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In this episode, Jonathan and Devon chat with composer Robin Hiley & writer Becky Hope-Palmer about their musical "LIFELINE" currently running off-Broadway. LIFELINE tells the story of Scottish scientist Alexander Fleming's world-changing discovery of penicillin in 1928, charting the rise and fall of antibiotics. Fleming's historic story is interwoven with Jess', a present day doctor whose childhood sweetheart, Aaron, is recovering from cancer treatment, almost 100 years after antibiotics were discovered. But just as Aaron is desperate to resume normality and rekindle the romance, his life hangs in the balance, as he waits to see if Fleming's miracle cure will still work well enough to save him. The musical is a two-time Edinburgh Festival Fringe sell-out (2018 and 2022). It has toured to London, Glasgow and the east coast of the USA (2022). It has also been showcased at the UK Houses of Parliament and in Barbados for Prime Minister Mia Mottley. Previously entitled The Mould that Changed the World, the show underwent significant re-development in 2023 to incorporate numerous modern day patient stories that the producers had collected from around the world. More info available at LIFELINE The Musical (lifelinemusical.com) Guests - Robin Hiley & Becky Hope-Palmer Robin Hiley was a founding partner of Charades Theatre Company upon the company's inception in 2010. In 2017 he took the company forward as Artistic Director & CEO, overseeing its transition to a Scottish Incorporated Charitable Organisation and establishing partnerships and collaborations with major national and international organisations. As a composer, and lyricist Robin is passionate about writing and creating musical theatre that tackles pertinent social issues and also gives opportunities for the community to get involved in performing. Developing LIFELINE has been a signifcant focus for Robin over the past 6 years, immensely enjoying collaborating with writing partners Becky Hope-Palmer (book writer), his long-time friend and songwriting partner James Ross, as well as the rest of the creative team. Robin holds an undergraduate degree in music from Newcastle University and a MSc in enthnomusicology from the University of Edinburgh. Becky Hope-Palmer is a Scottish writer and theatre director from Edinburgh. She trained at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and was a finalist for the prestigious JMK Directing Award in 2019 and 2021. She is an associate artist for She Productions in East Yorkshire and worked with the Royal Shakespeare Company from 2017-2019. Recent credits include work for the Lyceum Theatre and Traverse Theatre in Edinburgh, Perth Theatre, Dundee Rep and A Play, a Pie and a Pint in Glasgow. Her directing and facilitation work spans musical theatre, Shakespeare, classic and new writing in various forms and capacities. As a writer, Becky's first play with music, Seven Against Edinburgh, was produced by the Lyceum Theatre in 2022. She is delighted to be making her Off-Broadway debut with Lifeline as a book writer in collaboration with Robin, James and the wonderful team. Produced and edited by Jonathan Cook LIFELINE music tracks were used in this episode with permission from the creators. Intro music by JK/47 You can watch the full video of this episode at https://www.youtube.com/@GatherbytheGhostLight Gather by the Ghost Light merch is available at www.ghostlightpubs.com (Ghost Light Publications) If you would like to further support this podcast, please visit Gather by the Ghost Light is increasing public knowledge of emerging writers and actors (buymeacoffee.com) If you enjoy this podcast, please please please leave a rating on your preferred podcast app! For more info or if you wish to contact us, please visit www.gatherbytheghostlight.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hi there, Thanks for listening in to the Foot Stompin' Free Scottish Music Podcast. Back for our 252 episode! Everything this month is brand new from our amazing Scottish music scene! We really appreciate your support from all over the world listening in. If you ever any questions please get in touch. If you like to support this podcast please visit www.patreon.com/handsupfortrad The Stinger by Ìmar https://imarband.bandcamp.com An Ocean Full of Islands by Tide Lines Track - Rivers in the Light https://www.tidelinesband.com DIAD by Tim Edey and Ross Ainslie Track - LUNNY https://rossainslie.bandcamp.com/album/diad-2 The Clearances Again by Skipinnish https://www.skipinnish.com Live from the Storeroom by Kris Drever Track - Hunker Down https://krisdrever.bandcamp.com Seed by Fiona Rutherford Track - Orbit Audio https://fionarutherford1.bandcamp.com O Thig mi gad Iarraidh by Muriel Urquhart Track - O Thig mi gad Iarraidh (Oh I'll Come and Get You) https://www.murielurquhart.com From the River by Cala Track - Dusty https://www.calainverness.com To The Well For Water by Bernadette Morris Track - Fanore https://www.bernadettemorris.com/ Thirteen Years by Blue Rose Code Track - Nashville Blue (Live at Perth Theatre) https://bluerosecode.bandcamp.com/album/thirteen-years The Jesster by Peatbog Faeries https://peatbogfaeries.com

Hey! How are you guys doing? We hope you're well. Certainly better than Bruce Forsyth, who isn't doing very well, because he's dead. However, old Brucie loved a bonus so he did, and we do too, so join us for The Dogger Saints Podcast: The Lock-In 3! This Lock-In (or as Dan, wrongly, kept calling it a ‘Lockdown') comes to you from Perth Theatre, and more specifically the workshop we were kindly asked to hold in support of the upcoming ‘Oh When The Saints Go Marching In Play'. A little bit different for us, but if you fancy some live features, Dan dropping a mic, and us catching up with our old friend Katie, the shows co-director Martin and Saints fanatic Gordon, the you might just enjoy this. Get there!

Our dear friends, please don your gladdest of rags, and join Sam, Dan and Stuart Cosgrove for a special event. Episode 41 of Dogger Saints: An Unofficial St. Johnstone Podcast, A.K.A Dogger Saints Team Talk Live from Perth Theatre! Yep, for some reason they not only let us do this, they actually asked us to do it, and did it we did on 12th November. So sit back, get yourself comfy, and listen back to a very special night for us. We really hope you enjoy this. Get there! DISCLAIMER: A parental guidance warning for you, there is a fair amount of swearing and adult themes crop up throughout this episode. I mean, there's a very short intro in which Dan says “fuck” four times. So whilst it's up to you, we're just giving you fair warning. Thanks, love you, bye.

Of all the things, ALL THE THINGS, that could stop us in our tracks in our 33 episodes so far, the world's largest social media group crashing and stopping us doing interviews was not one that we foresaw. However, Twitter's better anyway and it was never going to stop us for long, so 24 hours later than planned, please join Sam and Dan for Episode 33 of Dogger Saints: An Unofficial St. Johnstone Podcast! We round up all the Saints action from this week, including Saturday's glorious victory over our good pals, admirers, and apparently purveyors of total football from up the road, Dundee. and also take a look at the Saints to leave the club, albeit temporarily, in the past week. We also have a hugely entertaining and interesting catch-up with former Saints defender, present football media man on the Emerald Isle, and all-round smashing guy Graham Gartland as we discuss his time in Perth, scoring in the top-flight, friendships at the club and dolphins. Features? We know you love ‘em. You know we love ‘em. So let's have some! This weeks trip to The Royal sees a vexed Scottish Cup winner in Singapore, a trip to Old Trafford for some styling tips in the Club Shop of Shame, the letter J is decided in the Alphabet There, and Theme Team inevitably takes us to the 90s, because we do bloody love the 90s! You may not think we have time for more, but baby you couldn't be more wrong, as we catch-up with our pal Katie Mitchell from Perth Theatre to discuss the upcoming Team Talk series of events (and we will admit especially our night) and we also swoon over Liam Craig for 2 hours. With all this, and much more, you'd be mad to miss this! Get there! Once again thanks to our friends at Flonix for sponsoring this episode even in the midst of numerous conference calls with Mark Zuckerberg.

Now for a round-up of up-coming audio described theatre performances in Scotland as our Toby Davey chats with audio describer Christopher McKiddie. Audio described theatre performances included: Grown Ups - King's Theatre, Edinburgh, Saturday 2 October at 2.30pm The Play That Goes Wrong, King's Theatre, Edinburgh Saturday 6 November at 2.30pm The Enemy - National Theatre of Scotland touring production, Dundee Rep Theatre Saturday 16 October at 2.30pm, King's Theatre, Edinburgh on Saturday 23 October at 2.30pm, Eden Court, Inverness on Saturday 30 October at 7.30pm and Perth Theatre on Friday November 5 at 7.30pm   Tron Theatre double bill: Krapp's Last Tapes and Go On - Saturday October 9 from 2.30pm The Tempest - Tron Theatre, Glasgow on Saturday November 13 at 7.30pm   To find out more about these and other up-coming audio-described performances and events in Scotland do visit the listings page of the ADA Scotland website - https://www.adascotland.com/listings/ (Image shows RNIB logo. 'RNIB' written in black capital letters over a white background and underlined with a bold pink line, with the words 'See differently' underneath)

Scottish Field talks Bond, James Bond, with actor Sam Heughan in this week's podcast. We present the final excerpt from Rosie Morton's exclusive chat with the Outlander star, which is in our May 2021 edition which is still in shops and available to buy digitally online. Sam has been tipped to take over the dinner suit and Aston Martin from Daniel Craig, by playing 007, and he reveals his favourite actor to play the part, and comment on rumours linking him with the world-famous role. Our second guest this is Fiona MacKinnon, from the Perthshire Festival of the Arts. Each May, the festival becomes a highlight in Scotland's cultural calendar. With performances in Perth Theatre, Perth Concert Hall and other venues, the Festival features the best in classical music, opera, theatre, rock, folk, jazz, comedy, literature and visual art. This year's event is taking place virtually, from May 20-29. You can find out more at www.perthfestival.co.uk

In today’s episode Elaine chats to Scottish actress and photographer Jessica Hardwick. Jess should have been at Pitlochry Theatre then on to The Lyceum Theatre in Barefoot in The Park playing Corie. However, due to the outbreak of COVID-19 and no gatherings of more than 2 people this production has had to be cancelled for the moment. Here is hoping they can remount soon. Jessica graduated from the BA Acting course at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. Since graduating she went on to win the Billy McColl Award for Most Promising Newcomer in Scottish Stage Acting 2014 and won Best Female performance at the Critics Awards for Theatre in Scotland 2018. Theatre work includes: Numerous productions with The Citizens Theatre, Tron Theatre, Traverse Theatre, Royal Lyceum Theatre, Bristol Old Vic, Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse, Perth Theatre and Edinburgh International Festival. She has worked extensively with National Theatre of Scotland, most recently playing Roxane, In Cyrano De Bergerac and Prudencia Hart in The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart, which toured all across the US and transferred to New York. Helen in Meet me at Dawn at the Arcola. Radio work includes: A Christmas Compass: East, When the Pips Stop, The Vital Spark: Intelligence, Reachers Point, Brothers, McLevy and The Pillow Book (all for BBC Radio 4). She also played one of the leads in the BBC Radio 4 six-part series The Fair Intellectual Club by comedian Lucy Porter. She recently recorded the audio book version of Canongate Books Salt on Your Tongue by Charlotte Runcie, which is now available on Audible. https://www.jesshardwickphotography.com/ For those of you struggling financially just now remember we have started a Go Fund Me Wan Mair Tune Fund to help Scottish creatives. Head to persistentandnasty@gmail.com and ask for a bread and butter form. Or if you can help by donating please follow the link below. Big Love, Elaine, Louise and Misha https://www.gofundme.com/f/wan-mair-tune-fund-coronavirus-scottish-artists?utm_source=customer&utm_medium=copy_link-tip&utm_campaign=p_cp+share-sheet&fbclid=IwAR3hXCySZF-eCLe2Kx1_T59CLkD56CIa-5y6xOdG7WDJWDUaaJ1gLA0MDlc You can support Persistent & Nasty and receive exclusive members only content by subscribing to our Patreon: www.patreon.com/persistentandnasty To check in with our Nasty Action Plan and see what we're doing to keep busy & positive check in on social media: Twitter: @PersistentNasty Instagram: @PersistentandNasty Persistent and Nasty is produced in association with Edinburgh based live-arts production house Civil Disobedience. Civil Disobedience is committed to creating and supporting queer work and theatre and art that addresses issues of inequality and injustice. You can find out more about the Persistent and Nasty project and all the work that Civil Disobedience do by visiting wearecivildisobedience.com. You can also find us on all the usual social media platforms. On Twitter @weareohsocivil On Instagram @wearecivildisobedience And on Facebook at Facebook.com/wearecivildisobedience

In today's episode, Louise sits down with playwright, actress and musician Morna Young to talk about her upcoming project "Lost at Sea", a story inspired by the loss of her father when she was a child. Morna is a playwright, actress and musician from a wee fishing village in the North East of Scotland. She is recipient of the 2017 Dr Gavin Wallace Fellowship (hosted by Creative Learning, Aberdeen City Council), the 2018 'Tomorrow at Noon' award for female playwrights (Jermyn Street Theatre, 2018) and the New Playwrights Award 2014 (Playwrights' Studio, Scotland). She is also the 2018 recipient of the Scotland-New Zealand playwriting exchange (BATS Theatre, Toi Poneke Arts Centre and Playmarket NZ). LOST AT SEA, her first full-length play, was developed in 2013 with award winning Stellar Quines Theatre Company and is now in pre-production with Perth Theatre for 2019. Other plays include: AYE, ELVIS ('a Play, a Pie and a Pint' and Gilded Balloon as part of Edinburgh Fringe 2018), THE BUKE OF THE HOWLAT (Findhorn Bay Arts), SMITE (Jermyn Street Theatre), NETTING '(a Play, a Pie and a Pint' and Scotland wide tour with Woodend Barn, Banchory), SHE OF THE SEA (Paines Plough 'Come to Where I'm From' at The Lemon Tree), B-ROADS (Play Pieces), NEVER LAND (Eden Court) and two short theatre plays for the National Theatre of Scotland's GREAT YES, NO, DON'T KNOW SHOW. Current commissions include THE WATER CLAN (BATS Theatre, New Zealand) and she is developing further work for theatre with Magnetic North, Stellar Quines and The Tron. She has also performed extracts of her work at the Scottish Parliament, The European Author's Festival (Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland) and as part of National Poetry Month, France. Morna primarily writes in Doric and is a proud Scots Language Ambassador (Education Scotland). As an actor, Morna has worked for companies including the National Theatre of Scotland, Royal Lyceum, The Beacon, a Play, a Pie and a Pint (Oran Mor/Traverse), Alterean Media, ITV and BBC Worldwide. Morna is also an Associate Artist of Out of the Darkness Theatre Company and tidy carnage. A multi-instrumentalist, she plays fiddle, flute, percussion and clarsach. Album recordings include Kevin McKidd's SPEYSIDE SESSIONS (No.1 in the itunes world music charts) and THE FISHWIVES (TV appearances include The One Show and BBC Breakfast). She has composed scores for several theatre productions including SUNSET SONG (The Beacon). She is one half of the band FOLKIFY (alongside Sandy Nelson) who were in residence at The Tron in 2016. She was equally flattered / mortified to be voted the 11th most eligible woman in Scotland 2014 by the Scotsman on Sunday (but, as her Auntie quite rightly pointed out, "nae quite top ten...'). Follow Morna on Twitter @mornayoung Find out more at www.mornayoung.com Get tickets for Lost at Sea at https://www.horsecross.co.uk/whats-on/lost-at-sea-37602 Follow Persistent and Nasty on Twitter @PersistentNasty Persistent and Nasty is co-produced by Edinburgh based live-arts production house Civil Disobedience. Follow them on Twitter @weareohsocivil and find out more about our work at www.wearecivildisobedience.com

Welcome to Episode 6 comrades. Louise sits down with one of her all time favourite people, Shilpa T Hyland. A recent graduate with an MA in Classical and Contemporary Text at the Royal Conservatoire Scotland, Shilpa is a pioneer board member for Stellar Quines, and is co-founder of the company Modest Predicament. She has previously worked as a trainee director for the National Theatre of Scotland on 306: Day and NTS/The TEAM at Edinburgh International Festival on Anything that Gives off Light and was the Assistant Director on Blood of the Young's 2018 smash hit production of Pride and Prejudice (sort of) at the Tron Theatre. Perth Theatre named Shilpa as the first recipient of its Cross Trust Young Director Award and she is currently in rehearsals for her chosen production; Zinnie Harris' adaptation of Strindberg's Miss Julie. Miss Julie will open at Perth Theatre on the 14th February, running until the 23rd February, before going on tour. You can find out more and book tickets here - https://www.horsecross.co.uk/whats-on/miss-julie-37402 Apologies for any noise bleed in this particular podcast. We occasionally have to roam around to make the podcast happen, and that can mean sometimes being in a public space, with unavoidable background noise. This podcast was recorded on December 3rd 2018. Find out more about Modest Predicament at https://www.modestpredicament.co.uk Follow Shilpa on Twitter @ShilpaTHyland / @modestpred Persistent and Nasty is a script-reading, debate and art as activism initiative for the female-identified voice in stage and screen. Although the core principle behind Persistent and Nasty is about the female-identified voice, we are committed to an intersectional approach and aim to use the space we’ve created to provide a platform for the spectrum of marginalised voices in our culture. Through a series of script readings and accompanying digital content, we are creating a platform for the unrepresented voices in the stage and screen industry; women, minorities, trans and LGBTQIA+. Our goal is to create a project that is safe and supportive, but that is also an act of protest. Persistent and Nasty is about changing the cultural narrative through the stories we tell. It is a co-presentation with live-arts production house Civil Disobedience. Civil Disobedience was formed in 2016, with a mandate to offer an international platform for talented artists in cabaret, theatre, comedy, music, and storytelling. We have a special interest in gender-bending, queer, and politically engaged work. We are an Edinburgh-based production house with an international scope. We tailor service packages for solo artists and companies of all sizes. Find us on social media... Twitter @persistentnasty / @weareohsocivil IG @persistentandnasty / @wearecivildisobedience Facebook.com/persistentandnasty / Facebook.com/civildisobedience wearecivildisobedience.com/portfolio/p…tent-nasty/

TravCast is the Writer's Podcast from the Traverse, Scotland’s New Writing Theatre. Associate Director, Emma Callander, interviews well known playwrights whose work features in the year round programme at the Traverse. In this episode, Emma speaks to Ross MacKay. Ross is a director, puppeteer, magician and sometimes a blend of all three. He has previously worked alongside Joe Douglas as puppetry director on 'The Last Polar Bears' (National Theatre of Scotland). Ross is currently artistic director of Tortoise in a Nutshell where he most recently directed Scotsman Fringe First winning 'Feral' (co-produced by Cumbernauld Theatre). Other directorial credits for the company include 'Grit' and 'The Last Miner' which have previously received Total Theatre Award, Grunshnabel Award and Arches Brick Award nominations. The productions have toured nationally and in to Europe. Other credits include Puppetry Director on 'The BFG' (Dundee Rep) Assistant Director on 'Christmas Carol' (National Theatre of Scotland) and 'Moonlight and Magnolias' (Perth Theatre). Ross also directed Suzie Miller’s 'In The Heart of Darby Park' (Oran M’or/Perth Theatre). Original music by James Iremonger www.jamesiremonger.co.uk Produced and engineered by Cian O Siochain