Info
- Website: http://www.radiofyneside.co.uk
- Join Date: 29/02/08
- Location: Furnace
- Partner: Paul (dives for cover at the sound of : 'I've had an idea.'
- Profile: So many incarnations... critical path analyst, university teacher in media and performing arts, director, editor of Theatre Ireland, broadcast arts critic, Arts Council panellist, news junkie, ruined idealist but still trucking on... Managing Director of Radio Fyneside (to be charity: Fyneside Media Ltd), Project Manager, http://ForArgyll.com
Entertainment
- Movies: Hero (the most visually stunning film ever made), Pulp Fiction, Look At Me
- Music: Billy Bragg (Fav track: The world turned upside down), Leonard Cohen (Joan of Arc - and have you heard 'One of us cannot be wrong'?)
- Books: Zen and the Art of Motor Cycle Maintenance (R Pirsig), Castles of Steel (R Ludlow), I have drunk ale in the country of the young (poem: WB Yeats)
- Games: Not my bag
- TV: Spitting Image (long lamented, much needed), Coast, Skins, Jonathan Ross
- Sports: Sailing, Skiing, Thinking - and Thinking again
Inspiration
- Place: Inis Saimer Co Donegal (used to live there - first to live there)
- Year: 1968 (well - we tried)
- People: My father (for inventiveness, optimism and courage), Harold Wilson (made politics fun for the first time),Tony Benn (meant what he said and did it as soon as he got the opportunity), Billy Connolly (a genuinely life enhancing spirit), Frank McGuinness (for unparalelled cultural generosity)
- Issue: Community-generated information and communications for Argyll - now - via superfast broadband for all of Scotland
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Recent Posts
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James Sinclair 1919 - 2004 ,
24 Jun 2008 in Argyll& Furnace Memories& News& POW Experiences& World War II
Background to the story
This is the story of a significant part of the life of James Sinclair of Furnace in Mid Argyll. Like many men of his generation, Jimmy went to war with schoolmates and other young men from the area, a high proportion of whom died in action. Most served in the 8th Battalion [...]
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