Episodes

  • Dougie Duguid

    Dougie Duguid
    Dec 29 2025
    Dougie Duguid talks about growing up in the town of Forres, travelling the world with the RAF, and why he came back home to reture. He compares the old-style architecture of the north-east with the modern skycrapers and glass buildings of China with interviewee Yuchen Liu.

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    24 mins
  • Ex-Royal Navy man 'Skibo' Mackenzie

    Ex-Royal Navy man 'Skibo' Mackenzie
    Dec 9 2025
    In this episode, Glasgow School of Art student Alex Tan compared her recent experiences of living in Forres with those of 'Skibo' Mackenzie, born in the town 80 years ago. He rcals singing in the Victoria Hotel, where the Erskine Veterans Centre is now, and where the itnerview took place. He hoined the Royal Navy at 15, then returned to Forres get married have raise his childre, all now grown up and living locally.

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    12 mins
  • Jack and Finlay Grey

    Jack and Finlay Grey
    Dec 7 2025
    In this episode, brothers Jack and finlay Grey interview their grandma Elizabeth McArthur, who came to Forres 50 years ago to start a new life with her farmer husband at Darnaway. She recalls the friendliness of the locals, going back to teaching, and the difficulties of running a dairy farm in the north-east.

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    14 mins
  • Darshan Hamilton and Deacon Sutcliffe

    Darshan Hamilton and Deacon Sutcliffe
    Dec 7 2025
    In this episode, Darshan Hamilton and Deacon Sutcliffe interview Forres stalwart Alex Ross, born and bred in Forres, now retired from the police force but still very ative in the community. The duo hear about two-letter car registrations, the big building company of Forres, The Culbin fire towers, and of course svhool life in the 1950s.

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    27 mins
  • Elliot Wilson (13) & grandad Dave Cameron – Part 2

    Elliot Wilson (13) & grandad Dave Cameron – Part 2
    Dec 1 2025
    In part 2, Elliot learns about school milk, and discusses the onset of AI, the omnipresnt internet and many other topics.

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    23 mins
  • Elliot Wilson (13) & grandad Dave Cameron – Part 1

    Elliot Wilson (13) & grandad Dave Cameron – Part 1
    Nov 30 2025

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    22 mins