Join Ambassador Nirupama Rao and Ambassador Riffat Masood alongside senior journalists Maya Mirchandani and Nasim Zehra as they discuss Indo-Pak relations after the recent escalation, the role of women in the peace process, and the space for peace in the changing global environment.

Featuring:

Ambassador Nirupama Rao Ambassador Riffat Masood Maya Mirchandani Nasim Zehra Allan Little

Beyond Borders Scotland: https://www.beyondbordersscotland.com

Audio Editor: Aedan Wilson

Listen as former First Minister of Scotland, Nicola Sturgeon talks to Sigrid Van Aken, CEO the Postcode Lottery Group, about it's remarkable rise to become the world’s third biggest philanthropic funder of good causes and Chris Lockyear, the Médecins Sans Frontières Supremo, as he reveals the truth about the humanitarian crisis in Sudan, Gaza and beyond. Together they consider the impact of recent US and UK aid cuts and what we can all do to help relieve the suffering of civilians as well as to build a more peaceful, vibrant and less afflicted world.

Featuring:

Nicola Sturgeon Sigrid Van Aken Chris Lockyear

Beyond Borders Scotland: https://www.beyondbordersscotland.com

More From Post Code Lottery Group:

https://www.postcodelottery.co.uk/

More From Médecins Sans Frontières:

https://www.msf.org/

Audio Editor: Aedan Wilson

Listen as Former First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, lifts the lid on her remarkable life as one of Scotland’s leading politicians in the 21st century as she recounts her journey from working-class Ayrshire to Bute House, in her candid memoir, Frankly.

Featuring:

Nicola Sturgeon Allan Little

Beyond Borders Scotland: https://www.beyondbordersscotland.com

More From Nicola Sturgeon:

(2025) Frankly (Pan Macmillan) at: https://www.panmacmillan.com/authors/nicola-sturgeon/frankly/9781035040216

Audio Editor: Aedan Wilson

Listen to legendary literary agent, Clare Conville, as she talks to novelist and journalist, Phoebe Greenwood, about her recent novel, Vulture, a fast pace, darkly funny heart wrenching satire that tears through the guts of the war-news industry.

Featuring:

Phoebe Greenwood Clare Conville

Beyond Borders Scotland: https://www.beyondbordersscotland.com

More From Phoebe Greenwood:

(2025) Vulture (Europa Editions UK) at: https://www.europaeditions.co.uk/book/9781787705791/vulture

More From Clare Conville:

https://cwagency.co.uk/agent/clare-conville

Audio Editor: Aedan Wilson

Join Field Marshall Lord Richards as he talks to military historian Hew Strahan his book ‘Retreat from Strategy’, the recent UK Defence Review, the conflict in Ukraine, and success of British and western military interventions in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and Syria, since his own victorious one into Sierre Leone in 2000.

Featuring:

Field Marshall Lord Richards Hew Strahan

Beyond Borders Scotland: https://www.beyondbordersscotland.com

More From Field Marshal Richards:

David Richards, Julian Lindley-French (2024) The Retreat from Strategy (Hurst) at: https://www.hurstpublishers.com/book/the-retreat-from-strategy/

Audio Editor: Aedan Wilson

Introducing Sam Dalrymple as he discusses his stellar new work, Shattered Lands: Five Partitions and the Making of Modern Asia, and new approaches to historical scholarship with Empire Podcast co-host, William Dalrymple, and Moin Mir, asking the questions.

Featuring:

Sam Dalrymple William Dalrymple Moin Mir

Beyond Borders Scotland: https://www.beyondbordersscotland.com

More From Sam Dalrymple:

(2025) Shattered Lands: Five Partitions and the Making of Modern Asia (HarperCollins India) at: https://harpercollins.co.uk/products/shattered-lands-five-partitions-and-the-making-of-modern-asia-sam-dalrymple?variant=54864084763003

More from William Dalrymple:

Empire Podcast at: https://open.spotify.com/show/0sBh58hSTReUQiK4axYUVx?si=a2747800feba4f53

More From Moin Mir:

Moin Mir's website at: https://www.moinmirauthor.com/

Audio Editor: Aedan Wilson

Join Jeremy Corbyn MP as he talks about his extraordinary life as the most independent MP in the House of Commons and his ground breaking initiative to co-create a new party for the Left called Your Party. Oscar Guardiola Rivera explores why he continues to capture the imagination of young people as two local students, Ella Newton and Duncan Peppe, ask searching questions about his career and the future of British politics.

Featuring:

Jeremy Corbyn MP Oscar Guardiola Rivera Ella Newton Duncan Peppe

Beyond Borders Scotland: https://www.beyondbordersscotland.com

More from Jeremy Corbyn:

(2023) Poetry for the Many: An Anthology (OR Books) at https: https: //www.abebooks.co.uk/9781682194331/Poetry-Anthology-Corbyn-Jeremy-McCluskey-1682194337/plp

More from Oscar Guardiola Rivera:

(2025) A Hopeful Political Imagination: Courage and Fantastic Critique in the Age of Meltdown (Bloomsbury) at https: //www.bloomsbury.com/uk/hopeful-political-imagination-9781666974454/

(2024) Under the World. Book Two of The Night of the World Trilogy (Fiction, Poetry, The 87 Press) at https: //www.the87press.co.uk/shop/p/vtp9l2anmbqpx2j9m73q3zqky3wwes

(2020) Way Out World. Book One of The Night of the World Trilogy (Fiction, Poetry, The 87 Press) at https: //www.the87press.co.uk/shop/p/oscar-guardiola-rivera-night-of-the-world-book-one

(2019) A Defence of Armed/Art Struggle (UTadeo) at https: //www.amazon.com/-/es/defence-armed-art-struggle/dp/9587252578

(2013/4) Story of a Death Foretold. The CIA, Pinochet and the Coup Against Salvador Allende, 11 September 1973 (Bloomsbury) at https: //www.bloomsbury.com/uk/story-of-a-death-foretold-9781408839898/

(2010) What If Latin America Ruled the World? How the South Will Take the North to the 22nd Century (Bloomsbury) at https: //www.bloomsbury.com/uk/what-if-latin-america-ruled-the-world-9781408809778/

Audio Editor: Aedan Wilson

Peebles High School student Beth Lapsley cross examines Former First Minister of Scotland, Lord Jack McConnell, and Martin Griffiths, former UN Under Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, about their latest ventures to help save the world from further conflict and chaos. Mark Muller KC introduces the session.

Featuring:

• Beth Lapsley
• Lord Jack McConnell
• Martin Griffiths

Beyond Borders Scotland: https://www.beyondbordersscotland.com

Audio Editor: Aedan Wilson