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  • Big Heids, Bigwigs and Big Ideas
    Name some innovators; inventors tycoons - chances are very few are not male or white. Who gets brushed under the rug in the media? Or in history? What drives people to be exceptional? And do they HAVE to be bellends?
    Technical issues made this episode murrrder, but it was all solved by Special Guest Colin McCredie - Taggart's DC Fraser - who joins us to chat about brain implants, gatecrashing Boyzone and mind control at the chippie
    Plus Question Mark, Where Are We Not? and Marco Paulo
    34 min
  • A Whole Bowl of Wrang
    Well, the episode is done and it's too late to change it: the die is cast, or as the French say: "the carrots are cooked", or as my mum said "You die sick as"
    We may not know what an idiom is, but we use them all the time, and don't always get them right - till we're sick to the black teeth of them.
    Phrases we thought we knew, oyster emancipation, STDs at the off-licence and an audio mime
    Plus Question Mark, Where Are We Not? and Marco Paulo
    So pin back your jugs, set the words to light and put that in your piper smoke it
    29 min
  • Long Way Furra Shortcut
    Career
    Funny that it's the same word if you lose control of a car, or choose a job for life
    Sometimes, even if you're sure what you want to do, it can be a long and winding road to get there.
    Naked on the side of the City Chambers; tea with Robin Williams; rescue dogs and a familiar sight at the gynaecologist...
    We're chatting with our special guest, Gavin Mitchell aka Boaby the Barman
    Plus Where Are We Not? And Marco Paulo.
    43 min
  • Summertime Blues
    Will the bucket and spade stay in the cupboard? Glasto will miss it's 50th birthday, but does that mean the 2020 summer holiday is beyond hope?
    Best gigs, worst gigs, haunted theatres and stolen cassettes. What more do you need?
    Jane McCarry, Mark Cox and Paul Riley find out how that burgeoning romance with Wham turned out. David Goodall Factchecks
    Plus Question Mark, Where Are We Not? and Marco Paulo
    24 min
  • Missing In Action
    One effect of the Covid19 pandemic that has affected more or less everyone on the planet at some point, is the cancellation of so many things.
    Work
    Plays
    Sport
    Weddings
    The list goes on. We're chatting about things we've seen cancelled during this outbreak and in the past.
    Question Mark* and Marco Paulo
    *Cancelled?
    23 min
  • Give You The Wullies
    What is worrying young people as they look to the lockdown ending and catching up on schoolwork, maybe with major exams waiting?
    Are you scared of heights? Scared of of spiders? Scared of high spiders?
    We'll be chatting with special guest, Matt Costello A.K.A. Stevie the Bookie
    Plus our regular spots: Question Mark, Where Are We Not Today? And Marco Paulo
    32 min
  • Toe In The Watter
    That's Lockdown Phase 1 in progress. How will we all get back into things? How have we been filling the time in lockdown and what are we looking forward to doing again? Are there burglars out there who've been on furlough?
    Plus Marco Paulo, Where are We Not Today? and Question Mark
    26 min
  • Still Hame
    Lockdown has been going on in Scotland for about 10 weeks, and as we start to creep out into the daylight - what's been going on for folk during it? What have been the effects?
    Plus, Marco Paulo's Geography Notes & This episode's Question Mark
    25 min

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For over 17 years Mark Cox, Paul Riley and Jane McCarry starred in the iconic BBC comedy “Still Game” In 3 Down 1 Across they chat about anything and everything from global events to exactly WHY that guy never lets you park your car where you want. Funny and friendly, good Scottish comedy banter (chat).