Independence, Annibyniaeth, Independència
Podlitical
BBC
4.6 • 157 Ratings
🗓️ 18 May 2023
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
How does the Scottish independence movement compare to those in other countries? Where do independence campaigns share similarities, and where do they differ? The team is joined by journalist Guy Hedgecoe in Madrid, and Will Hayward, Welsh Affairs Editor for WalesOnline, to compare and contrast the Catalan and Welsh independence movements with Scotland, and get a sense of the political and public sentiment for the movements.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds |
| 0:02.4 | Hello, future Lucy here |
| 0:05.3 | Just dropping in to say this podcast |
| 0:07.0 | was recorded before the resignation |
| 0:09.2 | of the Plied Cumry Leader Adam Price |
| 0:11.6 | And if you're wondering why that's relevant |
| 0:13.5 | Then keep listening |
| 0:14.5 | You're listening to BBC Scotland. |
| 0:21.6 | Hi, you're listening to Podlitical BBC Scotland's podcast that brings you an inside look at the biggest stories coming out of Hollywood's and Westminster. |
| 0:31.6 | I'm Lucy White, a journalist based in Glasgow and Phil is here too. |
| 0:37.7 | Well, he's not physically here in Glasgow, but he's here and part of the podcast. |
| 0:41.9 | Yeah. |
| 0:42.5 | No, I'm in my house, which is... |
| 0:44.7 | Not in Glasgow. |
| 0:45.9 | No. |
| 0:46.8 | Yeah, so we're going to do something a bit differently today. |
| 0:49.7 | We're taking the time away from day-to-day politics and we're going to focus on an issue. |
| 0:54.9 | Independence, but not just Scottish independence, undoubtedly one of, if not the defining debate of Scottish political life for the past decade or more. |
| 1:06.0 | But we've been chatting about this and we're not alone in this country in that regard and having |
| 1:12.2 | an independence to be ongoing. So throughout this episode we're going to talk about the state |
| 1:17.8 | of the independence movement in Scotland but we're going to also be joined by some people who can |
| 1:22.3 | help us potentially colour in some of what we might not know about independence movements elsewhere in the world. |
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