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Mornings: Exam results, Speaking Ill of the Dead and Name the Place.

John Beattie

07/08/2018

Exam results, Speaking Ill of the Dead and Name the Place.

BBC Radio Scotland - Mornings, Exam results, Speaking Ill of the Dead and Name the Place.

John Beattie asks how important exam results are as students receive their results.

The wait is over for thousands of pupils across the country - how important are exam results? John Beattie takes your calls. Plus an interview with Mark Meechan.

Thousands of students across Scotland are due to find out how well they have performed in their exams. More than 135,000 pupils will learn how well they did in their National 4 and 5s, Highers and Advanced Highers.
The wait for exam results is over for thousands of students across the country - but how important are exam results?

Also on the show...

COUNT DANKULA
John interviews Mark Meechan - aka Count Dankula - the man from Coatbridge who gained worldwide notoriety and a hate crime conviction after he taught a pet pug dog to do a Nazi salute.

FREEDOM OF SPEECH
Are there limits to freedom of speech? Catriona Stewart is from the Evening Times and Herald, Ella Whelan is an Author and Spike Columnist and Andrew Tickell is a Law Lecturer at Glasgow Caledonian University.

ASK THE VET
It's your chance to ask the vet Ross Allan. Any concerns about the well being of your pet get your questions in now - call 0808 5 92 95 00, text 80295

EARLY YEARS
Sue Palmer, the author of Toxic Childhood and chair of Upstart Scotland , has called on the Scottish Government to raise the age children start primary school "as a matter of urgency" to help prevent a surge in mental health problems. Vessa-Pekka Karinen is a Pre-school teacher in Finland.

POSH SCOTS
Actress Kelly MacDonald has recently joked in an interview that 'posh Scottish people are really English'. Are we too hard on Scots who sound English? Dr Eleanor Lawson is a socio-phonetician at Queen Margaret University, Richard Melvin is Director of Dabster Productions and Billy Kirkwood is a Scottish Comedian.

SPEAKING ILL OF THE DEAD
Former Presiding Officer Tricia Marwick has received criticism after tweeting 'I could never stand the Chuckle brothers' following the death of Barry Elliot. Is it ever ok to speak ill of the dead?

CAN YOU NAME THE PLACE?
Clue 1: Today's place-name has something in common with Dundee and Cathcart.

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