Iain Anderson - Back on Board

Iain Anderson - Back on Board A radio show from Scotland, providing fine music and good company, worldwide from the Clyde.

We love to include the voices of artists we admire, and in our next show we'll hear from Jenny Sturgeon and M G Boulter ...
22/08/2026

We love to include the voices of artists we admire, and in our next show we'll hear from Jenny Sturgeon and M G Boulter about their joint album 'Wild Convenor', plus from Phil Odgers about his latest offering with John Kettle, 'The War Is Over: The Songs of Phil Ochs, Vol 2'. Plus we'll have various other songs, old and new, including another sequence of your requests. It'll all be available on the website from 7pm on Sunday.

18/08/2026

Here's the latest show if you haven't listened yet. All the usual ingredients with added Cheery Odin...

I’ll Follow The Sun - The Beatles
Mr Sits In The Dark - Eliza Carthy & The Restitution
High Germany - Martin Carthy
Everyhin’s Changed - Cherry Odin
Orion’s Belt - Donald WG Lindsay & Roo Geddes
Mars Rover - Heather Cartwright
Sandman - America
Been So Long in Babylon - The Donald Anderson Band
How Did This Happen And What Does It Now Mean - Joan Armatrading
Love And Affection - Clare Teal & Ben Cipolla
Introverts By Nature - M G Boulter & Jenny Sturgeon
POEM: ‘Evening, Carradale’ by Colin Macduff
Nice Now - Lorne Macdougall
The Long And Winding Road - Ray Charles & The Count Basie Orchestra
Albert O’ The Fleece - Cheery Odin
A Horse With No Name - America
Shoals of Herring - The Corries
Second Song - Neil Young & The Chrome Hearts
POEM: ‘Komorebi’ by Rosemary McLeish
Under The Mat - Tom Houston
Willow - Joan Armatrading
The Weakness In Me - Flock of Dimes
Gan Teh The Shows - Cheery Odin
Three Roses - America
There Was A Time - Sheila K Cameron
Romeo's Tune - Steve Forbert
Face The Rain - Laura Cortese

This week's features... Cheery Odin, America self-titled, and songwriter Joan Armatrading. The episode will magically ap...
15/08/2026

This week's features... Cheery Odin, America self-titled, and songwriter Joan Armatrading. The episode will magically appear on the website at 7pm on Sunday.

12/08/2026

Give our latest show a listen if you like the look of this playlist. The only place to listen is on our website. Thanks to Mairi McGillivray for her contribution.

Hot Tub Blues - The Black Denims
El Paso Waltz - Norman & Nancy Blake, Boys of the Lough, James & Rachel Bryan
Illinois - Dan Fogelberg
Always - John Douglas
Wild Mountainside - Eddi Reader
Weightlifting - trashcan sinatras
Homesick Hymnal - The New Leaves
Flowerface - Emily Portman
Smoke And Mirrors - Chris Rogers & The Invisibles
Tusitala - Benny Gallagher
POEM: ’To any reader’ by Robert Louis Stevenson
Poems, Prayers And Promises - John Denver
Ameireaga - Mairi McGillivray
Ceann Tràigh Ghruinneart - Mairi McGillivray & Kathleen MacInnes
If A Tree Falls - Bruce Cockburn
Midnight Song - Wolf Alice
Fixer - Elanor Moss
Before The Ship Goes Down - Haverin
Treasure The Rain - Willie Campbell
Southside Blues - Archie Fisher
Crazy Dreams - Paul Brady
Old Note - Lisa O'Neill
Freedom Come All Ye - Pippa Wallace
Murmurations - Sean Taylor
I Will Not Say Goodbye - Cara

On the next show we'll return to Mairi McGillivray with some words from Mairi herself, about growing up on Islay and her...
09/08/2026

On the next show we'll return to Mairi McGillivray with some words from Mairi herself, about growing up on Islay and her album 'Mo Thìr'. As well as that, we're going to catch up with some of your requests, plus some of our own selections and some new releases. The episode launches on the website at 7pm on Sunday evening.

04/08/2026

Our latest episode can be listened to on the website. Thanks to Tom Houston for sharing his insights and letting us hear his whirly.

Invitation - Shel Silverstein
Just A Little Game To Play - Maz O'Connor
Believe - Ant Thomaz
Strange Birds - Tom Houston
Hares On The Mountain - Shirley Collins & Davy Graham
Bodysuit - Charm of Finches
Falling Slowly - Glen Hansard & Markéta Irglová
There’s No Mountain - Glen Hansard
The Ballad Of Lucy Jordan - Marianne Faithfull
Boa Constrictor - Shel Silverstein
One’s On The Way - Loretta Lynn
Co***ne Walking, Booze Talking - Richard Thompson
POEM: 'Fear no more the heat o' the sun’ by William Shakespeare (from Cymbeline)
Seasons In The Sun - Rod McKuen
Wild Pendulum - Tom Houston
Hope - Peggy Seeger
Bad Girl - Shirley Collins & Davy Graham
Return To Fingal - Sam Grassie
Without Me, Just With You - Rab Noakes
Sweet Vinicombe Street - Brian Friel
Not Concerned - Boulder Fields
Shelter From The Storm - Bob Dylan
Secrets Still Remain - Katherine Priddy
Wolf Run - Tucker Zimmerman
Sing Me A Rainbow - Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show
Anteater - Shel Silverstein
You’re Always Welcome At Our House - Shel Silverstein
As We Lie On The Grass - Tom Houston
Pretty Saro - Shirley Collins & Davy Graham
More Than Bones - Juniper Three
Red Sky - Matt Carmichael
Still Crazy After All These Years - Paul Simon

Tune into this week's episode for the following...The featured artist is the always interesting Tom Houston. The feature...
01/08/2026

Tune into this week's episode for the following...
The featured artist is the always interesting Tom Houston. The featured archive album is a folk music classic: 'Folk Roots, New Routes' by Shirley Collins & Davy Graham. And the featured songwriter, Shel Silverstein, will provide us with some eccentricity and fun. Listen on the website from 7pm on Sunday.

29/07/2026

Have you listened to the latest episode? Thanks to Adam Beattie for his contribution.

Don’t Look Back - Buddy Miller with Dan Penn
Day In The Sun - Teenage Fanclub
In The Next Life - Kirsten Adamson
The Girl From The Seaside Town - Adam Beattie
Feelin’ Good Again - Turnpike Troubadours with Sierra Hull
Don’t Come The Cowboy With Me, Sonny Jim! - Kirsty MacColl
Johnny O’Braidislee - Old Blind Dogs
Galtee Mountain Boy - Christy Moore
Railway Dreams - Glen Peters
Up-Up And Away - The Fifth Dimension
Women Across The River - Willis Alan Ramsey
That’s My Story - David Olney
Angie Baby - Helen Reddy
POEM: ‘Drought’ by Will Ogilvie
If Wishes Were Fishes - Eric Bogle
Home Fires Burning - Adam Beattie
Fifteen Minutes - Kirsty MacColl
Buck Up - Carsie Blanton
Endless Days - VULIN
Just As The Tide Was Flowing - Robin & Barry Dransfield
Sheltered Love - Terry Neason with Brian Prentice
Jerusalem Tomorrow - David Olney
1917 - Emmylou Harris & Linda Ronstadt
What Do I Deserve? - Zoë Bestel
What Do Pretty Girls Do? - Kirsty MacColl
Golden Hour - Adam Beattie
You Can Close Your Eyes - James Taylor

This week the featured artist is Adam Beattie from Aberdeenshire, with songs of home and family. The featured archive al...
26/07/2026

This week the featured artist is Adam Beattie from Aberdeenshire, with songs of home and family. The featured archive album is 'Kite' by the much-missed Kirsty MacColl. And the featured songwriter is a lesser-known American artist but one very much deserving a revisit: the late David Olney. The show hits the website at 7pm on Sunday.

22/07/2026

Here's the playlist for the latest episode. Thanks to Paper Sparrows for contributing. Listening link in the comments.

Diamond Day - Vashti Bunyan
It’s Just a Game - Bap Kennedy
Changed The Locks - Lucinda Williams
Sleeping Dogs - Paper Sparrows
Peter - Michael Marra
Ain’t I Been Good To You - Skeets Boliver
Far From Home - Neil Young
Heartstrings - The FOLK DRAMA
‘P’ Stands for Paddy - The Paul McKenna Band
Running From Home - Bert Jansch
It Don’t Bother Me - Robert Plant & Alison Krauss
Dark Island Waltzes - Magnus Turpie Combo
POEM: ‘Desiderata’ by Max Ehrmann
Spanish Pipedream - John Prine
Wait For Me - Paper Sparrows
Passionate Kisses - Lucinda Williams
Fadachd - Inyal featuring Josie Duncan
Eye Of The Storm - Adam Beattie
Columba - John Carnie
No Hitchhikers Anymore - Tom Fairnie & Klaus Adamaschek
The Corn Road - Northeasterner
Caledonia - Bert Jansch
Fresh As A Sweet Sunday Morning - John Renbourn & Wizz Jones
Trick Of The Light - Paper Sparrows
Like A Rose - Lucinda Williams
Volcano - Wave Of The Flood
Last Man Standing - Malachy Tallack
Starlings - Mairi McGillivray

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