Yes Cowal Scottish Independence Podcast

Two of the guests in the Daytime Show on 30th April were Ipsos Mori pollster Mark McGeoghegan and writer and commentator Gerry Hassan.  Here, both give their views on the state of the election campaigns as we enter the final week before polling day on Thursday.    

with less than a week left before the Holyrood 2021 elections, Charles Fletcher reflects on the leadership debates and the sleaze emanating from Westminster

This week in our series Changing Minds we are grateful to Grassroots Oban for sharing their excellent event on the potential to use a system of Annual Ground Rent as a replacement for all taxation and as a support for universal basic income.  In this question and answer session, Graham McCormack, the author of the Annual Ground Rent proposal, is joined by finance minister Kate Forbes as they consider the possibilities and challenges of finding a replacement to the tax system.  

Another weekend round up of Scottish sporting action, including a look back at the basketball season and much more from your hosts Michael McEwan and Matthew Lingard

Host John Drummond continues to put listeners questions to our politicians as the Holyrood 2021 election draws ever closer. This week, Keith Brown MSP and deputy leader of the SNP     Indylive.radio supports ALL independence parties and organizations and will be bringing you interviews with a broad spectrum of indy supporting people.

Welcome to the April edition of Indylive.Radio Team Talk - all the news from behind the scenes as we do our best to bring you the latest new Scottish music, politics and culture.   This month we hear from Michael and Matthew our sports show presenters, we have a video chat with daytime show hosts Val and Marlene about their experience of interviewing Alex Salmond and others in the election run up, James E shares his latest projects, Steve B tells us about life on the ocean wave as a Radio Caroline Pirate, we drop in on the Audio Levels crew chat and finally, Gerry shares some of our scheduling secrets - phew, it's been a busy month!   You can also check out our New Scottish Music Spotify playlist for April here https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1UY...​   Listen to us 24/7 on https://indylive.radio​ SHOW LESS

Host Charles Fletcher interviews the party leaders as the Holyrood2021 election campaign enters its final fortnight.

As the all important Holyrood 2021 election enters its final fortnight, Daytime show hosts Valerie Gauld and Marlene Halliday's guests this week included two of our leading pollsters, Scotland goes Pop blogger James Kelly and political scientist Prof. Sir John Curtice from the University of Strathclyde.   Both guests bring valuable insight to help us assess what exactly the polls are telling us and what the chances are that those polls are correct.  What will it all mean for Holyrood and ultimately for the independence movement. You won't want to miss this one! 

This week's packed episode of the Locker Room includes a preview of the Scottish Cup, also news on the Rainbow Cup, the Olympics and more 

This week's guest Podcast on Indylive.radio is an interview with author Ethyl Smith, covering the first two of her series of books from 17th Century Scotland - the Covananters era.   Entitled Changed Ties and Dark Times, the books are written in Scots and in the interview Ethyl explains how and why she set about writing this particular series.  We look forward to covering the rest of the series in future podcasts. Ethyl's books are available from Thunderpoint Bookshop, plus all the usual booksellers.  Her facebook page is @changedtimesscottishhistoricalfiction and you can contact Ethyl at Ethylmarion@gmail.com or by twitter @ethylsmith  

We keep hearing about those troublesome "hard borders", so it is great to hear Customs and Borders expert Bill Austin explain clearly and convincingly why that term is a complete red herring, and what an exciting opportunity an independent Scotland has to introduce an effective customs system that facilitates trade and collects revenue for us.   You won't want to miss this one!

Indyliveradio supports ALL independence parties, we do not endorse any particular party.  Over the last few weeks and months we have had guests from SNP, Greens, ISP, AFI and this week it was the turn of the newest independence party - Alba. In this fascinating programme, hosts Valerie Gauld and Marlene Halliday chat to two Alba candidates from the Glasgow list, Ailsa Gray, Michelle ferns and party leader Alex Salmond.  

A packed show tonight as Michael and Matthew cover the Scottish Cup, take a flutter on the Scottish Grand National, catch up with the World Snooker championships, women's Six nations rugby AND basketball! Phew, thank goodness we're listening from the comfort of the couch!  

Fife based musician KarmaSurround chats with James E in this extended interview from the James E Saturday Show. You can catch KarmaSurround's music at soundcloud.com/karmasurround and buy the latest album from karmasurround.bandcamp.com Indylive.radio supports new Scottish music.  If you would like to have your music considered for play on the James E Saturday Show, email details and an Mp3 sample to James.saturdayshow@gmail.com

The whole topic of Wellbeing Economics is hugely important now for Scotland and for the independent country we aspire to become.  In this programme, Shona Robison MSP and Gordon MacIntyre-Kemp from Believe in Scotland share their thoughts and answer questions from the audience at an event organised by SNP Sidlaw. Measuring the success of your country and population based on wellbeing rather than GDP could be a real game changer!  

This week our host John Drummond chats with Jim Fairlie, SNP candidate for Perthshire South and Kinross in the upcoming Scottish Parliament elections

Charles Fletcher from Caledonia Media brings us another week of the Holyrood elections, as the leaders of the parties hit the campaign trail in earnest

Twa Auld Heids Dave Lewellyn and Mike Fenwick have an exclusive chat with Alex Salmond following the launch last week of his new party Alba.    

this weeks sporting action from the Locker Room including the Grand National, news on the women's six nations and the return of fans to this year's snooker

A selection of poetry for Burns Night: Rabbie Burns by Angus Shoor Caan To A Country by Lynne Dougan A Wee Mouse by Angus Shoor Caan Boreas by Sheila Nichols, read by Fiona McGregor Rabbie by Angus Shoor Caan The Man O' Words by Paul Colvin Scots Wha Hae by Rabbie Burns performed by Lorraine Sinclair Music on Scots Wha hae: Hidden Past by Kevin MacLeod