Episodes
Thursday May 16, 2019
Hypnotherapist Marie Blackie Ferguson chats to Pat about the power of the mind.
Thursday May 16, 2019
Thursday May 16, 2019
Westender, Maree Blackie Ferguson, is an exuberant and inspirational hypnotherapist.
Marie’s latest therapy involves the installation of a virtual gastric balloon. And the news is that Pat was guinea pig for this new therapy. We hear all about it - and much more - in this fascinating episode.
Jim & Pat's Glasgow West End Chat - Episode 71
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Tuesday Apr 23, 2019
Stephen Bull - musician, songwriter and producer chats to Jim
Tuesday Apr 23, 2019
Tuesday Apr 23, 2019
In this episode I chat the musician and songwriter Stephen Bull about his life as a musician and about his lastest project called Nebular Tuesday. Nebular Tuesday combines literature and music to tell a mysterious story set on a remote Scottish Island.
Stephen tells a fascinating tale of the up and downs of being a professional musician in an ever changing music business. A genuine talent with a story to tell.
Jim & Pat's Glasgow West End Chat - Episode 70
Links
Twitter: @glasgowswestend
Music by Jim Byrne
Friday Mar 29, 2019
Friday Mar 29, 2019
Emily Cutts Chair and founder of the Children’s Wood (a project in Glasgow’s West End) chats to Pat about her book ‘The Dear Wild Space: green spaces, community and campaigning’.
Emily is an enthusiastic advocate of the importance of wild spaces and outdoor play for children. She has just released a book entitled ‘The Dear Wild Space: green spaces, community and campaigning’ which she will be talking about at Aye Write. Satureday 31 March, 2019 in Glasgow Royal Concert Hall.
Jim & Pat's Glasgow West End Chat - Episode 69
Links
Twitter: @glasgowswestend
Music by Jim Byrne
Tuesday Mar 12, 2019
Tuesday Mar 12, 2019
Film director Niall McCann and musician Adrian Crowley talk to Pat about the film The Science of Ghosts
The Science of Ghosts was one of the standout films at Glasgow Film Festival 2019. Directed by Niall McCann, the film focuses on the life of the musician Adrian Crowley, Pat caught up with the two Irishmen at Citizen M, Glasgow.
Jim & Pat's Glasgow West End Chat - Episode 68
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Twitter: @glasgowswestend
Thursday Feb 28, 2019
Thursday Feb 28, 2019
Karl Geary is an Irish born actor and writer, now living in Glasgow after having spent many years in New York.
His debut novel Montpelier Parade was selected as a Book of the Year in the Irish Times and The Times and SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA FIRST NOVEL AWARD 2017
It was described by The Guardian as ‘an auspicious debut’.
Karl is also an accomplished actor and director. His acting roles include Sex and the City, Hysteria – The Def Leppard Story, and Hamlet (2000). And notably he appeared in Madonna's Sex book.
Jim & Pat's Glasgow West End Chat - Episode 67
Links
Twitter: @glasgowswestend
Music by Jim Byrne
Thursday Feb 14, 2019
Thursday Feb 14, 2019
Terry Neason, singer songwriter, actor, stage performer and business coach chats to Pat
A real treat for you this week. Pat took a trip to the Kings Theatre to chat with the singer songwriter, actor, stage performer and business coach Terry Neason.
Terry is a born entertainer; she chats about her role in The Glasgow Girls (currently playing in Dublin) and her work with the groundbreaking 7.84 and Wildcat Theatre Companies.
We hear about Terry's philosophical approach to life and about all the laughs and heartaches she's had along the way.
Jim & Pat's Glasgow West End Chat - Episode 66
links
Twitter: @glasgowswestend
Music by Jim Byrne
Tuesday Feb 05, 2019
Denise Noone - freelance photographer Denise chats with Pat.
Tuesday Feb 05, 2019
Tuesday Feb 05, 2019
Freelance photographer Denise chats with Pat
Pat chats to freelance photographer Denise Noone. We first met Denise when we visited the amazing ‘Bathing Bells’ photography exhibition at Govanhill Baths late last year.
Denise explains the inspiration behind the exhibition and her approach, her education in Ireland, London and at Glasgow University. And tells Pat about working in Cafe Gandolfi - a job she loved.
Jim & Pat's Glasgow West End Chat - Episode 65
Links
Twitter: @glasgowswestend
Music by Jim Byrne
Wednesday Jan 30, 2019
Wednesday Jan 30, 2019
Jim & Pat's Glasgow West End Chat - Episode 64
Pat chats to Ruby McCann is a Glasgow poet, writer, playwright, and creative writing tutor. She’s won numerous awards had her work featured in many publications and is promoter and facilitator of numerous creative events.
You can tell that Pat loved chatting to Ruby - about all the projects she is involved in and numerous talented writers she has worked with.
I can safely say that when it comes to representing the best of Scotland's literature Ruby is the perfect ambassador.
Links
Twitter: @glasgowswestend
Music by Jim Byrne
Thursday Jan 17, 2019
Thursday Jan 17, 2019
Poet Magi Gibson chats to Pat. Magi Gibson is a poet, writer and creative writing tutor. Originally from Kilsyth, now living in Glasgow’s West End.
Jim & Pat's Glasgow West End Chat - Episode 63
Magi has had so many accolades and accomplishments that it would be impossible for me to list even a small portion of them here. She was the first Makar of the City of Stirling (for 500 years) and has held three Scottish Arts Council Creative Writing Fellowships and one Royal Literary Fund Writing Fellowship with the University of Paisley.
Magi was Writer in Residence with the Gallery of Modern Art in Glasgow and Reader in Residence with Glasgow Women’s Library from 2012 - 2015.
Her work has won many prizes and is well loved by fellow writers and former students.
Magi's latest poetry collection, Washing Hugh MacDiarmid’s Socks is out now from Luath Press.
Links
Twitter: @glasgowswestend
Thursday Dec 27, 2018
Eileen Reid, writer with the Scottish Review.
Thursday Dec 27, 2018
Thursday Dec 27, 2018
Pat chats with Eileen Reid, writer with the Scottish Review. Eileen chats about her family, music, the Communist connection in Clydebank, her father Jimmy Reid and her friend Kenneth Roy who was the journalist and editor of the Scottish Review.
Pat and Eileen haven't seen each other for 40 years so they have a bit of catching up to do.
Jim & Pat's Glasgow West End Chat - Episode 62
Links
Twitter: @glasgowswestend
Music by Jim Byrne