We continue to change the format to try to improve the Podcast; so from now on we will start each episode off with an interesting West End fact. Send us any interesting or unusual facts you know and we'll read them out on the Podcast - and of course - give you a mention.

Pat's Guide To Glasgow West End

Eva talks about her early life and education in Sweden and the significance of the Scandinavian pro-active approach to getting things done - which she's imported to her Scottish home and community in Partick.

Eva tells Jim Byrne how her love of the Bagpipes (she is a musician) brought her to Scotland and how the warmth of Scots kept her here. Listening to Eva's story you will understand how she ended up as Glasgow's Lord Provost and why she is perfectly suited for the role.

• Pat's Guide To Glasgow West End

Music by Jim Byrne

Get in touch non Twitter: @glasgowswestend

Eva talks about her early life and education in Sweden and the significance of the Scandinavian pro-active approach to getting things done - which she's imported to her Scottish home and community in Partick.

Eva tells Jim Byrne how her love of the Bagpipes (she is a musician) brought her to Scotland and how the warmth of Scots kept her here. Listening to Eva's story you will understand how she ended up as Glasgow's Lord Provost and why she is perfectly suited for the role.

• Pat's Guide To Glasgow West End

Music by Jim Byrne

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• Pat's Guide To Glasgow West End

Music by Jim Byrne

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• Pat's Guide To Glasgow West End

Music by Jim Byrne

After a spell at The Leith School of Art Francesca studied Fine Art Drawing & Painting at Glasgow School of Art. She then went on to study fashion design, which was where she discovered her true calling.

Francesca now runs her own fashion illustration business based in Glasgow West End.

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• Francesca Waddell

Music by Jim Byrne

Photograph © Jim Byrne

Get in touch non Twitter: @glasgowswestend

After a spell at The Leith School of Art Francesca studied Fine Art Drawing & Painting at Glasgow School of Art. She then went on to study fashion design, which was where she discovered her true calling.

Francesca now runs her own fashion illustration business based in Glasgow West End.

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• Francesca Waddell

Music by Jim Byrne

Links

• Pat's Guide To Glasgow West End

Music by Jim Byrne

Get in touch non Twitter: @glasgowswestend

Links

• Pat's Guide To Glasgow West End

Music by Jim Byrne

Get in touch non Twitter: @glasgowswestend

Claire MacLeary is a Glaswegian writer. She writes short stories and crime novels. Her first book 'Cross Purpose', published by Contraband in 2017, was long list for the McIlvanney Prize for Scottish Crime Book of the Year.  

Her second book 'Burnout' is a follow up features the same memorable characters. Whilst firmly entrenched in ‘Tartan Noir’, including appearing at ‘Bloody Scotland’, Claire’s writing has ‘a strong sense of the domestic'.

Pat met Claire in the iconic Ubiquitous Chip for a chat.

• Pat's Guide To Glasgow West End

Music by Jim Byrne

Get in touch non Twitter: @glasgowswestend