I should have written this post about a fortnight ago, but in my defence I was really under the weather until last week. Anyway, I was interviewed on Radio Scotland’s “Sunday Morning with Tony Kearney” on 3 November. They got in touch after hearing about Quirk!, the group I’ve started for LGBTQ+ folk at the church where I serve in Bo’ness. I’m so glad we did a pre-recorded interview rather than a chat live on air, because I was in the thick of whatever virus it was that laid me low for a fortnight and all the coughs and the worst of the fatigue-driven hesitations are deftly edited out. Tony was a lovely, welcoming, generous interviewe. We chatted about Quirk!, about how my faith helped me to accept myself as a trans person and about writing in Scots. You can listen to the interview here until 2 December. Plus I got them to play a track by the wonderful piper, fiddler, composer and instrument maker Malin Lewis, whose music you really must explore. The interview starts about 33 minutes in and finishes with me reading a poem.

This is about the fourth time I’ve been on Radio Scotland (the last time was back in 2011) but the first since I came out and transitioned. The BBC has a bad rep among trans people – and not without reason, particularly where its news coverage of trans issues is concerned – but the “Sunday Morning” team were, I have to say, all fantastic. Go and show them some love.