MONDAY is International Women’s Day and to mark the event, Indy Live Radio is broadcasting four separate shows over the weekend.
The first edition was already broadcast at 11am yesterday and the second programme goes out today at 7pm. The original intention was to repeat the two programmes on Monday, but such has been the response that the shows on International Women’s Day (IWD) itself – 11am to 1pm and 3 to 5pm – will feature fresh material.
Produced by Marlene Halliday and Valerie Gauld, Indy Live Radio volunteer team members, the four programmes will feature interviews with a range of women from different backgrounds, while there will also be music and poetry.
Those featured include Agnes Tolmie, chair of the Scottish Women’s Convention, and Rehana Abid from Lajna Ima’illah, the Ahmadiyya Women’s Community, both of whom are organising special IWD events.
The National was keen to be involved and other interviewees include our very own Shona Craven, plus National columnists Lesley Riddoch and Ruth Wishart. Dr Nighet Riaz of the University of the West of Scotland will be a guest as will, Alison Thewliss MP, Kirsty Hughes, Michelle Thomson, Isobel Lindsay and former SNP MEP councillor Heather Anderson. Glasgow Girls co-founder Roza Salih.
Gauld said: “We will be featuring greetings with an international slant – Portuguese (from Joao Kay), and in Farsi, French and Catalan.”
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