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3 unusual facts about Radio Scotland


Jack McTamney

Cuts from Jack's first album, "Halfway to NowHere" were profiled on the Iain Anderson's Radio Scotland programme on the BBC on March 30, 2011.The Philadelphia alternative newspaper, The Philadelphia City Paper, profiled Jack in its February 2, 2012 issue.

Naked Video

Naked Radio was a radio sketch show which broadcast on BBC Radio Scotland and started its ten year run on 22 January 1981.

In 2005, Gerard Kelly presented a documentary in the Radio Roots season on Radio Scotland about the show.


BBC Scottish Radio Orchestra

They recorded 'inserts' for the many music and chat shows on Radio 2 and Radio Scotland, recording with artists including Cleo Laine, Georgie Fame, Carol Kidd and trombonist Don Lusher.

Newsnight Scotland

Isobel Fraser, Sally Magnusson and Radio Scotland's Good Morning Scotland co-presenter Gary Robertson also appear on the show as stand-in presenters.

Quentin Cooper

At the BBC, he started as a producer in News and Current Affairs, then moved to produce youth programmes at Radio Scotland (in Glasgow), and Radio 5 in Manchester where he created programmes such as Hit The North which first united Mark and Lard aka Mark Radcliffe and Marc Riley and Bite the Wax presented by the then unknown Armando Iannucci.


see also

Thomas Morton

Tom Morton (born 1955), Scottish journalist, author and BBC Radio Scotland broadcaster