My interview with Michael Russell MSP and a report from the Scottish Cabinet public meeting on Arran chaired by First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon.
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Fermentation: Food That Fizzes
Much of the food and drink produced on Arran starts with fermentation – food that fizzes. The ones made to a commercial scale include beer and whisky, which are obvious enough. But there’s bread, cheeses, pickles, chocolate and then there’s a community of obsessed home-producers who love nothing better than their own kombucha, kefir and yoghurt, sauerkraut and kimchi.
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Although born in Canada Graham Chappell now lives and works on Arran. He’s a car enthusiast and every year he takes a road-trip. This year’s going to be something special. Following Graham’s first car-delivery trip in Canada and years of driving in the south-west states of America this is the road-trip of a lifetime from St. John’s to Vancouver and…
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Music and song are a lifelong, fundamental part of Tim Pomeroy’s life. He says as much during this episode, but in a more considered sleeve note to one of his CDs Tim acknowledges that the meaning of the songs to him is incalculable. He inhabits his songs.
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We’ve come to regard some foods as totems of our culinary heritage. We may regard them with reverence. We may hold them in contempt. Almost by definition they’re less than haute cuisine. I explore four of the Scotland’s guilty food secrets and ask how to counter their adverse effects.
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Tim Pomeroy, one of the UK’s foremost sculptors, lives and works on the Isle of Arran. Tim talks honestly about his work, his inspirations and his ambitions.
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