Shereen: Exploring the News
Post categories: Radio Scotland, Shereen
|16:30 UK time, Friday, 25 November 2011
For this week's show I've been talking to one of "the Hudson's Bay Boys". For those of you who are too young to remember, hundreds of young Scots left home between the 60s and the 80s to work for fur traders, the Hudson's Bay Company in the Canadian Arctic. Many of them stayed to make a life there. Now they've been reunited for a BBC Scotland documentary to be screened next week - Watch a clip of the programme below.
John Todd left St Andrews for the Arctic when he was just 17. He described the brutally harsh landscape and his admiration for the Inuit people for the way they deal with such hardship. John became a passionate advocate for the rights of the Inuit, especially after the collapse of the fur trade nearly destroyed their way of life. He became a millionaire from building trading links with the Inuit but ended up giving most of it away. It's a fascinating story.
This week's studio guests are The Guardian's Severin Carrell, The Herald's Iain MacWhirter, and newcomer Lisa Adams. I'm sure they'll want to get stuck into the Leveson inquiry which this week has heard a range of testimonies from celebrities like Hugh Grant to the parents of Madeleine McCann on press intrusion. It'll be interesting to hear the journalists' take on what it has thrown up. I'm sure we'll also be discussing at the latest unrest in Egypt and looking ahead to next week's strike action on St Andrews day.
As ever, if there's anything you think we should be talking about, let us know.
Comment number 1.
At 22:02 25th Nov 2011, maroonfever wrote:How about the mess of Glasgow City Council's finances. Why are the whole of BBC Scotland ignoring this ?
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