when i was younger i was never going to i think money i keep on seeing the people my career has been an accidental and i think over the base. of them to a i'm delighted to want to do freelance because so much more exciting thing so it's it's transit.

that's what makes it good and you get all sorts of opportunities. when you're feeling on foot i think i think i've just kind of fallen into what's amanda's a special and i know that she knew someone whose love to sing a scottish falls 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 woods so give us an example of that well this is the this is probably one of most famous ones of my life i read a druid's which george thompson and his editor to the tune called were down in the balloon because we didn't like the major theme of and break it which was but i'm still. not one that thompson said it is a one of a delicious yes my love is like that of the ones that are still a one c. is a good tennis. the other one is. that's

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a thud which brings me on to it said by education and. points of education free education advice to 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. before primary one it should be in the notice of its it is more than the most obvious as when you get into primary one you get to choose the right thing and 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 that music actually is one of the most employers will degrees because if you've gone and done a music degree and you go off into the world people see that you're a musician in that you're disciplined you can force yourself to practice and 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 lots of people

of course we've heard from you thinking that was wonderful she now will get to hear from you can't win at the end of the show when you going to give us a piece or you opal but in the meantime alex has the gift to you both well i still owe my best political life. you have some of your greatest songs some bombs or original set to go off my love's like a red rose but also said that freedom and whiskey going together and so. sure it was. the whiskey of. all your musical friends. should get you a bigger quake but i mean. she didn't hit and thank you very much for inspiring great thank you. thank. sometimes use fear saturday is a wonderful concept as a counterpoint to black phrasing it tells a tale 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 lead on her favorite instrument the oval my. life. on. my.

us veterans who come back from war often tell the same stories. were going after the people who were killing civilians they were not interested in the wellbeing of their own soldiers either they're already several generations of them so i just got this memo from the circular defense office says we're going to act and destroy the government and seven countries in five years americans pay for the wars with them money those with their lives if we were willing to go into harm's way and willing to risk being killed for a war then surely we can risk some discomfort for

a nice enos for. the fate of julian assange is unclear washington is determined that he be sent to the us to face criminal charges most likely under the one thousand seven hundred espionage act the british government is more than happy to make this happen even the ecuadorians are in the army after what we are watching unfold in front of our eyes is the criminalization of journalists. when a loved one is murder it's natural to seek the death penalty for the murder i would prefer if we knew when the death penalty just because i think that's a fair thing the right thing research shows that for every nine executions one convict is found innocent the idea that we were executing in. some people was terrified lose just moved to the present and that we were here even many of the times families want the death penalty to be abolished the reason we have to keep

the death penalty here is because that's what murder victims' families want to that's going to give them peace that's going to give them justice and we come in and say. not quite you know we've been through this this isn't the way. us producing a lot of oil and gas now or energy and abandonware you know as big as in russia and saudi arabia but the oil as you're making there is that they're actually losing money on every power. donald trump cancels a meeting with president putin scheduled for the g twenty summit in argentina over the recent curch of a stranger clash between russia and ukraine. the yellow vest movement in france of plans another series of rallies against president marc.