Caley Corner

My guest on this weeks episode is Matt McGowan from the Save Ardrossan Harbour campaign group. He gives us a bit of background on why the community group had to be setup. We then move on to discuss why this campaign is non political and delve into the importance of getting the harbour upgraded for the new CalMac ferries. There's also a bit of a deep dive on why this should be a national issue and...

Ajmal talks us through his life and his business philosophy. We discuss a range of subjects from working in hospitality, why he doesn't like crypto and how he transformed his Indian restaurant business from a Mom & Pap shop to one of the biggest commercially successful takeaway operations in the country. Listen first hand to Ajmal as you've never heard him before on how he personally achieved...

My guest on this episode is Karina Molloy who served with the Irish military for over thirty years. Karina is a women of many firsts, she was part of the first swathe of female recruits to be enlisted officially in the Irish army as well as the first to attempt to pass selection for the Irish special forces. Unfortunately, her time in the army was plagued by sexual harassment and even more with se...

This podcast sees me chatting with David Walsh who's a Professor of Health Inequalities at Glasgow University. He's also co authored a book with the same title as the podcast. We talk about the shocking impact of austerity policies on life expectancy and what kind of political decisions have triggered this and some policies that could be changed to improve things. Austerity on its own sounds like...

From Binman to SAS: Who Dares Wins Champion In this episode, I sit down with Grant Flynn, the "ninja binman" turned SAS: Who Dares Wins Champ. Grant is a fitness fanatic with an incredible story that takes him from working on the bins to competing and succeeding in one of the toughest reality TV challenges. We kick things off by discussing what it’s really like to work on the bins and the misconce...

Hugh was a Professor of Applied Philosophy at Glasgow Caledonian University. He taught, classical sociological theory and medical ethics. The latter of which takes up the bulk of today's discussion as we chat about the assisted dying bill or, assisted suicide as Hugh termed it that is currently making it's way through the Scottish parliament. We also talk a bit about Scottish witchcraft towards th...

My guest on this episode is Jeanette Findlay. Jeanette is a Professor of Economics at University of Glasgow. She is also a committed Trade Unionist as the head of UCU Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 and activist on various issues. She is also the chairwoman and founder of Call It Out which campaigns against anti catholic bigotry and anti Irish racism. We talk about what economics actually is and some of the res...

My Guest on this episode is Nicola Mantalios who hails from South Shields. She starts off by discussing some activities that she got up to as part of bucket list of 30 things to do before she turned 30. We then discuss the benefits and natural high you get from some low level crime (sorry local supermarkets) Nicola was brought up as a Jehovah’s Witness and she explains what that was like. From the...

Joining me on today's episode is Alan Knight a film maker and documentarian. Alans films included him directing a documentary called London Calling which shone a light on BBC editorial bias during the Scottish Independence referendum so, we chat a bit about that and some of the stories that were covered in both the documentary and a book about the same subject. Alan also talks about some of his ot...

Joining me on episode 23 is Darren Bleakley who is a photographer and the creator of the People of Glasgow. We talk about his inspiration for getting into photography and some of the ethics around taking pictures in the street. Darrens a funny guy who has a big interest in MMA and Jiu Jitsu as well so, there's some chat about that also.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Joining us today is Kevin Lindsay from Aslef, he gives us a detailed background of the recent disputes between Aslef members both at a UK wide level then he gives us a detailed insight of things from a more local Scottish perspective. Hear why Kevin see's himself as a baby in the game with his 22 years of trade union organising (Aslef were founded in 1880) Kevins a staunch defender of his members...

Tommy Sheridan makes his return to the podcast and we have a varied chat about all sorts of topics relating to 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 independence; The pre cursors to 2014, some moments from the campaign trail and what we would like to see to put Scottish independence back on the table given the multitude of things that have changed over the past ten years. There’s also some chat about his upcoming Hope over Fe...

My Guest on this episode is Steven Purcell who was previously the Labour leader of Glasgow City Council. We talk about his early introduction to politics and his journey to becoming the leader of the Council. He also talks about his addictive personality and subsequent recovery from alcaholism. There's some chat throughout about the state of housing in Scotland and why the 2014 independence refere...

My guest on this episode is Scottish comedy heavyweight big Graham Mackie. We start off by talking about his resemblance to Santa and he shares some tales from his work as Saint Nick alongside some funny and some heart warming stories. We have a good laugh throughout chatting about his life and touch on Covid, his time living on a farm and some tales from the Scottish comedy scene which Graham has...

My guest on this episode is Baillestons own Michael Blair. This is one for the MMA fans, we have a good chat about Michaels career from his undefeated record in the amateurs into the professional ranks with Cage Warriors. We talk about his training, weight cutting, how he's improved as a fighter with experience and coaching. There's some chat at the end about UFC 304 and the upcoming PFL event in...

My guest on this episode is big Zander Diamond. Zander tells us about his footballing career from his boys club days at Dumbarton to Aberdeen. There's good humour shared throughout as Zander tells us why he chose to sign for Aberdeen over Celtic despite being a big fan of the club, a theme that comes up a few times during the course of our chat. He tells us about the good relationship he had with...

Self confessed 'weirdo' Ross Greer from the Scottish Green party joins us today to talk about the curent political landscape as it relates to the greens, from the climate crisis, the ending of the bute house agreement to campaigning for the upcoming 2024 election. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Episodes 16 guest is Liam McLaughlan who hails from Easterhouse in the east end of Glasgow. Liam is a trade unionist and is standing to be be elected as a member of parliament in the upcoming election for the Scottish Socialist Party. Liam takes us through his reasons for getting involved in politics mainly the 2014 Scotish referendum. From there we talk about some of his political activism and wh...

The first two guests Rob Kane & Sean Kenney are back as we do a preview of the upcoming European championship. We delve into the the Scotland squad and speculate about who would get dropped from the initial 28 and who would get brought in. This was recorded post the Tommy Conway announcement but, pre Lewis Morgan inclusion, did the boys call this, tune in to find out. We talk about who's likel...

My guest on this episode is the awesome Prof Fiona Skillen. Fiona is a sports Historian who works in the department of social sciences at Glasgow Caledonian University. Fiona gives us a detailed history and chronology of women in Scotland playing organised sport. We start off by discussing what perked her initial interest in sport, early encounters of woman being treated differently at her local g...

My guest on this episode is environmental scientist Dr Matt Winning he's also the author of Hot Mess which I’ve just finished reading and can highly recommend. In his day job he has worked on climate mitigation for 15 years in academia and consultancy, and he is an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at UCL Institute for Sustainable Resources. Away from that, he's using comedy and jokes as a way to ta...

Raymond talks us through some of the big moments in his life with his trademark humour and wit. We start off talking about his early days at Glasgow Caledonian University and whether or, not he believes in fate. After that, we discuss how he got into stand up, his first gigs and he talks about his inspiration for being a comic, why he loves artists, philosophy and he also shares various tales of h...

My guest today is the viral and global boxing inspiration Frank Gilfeather. The 78-year-old former boxer is an Internet Sensation, beating influencers at their own game. Frank is a former journalist and television reporter and as my guest on Episode 11 of Caley Corner, we discuss his boxing and journalism career, his view on today's Scottish boxing and how he ended up covering sports and football....

My Guest on Episode 10 is the one and only Daniel Downie who's a comedian that doubles up as the host of Mountebank Scotland where he has the number one comedy walking tour of Edinburgh. He also has his own Youtube channel where he details and relays facts about Scottish History with his trademark humour. Daniel tells us a great story about Maggie Dickson who's one of Edinburgh's most famous daugh...

Something a bit different this week as Iain Smith a criminal defence lawyer from West Lothian joins us. We start off by hearing about Iains background and how the stress of struggling with undiagnosed dyslexia from school and beyond has contributed towards him thinking outside of the box with regards to his navigation through life both personally and professionally. He tells us about a fateful enc...