Carnegie Pioneers

Leighann Breen of the University of the West of Scotland goes in the footsteps of doctor turned bestselling novelist A.J. Cronin. Cronin’s 1937 novel The Citadel was an international bestseller, and influenced the Beveridge Report which laid the foundations of Britain’s welfare state. Cronin also created one of the famous fictional doctors of all time in Dr Finlay, the GP who tends to the inhabita...

Sir Alexander Gibson was the maestro who founded two great Scottish musical institutions, Scottish Opera and the Royal Scottish National Orchestra. In this Carnegie Pioneers podcast, musician and University of the West of Scotland student Ibrahim Dikko dives into the world of classical music as he goes on the trail of a man who made his musical mark on Scotland, and the world after early support f...

In Carnegie Pioneers, Tracy Taylor, costume maker at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, explores the career of Winnie Ewing the trail-blazing Scottish National Party politician who won the historic Hamilton by-election in 1967 and served as a member of three parliaments,  Westminster, the European Parliament, and the Scottish Parliament at Holyrood. Tracy talks to former SNP ministers Mike Russe...

Carnegie Pioneers: Jennie Lee Robert Gordon University student Nithya Chandrasekaran goes in the footsteps of Jennie Lee – the trailblazing politician who became one of Britain’s first elected female politicians, its first minister for the arts and whose vision was central to the founding of the Open University.