A Kick Up The Arts with Nicola Meighan

Feb 03 2025 17 ep. 45 mins 5
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A Scottish Arts & Culture Podcast with Nicola Meighan

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Maud Sulter: You Are My Kindred Spirit

Feb 03 2025 36 mins  
Send us a text Just a reminder that there are a few live events coming up, and I’d love to see you there - actor Dawn Steele - who’s starred in Monarch of the Glen and Shetland among others - joins me at Granite Noir in Aberdeen on Febrary 23rd, award-winning poet and writer Michael Pedersen’s with me at Glasgow’s Glad Cafe on March 1st - Siobhan Wilson and Raveloe will pla

Bethlehem Calling

Jan 24 2025 35 mins  
Send us a textFirstly! A reminder that A Kick Up The Arts is live in Aberdeen, at Granite Noir book festival, where my guest will be the fab Dawn Steele, star of Granite Harbour, Monarch of the Glen, Shetland and more - that’s on the 23rd of February, it’s in the afternoon, and we’re love you to join us. We’re doing another live recording at Glasgow’s Glad Cafe on the 1st

Karine Polwart and Su-a Lee

Jan 16 2025 57 mins  
Send us a text Before I go any further, I want to tell you that A Kick Up The Arts is coming to a venue near you, very soon! If you’re in Aberdeen, I’ll be at Granite Noir on February 23rd, which is a Sunday afternoon, with a very familiar face from your telly - she’s a legend, and she’ll join me for an afternoon chatting about her life, and work, and her choice of a favour

All Back To Mine with Jonathan Watson

Dec 30 2024 47 mins  
Send us a text Before I go any further, I want to remind you that A Kick Up The Arts is coming to a venue near you, very soon! I've got some really lovely events to announce in Glasgow, and Edinburgh - and elsewhere all over the country - but, for now, I'm delighted to be coming to Aberdeen's fab book festival, Granite Noir, on the 23rd of February, which is a Sunday afternoon, wit

All Back To Mine with Dave Anderson

Dec 21 2024 37 mins  
Send us a text Before I go any further, I want to tell you that A Kick Up The Arts is coming to a venue near you, very soon! I've got some really lovely events to announce in Glasgow, and Edinburgh - and elsewhere across the country - but, for now, I'm delighted to be coming to Aberdeen's fab book festival, Granite Noir, on the 23rd of February, which is a Sunday afternoon, with sp

Malachy Tallack: That Beautiful Atlantic Waltz

Dec 12 2024 44 mins  
Send us a text This week, I’m revisiting the very first place I ever worked, with one of my very favourite writers… Malachy Tallack was raised in Shetland, so you might think that we’d meet up there - and I’ll hopefully get there soon enough - but we actually caught up in Cupar Library, what with Malachy living in Fife these days. I had a Saturday job there when I was at pr

All Back To Mine with Clare Grogan

Nov 29 2024 59 mins  
Send us a text Come in, take your coat off, ruffle your hair, and thanks for bringing that bottle of wine. The fire's on, get your feet up... It's time for an A Kick Up The Arts: 'All Back To Mine' special with one of our best-loved actors, and pop stars, thanks to her starring role in Gregory’s Girl, and her brilliant songs with Altered Images, and really that is not the half of

Barbara Dickson and Fionna Carlisle

Nov 14 2024 46 mins  
Send us a text This week, I'm at Edinburgh’s Fruitmarket Gallery with artist Fionna Carlisle and the legend of stage, screen - and music - that is Barbara Dickson… Fionna’s glorious painting, Eleven Red Roses, was shown in the gallery in the 1980s, and - as such - she features in Holly Davey’s exhibition, The Unforgetting, which is a role-call of the 354 women whose art has

Blythe Duff and Colin McCredie

Nov 07 2024 50 mins  
Send us a text This week, I'm at Glasgow’s Oran Mor, with gilded stars of stage, and screen - and Taggart - Blythe Duff and Colin McCredie... We chatted about Blythe’s musical adventures with Lacunas, and Colin’s forthcoming telly and theatre work, and then we bumped into former podcast guest Bobby Bluebell, of The Bluebells - who wrote and recorded the podcast's theme song,

All Back To Mine with King Creosote

Nov 04 2024 46 mins  
Send us a text It's the second of our monthly 'A Kick Up The Arts: All Back To Mine' specials, with fab guests giving us a virtual night in round at theirs: choosing a Scottish album to play us, a Scottish film to show us, and a Scottish book for some bed time reading, and they'll chat about all of that - and their own work - with Nicola Meighan. They might even chuck in a snack or