the life and times of another great scott bonzi in the socialist firebrand jimmy reed we speak to the author of a lot probably do good in the working class use of 10 years after his death and we speared poor well as mammon born in losses to speak the name and jimmy reeves will claim robbie barnes the 1st does me know we're sure emails in your messages were tired so tired. and held the roast it like i have. well there's been a tremendous online discussion inhalation to assure last week featuring top 30 commentator peter oborne and professor richard murphy where amongst other things we discuss the contribution of markets rushford to political debate to it stephen says marcus ashford is young enough to still remember vividly his mum'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 spawns to the whole covered $1000.00 crisis by peter oborne we also discussed the current political leadership of the labor party to its little tweeted jeremy corbin is superior in all ways to starmer will already says secure starman has made the labor party more credible who 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 the interest. and i retook perspective on the life of jimmy reed the man who led the work of a quite restored exactly almost half a century ago although never elected to parliament jimmied was the most influential

and famous scottish socialist of his eda the best m.p. scotland never had alex in conversation with the author and journalist by making sense in addition to a new take by immigration culture new book and jimmy reed jimmy reed walking with history why that title. i think alex it simply sums up jimmy a man who what was history this has little figures and who swore 20th century you knew tim tim a figure of jay 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 and the early 1990 s. summer correct yes a straight 1904 had what was genuine his magazine certain days and him is the nonchalant of those projects in the sense that he said it typical jimmy well

general you want to talk sense on tomorrow absolutely and then. and 2008 when a child to beauty so it was much more slick to jimmy not point i would say that was a clever well read in the self-taught in the main an issue say here norton some of the great towering figures of the of the 20th century have and i know that one of his great friends was with paul rofe in the in the great american based center and civil rights activists were what exhibit tell you about paul robeson well into schildt. on a passport called him when jimmy was working for the communist party in london and the 1960 s. and they function with his wife joan it was approached by paul lopes in themselves 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 consumption of 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 bidden songs bums sones out of the jewel held the scots loved him of course and his film the film for is at 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

germany yes emotional from a 994 the new labor project to who and that began a process for journey of disenfranchisement from little to do little party always easy a little movement none. it become projects simply too intense at that point it would stay in little party only to see a scottish parliament take place for all his adult life and campaign for without comment been achieved it in understood motos should come to town and finally when he joined this impi even believed it schoolchildren and in the country and we should seek a place amongst the nations. of the creator's things that jimmy reed is a member for perhaps of the year c.s. what can the upper quite ship hold 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 jimmy told you about the the inside story of you c.s. jimmy such just a new concept which was not luck and it went on straight it went on the 2nd you would continue to pull to ships and when jimmy vault onto the platform john plans and made an incredible and come to our in call well you know it's in a talent through the agent. we see it in all of these shots because pierce used except a feast was made in will devastate the life of it's for soup unity even to tea when he didn't want. it's absolute mismanagement and then of course the right toy or breath the universe. the rat race is for raw not for human beings with that a resonance and for vastly the lot yes absolutely silly reprinted in the new

york times and jimmy in the group reveals who that came to be there or paid a editor in the new york times have meant 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 at the gate east 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 rusks human beings and such powerful lessons through the ages and wondering brian mcguigan what we have a fee the likes of jimmy the gammon the sense it was a self-taught self-educated working class hero the days of heavy industry are 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 fika unique for the highland light lots of seas light and then. and of course when germany became a celebrity as they did after use the. television the newspaper columns i think people were pretty well a stone that i'm sure some of the the dawn said was the universe they were taken aback by the level of nature of a very tolliver breath and i know that can of worms will certainly take a back in the park as i'm sure with a photo this working class guy seemed better read than he was yes absolutely i think that people who perhaps expat from jimmy a highly political speech which would not encompass the elements dead which works humanity elements of christianity and appeal across the boards which meant

the tones implies the necessity along with the pace gallery who used to defeat and clean them nothing it surprised a lot of people particularly someone. didn't explain it quote shelly's must vanity and then taught in a we which certainly led to money groups i think people who watch this on you tube the device that journey to the funeral can punches threes until 8 which was considerable well done on didn't see jimmy beat spoke sentences not to bite the steps that i should say brian and then sent of you fast forward for the birth so i father you nick and say you have this in the family photo library the alien read one of jimmy's daughters. is contributing to the book will that give us an insight

into the the man behind the legend. yes absolutely. it was fish footage and it does 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 i mean i've changed photos of myself with him in this at the jazz festival beauty where each direction don't move in and in the sessions because people want to date me jimmy lead shake his hand and the fact that so and such a confederal sitting summed up jenny beth on as did for 2 years which is tremendous and one last question brian mcguigan given that given the season i know that demi was one of the many great figures in the world who were inspired by

a by robert barnes and of a writer he summed up the reportorial address bits were quite a few from above yes us q 8 a great leap my unsupported i'm on it believed it bums simplify to my ality of a man who keeps all human life and jimmy had the heart of a poor and indorsed the elements confection the un's needed nor the sentimentality but was a strong idealistic writer is fatherly will kept a well from a compendium of bums 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 don't you just recite the last lines from the toil yes the for they fell off the end of you. and why we should age when we start. the golden age real dangerous ice each man will be a powder and harmony we also live and share the s.

together and such a strained and latent juice shall love each fill creature and tame shall surely truth the truest that man is good by nature by maggie him thank you very much for for joining me on the alexandre in show and share your experiences of jimmy reed and robert barnes thank you very much alex stay tuned because coming up after the break alex is joined by broadcast and author of scots the mother tongue billy kane and the wonderful thing are he now alan with the them . 2040 you know bloody revolution to the demonstrations going from being relatively peaceful political protests to be creasing the violent revolution is always

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a bird. it's a bit baden's being quite radical and support i think of the french revolution in the war that was fighting against the fleets revolutionaries at the time and had a number of these and don't go mental at trouble so we also wrote that times preacher that would cover the spock and me shootee was new said to the people call in australia or or more of the assassinated which happened to the radicals in the t 20 a couple it's a couple of decades later that in this week when he says you have a cadet sent these planks to mark that man and the court sign desist fuss shame proceed no farther go it wouldn't accept your thanks for a month or so as a very very strong and straight inquiry i'm it was famous for singing sight you are the friends revolutionary soul in the globe theatre in the peace and then the i didn't really watch the spock after that i thought of these ad that i went oh yes

a very powerful anes a didn't well a member of germany mobilizing women his opposition to the iraq war and his and his newspaper columns but happiness of the poem that was mentioned in the jimmy's memoir addressed to the un to get. what bearing in mind this event of national audience don't they get out of the extremely big study beleaguered bomb other affair the people it was never before into in course that will be in a group as the un could get for that pretentious and pretty or no and up who really genuine in anything the do and barton's ra poyan at 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 folly 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 releases a 40 deep ear 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 your brother mind 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 and even locked who far but hops there 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 the of a bunch greatest what tama shanta in the middle of

a rollicking gore story in broad scots is suddenly in sapps. an english vessel pleasures are like poppy spread the what was he doing there why was he going for the endless and in the middle of his epic boil those lines of all the can read in english they can be read and scott steve but pleasures of late please or speed is said so it was all we had 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 these need of scots you don't think of a showing off their. bombs was actually saying as 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 posture to the audience and the audience was buried in the concern with a custom propriety at the time 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 deals a 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. and he's not it was a scottish nationalist but his head told him otherwise and when he said well you

know we're rubber bands with our safety you are right need us enough cli's us could make us happy all lying they have to ease that period that marks us craft our brilliant reply and they always see that if something like selling duggal is shooting in his heart was a scottish nationalist then ever does up for can they have that as far as i'm concerned. they were fair jimmy reed was inspired by bombs his poetry her though great start a configure of politicians campaign of the we know have found them buttons the inspiration to carry on their work and on the people influenced by buttons where abraham lincoln the get 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 i'm 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 robot bombs it put it in schools or bought someone else from the states was if every douglas the great african-american leader. when he came to scotland to preach against sleeve of the he visited the bottom 6 courted elite that may have bonzi sr and he quoted bombs especially songs like come ons a month later or that they could eat the gallatin songs over all but bomb and of course later on my angelou's i get the fun or bottoms and mentions it has influence on how 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 we're not but the other plead in the but are born in the us born than plead souls shouldn't feel it commands a month for a lot my sister was a get button santa at family get togethers would sing bottoms 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 a near set on some war the the wind can blow like the west but there the bonnie lassie lives the last best there wild winds go in the other throw in money is the ella tree but the the next my fancy sliced 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 online getting really given it 10 years ago ask not nick practic to commit volume of the by the port up to the international space station alex think the lesson the thing i think it wellington someone who's been involved in many of the online buying thinks other guns as they hear. should a welling to them about a historic moment when you sighing at the opening of the scots parliament back in 1000 made to bury it was robert barnes you sighing was that your choice over the parliament's choice it was actually i believe the choice of either a civil servant or shown at a friend who that time was the or possibly should have read to bits on the panel

and they decided a month a month ago that was a good song and it was better for my son by a woman and i got the on and. of course in. your career you your god it was a drug war bomb supples and then i fired hot devils but this shit of course very different because the can't be for obvious reasons because of 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 virtual world how you get on before the job of supples they're actually quite good and funnily enough i'm doing most of the shares than of them for the last several years because something want to see if i can eat at home the same night i'm to go in but this time i've sung for people across the bottom of the 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 'd is the one that is most commonly called for when you when you go to berlin supper will probably get 2 requests or do you suspect your repertoire but what is the the popular demand which is the bardens love song most wanted the love song is either my love like an entry in truth or a front case of course the one that's most often the place today is a month a month of that and 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 that's true and i'm. i love sending it to the people that buttons and

fire 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 day 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 burdens season for such a commanding and influential figure of the left component of the little has been written a boat jimmy reed would have been to boulder feeds one from the s.n.p. m.p. kenny macaskill scottish political jummy and more recently from knotts 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 to the man behind the legend the love of a boy and of course the souls of. so what better way to play aside than heal the. writing bubbles singing and perhaps the greatest love song of all type. in the meantime 5000 must sell for all of the show it's goodbye from oh stay safe we'll see you again next week.

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