welcome to the alex salmond show from scotland this is the bottom season and normally at this time a year from moscow to michigan home to cape hope the forty's of the national gathering together to celebrate the life and works of scotland's greatest poet robert barnes this year the celebrations of chill will be lost and camaraderie the day will be made out of the international reach of the speakers and the guests today to celebrate the season we look at the life and times of another great scott i'm keen buttons in the socialist firebrand jimmy reed we speak to the author of

a upcoming book called in the working class heroes of 10 years after his death and we spear when this man and bonnie lassie used to speak the name in need jimmy reids will care about the bombings the 1st does me no we're tweeting should e-mails and your messages were tired so tired so get my theory and held the roast it like i have. well let me now to make this online discussion inhalation tyesha last week thinking top 30 commentator peter oborne and professor richard might say well amongst other things we discussed the contribution of markets trash sport to political debate to it stephen says michael sash for it is young enough to still remember vividly his mom's struggle not coming from politically leet he cannot be accused as knowing tory party members are of playing politics. how do you know so says an absolutely brutal and devastating critique of chancellor vision x. entire understanding and a sponsor to the whole covered 1000 crisis by peter oborne we also discussed the

kind of political leadership of the labor party to its isabel treated jeremy corbyn is superior in all ways to starmer will already says secure strong has made the labor party more credible what more credible to whom we are to said how could assert defend labor class problems rosemary says labor has no chance of scotland and so they back independence and finally market back says really enjoying your show alex is a real insight into what's happening in politics south of the border very interesting times we live in don't we just i'm not out of perspective on the life of jimmy reed the man who led the workers of the crater historic victory almost half a century ago although never elected to parliament committee it was the most influential and famous scottish socialist of his eda the best m.p. scotland never had alex is in conversation with the author and journalist brian we

can innovation to a new pick brian mcguigan told your new book on jimmy reed jimmy reed working with history why that title. i think alex it simply sums up jimmy a man who what was his trick these as a 2 fighters and who swore 20th century. it became a figure of j. significance on his own but these were truths series of interviews some 20 years apart which it was is fascinating in the 1st 70 years was in the the early 1990 s. summer correct yes a straight 1904 had what was genuine is my guess in 7 days and him is the nonchalant of the project in the sense that he said it typical jimmy well general you want to talk sense on tomorrow absolutely and day in. and

2008 when it's a child to beauty so it was a much smaller slate to jimmy not point out say that was a clever well read in the self-taught in the bay in an issue say here nor in some of the great towering figures of the of the 20th century of and i know that one of his great friends was with paul wrote for the great american based center and civil rights activists what a what a debate tell you about paul robeson well into schildt. on a passport called them when jimmy was working for the congress party in london and the 1960 s. and they function with his wife joan. it was approached by paul lopes i'm sales who says i want to speak to jimmy reed college and soldier. and sang to him profusely for helping the son so it was quite an experience and it got to a polo person and to consult on a quite such an admirable man. with paul robeson was the toting figure of the civil

rights movement before martin luther king passed security during the mccarthy period but also whether the greatest singer in the world but he had a particular affection for scotland then the paul robeson yes a dead jimmy would talk of the old loops and performed in law school at scottish audiences and of course had it in songs bums sons out of jewel held the scots loved him of course and his film the film for his. is activism of the slip. but everybody went on a political journey from the communist party if for the labor party events they joined the scottish national party did a i signed them up with any of your conversations with jimmy reflect the political job yes emotional from a 994 the new labor project to who and began

a process for journey of disenfranchisement from little to do little party always easy a little movement none of it become projects simply too intense at that point it would stay in little toy only to see a scottish parliament take place for all his adult life and campaign for without talent been achieved it in understood motos should come to town and finally when he joined this impi even believe that schoolchildren and in the country and we should seek a place amongst the nations. of the creator's things that there's a member for perhaps of the year c.s. what can the upper quite shipbuilder of what can of almost 50 years ago and then the amazing wreck tauriel address when he was elected rector of glasgow university

tell us 1st about what jimi told you about the the inside story of your c.s. jimi such just a new concept which was a lock and it went on straight it went on a 2nd it would continue to pull to ships and when jimmy bought on to the platform john plans and made an incredible and come to our in call well you know it's in a talent through the chant we have signals of the shots because peace used to sit ceaseless main will devastate a life of its pursuit unity even to tea when. he didn't want. essential in as many things in and then of course reg toller breath asked me to verify. the rat race is for raw not for human beings when that a resonance internationally the yes absolutely silly reprint of new york times and janine group reveals who that came to be there or paid

a editor in the new york times have helped my dang he was an authority of course on if someone can get written many books and went in and a stage play so when my dang cold katie just speech to skate he spoke it was an authority who was seeing us and of course to this day and rightly says from rocks we're not rats for human beings and such a powerful residence through the ages and wondering brian mcguigan what we have of see the whites of jimmy reed again when the sensei was a self-taught self-educated working class hero of the days of heavy industry almost behind us will we ever see someone like that again i think it's highly unlikely alex someone of jimmy's until late since taught officially to all his life as a young man highly trained by people who are active in his community i think that

jimmy was so singular figure the unique triggers highland white love sees light and then. and of course when germany became a celebrity as he did after the u.c. s. and television and the newspaper columns i think people were pretty well astounded i'm sure some of the the dawn said glass butte of asked him who were taken aback by the level of nature to fish oil addressed and i know the kind of woolly a misperception i think about back in the pockets i'm sure when he found the working class guy seemed better read than he was. yes absolutely i think that people who perhaps expected term jimmy a highly political speech which would not encompass the elements dead which were humanity elements of christianity and appeal across the board which meant the tones of classiness the city along with

a place gallery who used to the feet and cleaned them nothing it surprised a lot of people particularly someone can swallow humans who didn't explain it quote shellie's must vanity and then taught in a way which certainly led to moaning opes i think people who watch this on you tube the device that johnny delivered a funeral can punches through these until it which was considerable well the economy didn't see jimmy b. spoke sentences not to bite 3 steps that i should say brian and then 13th of your past may be a forward for the birth of my father you know they can say you have the earth in the family photo library the ilim read one of jimmy's daughter. confab a thing for the perp will that give us an insight into the the man behind the legend yes absolutely it was finished photogenic the question

paintings of jimmy also and the r.k. from ailing his has been absolutely tremendous and they get surprised and say to him as he was washing a few people smoking a cigar and join the confront reality of life which she always did you know has changed photos of myself was a minute at the jazz festival beauty where the church owned more than in it in the sessions because people want to date me jimi lead to shake his hand and the fact that so. and such a confide looks it's an summed up johnny effort on as did for 2 years which is tremendous and one last question brian mcguigan given that given the season i know that the demi was one of the many great figures in the world who were inspired by a by robert barnes and if i'm right he summed up the recto address bits were quite a few from above yes escalate greatly in my unsupported i'm on it

believed it bums simplify to my ality of a man who keeps all human life and jimmy at the heart of the poor and indorsed damage confection the un's needed new multi sentimentality it was a strong idealistic rater is finally all kept a well from compendium of buns on his mantel piece and not books the lies and jimmy's bookshelves and beauty loose of them some question when he it finished his to the force of only to have a trace that the un's would be mentioned and why the it just recite the last lines from that toil yes the for the show of the interview and why we should ately waste at. the golden age reeled in a 5 each man will be a powder and harmony and we also live and share the s. together and 1st you trained and leighton juice shall love the fable creature and

tame shall surely truth the truth is that man is good by nature by mcgee him thank you very much for for joining me on the alec salmon show and share your experiences of jimmy reed and robert. thank you very much alex. stay tuned because coming up after the break alex is joined by broadcast and author of scott's a mother tongue became a and the wonderful thing are hugh no ellington was see that. my guy i don't mind you i'm on. the.

ice in the summer by from a future trucker watch kaiser. welcome back in this season of robbie barnes where to being the life of the white a working class hero to mediate alex speaks to author and broadcast to believe i asked him to cite some of committee favorite buttons porn's i guess to get i know one of the shortest thanksgiving for a national victory. billick a little start the celebration of the lives of jimmy the robert bombs but look at some of the the favorite pair of of buttons that jimmy reed liked so much meanwhile this thanksgiving from a mash novak to me what's the point of it well it's a bird. it's a bit baden's being quite radical and support i think of the french revolution and the war that was fighting against the fleets revolutionaries at the time and he had

a number of these and don't go mental at trouble so we also wrote the times preacher that would cover the spot and me shootee was nice it to the people call in australia or or one of the assassinated which happened to the radicals the tea print the a couple it's a couple of decades later that in this week when he says you have to connect sent these yet clanks to mark that man and ego at sinai desist for shame but a seed no father god would accept your thanks for a month or so as a very very strong and striking quim it was famous for singing side your art the french revolution resole in the globe theatre in the piece and then the i didn't really watch his pocket up there i thought of these ad that i went oh yes a very powerful anes and didn't i well remember jimmy mobilizing the mini's opposition to the iraq war and his and his newspaper columns but happiness of the

poem that was mentioned and jimmy's memoir address to the un could get. what bearing in mind this event of national audience don't you get out of the extremely big study beleaguered mom mother of fair the people that she was never before into in course that will be in a group as the on can get for that pretentious and pretty or know we bet and other who really genuine in anything the do and barton's rock women the rest of their own can get the extremely good and it begins with a general or ye for us to get yes sale see pious and see who really you have a lot to do but mark until you have me bust for sin fawley and then it is all in to that and that one situation is but uncle get. grown them you could see he high exhort that jews deems tied up in godly leases a 40 deep yr frail the name suppose a tinge a kiss he's

a deal of blood convenience snug that to the same tradition but let me whisper in your lucky able and sneak and then gently scan you have been other man still gentle obsess that woman though the knee gonna can and run to step aside is human one point must still be completely duck the moving finally the do it and just as easily madly can even who far but hops the a through it so as baba celebrate and human frailty a human face feelings but at the same time despising people who had feelings but with me admit they had feelings i mean us with us about. and yet if you take one of bubba bungs greatest work tama shanta in the middle of a rollicking gore story and broad scots is suddenly in sapps. an english vessel pleasures are like poppy spread or what was he doing there why was he going for the egg listed in the middle of his epic boiled those lines of all the can

read in english they can be read and scott steve but pleasures of late please your speed is set so it was all we have of the deference and he used both languages have the have effect and it was gifted in both languages but i wouldn't teen that his best what by far was in his need of scots you don't think about a showing off their vote what barnes was actually saying is listen i could write in english if i wanted but i choose to write in scots his mother tongue. i think there's an element of that and they and other ones we have are up we have it diana score c.s.w. seat which is definitely not one of its best poems it cost to the audience and the audience was buried in the concern with a custom propriety at the time and he could do it i mean he would read the

suspected that he would beat up on since didn't put people like that that i would see any is heart there's a good deal a not really the arc it up it quart which sums up buns is attitude and i reported the heart rather made was to him and a i came across it when i did an interview with thing when he doing his and she tells the story of having a drink with said alec douglas you explain minister and father of british unionism at the time and the what had been about and sokka and alec douglas you can do when he's a storm isman called winnie that. annis cocked it was a scottish nationalist but his head told him otherwise and when he said well you know what robert bonds would have said to you our late need reserves enough cli's us could make us happy all lying they have to ease that period that marks us craft

our run but only in reply and they always see that if something like selling double is shooting and his heart was a scottish nationalist then ever does up for can they have that as far as i am. they were fair toad jimmy reed was inspired by bombs his poetry her though great start a configure of politicians campaign as we know have found them buttons the inspiration to carry on their work and on the people influenced by buttons where even i am lincoln the good the american president he was invited to deliver the immortal memory at up on supper things in chicago and here if you see that nothing he could see could add to the elegance of buttons him self and insert them into the gettysburg address some statement he had friends growing up in illinois in his twenty's who were scores and who were buttons eons and we taught

them to recite buttons off the heart is famously ibram lincoln could recite robert bonzi put the ends course or by heart someone else from the states was if every douglass the great african-american leader. when he came to scotland to preach against sleeve of the he visited the bottoms he's courted elite that may have bonzi sister and he quoted bombs especially songs like a month a month or that they could eat the gallatin songs over all but blunt and of course later on my angelou is a good fun or bottoms and mentions he has influence on her so there's a lot of a good they are better can write us what influenced by robot bombs a favorite line from bombs himself but his songs a point to the what just part of our culture good or not but feel that lead in the

battle born in the us born in played songs students will come ons a month or a lot my sister was a good one santa at family get togethers would sing barton's of then would sing the beatles the what bought the popular culture that time so i really grew up with bottoms so it's hard for me to choose any point as my favorite but because atheists are commissions and lay bombs i was born and tell you i will always think of this is an innocent and from war the the wind can blow like the west of the earth the bonnie lassie lives the last best there wild winds go and rather throw in money is the ella tree but the the next my fancy slashed is much. broadcaster often a scots the mother of kong and bugs him thank you for joining us again on the ellen salmon show and share this here interactive celebrations of rabbit brains i

taking place in cyberspace unlike getting really given it 10 years ago ask not nick patrick to commit volume of the by the port up to the international space they fit alex big to let him to sing i think a wellington someone who's been involved in many of the online buying thinks other guys as they hear. machine a wellington and that historic moment when you sighing at the opening of the scots parliament back in 1990 it was robert barnes you sighing was that your choice of the parliament's choice it was actually i believe the choice of either civil servant or should i heard of and heard that time was the or possibly short of the 2 bids on the panel and they decided that a month a month ago that was a good song and it was better for my son by a woman i don't think on and. of course. your career you

you've got the dart board bomb supples them or the live fire the hot devils but the sheet of course very different because the law can't be for obvious reasons because a pedantic reasons of can't be any of the comrade believe that we normally get bombed supper so you must be doing them in the vulture world how do you get on before the job of supples they're actually quite good and funnily enough i'm doing most of the shares then of them for the last several years because i've been want to see if i can to go home the same night i'm to go in but this time i've sung for people across the border last night it was canada australia. and the earliest parsi unit i did a wonderful one for the fed a lesion of scottish writers that had people from everywhere and it was it was amazing and of all the the library of barnes songs is the one that is most commonly called for when you when you go to berlin supper room when you get

2 requests or do you suspect your repertoire but what is the popular demand which is the bardens love song most wanted the love song is either my love like a great read through on a phone case of course the one that's most often the place today is a month the month of the. of course i think i'm right in saying that that was bob dylan who said my love is like a red red rose was his greatest poetic inspiration so it was good enough for bob dylan good enough for sheena wellington should be good enough for the rest of us i think it's true and i'm. a love sending it to the people the buttons and speired and continue to inspire i mean even then that wonderful young lass that did the poignant the inauguration last week was inspired by my anshan who was

a huge the footie over all but about once and wherever you go whatever have gone in the world and they've been expect some vocal abundance of all nationalities creeds and colors and it's amazing what a point from isha as managed to do she wellington legendary scots thank you so much for joining us again on the alex salmond show thank you very much for asking me and have a great bands season for such a commanding and influential figure of the left component of the little has been written a boat jimmy reed that i've been to boulder feeds one from the s. and p. m. p. kenny macaskill scottish political jumbly and more recently from nuts in the kinley a clay built man luckily for us the man himself was doubled down with writing and that is give this a substantial record and it's that which makes this new book all the more exciting it gives us a series of interviews 20 years apart at crucial times in the development of 1st

scottish politics and lets us see jimmy reed in his own words. in addition the family photo will give us a unique insight into the the man behind the legend the love of a boy and of course the souls of. so what better way to play a side than heal the bombs namesake ryan bubbles singing and perhaps the greatest love song of all type. in the meantime 5000 must sell for all of the show is goodbye from oh stay safe we'll see you again next week.

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