Stark Talk
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Stark Talk
Join Edi for the interview series which often treads where others wouldn't dare!
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Robert Carlyle
Edi meets the shining star of theatre, film and television and talks about growing up in Maryhill, attending drama school in Glasgow, and founding the...
Richard Holloway
Edi talks to the former Bishop of Edinburgh and Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church about family life and his early resolve to be an Anglican prie...
Joyce Cairns
Edi talks to one of Scotland’s finest artists. and the first female president of the Royal Scottish Academy.
Jack Docherty
Edi in conversation with the Scot Squad actor about what inspires his role as Chief Commissioner, Cameron Miekelson in the award winning spoof documen...
Prof Sir David Omand
Edi in conversation with to the former director of GCHQ. Born in Glasgow and educated at Glasgow Academy he talks about the challenges, personal and p...
Ali Watson
Edi meets the head of the school of international relations at St Andrew’s University and hears how she found freedom and fulfillment despite personal...
Atta Yaqub
Edi talks to the actor and youth worker, about the challenges of being catapulted to fame. Now a husband and father he reflects on his childhood in th...
Clare Hunter
The textile artist talks to Edi Stark about writing a book that nobody thought would sell.
Jock McFadyen
Edi Stark meets the eminent and maverick painter. He talks about how a commission in Orkney provoked a radical move in his work.
Val McDermid
The queen of crime returns to Stark Talk for a second time, one of the very few guests to do so... and there is much to say.
Jack Bruce
With powerful vocals and pioneering electric bass, the legendary Cream frontman revolutionised rock music and set the bar so high, many would argue it...
Jenny Sealey
Edi Stark in conversation with Jenny Sealey, artistic director of Graeae Theatre which provides a platform for new generations of deaf and disabled ta...
Gordon Strachan
Edi interviewed Gordon Strachan in 2007 when he was manager of Celtic football club. He talks about his football life, devotion to family and the reas...
Lynn Myles
Lynn Myles is one of only three women in Scotland to be a consultant neurosurgeon. She tells Edi Stark what led to her choosing the brain as her speci...
Patrick Doyle
Edi talks to the twice Oscar nominated world class composer behind dozens of film scores.
Ellis Watson
Edi Stark in conversation with Ellis Watson in 2015, when he was chief executive of DC Publishing.
Nicola Benedetti
Edi talks to world acclaimed violinist about picking up a violin at the age of four and the privilege and responsibility of being able to play a multi...
Peter Mullan
Edi Stark talks to the award winning actor, writer and director. Peter talks for the first time about his son's struggle with autism and how that affe...
Phyllida Law
Edi talks to the Scottish born actress who started writing in her late seventies. She was happily married to Eric Thomson who narrated and adapted The...
Albert Watson
Albert Watson, the internationally renowned photographer talks to Edi about his early childhood in Penicuik and his adult life in Manhattan.
Sir Cameron Macintosh
Edi Stark talks to the world's leading producer of musicals, including Cats, Miss Saigon, Phantom of the Opera and Les Miserables.
Steven Campbell
Edi Stark talks to the artist about being labelled along with 'the new Glasgow Boys' and his reputation as 'Scotland's greatest living artist'.
Prof Sir James Black
In a rare radio interview, the Nobel laureate talks to Edi Stark about his early life in Cowdenbeath, his passion for science and why he's the luckies...
Hamish MacInnes
In this extra podcast, Edi returns to an interview conducted in 1992 with Hamish MacInnes, the legendary climber and mountain rescue pioneer who died...
Elish Angiolini
As the former Lord Advocate tells Edi, her roots in Govan are a far cry from the pomp of the Crown Office but she has been a passionate moderniser of...
Alan McGee
Edi talks to the founder of Creation records who discovered and managed the hugely successful band, Oasis. He talks about success, addiction, mental b...
Lady Veronica Maclean
Edi Stark talks to the daughter of the Fraser Clan Chief and widow of Sir FItzroy Maclean about her exceptional life.
Joe Simpson
Edi talks to the writer about his life changing fall off the face of Siula Grande.
Irvine Welsh
Edi Stark talks to the Edinburgh born Trainspotting novelist who admits to enjoying the chance for introspection and talks about growing up as an only...
Steve Begg
Edi Stark talks to Edinburgh-born cinema visual effects supervisor whose work includes Casino Royale, Skyfall, Spectre, Aliens and Batman Begins.
Mary Quant
Edi Stark in conversation with fashion revolutionary who lifted the mood as well as the hemline of female fashion in the twentieth century.
Ian Hutchinson
Edi Stark talks to the Battle of Britain veteran from Govan as he recalls the most momentous month of his life.
Katherine Grainger
The Olympic rower from Aberdeen talks to Edi about the highs and lows of being so near gold in world class competition.