James E chats to Joy McNaughten, mother of Olympic Champion swimmer Duncan Scott about the making of a champion, the cost and the frustrations of the lack of media coverage for a sport in which Scotland excels.

Duncan Scott is the ONLY British Olympian to win 4 medals in a single games and he is still only 24 . 

We are grateful to Joy for joining us to help promote Scottish sport and once again, our congratulations to Duncan and all those who took part in the Olympic Games 2021.

#DuncanScott #ScottishSports #Olympics2021

In the week collectively known across Scotland as "GERSmas", when the estimated accounts of Scotland as an administrative region of the UK are published,  Dr Craig Dalzell urges us to think outwith the box.  

This week, Craig talks to SNP Policy Development Convenor Chris Hanlon and Agnes MacAuley from SNP Greenock & Inverclyde about the latest GERS figures and what they mean (and don’t mean) for Scotland, independence and the post-pandemic recovery. They then discuss up and coming motions to the SNP conference that have been influenced by or based on Common Weal policies including one for a National Transport Company designed to help decarbonise our cars and other vehicles. Finally, they discuss the role of non-party think tanks in Scottish politics and what they can do that party affiliated policy groups cannot.

You can find out more about Commonweal, including access to all the policy papers in their policy library on their website   https://commonweal.scot/

This week's episode of the Locker Room including Olympic action, swimming and yet more football

Continuing the theme of  measuring Scotlands economy, a special episode from the Scotonomics team with special guest political economist,  chartered accountant and academic Richard Murphy, taking questions from Kairin van Sweeden and the Independence Live audience.

Richard's previous explanation of why GERS is C.R.A.P is on his Youtube channel here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycq1dizIug8&t=2s

How should we measure the success of an economy? What do GDP and GNP tell us anyway? And more importantly what doesn't it tell us about the economy? In this episode, we will look at how we measure the economy in the UK as a whole and in Scotland. We will also take a side look at GERS (Government Expenditure and Revenue Scotland) as well.

0:00 GDP explained introduction

Robert Kennedy's brilliant speech on GDP: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FAmr...

Hi, welcome to the Indylive.radio team' audio newsletter for July and August!  Find out what we've been up to as Covid restrictions start to ease and meet some new team members.  Also, hear about our plans for the next few months

Get in touch with us [email protected] if there is anything you would like us to cover in the next issue

You can also see the video version of this newsletter on our Youtube channel if you're curious about the faces behind the voices!

Very important discussion on the impact of the newly published IPCC report on the climate emergency hosted by Dr Craig Dalzell, head of Policy Development at Commonweal

#climateEmergency #commonweal #IPCCreport

This week's Changing Minds discussion is on the sensitive, but very important topic of dignity in dying.

The Indylive.radio team is grateful to SNP Commonweal group for sharing this discussion with us.

Our Guest Podcast this week welcomes first time podcaster Gem Donnelly as she shares the impact of Covid on her life as a student, as a mother and on her wedding day. 

Gem has just started her own podcast channel called Gem's Thoughts, so if you would like to hear more from her, give her a follow

We are grateful to the Women for Independence organisation for sharing this event with us, focused on the experience of women in politics and how we can better support each other to reclaim that space

#WFI #indyliveradio #scottishpolitics