A Kick Up The Arts with Nicola Meighan

The second of our weekly round-table discussions with fab guests in arts spaces around the country is here right now! It's thanks to singer, songwriter and - let's face it, total legend - Horse McDonald, and the brilliant actor and musician Hannah Jarrett-Scott.Following trailblazing hits like Careful, and The Speed of the Beat of My Heart, Horse is currently touring her outstanding new album, The Road Less Travelled - a joyous and fired-up rallying cry that navigates life, love, the ghosts o...

It's the first 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: they'll choose 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 with Nicola Meighan. They might even chuck in a snack or two.The first of these is here, right now, and it's thanks to the excellent Chris Brookmyre, who's just picked up the McIlvanney Prize for Crime...

It’s the first in a weekly series of round-table conversations with Nicola Meighan and guests, in some of our best-loved arts spaces, with some of our most exciting and enlightening voices. And who better to kick things off than the glorious double-header of writers Chitra Ramaswamy and Hannah Lavery – recorded at the Scottish Poetry Library in Edinburgh. Did Hannah lead the way for Taylor Swift at Murrayfield? Did Chitra pre-empt Nan Shepherd on all of those bank-notes? Could this be, as Chi...