SatLive: 26 July 2014: From Glasgow with Mark Beaumont




Saturday Live show

Summary: Aasmah Mir and Richard Coles with a programme from Glasgow to celebrate the Commonwealth Games. Joining them are Mark Beaumont the record-breaking long-distance Scottish cyclist, adventurer, broadcaster and Queens Baton bearer. Also, Sir Geoff Palmer Professor Emeritus of brewing at Heriot-Watt University, and Scotland's first black professor. We meet the former class mates who campaigned for a fairer deal for asylum seekers. There's live music from Dave and the Turtles, three school friends who have just won the Big Big Sing Commonwealth songwriting competition. Louise Martin is the chair of sportscotland shares her Inheritance Tracks with us. David Watson has spent the last 10 years mapping the Masai Marra Game Reserve. We hear from Hamish Khayat and friends who are currently mid-Indian ocean in a rowing boat. Author and journalist Damian Barr gives thanks to an anonymous benefactor for the impact they've had on his career. Plus poetry from Sierra Leone, Gibraltar and Nauru.