Iain Anderson Show

20/12/2025

No Features this week but there will be plenty festive songs to cheer about and the poetry is a bit special too. Tune in Sunday from 9pm and Monday from 10pm.

16/12/2025

Monday night's show, now on BBC Sounds...

Patrick - The Humblebums
The Race Is Always 10/1 - Adam Thom
Frightening Machines - Katherine Priddy
I’m Not Afraid Of The Dark - Paul Kelly
Insignificant As Stars - Yvonne Lyon
My Anchor - Lorna Reid
Gràdh geal mo chridh’ - Ishbel MacAskill
The Lea-Rig - Andy M. Stewart
Song For Simon - Mae McKenna
Right Down The Line - Gerry Rafferty
How Far Is It To Bethlehem? - Shirley Collins
Santa And Edie - Charlie Dore
Short Ago - Chris Amer
Blues Run The Game - Jackson C. Frank
Winter Song - Lindisfarne
Till I Met You - Stuart Mick Macfarlane
Sailing To Byzantium - Paul Kelly
Walking Into Doors - Archie Roach
Tha mo spiorad cianail - Ishbel MacAskill
The Right Moment - Barbara Dickson
As Wise As A Serpent - Gerry Rafferty
Siren - Emma Miller
Midnight Oil - The Magpies
If You Could Hear Me Now - The Mammals

End the day in fine and thoughtful musical company.

15/12/2025

Catch up with Sunday night's sailing on BBC Sounds...

Singin’ In The Rain - John Martyn
Near, Far, And Wide - Kirsteen Harvey
Tell Us A Story (Part A) - Paul Kelly
Moonlight Kiss - Raul Malo
Thig an smeòrach as t-earrach - Ishbel MacAskill
The Dear Green Place - Adam McNaughtan
Whatever’s Written In Your Heart - Karine Polwart
Night Owl - Gerry Rafferty
Heaven’s Side - Niamh Corkey
POEM: Stopping by woods on a snowy evening - Robert Frost
Oh Little Town Of Bethlehem - Annie Lennox
Annie - Ronnie Lane & Pete Townshend
Stille natt - Gjermund Larsen Trio
Making Believe - Emmylou Harris
Happy Birthday, Ada Mae - Paul Kelly
Christmas Day - John Spillane
Isle Of Eigg - Robin Laing
Wind And White Horses - Sulidae
Gur muladach sgìth mi - Ishbel MacAskill
The Names - Colin Macduff
Mary Skeffington - Olivia Newton-John
Look Over The Hill And Far Away - The Humblebums
Shiver - Outi Karhu
Sol Invictus - Thea Gilmore
Christmas Came Early This Year - Hannah Rarity
Waltzing’s For Dreamers - Dave Burland

End the day in fine and thoughtful musical company.

14/12/2025

A seasonal mystery lyric for you too...

Degree of difficulty: 3.8 / clue: when Hull freezes over

"The creeping cold has fingers
That caress without permission"

What’s the song?

14/12/2025

And the featured songwriter is that hero of Scottish music, Gerry Rafferty.

14/12/2025

For the featured archive album, we return to one of the most cherished albums in the collection: 'Sìoda' by Ishbel MacAskill.

14/12/2025

We're still with you this week at our usual times on Sunday and Monday evenings. The featured album is 'Seventy' by Paul Kelly, the legendary Australian songwriter looking at life, seven decades on.

09/12/2025

Monday night's show and playlist. Listen at your leisure with BBC Sounds.

Santa Take Me Home - Kathleen MacInnes
Paint Upon A Love Song - Adam Thom
Across The River - Tom Houston
The Burning Of Auchindoun - Emma Capponi
Phantasmagoria - Amy Duncan
Lay Lady Lay - Bird
Look At Miss Ohio - King Hannah
Gulf Coast Highway - Nanci Griffith & Mac McAnally
Teann A-Nall / Clachan Ghlinn Da Ruadhail - Meantime
The Glasgow That I Used to Know - The Clydesiders
They’re Pulling Doon The Building Next To Oors - Adam McNaughtan
Ae Fond Kiss - Andy M. Stewart
Miss Grainger - Greg Lawson & Donald Shaw with Sorren Maclean
Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy) - John Lennon
Oh Yeah (On The Radio) - Roxy Music
My Brother Built For Me A Bancy Bower - Emma Capponi
Maitia Nun Zira? - Kepa Junkera
Drunken Christmas Bellringers - Wave Of The Flood
The Jeely Piece Song - Adam McNaughtan
Football Crazy - Robin Hall & Jimmy MacGregor
Sweet Dreams Will Come - Nanci Griffth & John Stewart
Marykirk an' Craigo - Kevin Thomson
Again, My Love - Elanor Moss
The Bleak Midwinter - Lisa O'Neill
Kentucky Waltz - Greenshine
Freedom Come All Ye - Dick Gaughan

End the day in fine and thoughtful musical company.

08/12/2025

Last night's Sunday sailing for anyone who may have missed it!

If We Make it Through December - Merle Haggard
Miracle Of Love - davesnewbike
The Rarest Hour - Amble
The Lass of Aughrim - Emma Capponi
My Heart Is Yours To Keep Andy Chung
My Antique Ladies' Bicycle - Jim McAteer
Outbound Plane - Nanci Griffith
Green Onions - Booker T & The MGs
Cholesterol - Siobhan Miller
The Scottish Song - Adam Mcnaughtan
If - Joe McMahon
Frankie's Dog - Five Hand Reel
A Winter's Tale - David Essex
Barbry Ellen - Emma Capponi
Mary Hamilton - Joan Baez
Talisker Bay - Robin Laing
Yellow On The Broom - Jean Redpath
Oor Hamlet - Adam McNaughtan
Abigail - Miwa Nagato-Apthorp
Travelling Light - Stewart Henderson, Yvonne Lyon, Carol Henderson
Love Wore A Halo (Back Before The War) - Nanci Griffith
Seo A' Bhliadhna - Sian
If You're Free - Eric Bibb
River - Joni Mitchell

End the day in fine and thoughtful musical company.

06/12/2025

Not forgetting this week's Mystery Song Lyric:

Degree of Difficulty: 3.2
Clue: The sound of nostalgia

“It’s some time since we said goodbye
And now we lead our separate lives”

Can you name the song?

06/12/2025

This week's Featured Songwriter is a tribute to the wonderful Glasgow folk singer and songwriter, Adam McNaughtan, whose voice and wit we sadly lost last week but whose songs will live on.

06/12/2025

Our Featured Archive Album for this week is 'Little Love Affairs' by Nanci Griffith. It was Nanci's sixth studio album, released in 1988 on MCA Records. Blending folk and country influences, it features songs like “I Knew Love” and “Gulf Coast Highway,” which became staples of her repertoire. The album showcases her gift for tender, narrative songwriting.