Damian Barr on Scottish art, memory and belonging

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  you Hello and welcome to Meet the Writers.

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  I'm Georgina Godwin.

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  My guest today is an award-winning Scottish writer,

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  broadcaster and fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

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  He's written across journalism, memoir and fiction.

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  His first book was a guide to surviving your quarter-life crisis,

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  followed by the memoir Maggie and Me, and the novel You Will Be Safe Here.

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  His latest work, The Two Robots,

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  turns to a couple of Scottish artists whose love and work once lit up Soho.

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  Damien Barr, welcome to Meet the Writers.

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  Thank you, Georgina.

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  I want to start with you before we get on to the two robbets.

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  Let's talk about Damien and your childhood in Scotland, in Bells Hill.

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  Bells Hill is where I was born.

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  It's actually also where the writer Amonata Forna was born in the maternity hospital,

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  which is no more there.

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  So I grew up near the maternity hospital in a village called New York Hill,

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  which was a former Pitt Village...

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  within healing distance of what would soon be a former steel town within healing distance again of Glasgow,

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  so if you can imagine that degree of distance.

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