The Queen and Scotland
Podlitical
BBC
4.6 • 157 Ratings
🗓️ 15 September 2022
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
The team reflect on the Queen's influence on Scotland and Scottish politics. BBC Scotland politics correspondent Kirsten Campbell and BBC News Scotland editor James Cook join to share their experience covering the news of the Queen's death, and their memories of the late monarch and her impact on the Scottish political landscape. From the formal openings of Holyrood, the tensions during the 2014 Independence Referendum, to her love for the country in which she found "a haven and a home" - what next for Scotland and it's new sovereign King Charles III?
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds. |
| 0:03.4 | Hi, you're listening to Podlitical, BBC Scotland's podcast. |
| 0:06.5 | It brings you an inside look at the big stories coming out of Hollywood and Westminster. |
| 0:10.4 | It's 10 past 12 on Thursday the 15th of September. |
| 0:14.3 | I'm Lucy White, a journalist based in Glasgow. |
| 0:17.1 | And today I'm joined by. |
| 0:18.5 | Kirsten Campbell, and I'm a political correspondent based at Holyrood. |
| 0:23.1 | I'm James Cook. I'm the BBC's Scotland editor and I'm with Lucy in the studio. |
| 0:27.6 | I'm Phil Sim. I'm a political correspondent today based in my house. |
| 0:31.6 | So we are going to take a little minute this week to reflect on the events really of the past week since we were last in |
| 0:39.9 | your feeds of course we've had the death of the queen a lot of ceremony has followed that a lot of |
| 0:46.5 | grieving from a lot of people a lot of mourning and we wanted to just take a pause and look at |
| 0:53.2 | the situation particularly as it relates to the |
| 0:56.4 | Queen and the Monarchy's relationship with Scotland and with politics in Scotland and the |
| 1:01.7 | political landscape in Scotland. Kirsten, I am reliably informed that you've been present for |
| 1:08.9 | every royal visit to Holyrood. Is that right? It's right. |
| 1:13.9 | Probably not that many journalists left at the Scottish Parliament who've been here since 1999 |
| 1:18.8 | and can remember the Queen coming on that remarkable summer's day to open the Scottish Parliament. |
| 1:25.0 | And she, of course, has been here 10 times. |
| 1:27.9 | She came for all six opening sessions. |
| 1:31.5 | So after each election, there's a formal opening of each Parliament. |
| 1:35.5 | And she has come every single time. |
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