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Hosted by Nicola Meighan · arts · EN-US · 64 episodes
A Scottish Arts & Culture Podcast with Nicola Meighan
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Signup to Generate a PitchA Kick Up The Arts with Nicola Meighan is hosted by Nicola Meighan. The show has published 64 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "Frances Crawford: A Bad, Bad Place" (20 September 2026, 20 minutes), "Antigone at The Tron with Eilidh Loan, Holly Howden Gilchrist and Finn den Hertog" (17 September 2026, 21 minutes), and "Val McDermid and Jo Sharp: This Door of the Seas" (5 August 2026, 42 minutes).
A Kick Up The Arts with Nicola Meighan publishes roughly every two weeks, with episodes averaging 48 minutes across 64 episodes.
Booking probability for A Kick Up The Arts with Nicola Meighan is 31%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. A Kick Up The Arts with Nicola Meighan requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. A Kick Up The Arts with Nicola Meighan's contact route on record: public web form.
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A Kick Up The Arts with Nicola Meighan
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...
A Kick Up The Arts with Nicola Meighan
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...
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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...
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Send us Fan Mail As we charge headlong into a month of madness at the Edinburgh Festivals , I’m joined by Scottish theatre revolutionaries Grid Iron to chat about their Fringe adaptation of Andrew O’Hagan’ s Mayflies...
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Send us Fan Mail I’m in conversation with one of our most thrilling writers, and humans, Michael Pedersen , live from the wonderful Bookmonger in Bearsden… Michael’s the Edinburgh makar, and a veritable cultural...
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Send us Fan Mail I’m back in my Stirling local, the Golden Lion , for a whistle-stop tour of this year’s programme for Bloody Scotland International Crime Writing Festival , which launched a couple of days ago, and...
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Send us Fan Mail The last 30-odd years of Scottish culture would look, and sound, wildly different - and woefully less thrilling - without musician and songwriter Emma Pollock - co-founder of the Delgados , and the...
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Send us Fan Mail This episode, recorded live, is dedicated to one of Scotland’s most brilliant, singular, and quietly radical voices… One hundred years ago today, Agnes Owens was born, and it was such a joy to be part...
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Send us Fan Mail If you're a fan of Dundee burger impresario Bob Servant , Leith -set sibling thriller Guilt , and true-life Brinks-Mat heist drama The Gold - you are in for a treat... My guest on this episode is...
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Send us Fan Mail In this episode, I'm chatting with David MacGregor , aka Broken Chanter, about his terrific new album... The follow-up to 2024's Chorus of Doubt , it's a rallying cry for empathy, and a call-to-arms, to...
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Send us Fan Mail If you missed my sold-out conversation with Del Amitri's Justin Currie at the Edinburgh Fringe a few months back - or even if you were in our lovely audience at The Stand and fancy listening again...
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Send us Fan Mail We’re back in Glasgow’s magical Alasdair Gray Archive on this episode, for a chat with two brilliant Scottish writers, and literary leading lights - Rory Watson and Alan Bissett … Rory is a poet...
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Send us Fan Mail A few weeks ago, I was delighted to host the press launch of this year's Glasgow Film Festival , with new Head of Programme Paul Gallagher and Programme Manager Chris Kumar , at the GFT. We sat down...
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Send us Fan Mail Well, since the Spring is very nearly upon us, we’re celebrating the forthcoming season of Scottish lunchtime theatre phenomenon - A Play, A Pie, and A Pint . Founded by the hugely missed David...
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Send us Fan Mail We’re celebrating the wonder of writer, artist, Glasgow icon and cultural polymath Alasdair Gray - not for the first time, I grant you… The annual Gray Day takes place at Glasgow’s Oran Mor on February...
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Send us Fan Mail My guest in this episode is an award-winning, best-selling writer and style icon - look, I’m just stating the facts here - whose terrific work includes crime fiction, comic books, theatre shows, and...
A Kick Up The Arts with Nicola Meighan
Send us Fan Mail I’m delighted to be joined by one of our best-loved, and most successful writers, who’s sold over 30 million copies of his best-selling Rebus novels - not to mention theatre, TV and radio spin-offs, all...
A Kick Up The Arts with Nicola Meighan
Send us Fan Mail My special guest on this episode is a woman - an icon - whose brilliant debut album sounded like nothing else when it hurtled into our musical landscape 35 years ago - and there really is still nothing...
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Send us Fan Mail In this episode, I'm joined by an actor, writer, comedian and TV star, thanks to roles in Look Around You ; Fags, Mags & Bags ; Dept Q ; I Swear ; the new Irn Bru advert - and of course, Still Game...
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Send us Fan Mail In this episode - recorded live at the wonderful Stand in Glasgow - I’m joined by a legendary musician, singer and songwriter who’s been associated with so many bands and artists that if I listed them...
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