The Tartan Con
Rants on Society
About the show
This series is a follow on from the website www.TheTartanCon.blogspot.com. It will include Rants on Society, Rants on The Criminal Justice System, just plain good old fashioned Rants. There will be guests voicing their opinions from all walks of life. But remember, its only their opinion; they could be wrong !!
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Episodes
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Episode 29: Speech on the State of Our Prisons
February 1st, 2024 | Season 1 | 15 mins 1 sec
law, legal, politics, prisons, psychology, the tartan con, uk law, uk prisons
This is the speech that I delivered on 29/01/2024 to the Birmingham- Legal - Medical Society
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Episode 28: When is it time to talk about it - Version 2
July 23rd, 2023 | Season 1 | 7 mins 50 secs
custody, prisons, scotland, self-harm, the tartan con, uk prisons
My little Sunday evening rant
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Episode 27: The Ballad of Reading Gaol
June 4th, 2023 | Season 1 | 3 mins 31 secs
ballad of reading gaol, oscar wilde, poetry, prison life, spoken word, the tartan con, uk prisons
A little excerpt of Wilde's Ballad.
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Episode 26: The Fourth Estate - Truth or not ?
March 6th, 2022 | Season 1 | 15 mins 11 secs
Where I question the media
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Episode 25: When is it Time to Talk about it ?
January 24th, 2021 | Season 1 | 6 mins 27 secs
criminal justice, prisoners, prisons, rants, uk prisons
I seem to have got my voice back
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Episode 24: The Unchained Melody
October 25th, 2020 | Season 1 | 8 mins 26 secs
prison, prisons, the tartan con, uk prisons
A reading of a recent blog
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Episode 23: If
October 25th, 2020 | Season 1 | 2 mins 27 secs
poetry, prisons, spoken word, the tartan con, uk prisons
Reading of Kipling's "If"
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Episode 22: Turn the Clock back?
October 4th, 2020 | Season 1 | 14 mins 33 secs
criminal justice, podcasts, prisoners., prisons, rants, twitter, uk criminal justice, uk prisons
if you could turn the clock back, would you ?
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Episode 21: Late night Poetry
August 11th, 2020 | Season 1 | 3 mins 58 secs
criminal justice, poetry, prisons, uk prisons
recorded in the wee small hours, "My Friend" Kahlil Gibran
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Episode 20: The Government Admits Failure
July 6th, 2020 | Season 1 | 11 mins 28 secs
hmpps, ministry of justice, politics, prison building, prisons, the tartan con, thetartancon, twitter, uk prisons
My rant on the news that England will be building 4 more prisons
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Episode 19: The Red Setter
June 28th, 2020 | Season 1 | 13 mins 3 secs
dogs, prisons, short stories, the tartan con, uk prisons
The Red Setter
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Episode 18: Poetry. Wordsworth, Frost and Gibran
June 28th, 2020 | Season 1 | 5 mins 47 secs
crime, criminal justice, poetry, prisons, prisons uk, twitter, uk prisons
A little reading of Worsworth, Frost and Gibran
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Episode 17: The Broken Contract
June 13th, 2020 | Season 1 | 12 mins 8 secs
coronavirus, covid-19, hmpps, pava, prisons, rants, the tartan con, thetartancon, uk prisons
Upon reading the news today that the UK Prison Service has decided to roll out a incapacitating spray to their staff, I had to have a rant
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Episode 16: De Profundis - Excerpts and a critique
May 31st, 2020 | Season 1 | 40 mins 10 secs
de profundis, letters, poetry, prisons, uk prisons
A few of my favourite excerpts from De Profundis. The Letter written by Wilde to Lord Alfred Douglas in 1897
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Episode 15: De Profundis Part I
May 24th, 2020 | Season 1 | 1 hr 20 mins
de profundis, podcasts, prison, spoken nowrd, uk prisons, wilde
My Critique and Reading of De Profundis - Part 1
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Episode 14: Prison Reform according to Oscar Wilde
May 17th, 2020 | Season 1 | 14 mins 47 secs
prison, prison reform, prisons, uk prisons, wilde
Wilde's last letter to the Editor of The Daily Chronicle