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Graham and Charles interview Grant McPhee, a Scottish film director, cinematographer and writer.

Books:

Two oral histories of Scottish indie music history - Hungry Beat: The Scottish Independent Pop Underground Movement (1977-1984), published by White Rabbit Books in 2022, and Postcards From Scotland: Scottish Independent Music 1983-1995 published by Omnibus Books in 2024.

The latter was 2024's Book of the Year on Two Big Egos in a Small Car.

Films:

Grant has made two successful music documentaries on Scottish indie music history - Big Gold Dream (2015 - focusing on Scottish indie record labels Fast Product and Postcard Records), Teenage Superstars (2017 - focusing on the Glasgow independent music scene between 1982 and 1992).

He won the prestigious audience choice award in 2015 for his film Big Gold Dream at the Edinburgh International Film Festival.

He was Second Assistant Camera on the Hollywood movie World War Z and Digital Imaging Technician on Under The Skin,among many other film jobs.

Last year saw Grant serving as 2nd Unit Director on two episodes of hit TV series Outlander.

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Graham discusses how two dystopian British films in 2006 (V for Vendetta and Children of Men) predicted the politics of now.

Charles takes a look at the new Robbie Williams biopic Better Man.

Graham enjoys a brilliant compilation by crime author, Ian Rankin called Behind the Counter and then previews his forthcoming Vinyl Sessions Q&A event in Harrogate on Syd Barrett and Nick Drake with author Rob Chapman as special guest.

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Charles and Graham revisit their best live music gigs of the year for 2024 with a competitive countdown of their Top 5.

Charles celebrates the extraordinary production of Bluebeard by Wise Children as his theatre event of the year, which he saw when it played at York Theatre Royal.

Graham reports on seeing comedian Maisie Adams at a small hometown gig at Roosters Taproom in Harrogate in front of her former head teacher.

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Graham shares his recent experience on BBC 6 Music plugging his many years in the Harrogate music scene on the Craig Charles show.

Graham wonders how two new very different films manage to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory (Blitz and Conclave).

Finally, Graham reveals two new books coming up in 2025 - including his own, hopefully - with a brief extract of him reading from his yet to be titled book about Harrogate’s lost band from the late 60’s and early 70’s, Magna Carta and in particular its leader, Chris Simpson.

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Rob Chapman, music writer talks about his current book, Unsung: Unsaid. Syd and Nick in absentia - about Syd Barrett and Nick Drake.

About Rob Chapman:

Rob Chapman was the singer with the Bristol-based band the Glaxo Babies and with the British alternative rock band The Transmitters, a music journalist for Mojo and other magazines and newspapers, he made some broadcasting with the BBC National Network, wrote some books, including an acclaimed Syd Barrett biography, Syd Barrett: A Very Irregular Head (2010), and a rock-novel, Dusk Music (2008). Now, Rob is primarily a writer of non-fiction (Syd Barrett, psychedelia, pirate radio, two memoirs) and fiction.

Charles and Graham discuss their Top 3 books published in 2024.

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Charles and Graham give a rundown of their Top 10 films from this year.;

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Charles and Graham take a look at their favourite albums of 2024, looking back at a blockbuster year for female artists.

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Charles and Graham are joined by novelist and short story writer, York based Ross Raisin to talk about his recent triumph in the BBC National Short Story Award with Ghost Kitchen and life as a writer.

Ross Raisin was born and brought up on Silsden Moor in West Yorkshire. He is the author of four novels: A Hunger (2022), A Natural (2017), Waterline (2011) and God’s Own Country (2008). His work has won and been shortlisted for over ten literary awards. Ross won the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year award in 2009, and in 2013 was named on Granta’s once a decade Best of Young British Novelists list. In 2018 he was awarded a Fellowship by the Royal Society of Literature.

Ross has written short stories for Granta, Prospect, the Sunday Times, Esquire, BBC Radio 3 and 4, among others, and in 2018 published a book for the Read This series, on the practice of fiction writing: Read This if you Want to be a Great Writer.

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