Showing posts with label charles docherty. Show all posts
Showing posts with label charles docherty. Show all posts

Friday, 10 October 2014

Err, is there anyone here either?...

So here's the thing:

You'll see that we finished up our little podcast in February of this year. It's now closing in on the end of 2014. That's a ferr bit later.

"What's the relevance of that", you ask?

Well I'll tell you, seeing as how you asked. It's just that, even though we've not gone near a microphone for about eight long months, you wacky folk are still downloading the last one we did. Even more weirdly you're also still downloading the other episodes we spewed out into the ether.

I mean, what's wrong with you all?

The reason I'm writing this, therefore, is to test the water and gauge whether it'd be worth resurrecting Glasgow Generations. Anyone up for it? I know Faither is!

So let me know here and via the site, or on my Twitter orFacebook, and if more than one person replies we'll have a think.

In the meantime, if you're missing my dulcit tones you'll be delighted to know that I'm in the middle of recording an audiobook edition of Wee Glesca, my pocket guide to Glasgow that, again pretty weirdly, raced to become the number one best-selling Glasgow travel guide on Amazon. Who'd have thunk it, eh?

Click here for the download edition

Click here to find it on Amazon

So arrabest and (maybe) see y'all again sometime soon!

Wednesday, 2 December 2009

The First: "Rambling"



The First: "Rambling".

In this, the first episode of the new Glasgow Generations podcast, you'll hear Scott Docherty talk Glasgow with his dad, Charlie Docherty. You'll hear lots of rambling bits and pieces about the Townhead area Charlie was brought up in, some of the bombs that either exploded or didn't explode in the City during WWII, a little about the teacher's strap & punishment exercises, oh, a great deal about banana rationing! To be fair, we do say at the outset that it'll be pretty general to begin with, so surely we're off the hook on that one (erm...), but no doubt in time we'll get far more specific about the history of Glasgow if we work out how to keep faither on track!

The photo you might see attached to this episode is of Charlie and his motley crew from school, circa 1949-ish, including Brother Gabriel and another particular teacher who, after listening to this show, may sue us for defamation!


Welcome to Glasgow Generations, and feel free to share your own memories of the City with us.