this year like class, some of that burns suppers, i, rachel, but many will once again assume that special social collection of speeches, music recitations, on collector that make the celebrations of brands unique. oh, great britain, speeches, immortal memories, the coat have a theme. and our program today is no exception. we look at burns, i'm radical political thought. alex is joined by tommy bozier. i'm author of scott's the mother tongue billy key to explain a little of life boned supper. it's a very special occasion. i know some of the great historical thinkers who fall in under the port sale. we then speak to a former m p for both country in air. sure, jim sellers, a far been politician for 1st labor and then the s n p for his view on impact of points on radical politics and scotland and internationally. but priced to your trees. you know, if i messages in response to i should last week with colonel wilkerson discussing,

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still fighting unsuccessfully to save his reputation. now in the scottish parliament reconvened in 1999. the newly elected parliamentarians were joined by the out of stock, a sea of scotland and royalty, assembled to believe a route to celebrate the kitchen. the highlights of the day was something quite different. it was scott to sing, or she know wellington performing the bones anthem of universal equality and the brotherhood of man. let's take a look. what's all on here in the field with dying? where houghton get a? i know that he fools that. so i need a what i'm going to be joined by the function of a broad, some short buttons. country really case. got slimy. is a broadcaster way you must of what you watch that opening of the scottish

parliament. we'll just see machine to wellington. so yeah, i'm, i'm about to give you about for a sub job and susie, as i'm going to see the scott slide image and buttons injected to the ceremony. it was wonderful. and she was saying it was wonderful. the fact that everyone joined dan and you know, was been tossed it, but it should have been the most natural thing in the world that's going to be in the same model. that's the language that expressed of the majority, the population, the culture about history, that the for many centuries a, it's a wonderful choice of soul, a radical soul that goes back to the 70 mate. the swim bottoms was barrier where people were being sent to the b, the radical opinions of that kind of hunter's hell. but he persisted and wrote radical souls sometimes that were only published anonymously, newspaper,

sometimes the were the one it published until after he died, the revolutionary a. but he managed to survive it. so it was, his radicalism could be in that period. and i think it's important to remember this was a period when 20 years later of june, the, the, the friends of the people, the planting of the tree of liberty in the 7090. a few decades later, we had the 1820 weavers rule. when made the weavers again were for radical reform, and 3 of the weavers were home for treason and sterling, beer cop is cetera. so this was a period of extreme suppression, but it was hard to what she's back, or he could be in deep, deep trouble or could even be tried for treason like the men on the 17 ninety's. how aware were the friends of the people campaign us? they had an ally,

a been with buttons on the on the plan comes. 1 with it in 20, you know, some quarter century after buttons. definitely. it was chanting buttons, lennox, as well as carrying banner, saying scotland fees a doesn't. how much was becomes part of the radical movement. it became quickly part of it after is after the state. so 1820 definitely. 1790. it was a popular quit, but because it had to keep his radicalism comparatively secret. having said that, he did, he was purported as having song, the french revolution of the song, say, euro in the groove, the increase when he also meet his, got an actors to read out the rights of women, which is a beautiful statement. radical statements for this period. well, europe's eye is fixed on might the things that pete of empire and all kinds, well cracks of state,

but each produce his plan and even children list the rights of mine. i missed my boss. just let me mention that a so women merit some attention. so of course we have a very clever poem and song, of course, in the sense extensively. this is robert bruce, the hero, king of scotland addressing has his army before the, on the eve of the battle of bonnet mom. but reality, the phrase isn't it, which i call the cries of the friends of the people, the liberty of every blow, the sort of stuff, as you reckon, was consciously writing this as a, as a, as a rallying call for radicals. there's a lovely petition by ralph waldo emerson, the american writer, the confessions about the declaration of independence, the rights of mine, i must say, yes or no more weighty documents in the history of freedom than the songs of buttons. so that, for example, that's not high, they're not true when texas,

who is up against it's mexican overloads. the proclamations had the war, now was the d, and knows the which ones from blend hobbies wallace. going back to the 14th and 15th century. so it's a radical statement going by a very, very many centuries. bombs themselves said that the story of wallace called the scottish prejudice and my beans, which will boil along be up till the flood gates of life shot in the tab no less. and again, that was all missed reasonable about. so let's look at their defenders of the alamo in the story that they were, they were saying to tap isn't the music of, of course we just true. i mean, i didn't see that in the john wayne foam. i've been that the well the well, the really, the scottish nationalist, defending the walls of the alamo will, who are a number of school. it's not the alamo and they would have been a,

we're all done separately. but that's a fascinating story of scores. we, the tune is a pain tune that goes back to the days of robot, the bruce. and it was used at the siege of already owned by the got a call say to court dubois, the personal bodyguard of the french kings and june of art. when the liberated that the city of orleans during the old alliance, and to this d that shoots course where he is a french military match, and his cold mass, the suit that there robert bruce, or the mask, he 80 me prolong, clean cream filed is yet to sell hourly or the mosque lead in the occasion of june of ox triumphal entry into only on so it's a french military march. you can hear and barely was his robe roy. and later barnes chose that tune because of the it's great association to write the ones of course we each so one leg king, bonnet, bob jones. hark the alcohol or lisa residences for

history. but when he was capturing these salts and setting them to, to was like of scots were, he, i mean, again, was as a deliberate actor was, you know, the, the point to say, well, that square a suitable shooting for my sentiments. you know, how much was buttons consciously? a combining these things so much was the heading hand of buttons behind these a fatherly historical accident. it was a highly educated mine, thirty's, and he was steeped in scottish tradition and scotty for clor a. for example, when he wrote old lying science, one of the veterans he collected boys from saw them spin, going back a couple of centuries and it was for o blindsided my jewel rogue. lying saying will pack a walk to malaga for old lang site. referring to molly, go way, way back to the 16th century. so he was very,

very conscious. a because of that too. i think the ache was the high don't through the ages and don't through into other countries. is fascinating. where you have people i, j. d. salinger in america with his novel cancer in the right, based on a album. so you've got a stain bag of mice and men aid title based on the base lead schemes are mason men, gun after glee. so it was someone who penetrated the life of the people in america. for example. abraham lincoln could quote, creeds of buns off by heart. but he go it through. i scored his friend of his. and he once memorably said that he wouldn't do the immortal memory in chicago because he could add nothing to the eloquence of robot bonds. and that's from one of the giddy order ups in world history. and then the other political she, me of go to russia. the popularity of buns during the soviet period is quite

obvious, and he was promoted for these radical ideas. but his popularity was by far little not letterman talk translated some buttons, pushkin translated the scores ballads. so there was an interest in sports and scottish culture. and it was a man called samuel marcia who translated buns, brilliant lakes that made him very, very popular in russia so much so that the 1st country ever to keep a stump of buttons was the soviet union in 1957. so we sent a buttons a slot in from moscow to michigan. we're not to exactly think of. so how do you think robert buttons might to this trouble? what old provide the points of unity in these times? well, i think we, i, school and global citizens should be reminding us ourselves, all his international brotherhood and especially old scores. were he that it really

is time for about democracy that it comes to scotland. and for us to go for the independence, i'm sure he supported a with a debt, so we saw back in the 7090. so i think these are important a commemorations that we should remember about buns for today. and finally, about of many buttons suffer from many locations. do you have a favorite quotation on a favorite instance that you'd like to tailor international audience about of only the world's point? well, i recall i spent a, you traveling around the world and day one of them is bizarre. gonzagos was in a malia in the island of canine. in a fisherman's hot. we're map allan, i from coma, half of all over a moke whiskey that we brought to play in willis, scotland. and we drawn back, and i recited thomas on that and he so ye,

for in case, and we had an australian victim. we just saw in australian in the corner and gave him our a button. so call me for your saliva. but coming back to our minds of mine for that, you just kind of get back up with the final best of the minds of mind for that. the latest 3 that come at me as comment wealth or, or that, that sense and was lower or the actual be of the get a you know that, but all that and all that, that's common get. but that mind the mind, the world i shall brother, speech, thought so, but it came, it was started with the rights of women and were from a some of the brotherhood of man. thank you so much for joining me, alex. i will show in the next button season the best or the best join us after the break, when alex is joined by the former m p for both contin site there, share. jim sellers was he then now we know you need to see is this here in your fast, your fall off then and,

and the other side when it came home and you're back home. so i would like to and vision. does it personally live? it's just like that one direction to return from the other side. there may. oh yeah, we should all be may or may, we should all be angry. i'm was going, all right. can't stand united states history honest and the role that slavery place is already very formal institutions. i mean, i think became a nation. it actually the find the nation, the rise of capitalism clearly on the back. a great extent. you can't believe me, country and the country still stands and i'm from the south. everybody know, know what they're saying. to some extent,

i would argue that we're still fighting the civil war in the south is winning. welcome back. and i special celebration of the life in white says scott, mins, national, bi grove, it binds, we'd examining the npi to binds on radical political thought. alec speaks to form a labor. i'm the s and p n p gen seller. and i will come to the, the 2nd, the broad semester, john sullivan. obviously the victim of the famous, governed by election in the late ninety's. but before lot a label m p for sophia. now i'm quite interested the gym. so as an in the seventy's us lee, but i m p for so feel sure we're kind of like the custodian of the political buttons tradition with their people said right what of the above supper. so to let's get the m p for so feel sheylan. no, i don't think i personally i c n p for sophia was the custodian,

in fact the custodian was john polk your major figure in the sure socialist movement and didn't the scottish socialist movement, but as m p for socio shirt. you know, i didn't become in be for socio show. you know, parachute again i was born in here. i'm an issue and issues and robert bunch and the importance of the m. p for so feel shar, the beef association in the m p for ear were automatically trustees of barnes cottage with bows, was born right up into all fairly recent times. and that was a responsibility that i do seriously and to be fear, george younger who was a tory and p for it too seriously as well. we attended every meeting and made our

contribution to maintaining the bombs cottage and wonders monument char, extremely important and cultural life of my home county. and trying to find my nationalist, the tall, amen yoshio nationalist. and that's because a want to that not me quite interested in george younger state for scotland, conservative or i, conan and scotland than yourself as a firebrand labeled member of parliament. that when did you have any political tussles about bottles, you know, was where you flee quotations each other or the just go on with the business of of making sure that our cottage was being properly. it preserved and presented it to some people seem very strange, but you know, tories and scotland can embrace bottoms as well as social is like me. no, your number of source was friends who think this is a great puzzle, but of course one was

a minor many parents as well. and it's perfectly possible if you're a tory not to buy into some of the things that he said, but not always by and you all are things that he said. and also of course, leaving us a just from the 2nd is political philosophy or in the man was a genius as our poet. and in so writing and, and storytelling such as dumb rashonta. so it's quite easy for a tory to my auntie bonds, the same as for somebody on the. so that takes us right into buttons, his political impact and scotland over the last 2 centuries and mayor, it bumps has been claimed successively for the empire, lynn, for the labor movement of scotland and then from scottish nationalist and scotland, the is that because bonuses so sir? man of pants all is that because that so we learn more about la la messages behind

buttons is poetry from the information on the word greet strands and saudi society punting the idea of egalitarianism. while one's debt was it brought only strands together in my view and created a doctrine of egalitarian, hasn't if you look at the poem, mine was me to mourn. when he says, and i'm just wanted to to quarter what i designs on your laundry. you slate by nature's law designed why he was an independent wash in planted, and my mind. and of course, there are other poems where this peretti clear is david die. he said, when introducing a major watts of buttons that he was a rebel against the social order that exist at that time. but it's that

consolidation of all those strands of egalitarianism that had made buttons command and continued to command this 40 psyche and have sympathy with wealth. having dammit, the toting scots foil the 20th century, he was fucking waspish of a button suppers, attacking the suppers with the privilege of gallant together, had an evening of buttons, songs, and, and radicalism, and then went off to exploit le, the what? cuz as it did for the other 364 days of the year of the deal, it was quite right. others went along high tori's room when supper and then go and enjoy walks. i never experienced on my part to wish and how about the other contradiction? lena buttons suffer that many button suppers on me lonely? no. i think we can agree that and robert buttons have been organizing, have been supper, and that would be no chance whatsoever. that would have been man only, yes, yes i,

i noticed one of the papers this week that the feminist movement has to have a good buttons for has misogynist ideas and, and, and practices. and robbie barnes was not a paragon of virtue. i mean one so far as i attended and spoken, i made very clear. the other ones had virtues unbuttons had vices. i an enemy who wants to go to a go, at what months to tear down the statues and all the rest of it. i would advise him to read it off. now read it to you as they are my news judgment clear. can others teach the course to steer yet runs himself? life's mind korea wild as the weave here poets and go through

a staffing tia stand degrees. you know, well this is louise, i struggled buttons with all these contradictions. and yet not mine. hi d, social and political philosophy that is relevant to day and forms opinions to day and keeps opinions to day in scotland as who he was talking. yes. a final exam, so it's all as past buttons until national and tampa. how would you assess buttons this impact as a romantic poet based impact on political thinking? and the, what older people have got to be in and made that bunch was part of the scottish enlightenment. it doesn't stand apart from that. he was part of the scottish enlightenment and i was recently reading a book on the founding fathers of the united states constitution. you're the

great debate over fathomless peoples which involve carlton madison, and someone else of whose name at the moment i forget. but madison is called the father of the u. s. constitution. i'm the scottish enlightenment, wasn't just the enlightenment. it was the scottish enlightenment, which had the greatest influence on them and not included the walks of robert bunch got a contradiction there. how could you baby, a delicate in as a robot buttons, if you james madison well being asleep on the same time as every one of these contradictions. and hester is very, very difficult for generation to come to towns was, but buns had an enormous influence. and later on, i think one of the greatest influence he had was on abraham lincoln in trite done missus lincoln, even a lincoln in mrs. lincoln intended,

after he dimensions the and see, to come to if shock and visit bombs got each. missus lincoln managed it, and of course, it lincoln couldn't manage it with him. so as her from all the button suppers of all the, the bubbles collections and poetry of songs. the other of any favorite, if you don't. yes, it's sad. it's on a national victory. you know, we're, we're be celebrated. and buns, retort was you happy catch? alisha. thanks tim. um domain mg god, sanks this vest for shame. mercy me, follow god. lonely gay science from the jam saw us buttons in broad with for his was which are opposite to today. as the with 200 years ago,

and man, thank you so much for joining me again. i'm alex, i'm unsure. well, i'm very glad to be here alec. and a link for once a day when you and i stand in the steps of the stories, parliament. and if it's no, she know how self somebody else sings that song that opened the scottish parliament in 1999 this time for independence term. so if i can get given that bob dylan has say to drug brands in general, and my love is like a very, very tooth in particular, i just made your artistic inspiration. the scott spied status as a romantic port is beyond question. however, it was his last port should kit lincoln and frederick douglas are more recently civil rights activists. maya angelou steadfast on their course or so brings the space on soviet stubs or inspired stain back to describe the struggles of the common man. it was brains,

the position which lima co body has described with the poet laureate of the radical enlightenment and with brains as a point to champion of liberty and quality, which has captured the radical imagination for 1200 years, add mirror, and established robert burns. i had a friend of the people or support himself put it the right cause, but the guinea stopped the man to go to the door that and what better way to play a site. then scottish thing or rhyme finds for filing, one of his main 6 most iconic with her, with

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at the original need and village that opened up in 2018 right now. there's 31 homes on the property. it's a little over 4 acres with 31 homes and a community center. unfortunately, a lot of people don't make it out of edition more homelessness, like i'm just really happy. it made it. oh, dad you with me in. oh i now we know you, this is he is a sphere and he will foster you will fall off the end. and the other side of it came home and you're back home. so i would like to envision that does it actually this if you live and it's just like that, you're on the action. do i need to? i'm from the other side. with

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