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The Culture Swally Taking a deep dive into Scottish News, Pop Culture and Media.

Each episode we will take a look at some bizarre and humorous news stories from around Scotland and review a key piece of Scottish Pop Culture or Media from the last 40 years.

This week on the pod we’re all the way back in 1949 with the classic Whisky Galore! Wartime rationing leads to a criti...
16/10/2025

This week on the pod we’re all the way back in 1949 with the classic Whisky Galore!

Wartime rationing leads to a critical Water of Life shortage on a Scottish island before a ship carrying 50,000 cases wrecks off the coast. The islanders have to contend with the Sabbath, the Home Guard and a rapidly sinking ship before they can get their hands on the precious cargo.

On the news, we sample some nae bad pies and catch up with an occupying African tribe.

So join us for an illicit dram on the available now, wherever you get your podcasts.


16/10/2025

Break out the drams as we cover the oldest piece of Scottish media we’ve ever looked at on The Culture Swally, it’s time for Whisky Galore! When a Scottish island falls prey to a whisky shortage, the islanders are desolate. But when by chance a ship is sunk with a cargo of 50,000 cases of whisky, they see their salvation. But first they must outwit the English Home Guard commander who is determined to protect the cargo at all costs.
In the news we finally catch up with a African Tribe staking their claim on Scottish land and tempt them with some Spuds that are Nae Bad. Also, we have an update on the new Highlander film and we get a shock whilst shopping in Aldi and are not amused!
So join us for a Swally, on The Culture Swally!
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Music from Darry 2 Vance: Royalty Free Music from https://darry2vance.com

On the latest episode of The Culture Swally we’re dealing with a neighbour from hell in 2025 thriller, Fear starring ...
02/10/2025

On the latest episode of The Culture Swally we’re dealing with a neighbour from hell in 2025 thriller, Fear starring and our patron saint and favourite

In the news, on the reboot and we drink some wine up the graveyard with wayward Scots teens.

Episode 136! Available now wherever you get your podcasts.

02/10/2025

Neighbours….everybody needs good Neighbours….just not this one. We’re bang up to date in 2025 as we look at the three part Amazon Prime thriller, Fear! Staring Martin Compston, Anjli Mohindra, Solly McLeod and James Cosmo it tells the tale of Martyn and Rebecca, who move to Glasgow with their two young children. However, their neighbour Jan's unsettling remarks hint at a sinister situation unfolding around their new home.
In the news we discover that there can be more than one when we hear what Dave Bautista has been up to in Scotland, go drinking in a graveyard with teenagers, annoy our neighbours with our ring doorbell and find out which member of The Scheme is still ‘Living The Dream’.
So join us for a Swally, on The Culture Swally!
Follow us on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/cultureswallypod/
Twitter https://twitter.com/SwallyPod
Or get in touch at [email protected]

Music from Darry 2 Vance: Royalty Free Music from https://darry2vance.com

This week on the podcast we’re completing the set of with 1972’s Just Your Luck. The west of Scotland catholic/prote...
18/09/2025

This week on the podcast we’re completing the set of with 1972’s Just Your Luck. The west of Scotland catholic/protestant divide is analysed with Peter’s trademark insight and humour as two families are forever linked by a shotgun wedding.

You can find the play on YouTube so check it out before you listen to us talk about it.

In the news; Scottish Coca-Cola exclusively available in Peru and a woman takes novel revenge against her holiday making ex partner.

So join us for a Swally, available now!

18/09/2025

It’s time for some Peter McDougall again on The Culture Swally as we look at his first Play For Today, from 1972, Just Your Luck. Starring David Hayman, Leslie Mackie, Mary Riggans, Gerry Slevin and Eileen McCallum, it tells the tale of Alison and Alec, who due to an unplanned pregnancy, decide to get married. But will the religious differences of their families get in the way of their big day?
In the news we Dine and Dash with Ant and Dec, try to travel to Thailand on a cancelled passport and fire up our Delorian to travel to Peru and drink some Scottish Cola, made purely from spite.
So join us for a Swally, on The Culture Swally!
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Twitter https://twitter.com/SwallyPod
Or get in touch at [email protected]

Music from Darry 2 Vance: Royalty Free Music from https://darry2vance.com

04/09/2025

We’re back in Play for Today territory on this episode of The Swally as we travel back to 1982 and look at the episode titled ‘The Silly Season’. Starring Derek Anders, Mary Riggans, Jake D’Arcy, Tony Roper, Frances Low and Pierce Brosnan, it tells the tale of factory worker Malcolm, who’s unhappy in his work and how life, until four students join the workforce.
The Silly Season is available on YouTube here: https://youtu.be/kqnnuls02H4?si=NyC7A5iwaTjgbgYt
In the news we join the Free Plasticine movement and get into a spot of bother, rate food reviews in unexpected places, attend a bareknuckle boxing match at the ice rink and make a surprising discovery in our Stone Island jackets.
So join us for a Swally, on The Culture Swally!
Follow us on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/cultureswallypod/
Twitter https://twitter.com/SwallyPod
Or get in touch at [email protected]

Music from Darry 2 Vance: Royalty Free Music from https://darry2vance.com

It’s almost time to go back to school, so what better film to cover on this weeks than 2014’s What We Did On Our Holid...
21/08/2025

It’s almost time to go back to school, so what better film to cover on this weeks than 2014’s What We Did On Our Holiday?

Starring a young Emilia Jones and the always brilliant this is a film worth checking out before the soul crushing drudgery of routine sets back in.

In the news Spider-Man meets some Spider-Bams in Glasgow and we hear about a Scottish wrestler doing the business in the USA and Greg attempts to Tartan Up Paul Thomas Anderson’s brilliant Boogie Nights in Greg Vs AI.

So join us for a late summer Swally, available now!

21/08/2025

Pack your bucket and spade as The Swally is off on our holidays this episode as we look at the 2014 film starring David Tennant, Rosamund Pike and Billy Connolly, What We Did on Our Holiday. A family head to Granddad's big 75th-birthday party in rural Scotland. The parents are separated and hope their three kids won't mention it to the family.
In the news we meet the latest Scottish grappler who’s becoming a hit across the pond, run into a bunch of Spider-Bam’s in Glasgow City Centre, learn about the murky past of Scotland’s most celebrated comedian, wear a wedding dress to a football match and run a celebrated film about the scud industry through Greg vs AI.
So join us for a Swally, on The Culture Swally!
Follow us on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/cultureswallypod/
Twitter https://twitter.com/SwallyPod
Or get in touch at [email protected]

Music from Darry 2 Vance: Royalty Free Music from https://darry2vance.com

We’re off to Inverdoune in the latest episode of as we catch up with , .e.grant and the lovely as we look at the 19...
07/08/2025

We’re off to Inverdoune in the latest episode of as we catch up with , .e.grant and the lovely as we look at the 1999 film, The Match.

Two Scottish pub football teams play each other to resolve a century old grudge, with the prize for the winning team being the other team’s pub!

In the news we throw out a casting call for a jobby, meet a couple from Elgin with a strange pet, visit a pop up p***s clinic in Glasgow and debut our new feature…Greg vs AI.

So join us for a Swally, on The Culture Swally. Available wherever you get your podcasts.

06/08/2025

The football season has started! So in honour of this, we have picked the other Scottish football film, 1999’s The Match. In the Scottish village of Inverdoune, teams representing the village's two pubs - Benny’s Bar and Le Bistro - have played an annual football game for 99 consecutive years. Under the terms of the original bet, the loser of the 100th match must forfeit their bar to the winner.
In the news we throw out a casting call looking for someone to play a jobby at the Edinburgh Fringe, meet a couple from Elgin who like letting their strange pet out to play in their neighbourhood, visit a pop up p***s clinic, meet a Stockport fan who has switched his allegiance and it’s the debut of our new feature…Greg vs AI.
So join us for a Swally, on The Culture Swally!
Follow us on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/cultureswallypod/
Twitter https://twitter.com/SwallyPod
Or get in touch at [email protected]

Music from Darry 2 Vance: Royalty Free Music from https://darry2vance.com

This week we’re back on the beat with Taggart, Jardine and the Biscuit as we revisit a classic. It’s Dead Giveaway, mayb...
24/07/2025

This week we’re back on the beat with Taggart, Jardine and the Biscuit as we revisit a classic. It’s Dead Giveaway, maybe our favourite Taggart story.

A “maniac” is killing the people of Glasgow with rat poison. Can Maryhill’s finest catch the culprit before more people are bumped off? Guest starring and Wonder Woman 84’s Matt Costello with the brilliant Mark McManus and James MacPherson

In the news, Disney adults and the best back garden pub in Scotland.

So join us for weekend Swally, wherever you get your podcasts.

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