Glasgow Generations
25 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 10 years ago - ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsFrae faither tae boy, a light-hearted podcast series of personal reflections and memories in post-war Glasgow, Scotland. Glesca patter, tenement life, no mean city, our musical heart. Hear one's man's history and share your own
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Err, is there anyone here either?...
October 10, 2014 13:58So here's the thing: You'll see that we finished up our little podcast in February of this year. It's now closing in on the end of 2014. That's a ferr bit later. "What's the relevance of that", you ask? Well I'll tell you, seeing as how you asked. It's just that, even though we've not gone near a microphone for about eight long months, you wacky folk are still downloading the last one we did. Even more weirdly you're also still downloading the other episodes we spewed out into the ether. ...
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February 06, 2014 21:27The Eleventh: "Speedway". In our new show recorded surprisingly soon after the last one (we must have been confused and thought another year had passed), Faither sets forth on another aimless trek along the dusty annals of his withering memory. This time it's about entertainment in ol' Glesca, including going to the Shawfield Dogs and Speedway, roller-skating at the Denny Pally, and crossing aloofly whilst skating in Crossmyloof. We also start down a road we've been avoiding for some time...
The Twelfth - "Potatoes"
February 05, 2014 09:49The Twelfth: "Potatoes". Coming only 18 months following our last venture into cyberspace, Faither and I bring you our promised episode about football. Well, except it's actually about food. Stealing excerpts from Maw Broon's nutritious cookbook we make stomachs either rumble or turn with talk of pieces and dripping, finnan haddie, rabbit stew, stovies, and even something pretty rude called 'tickling trout'. We're glad to be back in your ears again so please let us know your own Glasgow f...
Return of the beast
February 03, 2014 14:33Hello again, remember us? You may remember us from such podcast episodes as Speedway, Rabbits and Muscular. Classic episodes! Well, for those of you wondering where we've been since August 2012, wonder no more, because we've dusted off the old machinery (otherwise known as "Faither"), applied some WD40, and planned a brand sparkling new episode tomorrow evening. We promised the last time an episode about football in the old days in Glasgow. So you'll be pleased to note that in honest fulf...
The Tenth: "Rabbits"
June 22, 2012 10:24The Tenth: "Rabbits". In this, the tenth instalment of our regular fortnightly podcast, Faither yaps about holidays in and around Glasgow. So as you can imagine, this involves stories about hunting for small change on the beach, skinning rabbits at scout camp, and, of course, saving up all year to afford a taxi ride to the train station. Nowt like today's expensive breaks to sunnier climates for him, no siree. Up there on his soapbox he'd much prefer the good old summer days of being chuck...
The Ninth: "Muscular"
June 06, 2011 21:41The Ninth: "Muscular". This one was supposed to be all about Glasgow's unfortunate tag as the "No Mean City", but as expected, we digress into the usual nonsense including the Burns Howf and the Muscular Arms, Maggie Bell and Stone the Crows, playing "jorries" and working out what "gird wi a cleet" means. Charlie gets corrected once again by our ever-vigilent listeners, and we yap about the only cinema in Glasgow that was located up a close. Don't worry though, we do manage to cram in a m...
The Eighth: "Dizzy"
November 10, 2010 06:45The Eighth: "Dizzy". In an embarrassing family meltdown of an episode, Faither takes us through his drunken exploits at the Majestic, the Locarno and various other haunts from ol' Glesca in the 50s and 60s, including what happened when the dance halls closed and everyone staggered into midnight mass. This one was supposed to be all about music though, so as usual, that guarantees that we stay on the subject for at least two minutes. Keep the emails coming into [email protected]...
The Seventh: "Beatstalkers"
September 06, 2010 21:48The Seventh: "Beatstalkers". So after six episodes bursting with many droning tales of lacklustre 'lore in ye olde Glesca, Faither finally gets into his stride. This one marks the start of no doubt twenty shows about his life in music. We start off here yapping about Radio Luxembourg and the pirates of Caroline; we dance around the old Eglington Plaza and the Maryland Jazz Club; get out the old Dancette to play the dusty 45s and 78s; listen to Victor Silvester, Dean Ford and the Gaylords, ...
The Sixth: "C'moangetaff"
August 09, 2010 19:50The Sixth: "C'moangetaff". Out of the depths of silence and the choppy seas of disinterest, comes our new instalment of rambling Glasgow folklore, proving that after a truly unearned Summer break, we're finally back to work. And this one's all about ra graftin: going to the steamie and making up the coal fire in the morning, putting on your first pair of long trousers and a decidedly dodgy sweater, getting treated like a glorified slave at work, before getting fired for annoying the wife o...
We're still alive...
July 28, 2010 07:55Yes that's right, despite many hopes to the contrary, we've not ended our little Father and Son venture into cyberspace yet. In fact, my Dad and I will be sipping more coffee at the microphone tonight to record our Sixth episode, and I should have it available to download tomorrow at some point, provided of course, that I remember how to do so! Thanks for all your emails and support in the meantime.
The Fifth: "Peas"
May 12, 2010 10:23The Fifth: "Peas". It's been a while, so to treat you all for waiting so patiently, this time around we've made sure to talk about the usual nonsense. There's a wealth of useless memories about eating mushy peas at the Barras, playing 'stage coaches' in a coalbunker, the magnificent toys you used to get for handing over rags in the street, why the Broons became the world's first reality series (way before those crazy Osbournes got in on the act), why Faither should have built his career on...
The Fourth: "Fleapit"
March 03, 2010 10:38The Fourth: "Fleapit". Once again we run out of time yapping on about the street games of old in Glasgow. Maybe it's because we diverge into wandering tales of camping in Benderloch and faither's early romantic liasons (ahem...), but at least we manage to cram in some stuff like playing 'P or a K' and 'Red Car' in the street, the local boxing club in Townhead and going to the Saturday morning swimming baths before picking up a well-earned penny bag of broken biscuits from the local baker. ...
May The Fourth Be With You
February 25, 2010 09:35Just a wee note to let you know that my faither and I are planning on doing the fourth episode of the podcast on Tuesday next week, so it should be ready for download on Wednesday. More on the Glasgow street games of old and a move into some picture houses that are no longer with us. See you soon.
The Third: "Sugarolly"
January 20, 2010 07:02The Third: "Sugarolly". This time around it's all about the street games in old Glesca. We hear all about the wee toerags wreaking havoc with the tenement folk tying their doors together with rope, catching hudgies at the BRS depot in Lister Street, being chased by Limpy Dan from the Kennedy Street playground, making what sounds to have been a very early poor man's version of soda stream drinks except with a particularly dodgy ingredient, and playing endless football through dinner which c...
The new one's on its way
January 19, 2010 11:13This is just a wee post to let you know that we're getting back into the game tonight. My faither and I will be dusting off the microphone and hope to mull over the old games he used to play in the streets of Glasgow growing up in the 40s and 50s. Look forward to me trying to understand the stories about making "sugarolly", catching "hudgies" at the BRS depot on Lister Street, and playing "P or a K" with the lassies (apparently that's "Punch or Kiss"!). The new episode should be available ...
Huv a guid wan anawarat
December 21, 2009 11:15That's us signing off for 2009 and the end of the first decade of the 21st Century. I've completed a wee post to end the year and another to end the decade, so check out the link, and I'd like to thank you for listening to our new podcast - let's hope it begins to take off in the New Year. Have a great festive break and we'll see you soon.
The Second: "Coal"
December 16, 2009 06:44The Second: "Coal". This one's all about Christmas and Hogmanay in Glasgow back in the day, and I think you'll soon come to the understanding via Charlie's fading memories about the festive period, that when he was growing up in the City, the real celebration was at the Bells rather than around the Christmas dinner table. He really tries his best to call up some recollections of the homemade toys and penny caramels, visiting the genuine Santa at the old Lewis's store in Argyle Street, and...
Some Christmas Memories
December 15, 2009 13:48Alrighteo, this is just a wee quickie to let you know that we'll be recording the new episode of the podcast tonight, so it should be available tomorrow at some point. This one will be focussed on Christmas fun in Glasgow back in the day, and how it used to be Hogmanay that stole the headlines at this time of year rather than Santa Claus. Just wait till you see the photo of my faither meeting ol' saint Nick in Lewis's in Glasgow during the 50's - it's a cracker! Cheers for now.
Festive Love from iTunes
December 07, 2009 08:53It just goes to show you. All those long, droning conversations you might have with your parents from time to time can actually prove interesting to other folks out there. All we're doing here with Glasgow Generations is to record me listening to my faither yap on about growing up in the City, so when I noticed today that iTunes have not only listed our little cyberspace adventure, but also featured it in their New Releases section of podcasts, I'm still scratching my napper! Hopefully m...
Glasgow Generations on iTunes
December 04, 2009 12:51As the momentum begins to roll on, you'll be pleased to know that iTunes has caught us up already, and you can now download and subscribe to the podcast for free at iTunes. Just click the link here iTunes and you'll be taken to our new page. You can subscribe there and it'd be great if you could leave us a wee review and rating to help us climb the charts and get us noticed - the more the merrier! Hopefully soon it'll get featured in iTunes and we'll start to show up in more places online,...
Wee technical update
December 03, 2009 13:51Just ignore this email. It's a wee technical message to add the blog to Podcast Alley. Cheers. My Podcast Alley feed! {pca-3db2d43f8f20df8d6849418e435ea28e}
The First: "Rambling"
December 02, 2009 06:49The First: "Rambling". In this, the first episode of the new Glasgow Generations podcast, you'll hear Scott Docherty talk Glasgow with his dad, Charlie Docherty. You'll hear lots of rambling bits and pieces about the Townhead area Charlie was brought up in, some of the bombs that either exploded or didn't explode in the City during WWII, a little about the teacher's strap & punishment exercises, oh, a great deal about banana rationing! To be fair, we do say at the outset that it'll be pret...
It's on the way...
November 30, 2009 10:17Here's a wee image I've designed in about 30 seconds. At some point in the next few weeks I'll be trying out some even more fan-dangly image design to create the official image of the Glasgow Generations podcast, possibly by merging an old photo of my Dad and a new one of me, if I can work out how to do that. So this one'll do for the meantime, and you'll likely see it attached to the first episode which we'll be recording tomorrow night if all goes to plan. I'm hoping to get the first o...
Aye, cum awa in fae ra cauld!
November 18, 2009 13:55Hello there, and welcome to Glasgow Generations. My name's Scott Docherty, and in the coming weeks, months, maybe even years, I'll be recording with my Dad, Charlie Docherty, a wee podcast designed to cast your mind back to what it was like growing up and living in Glasgow after WWII. Over time you'll hear my Dad's memories of the tenements in the Townhead area of the City, playing kick door run, fitba and marbles in the street, jumping the backcourt dykes avoiding the middens below, watchi...