AYE! TALKS: Elaine C. Smith
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Title: AYE! TALKS: Elaine C. Smith
Reference number: 20841
Date: 2014, June 1
Sound: sound
Colour: col
Fiction: non-fiction
Running time: 27.11 mins
Description:
Recording of an event at Govan Town Hall in Glasgow prior to the Scottish independence referendum, featuring speeches by independence supporters - a speech by actor Elaine C. Smith.
Available to view with transcript:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ehuOqqd1wc
[last accessed 08/12/2023]
Shotlist: Elaine C. Smith talks about why she is voting Yes; her long-term interest in politics; buying the idea of SNP as 'tartan Tories' until time of Jim Sillars and Margo MacDonald; Artists for an Independent Scotland involvement; poverty, poor life expectancy in Glasgow shows need for changing the way we live; need to tackle poverty of resources but also aspiration; media rumour mill against independence cause; Scottish cringe factor; power and importance of dreaming; limited democracy of modern Scotland; need for transformational change with a Yes vote