A Kick Up The Arts with Nicola Meighan

About A Kick Up The Arts with Nicola Meighan

A Scottish Arts & Culture Podcast with Nicola Meighan

Publisher

Nicola Meighan

Category

arts · leisure · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

19 Sept 2024

Latest episode

20 Sept 2026

Latest episodes

64 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   20 Sept 2026

   Frances Crawford: A Bad, Bad Place

   Send us Fan Mail Here’s a quick-fire episode, recorded in a rowdy Green Room at the Golden Lion, to celebrate the brilliant winner of two of Scotland’s most prestigious book awards at this year’s Bloody Scotland crime writing festival in Stirling. In what was a historic first, Glasgow author Frances Crawford won both the Debut Prize, and the McIlvanney Prize, for her exceptional novel, A Bad, Bad Place, which takes us back to Possilpark in 1979, via family, community, secrets, punk rock...

2. 

   17 Sept 2026

   Antigone at The Tron with Eilidh Loan, Holly Howden Gilchrist and Finn den Hertog

   Send us Fan Mail I’m revisiting a legendary old place of work in this episode, as I go back to Glasgow’s Tron Theatre to hear about a bold, fresh, and contemporary take on Sophocles’ epic Greek tragedy, Antigone… Lulu Raczka’s fired-up reimagining of the classic text is directed by Finn den Hertog, whose credits include Pitlochry Festival Theatre’s Lear, Dundee Rep and the Royal Lyceum’s Sunset Song, and the Fifth Step with the National Theatre of Scotland… Finn’s first production for The Tro...

3. 

   5 Aug 2026

   Val McDermid and Jo Sharp: This Door of the Seas

   Send us Fan Mail I’m hearing from two brilliant women, and minds, who’ve joined forces to explore a wild - and under-documented, and misunderstood - chapter in Scottish history… In their superb new novella, This Door of the Seas, best-selling writer Val McDermid has teamed up with Geographer Royal for Scotland Jo Sharp - they’re partners in crime, and partners in life - as they trace the journey and tale of the Darien venture… It saw more than 2000 Scots sail into the unknown at t...

Who has been a guest on A Kick Up The Arts with Nicola Meighan

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Jordan Young
• Jemima Levick
• Gordon Buchanan
• Gavin Mitchell
• Barbara Dickson

Reach and audience

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Spotify

5.0 / 5

6 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 23 / 100

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Quality

32

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

32

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