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Edinburgh Outdoors is a podcast about the green spaces and the people in them that keep our city breathing. From community gardens to wild or secret spaces, getting outside brings benefit to everyone whether it’s through volunteering, taking part in an activity or just taking it slow.
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Teaching Matters Edinburgh, created by the University of Edinburgh, complements the University's Teaching Matters blog. We invite students and staff to engage in topical conversations, both debating and celebrating aspects of Higher Education.
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Technically Edinburgh

Technically Edinburgh

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A podcast by Technicians, all about Technicians at the University of Edinburgh. Our very first episode of Technically Edinburgh has hosts Lee Murphy and Charli Corcoran chatting to Sarah Little, an Anaesthesia Assistant from the University of Edinburgh's Small Animal Hospital, part of the Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies. Sarah was shortlisted for the 2023 Technician's Award for Contributions to the University's Culture, Community and the Environment and in this episode, she talks t ...
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Casenotes

Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh

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This fortnightly podcast from the Physicians' Gallery at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh presents stories from medicine, past and present
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Memories and stories from North Edinburgh Dementia Care’s Seagrove Centre. North Edinburgh Dementia Care is a leading independent charity that provides day care services to people living with dementia. We provide support, activities and a lunch to our clients, Monday to Saturday. We hear so many great tales from the folk that visit us. You can hear some of them here. Also a bit about our organisation, our work and dementia it’s self.
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The Guilty Feminist

Deborah Frances-White

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Ever felt like you should be better at feminism? Join comedian Deborah Frances-White and her guests for this comedy podcast, recorded in front of a live audience. Each week they discuss our noble goals as 21st century feminists and the hypocrisies and insecurities that undermine them. Deborah Frances-White is the 2016 Writers' Guild Award Winner for Best Radio Comedy for her hit BBC Radio 4 series Deborah Frances-White Rolls the Dice. She is an Edinburgh Fringe regular, a screenwriter and is ...
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Keeping Edinburgh

Edinburgh HSCP

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A brand-new wellbeing 'what's on guide' with a difference. Explore the free-to-access places and spaces, helping folk across the Capital have more good days. Hosted by Edinburgh singer-songwriter and community musician Gus Harrower, this immersive listen will introduce listeners to the amazing people in Edinburgh’s communities, as well as provide information on how to access a wide range of wellbeing-boosting support and activities out there.
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Navigating Now… from The Duke of Edinburgh’s Award

The Duke of Edinburgh's Award + Mags Creative

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We’re young people, and we have questions. Navigating Now is the podcast to help us explore answers. Together with celebrity guests, we look into the issues affecting us today and share what’s really on our minds. With massive change in UK politics and global affairs, young people need to be heard - now more than ever.
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The Official Podcast for the Fringesider! I speak with performers, producers, directors, and key people involved with making the Edinburgh Fringe happen! I will also post in-depth reviews come August. 🇺🇸 living in 🏴 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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TW:Talks

TW:TALKS

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TW:TALKS is the podcast from ThisWeek Culture and ThreeWeeks Edinburgh where we talk to some of our favourite writers, directors, comedians and performers. We publish batches of TW:TALKS podcasts at various points during the year, included during the big old Edinburgh Festival. The podcast is hosted by TW co-Editor Chris Cooke
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We're two Mums living in Edinburgh who are obsessed with true crime and mysterious happenings, so obsessed we decided to start a podcast! Each month we take turns to tell stories from our homelands - Effie Scottish born and bred where haggis is NOT actually an animal and Marti from the land down under where no prawns have ever been thrown on a barbie, it needs to be said! So, if you want polished, professional true crime then this is not for you, maybe try Casefile. But if you love true crim ...
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Thank You, Places!

Ghost Light Players

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The official podcast of Ghost Light Players. We hearken back to the days of old, when traveling troupes entertained their patrons with little more than a few props, masterful skill and an avid love of theater.
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LifeStory

The Living Memory Association

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Ordinary people who lived through extraordinary times tell their stories to The Living Memory Association. Stories from the 20th century of childhood, schooldays, work, play, courtship. Tales of joy and hardship from Edinburgh, Leith, Scotland and beyond.
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The Quest Express podcast is for people who love travel, history, innovation, learning, artists & entrepreneurs. We feature one guest each week, one city every six weeks, and some bonus guests in between. Past episodes: Venice, Italy; New Orleans, Louisiana; Edinburgh, Scotland; Jerusalem, Israel. CURRENT SERIES: Aspen, Colorado. NEXT UP: Expat Mini-Series
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Journalist/comedian Harmon Leon dives into the history of comedy; bringing podcast listeners some of his favorite comedy influences, cult classics, and all things comedy history. More at: harmonleon.com
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Regular film show from the Cinetopia podcast team, reviewing the latest releases (slanted towards arthouse cinema), and interviews with film professionals as well as highlighting industry specific masterclasses we produce in Edinburgh. Cinetopia is a organisation aiming to make film and filmmaking more approachable and diverse within Edinburgh and beyond. We offer low-cost film screenings for local communities & organise free networking events that bring filmmakers in the early stages of the ...
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A Wonderbox is a place where you keep little reminders of what makes life worth living. Each week Russell will chat to a special guest about what they’d keep in their Wonderbox, recounting the most memorable and funniest moments of their lives.
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Library of Mistakes

The Library of Mistakes

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Based in Edinburgh, with branches in Switzerland and India, the Library of Mistakes is a free public library designed to improve understanding of finance (and life in general), one mistake at a time. In this podcast series the Library's Keeper, Professor Russell Napier, speaks to authors of some of the most interesting books in the ever-expanding collection exploring insights into finance, business, society and human nature. Fascinating, educational and often rather funny. Produced and edite ...
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TRASHFUTURE

TRASHFUTURE

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a podcast about business success and making yourself smarter with the continued psychic trauma of capitalism by @raaleh, @HKesvani, @milo_edwards, @inthesedeserts and @aliceavizandum
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The Fringe Festival takes over Edinburgh, Scotland, for three weeks every August. The festival brings together thousands of artists in thousands of shows, selling millions of tickets. It also brings the promise of career-defining experience and exposure. Fringe Benefits is a docuseries with a unique behind-the-scenes look at the Fringe Festival, exploring the experiences of first-time and seasoned performers, producers, venues, and local residents. This is a story about dreams, ambitions, an ...
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What's the weirdest thing you've ever found on a beach? Listen to this episode and find out how rewarding litter picking within the friendly Portobello community can be. You'll also hear from Keep Porty Tidy organiser, Colin Cornwall, on his strangest find, latest projects and his lifelong love of Portobello. With the usual Edinburgh wind, lots of …
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Never knew David O’Doherty used to be an underground DJ? It’s all here. Russell and David sit down in front of a live studio audience at the Edinburgh Fringe (yes, it was a few weeks ago but we recorded a few, OK!?) to discuss David’s DJ hinterland. Also there is when a 13 year old David offered to cycle around Ireland as a newspaper think-piece, a…
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Our Turn2us Edinburgh Trust Senior Partnership Development Officer, Ems Harrington, sits down to talk with Afam, one of the Co-Production partners. Co-Production is when we work alongside people with lived expertise to design and deliver services that affect them. We have a team of co-production partners here in Edinburgh and we are delighted to ha…
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In this episode, we explore the eerie and unsettling story of the Epworth Rectory haunting - Once, one of the most famous ghost stories in England. This haunting, which took place in the early 18th century, terrified the Wesley family, including Susanna Wesley, the mother of John Wesley, founder of Methodism. For months, strange noises, mysterious …
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409. Live from Edinburgh with Catherine Bohart, Helen Bauer and Vanessa Kisuule The Guilty Feminist 409. Female Friendships Presented by Deborah Frances-White with Catherine Bohart and special guests Helen Bauer and Vanessa Kisuule Recorded 12 August 2024 at the Gilded Balloon, Edinburgh. Released 9 September The Guilty Feminist theme composed by M…
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Lindsay Jarvis is a Clinical Skills Teaching Technician at the Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Medicine. She chats to Lee and Charli about her experiences of secondments, her application to be an Associate Fellow of the HEA, the Edinburgh Technical Collaboration's mentoring scheme and her experience of Imposter Syndrome.…
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This episode asks “How can I make my voice heard on global issues?”, and “With so much going on in the world, how do I know what news to trust?” Hosted by Onyii, Anika and Craig. Featuring contributions from guests including Clive Myrie (BBC Chief News Correspondent) and Vick Hope (Broadcaster, Author and Journalist). Episode resources: Youth Voice…
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In part two of this discussion, Student Wellbeing Adviser Tessa Warinner chats with Grace Clark, president of the University of Edinburgh branch of the 93% club. They highlight the impact of financial anxiety and class disparities on student mental health and university experience. This episode belongs to Podcast series: Student Wellbeing. Link to …
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For this week's bonus, we've got the recorded version of last week's live show in Edinburgh, featuring a devotional to hooning, a visit from the AI-powered VTOL that kills you, and an encounter with a strange American former child star who wanted to name his libertarian business park in Puerto Rico, and we are not joking, 'Puertopia.' Until someone…
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This month's Cinetopia team, Amanda Rogers, Garry Arnot (Cinema Perspective), and Clara Strachan, cover the 77th Edinburgh International Film Festival, with reviews of the films, THE OUTRUN (dir Nora Fingscheidt) , SING SING (dir Greg Kwedar), BLACK DOG (dir. Guan Hu), and LOLLIPOP (dir Daisy-May Hudson). Amanda sits down with the director and prod…
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Send us a text BONUS: Foodie travellers, don't miss this episode. The Quest Express talks to Devaki Das of Weave A Thousand Journeys! From Mumbai to Australia, from meeting her husband in Singapore to a book of clients who have claimed her services for life - enjoy her personal journey to Weave A Thousand Journeys. Inside: Family template and influ…
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Mattie joins a recently re-Miloed gang to discuss how voters on both sides of the Atlantic only want delivery, and don’t care about scandals - whether it’s all of Eric Adams’ friends getting their phones seized by the FBI, or jillionaires playing dress up with the Labour Front Bench (and the Observer article that blithely describes all the shenanig…
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The First Minister takes questions from Members during FMQs. Topics covered this week included junk food advertising, Transport Scotland's consultancy fees and the Flamingo Land Lomond Banks planning application. Transcripts are available on our website: https://www.parliament.scot/chamber-and-committees/official-report/search-what-was-said-in-parl…
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In this lively episode, Anat Admati (Professor of Finance and Economics at Stanford) explains what she believes to be wrong about banking, and how it should be changed. Anat is co-author (with Martin Hellwig) of The Bankers' New Clothes, originally published in 2013, then expanded and re-published this year to encompass the era of increased regulat…
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Karla Black in conversation with Fiona Bradley, Director of Fruitmarket, from September 2021. This event accompanied Karla’s 2021 exhibition, sculptures (2001–2021) details for a retrospective. Scottish artist Karla Black makes sculptures that begin with a desire to do something. To experiment with certain materials, certain colours. In turn, the s…
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Bloomberg’s resident cryptocurrency anthropologist Zeke Faux rejoins the gang to discuss the VERY easy marriage of the Crypto and MAGA worlds, with a special focus on some of the freaks and weirdos who made it happen. Check out Zeke’s work here! https://zekefaux.com/ If you want access to our Patreon bonus episodes, early releases of free episodes,…
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Jim Vallely was a writer/producer on the iconic comedy show: Arrested Development – which earned him an Emmy. Jim also worked on The Golden Girls, Two and a Half Men, The John Larroquette Show, and got his start on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson - with his comedy duo: The Funny Boys. We do a masterclass deep-dive with Jim on comedy writing, pr…
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The Guilty Feminist 410. Fostering Presented by Deborah Frances-White and Kiri Pritchard-McLean with guests Rebekah Pierre, Sarah Thomas and Lemn Sissay Recorded 15 July 2024 at Kings Place. Released 16 September. The Guilty Feminist theme composed by Mark Hodge. More about Deborah Frances-White https://deborahfrances-white.com https://twitter.com/…
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Welcome back to Thank You, Places! In this bonus episode, you'll hear audio diaries recorded by the Henry V cast and crew in Edinburgh this August. We'll be back soon, with more bonus content, as well as interviews. Please enjoy! Featured Voices: Kat Alix-Gaudreau Delenn Martin Michelle Leibowitz Rob Slotnick Lori Rabeler Flynn Shanahan Roger Alix-…
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Seamus Malekafzali returns to the show to talk to us about a report into the BBC’s reporting by a law firm that alleges the organisation is not sympathetic enough to Israel… but don’t worry about the report being biased, they used ChatGPT! Also, we talk about Elon Musk’s blanketing South Memphis in methane gas, and look at executive misbehaviour at…
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As evocative as ever, this is the third episode of Doris's stories. This time she talks about the big family move from Primrose Street in Leith to the new corporation housing at Craigour in the early 1950s. From the rarity of seeing a car on the street to wandering the countryside around Craigour- a scheme that only consisted of a few streets in th…
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In this talk Dr Camilla Mørk Røstvik presents the sanitary bin in its historical context for the first time, and argues that it reveals changing attitudes towards menstruation, the environment and bathroom politics.You can also watch this talk on our website: https://www.rcpe.ac.uk/heritage/talks/history-menstruation-and-sanitary-waste-managementTw…
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For Sepsis Awareness Month, Dr Marilena Giannoudi speaks with Dr Ron Daniels about sepsis. They discuss the causes, investigation, management, and prevention of sepsis. Topics include the Sepsis 6 and escalation of care, use of blood cultures, septic shock, and post-sepsis syndrome.Dr Ron Daniels is an NHS Consultant in Intensive Care, based at Uni…
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The First Minister takes questions from Members. Topics covered this week included the closure of the Grangemouth oil refinery, a Just Transition, and the reported rise in hospice care costs. Transcripts are available on our website: https://www.parliament.scot/chamber-and-committees/official-report/search-what-was-said-in-parliament…
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Did Linford Christie take part in the Dad’s race at his kids’s school sports day? Russell and Linford discuss what it’s like to be bloody quick, what it’s like to win an Olympic gold medal, and why Linford used to growl like a tiger at his competitors on the starting blocks. It’s a really interesting and intimate chat with a British legend, seeing …
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For this week’s free one, Riley, Hussein, and November discuss the recent Grenfell enquiry and the way in which it lays the blame across a comprehensive spectrum of British political elites—but also discuss who’s actually going to be held liable for it. And given the track record of recent British courts of enquiry, it seems zero is a safe bet. If …
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It's time for a mojo injection, jump in and feel lighter. This week Jojo explores the kind of crazy we ALL need. Song recommendations Tender by Blur Run Away to Mars by Talk Cake recommendations Raspberry Pavlova - my requested birthday cake :) Let's go for tiramisu - not had in ages but so good.
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Send us a text This month Effie is covering an Aberdeen case from back in 1983. George Murdoch, also known as Dodd, a taxi driver in the area, a family man, much loved by the community who was brutally murdered at the age of 58. Sources for this episode are: BBC News The Scottish Sun Sky News STV documentary Unsolved Who is the cheese wire killer -…
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