Curious City
Welcome to Curious City, the podcast from Glasgow Life Museums. In each episode, we travel across Glasgow discovering locations around the city and objects from our collections that link in surprising ways - uncovering the stories that surround us.
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What secrets are revealed on a museum tour, how do you join one and why do people give their free time to be a guide? We head over to the Burrell Collection to find out.
Tuesday Nov 05, 2024
Tuesday Nov 05, 2024
In this episode Jade Graham, programme manager at Kelvin Hall takes us on a personal tour and we meet tour guides, curators and geologists along the way.
Tuesday Oct 22, 2024
Tuesday Oct 08, 2024
Tuesday Oct 08, 2024
Welcome to Curious City. In this episode, fashion historian Mairi MacKenzie joins David Scott to discover how the dark, and darkness, has influenced the development of the city.
Tuesday Sep 24, 2024
Tuesday Sep 24, 2024
Welcome to Curious City. In this episode, history enthusiast April Hamilton joins David Scott for a fascinating look into the impact light has on life and the city, throughout time and on our museum objects.
Tuesday Sep 10, 2024
Tuesday Sep 10, 2024
In this episode of Curious City, as part of the Discovering Degas exhibition at the Burrell Collection, we return to the museum to hear how the exhibition has been received and take a look at what Degas' subjects mean in a 21st Century context.
Host Michael MacKinnon is joined by the guest, and exhibition co-curator Pippa Stephenson-Sit.
Tuesday Aug 27, 2024
Tuesday Aug 27, 2024
Welcome to Curious City. In this episode journalist and broadcaster Rona Dougall invites us into her STV studio and talks us through life on the set. Plus, we visit Kelvin Hall to discover an enormous new tv studio and head over to the Glasgow Museums Resource Centre in Nitshill to see an early TV set.
Tuesday Aug 13, 2024
Tuesday Aug 13, 2024
Welcome to Curious City. In this episode film critic Alistair Harkness is our guide to Glasgow on film, we explore the city's lost cinemas with Norrie Wilson, and meet artist Thomas McGoran, who takes us back to cinema's golden era.
Tuesday Jul 30, 2024
Tuesday Jul 30, 2024
Welcome to Curious City. Lost Glasgow's Norry Wilson is back to take us on a musical tour of Glasgow, stopping at some of our best-loved record shops, community choirs, concert halls and revives the ghost of some legendary lost venues.
Tuesday Jul 16, 2024
Tuesday Jul 16, 2024
Welcome to Curious City. Comedian, writer and broadcaster Susan Morrison joins us to look at games through the ages by the way of Star Wars, the ZX Spectrum home computer and traditional children's games.