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All Back To Bowie'sTue 19 Aug 2014 – Sport, Dreams and Independence
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Sport, Dreams and Independence
With Gerry Hassan, Alan Bissett, Susan Egelstaff, Michael Stewart, David Greig, Ron Ferguson, Fiona Ferguson, Miko Berry, Josephine Sillars, Ruth Wishart.
Well, it’s hard to beat the Bowie’s shows so far but having my dad on the panel today pretty much did the job (oh as did discovering during the show that I had a great uncle called David Bowie, a butcher in Alloa, whose confirmed surname pronunciation has now pushed me firmly in the ‘rhymes with cow’ camp – A...2014-08-1900 min