Latest Docherty Podcast Episodes
Meet Rosie Robertson of the Calton Heritage and Learning Centre
Glasgow Conversations - June 17, 2015 19:04Meet Rosie Robertson, manager of the Calton Heritage and Learning Centre. In this interview, you'll hear a lot about the Calton, an area of Glasgow even some of us living in the city either have never heard of or at least think about very little. Rosie lives and works there. She talks with pass...
Meet Anne Mulhern of the Willow Tea Rooms
Glasgow Conversations - June 09, 2015 18:40Meet Anne Mulhern, owner of the Willow Tea Rooms in Glasgow. Listening to Anne you might begin to understand just how influential Charles Rennie Mackintosh continues to be not only for architects, designers and artists around the world, but also for them wot aren't, in this instance a lady who ...
Meet Ian Elder of the Lighthouse
Glasgow Conversations - May 06, 2015 20:00Meet Ian Elder of the Lighthouse, Scotland's Centre for Design and Architecture. As Ian quotes in this fascinating interview, design is a restlessness with the status quo, and listening to his description of what he does day in day out from this breathtaking building in the centre of Glasgow, y...
Meet Liz Scobie of the West End Festival Glasgow
Glasgow Conversations - April 29, 2015 13:41Meet Liz Scobie, chair of the West End Festival. On the exciting day the hotly anticipated 2015 festival programme was unveiled, listen to Liz as she goes through some of the highlight events happening this June, starting of course with the parade on 5th June which will be the largest of its ki...
Meet James Dean of Platform Glasgow
Glasgow Conversations - April 20, 2015 21:24Meet James Dean of Platform Glasgow. This interview is for those, even in Glasgow, whose muscle memory associates the east end of the City with nowt but crime & poverty. It's for those who've been to the Barrowlands for a gig but stepped no further into the perceived darkness beyond. It's for t...
Meet Alan Govan of the Mugstock Festival
Glasgow Conversations - April 14, 2015 21:20Meet Alan Govan of the Mugstock Festival of Music and Merriment. In this enthralling interview, listen to Alan talk passionately about how to put on a not-for-profit, but totally ambitious community festival from scratch. He took a long-standing dream moulded only a little by sheer punnery, and...
Joe Smillie of the Glad Cafe
Glasgow Conversations - April 09, 2015 19:39Meet Joe Smillie, venue manager and director of the Glad Cafe in the southside of Glasgow. In this conversation, Joe talks about the cafe's beginnings, and its growth from a humble bar to the beating heart of something absolutely magical taking root in the local community. Learn about the Glad...
Crawford Smith of the Southside Fringe
Glasgow Conversations - April 03, 2015 10:31In the very first interview for Glasgow Conversations, meet Crawford Smith, the co-founder of the Southside Fringe festival in Glasgow. Hear him talk passionately about the humble origins of the Fringe which he started with Corinna Currie and which has now transformed into an amazing few weeks ...
The Twelfth - "Potatoes"
Glasgow Generations - February 05, 2014 09:49 ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsThe 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...
The Tenth: "Rabbits"
Glasgow Generations - June 22, 2012 10:24 ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsThe 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 yea...
The Ninth: "Muscular"
Glasgow Generations - June 06, 2011 21:41 ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsThe 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 c...
The Eighth: "Dizzy"
Glasgow Generations - November 10, 2010 06:45 ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsThe 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 midnigh...
The Seventh: "Beatstalkers"
Glasgow Generations - September 06, 2010 21:48 ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsThe 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 p...
The Sixth: "C'moangetaff"
Glasgow Generations - August 09, 2010 19:50 ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsThe 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 ...
The Fifth: "Peas"
Glasgow Generations - May 12, 2010 10:23 ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsThe 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 u...
The Fourth: "Fleapit"
Glasgow Generations - March 03, 2010 10:38 ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsThe 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 ...
The Third: "Sugarolly"
Glasgow Generations - January 20, 2010 07:02 ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsThe 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 S...
The Second: "Coal"
Glasgow Generations - December 16, 2009 06:44 ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsThe 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 aroun...
The First: "Rambling"
Glasgow Generations - December 02, 2009 06:49 ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsThe 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 explod...