Iain Anderson Show

30/12/2025

The final show on BBC Radio Scotland. We thank you all for choosing to spend time with us. We're honoured to have been part of a like-minded community, together navigating life's ups and downs, enjoying the music, poetry and company.

Wichita Lineman - Glen Campbell
The Final Trawl - Archie Fisher
Somebody Counts On Me - Barbara Dickson
All That We Have Is Now - Jesse Wi******er
Radio Signal - The Mammals
Alba - Runrig
The Journey - Richard Digance
The Surf And The Silver Fishes - The Clydesiders
POEM: The Coming of the Wee Malkies - Stephen Mulrine
Mother Glasgow - Hue & Cry
If This Is Goodbye - Mark Knopfler & Emmylou Harris
Sailing By - The Perry/Gardner Orchestra
Takeda No Komoriuta - Miwa Nagato-Apthorp
Circle - Harry Chapin
Lay Down Your Weary Tune - Tim O'Brien
A Singer Must Die - Jennifer Warnes
Laoidh Chaluim Chille (St. Columba’s Hymn) - Mae McKenna
Don’t Leave The Light On - Leon Majcen
Urge For Going - Joni Mitchell
Lang May Yer Lums Reek - Lainey Dempsey
Called Back - John Hinshelwood
The Parting Glass - Karine Polwart & Dave Milligan
So It Goes - Billy Joel
READING: Our revels now are ended - Shakespeare, The Tempest
Padstowe Chantey - Gordon Bok & Cindy Kallet

End the day in fine and thoughtful musical company.

29/12/2025

Here's the playlist and link for the penultimate sailing on BBC Radio Scotland. Join us tonight at 10pm for the final show.

Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There is a Season) - The Byrds
Night Life - Willie Nelson
Open All Night - Siobhan Miller
The Road Goes On Forever And The Party Never Ends - Joe Ely
Near, Far, And Wide - Kirsteen Harvey
Always On My Mind - Ane Brun
The Old Lych Way - Show of Hands
The Joy Of Living - Ewan MacColl & Peggy Seeger
Part Of Me - Roly Daniels
POEM: And You Helen by Edward Thomas
Brought Me To You - May Erlewine
Sognsvann - GloriosaTrio
In My Life - The Beatles
The Galway Girl - Steve Earle & Sharon Shannon
The Harp That Once Through Tara’s Halls - Eleanor McEvoy
The Voyage - Christy Moore
Turning Of The Year - Anne-Marie Sanderson
Duan Callaig - Staran
Shian Road - Isla St Clair
Green Grow The Rashes - Andy M. Stewart
There's A Place In The World For A Gambler - Dan Fogelberg
Days Gone Down (Still Got The Light In Your Eyes) - Gerry Rafferty
We Built This Old Ship - Gordon Bok, Ed Trickett & Ann Mayo Muir

End the day in fine and thoughtful musical company.

28/12/2025

Sadly we reach the final shows on BBC Radio Scotland. Join us tonight (Sunday) at 9pm and tomorrow (Monday) at 10pm.

23/12/2025

Our second Christmas sailing of 2025. Here is last night's Monday show + playlist...

Christmas All Over Again - Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
Sunrise - Colm O Sullivan
Lifetime Show - Chris Tait & Peter Hoven
Joys Of Christmas - Chris Rea
Ugly Sweater Blues - JD McPherson
Wintersmith - Shirley Barr
On A Wing And A Prayer - Sue Skinner
Drunken Christmas Bell-Ringers - Wave Of The Flood
Carol Of The Bells - Michell, Pfeiffer & Kulesh
READING: Yes Virginia, there is a Santa Claus, The New York Sun, 1897
Old Toy Trains - Roger Miler
Loch Tay Boat Song - The Corries
Hollow Ground - RURA
Catch The Wind - Donovan
Change Of The Wind - The Paper Kites
Lord Of Chaos - Chris Cleverley
Make For Joy - evelynanddec.com
Baby's First Christmas - Connie Francis
Christmas Song - Phoebe Bridgers
Frosty The Snowman - Fiona Apple
How To Make Gravy - Paul Kelly
Some Kind of Love - Kate Wolf
Hope Christmas Gets You To Me - Lapwing
Family Tree - The Little Unsaid
Ciuin An Oidhch' - Mike Vass feat. Kathleen MacInnes
Auld Lang Syne - Gaberlunzie

End the day in fine and thoughtful musical company.

22/12/2025

A festive Sunday on board The Hesperus last night...

River - Shovels and Rope feat. Wesley Schultz
Hand On My Shoulder - Scott Ashworth
Wishing For Snow - Tom Houston
Everything Is Cool - John Prine
I See You - Ashley Campbell
Pretty Paper - Glen Campbell
Meet Me At The Light Switch On - Mountaintop Junkshop
The 25th - Foreign Affairs
Calum Bhàn - Inyal
Wild Deer - Gnoss
One More Before You Go - Seth Lakeman
Poem: The Journey Of The Magi
The Bleak Midwinter - Lisa O'Neill
The Spree We Had At Christmas - Brìghde Chaimbeul
Heart Like A Wheel - Linda Ronstadt
Keep On Walking - Passenger
Breaking - Ferester
The Reindeer Boogie - Hanks Snow
From Me To You - Calum Baird
One Day In December - Susy Wall
Wrapped In Paper - Sofia Talvik
This Christmas - Fair Weather Son
Just Like Christmas - Low
Waiting For The Lark - Eva Coyle
Christmas Came Early This Year - Hannah Rarity
He Thinks He'll Keep Her - Mary Chapin Carpenter
Same Old Lang Syne - Dan Fogelberg
I Wonder as I Wander - Jo Stafford

End the day in fine and thoughtful musical company.

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.