Clyde-born and Clyde-built

​A special two hour session on Glasgow and the Clyde with words, music and poetry. In his novel, Waterline, Ross Raisin brings vividly to life the story of an ordinary man caught between the loss of a great love and the hard edges of modern existence, tracing a journey from the Glasgow shipyards to the crowded, sweating kitchens of an airport hotel, to the streets and riversides of London. Novelist and historian Maggie Craig’s When the Clyde Ran Red looks at the roots of the ‘Red Clydeside’ movement at the turn of the twentieth century. They are joined by Neelam Bakshi (reader), David Betteridge (editor), Ann Henderson, George McEwan and Ewan McVicar (contributors) who will present extracts from A Rose Loupt Oot, an anthology of poems and songs celebrating the Upper Clyde Shipbuilders’ work-in of 1971-2.

Chaired by Ruth Wishart.