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Roberta Burns - Part 2 is The Grantidote's fourth podcast. You're going to want to make sure you've listened to Roberta Burns - Part 1 before listening to this second part of our special edition focusing on Scottish women's poetry as an alternative to the annual Scottish tradition of celebrating Robert Burns' life and work.
In this podcast, as an intervention to the Burns' Night norm, Heather Pearson and podcast guests Robert Somynne, Catriona Courtier, Pauline Kirby and Hugh Hunter highlight poetic works by Muriel Spark, Elaine Reid, Liz Lochhead and Helen Lamb and urge listeners to also check out the work of Nadine Aisha Jassat, Kate Ailes, Jackie Kay, MC Soom T, Kathleen Jamie, Karine Polwart, Jessie Kesson, Magi Gibson and Janet Hamilton.
Five feminists in women-centering conversation for The Grantidote: Heather Pearson, Robert Somynne, Pauline Kirby, Catriona Courtier and Hugh Hunter discuss their thoughts on celebrating Robert Burns in a modern Scotland. Is it time to update the tradition to make sure women's voices are heard too? And who is this Roberta Burns anyway? Join us to find out...
Novelist and campaigner Sara Sheridan and The Grantidote's Heather Pearson talk about Sara's grandmothers, Kitty and Eva and how their incredible lives have influenced who Sara is today and why issues like equality and Brexit strike at the very heart of her identity.
Grete was a bookbinder who lived in Copenhagen. She was also a master of providing security and stability to her grandson. So much so, in fact, it seems she channelled and modelled The Power of Now way before Eckhart Tolle ever thought of writing the book.
Robert, a 48 year old Tech Consultant, talks here on The Grantidote's first podcast about his deep love and gratitude for his Farmor (father's mother).