The Stories and the Songs - Celtic and World War One
The Cynic | A Celtic FC Podcast
Christopher Gallagher
4.9 • 678 Ratings
🗓️ 17 March 2020
⏱️ 50 minutes
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The Stories and the Songs is a new podcast series that focuses on the history and culture of Celtic the club as well as the supporters and players.
In episode one Chris Gallagher is joined by Lindsay Hamilton as they look into what effect World War One had on Celtic and Scottish Football.
We discuss the Celtic players that went to fight in France as well as looking briefly at the McCrae's Battalion. We discuss how football was used as a propaganda tool to get young working class men to enlist.
We discuss in detail Peter Johnstone, Donald McLeod and the incredible story of Willie Angus, recipient of the Victoria Cross.
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| 0:00.0 | The Thank you. I'm not. |
| 0:23.6 | I'm not. Hello and welcome to the stories and the songs, a new podcast series. |
| 0:49.3 | I'm Chris Galaher and I'm joined by Lindsay Hamilton. |
| 0:53.0 | Hello, Lindsay. |
| 0:53.8 | Hello, Chris. This |
| 0:54.8 | podcast is going to be about different stories, some historical stuff. Lindsay works part-time |
| 1:01.2 | at the Glasgow at the Scottish Football Museum. Can you tell us a little bit about that? |
| 1:06.3 | Yeah, so I'm a tour guide at the Scottish Football Museum. I have been for a couple of years now |
| 1:09.7 | and I just love it. I just love to have stories but football funnily enough. We all do and I get paid for it so happy |
| 1:15.8 | it is. But yeah so I do the museum stuff there. The museum's cracking if you've never been go. |
| 1:22.2 | And yeah I do the main tour. And it's great. It's just great fun. Yeah. I've done the tour myself a couple of times. |
| 1:29.8 | Fantastic. |
| 1:30.3 | Really, really, really great. |
| 1:31.2 | You also do your own tours. |
| 1:33.3 | Glasgow Football Tour.com. |
| 1:36.0 | That's Lindsay's website. |
| 1:37.9 | Tell us a little bit about the tour. |
| 1:39.2 | Yeah, so it's a two-hour driven tour of the city. |
| 1:43.1 | We go five locations, |
| 1:45.1 | Celtic Park, Ibrooks. |
| 1:47.7 | Furr Hill, I'll always be that. |
| 1:49.7 | Furr Hill, Hamden and Kauffkin Park, |
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