A loop im privileged to be here with the fantastic scottish artist get a bronze is going to talk us through some of the Amazing Paintings welcome to the alexander enjoyed generally here can i tell you first of all to this Amazing Painting youve done particularly the influence by the saltire paintings and also let us know who this lovely young lady well the girl is my granddaughter sophie opin children because theres less baggage when you pin a child and brings with the Life Experience so the child is a much more innocent presentation the salters have been a work for many many years and fact the saltire is my connection with alex that autumn it was first minister he had one of my paintings the roman hanging on the wall behind his desk i painted the saute as initially because im scottish i was drawn to the flag of love the color of the shapes why wouldnt you have in the painting are you sickly thats stunning and lets move on to this very interesting piece if you can just talk us through your thoughts behind this and what was it was the story youre telling this is a metaphor if you like for contemporary lay for we have the young man on a high wire surrounded by money which is a metaphor for opportunity if youre late and i think the idea is relatively simple its all there if youre just too far over because im sure all of us could probably relate in some way in our own lives to be in those younger and to that experience fantastic now of course are very well known for your portraits you have something about can i tell you particularly in finally to one of the amazing Michael Mcdonald tell us about this stared margot the family approached me after margot had passed away and i asked if i would make a portrait it was a tough one because to make a portrait i have to spend time with the individual but it wasnt possible in this case so i had to. Today again and see if i could find images which would be like the tape of images or a bit of a photograph that a t. Can myself a phone two completely different sets of images so i ended up and never want to make things easy for myself i ended up to one of which hangs in the Scottish Parliament at the moment and this one which actually i think as a pure portrait this is possibly the stronger of the two some much more steel piece. Its almost choirs i religious the the hands clasped the late coming from above and you can see that although i didnt get a thought to she was no pushover i think thats fairly obvious from this painting absolutely stunning now youre going to join us downstairs on the sofa with the best of i guess the special edition of the Alexander Stille to look forward to catching up with you later on. So tell us joe budden has been scotlands leading portrait painter for quite a while see most of painting of the billion orebody in scotland over the last generation a favorite of the ones you saw i think its got a few left to go but we saw an amazing portion of Michael Mcdonald and hes painted a couple of mine even more interesting than the portraits of the paintings he has it to pick the saltire and also his lovely granddaughter sophie which i think the starter instance is a lot of what he does is just going for a longer period so with a period when he was painting just about every picture looked great but. What was fascinating about scott was National Flag i think as an artist as many creative have have a real interest in the politics of the country too and i think it exists all tire in trait i think it depicts a lot about scotland and not about the conversation in scotland it continues to twenty fourteen referendum that features so highly and family has joe painted you because he has painted me not yet but when we get him on say to question him or the other guest and when asked if we do that thats vested interest. Thank you thank you. Glassman a great show so far but i think just aim and welcome our guests to listen to that. Start of radio does clark. Church church dreaded. Scottish foremost. If you are there you are. Well lets them happy. All three of you so that you all have a good christmas fantastic fantastic for your favorite gift generate the my gift this year the best gift we had a huge family christmas we had twenty for dinner. Although my grandchildren all the inlaws it was just fantastic who did the cooking my darling wife the sisters. In a team effort but shes the boss in the kitchen and you have to ask you did you do the Christmas Jumper fountain djimi this year obviously. A big part of christmas that we both get to wear dreadful Christmas Jumpers hopefully with something that lights up with bells on them and then they take a christmas picture twitter to share their enjoyment of these Christmas Specials with this many people is also moving forward to that dance what about you i go driving lessons for christmas that youre tested you feel no i think people have seen me drive and think you need lessons i know have been positive and then know theyve changed the test as well as the more complicated. Its the brakes a driving lesson just lost in utah. Going away at the end of it from do not know and also obviously got the car window which is beautiful i dont know what more cannot you know its like. A scene from basic instinct. But you wouldnt pull position you request you know absolutely you know what i would agree with alex this year because sometimes turn into donald trump for she loves it so much we did a great im going to make ellen great again its a great show good i love her this is when i hug many people. Did you get did you get a present from that on they go to prison. And spend a lot of time building walls but were building bridges today arent we of your tennis kids serene and venus to show. Great things but yeah fun. Its been great going to war you. Know where you give it time oh yes that lead to thinking so all things get to work and hopefully what youre doing how many we were actually very early on new years day so were going over to spain for a wee while with the family again so when the wrecking this year will be a room with soup. Its a fear nothing to write and its alexs birthday how you celebrating your Birthday Well im going to collect as many presents as possible im very hopeful and so the donald is something great but everybody we invite on the show of course. To stump up on the train is right. Oh i sort of do business not mention to your. Oh. Youve got clean to be the most successful coach of all trades i mean you know for. A means were just. But you yourself you have professional tennis can you do stuff you dont. Play yourself. I was a player you know and scotland but those were the days where you know tennis were was a very much a minority sport there was no indoor course effed played tennis in the summer and you played badminton in the winter it was no professionalism there was no Real Infrastructure so there wasnt really that many people to play against so being the scottish number one was not such a difficult thing to do because not enough people played the game so back in the days when you were the scottish number one the just think for a second that you would have a position where both your sons were world number one singles on the doubles i think when i was scottish number one i didnt have any sons. And theyre probably looking at. I think yeah i mean i would never have imagined twenty nine when i started out as a volunteer coach at Dunblane Tennis Club when my kids were in the case and i did it to get to get a taste and i traded tennis sessions for childcare because we had no money dont judge me. You know that pittance of the kids that i worked with they had to look after the boys in the clubhouse while i piloted the coaching and i just kind of snowballed from there slowly but i never would have imagined wed all end up doing what were currently doing now in a month of sundays and you know for what its going to sports perspective because you know you do a lot. Support women and support do you think women get enough highly enough media enough coverage in the press for some of the missing school just successes we fat when i think nowhere near enough but i think what i believe in is that we shouldnt get caught up with have any column inches in the back pages because women will always appeal primarily to women so put it in front of. Things that women will read like the womens pages of newspapers of womens magazines and that actually i do believe that investing in the performance of women sports individuals and teams if we can raise the level of the performance then becomes more watchable more sellable more marketable more media if thats a word which it probably isnt but if we just need to invest much more to bring the levels up to a stage where people want to watch it because its because its good because it you can see that a lot of the teams this year you know in cricket rugby hockey more the the england teams but we need to do that in scotland and bring the levels up and then people will want to watch and talk about it so you will get lots to discuss i will be right but after birth. Where is that country called russia nor on exhibit no one has ever had a country never even had about most schools. We are so deep in the corruption soul and i think that the reason of corruption is liberals our us from interpretation of liberalism for his or her because one of the most Important Reasons reigning corruption could not cure it because he thinks that liberalism used to cure public or listen is the poison. How does it feel to be a sheriff the greatest job in the world its as close to being a king as any job there is Good Business model helps to run a prison now we just do or dont like us is nobody oh visitation i dont no one comes anymore we dont have to serve them anymore its Cost Effective thats what they want to do that as long as they dont give a damn if you did. Theyre actually paying us to put a marker ok the louisiana incarceration rate is twice as high as the usa bridge what she could is behind such success. Welcome back to this ugly edition of the alex salmond show just look at the four of us here. That you have painted the two of us with. Painted who would you most like to paint a hard question. Like. Whats wrong with me. If i tell you in all i think really what we can about the question a couple of things really think i think we could do something about. The question of kind of. Going to. Shows long from the hollywood great you know that was. A was a chair came out. And i was on this show as well. And it is amazing i was i was. When he finished i was absolutely blown away by how good it was so days you could be in the shows long painted probably all this and i just see painted before that was a police force. And i also have done many paintings of tiles and she wanted septum. Framed them i put them for nothing. For. And only played tennis in the us only three days a year and she got to be the number one thats an amazing achievement im just proud to be. Nobody. Conflated biological i think youd make a great point i went to st. Right just to do anything you want. And how are things in the world of radio for he really was funny with doing the stuff with yourself and doing the donald trump stuff because i do the capitol break show very much paul music and used to get requests for beyond c and now you get can you do beyonce and donald trump because they failed the voice they want to song and the impression i think this could be and yes the donald trump album for twenty so this is. More than you think yourself into the video to do donald trump forget yeah donald trump gets me a bed in a moment i want to headline. The. Number of the. Show and i want to make sure it is not anything he said i. Did a fantastic interview with the sure it was all for five minutes and the was there to seconds was broad enough i have to see how it told one of the stories but they surely last for. That some of. The if you ever come on again ill make sure you tell us that it just went to see the. Alex haley that the paintings that you should be which are fantastic and the thought theme in all of them and of course you could have days tricked an assault. You know that you know for the benefit of i think youre going to want to see my lion rampant can i just say. Thats why you were sucking. Justice for days and days and also to this benefit tells bit more about the influence of saltire than what you do as an artist you are constantly looking for in the world around you something which catches your eye something which gets your attention very foresaw to the pinch. Almost twenty years ago. And asked the question why the salt mines who were supposed to be wine or im scottish everywhere to see the flyer give you better sort of literally. And i was as the king of amazed when i decided to make the first big painting with the sole title that norman had actually done really truth i had done it before so i havent decided to do that i decided to really go for it and the first printing of the psalter which is there is to my connection with with alex the roman the. Folds almost eighty percent of the canvas these paintings the salt. In the build up to the painting foldable eighty percent of my office is. At that mirror no harm i have to see the painting being that it was amazing every time. I think that im bastard who ever came to see me he always actually demanded getting the picture in front of in front of your painting it was a fantastic painting and i know you all do a lot of work for charity to be charities that are close to your heart days i know during the festival youve done a lot for a lot of that the money that we gave is a contribution for your effort yes. Yes i was working for and still do as far as scotlands got a Great Charity based in Central Scotland helping kids with Additional Support needs and helping the families giving them rest by as well because its not just about the kids although we do care for them its about the families that are on our journey with them as well and helping those and then theyve done so well of the shows that we did with alec as well and it feels like im doing Something Special within myself that being donald trump is helping other people which is a concept im all for. Being done and im showing other and giving a bit back thank you jenny good. Being so great its been so fantastic and because of it i havent declared war on anybody im taking care of kim and then were going to go for care. And then the other kid. Shes next so good but i mean. Chinas march against. Who would win oh i tell you i would be. Good because then andy has a long rally but ive got the biggest rallies in the world people come to see me from your jaw way to speak when i use the phrase new balls thats when i start. I mean im just you know were going to change this and moving stuff we are not ready for the south and i know you are carting sure this access to tennis for people from from backgrounds im not perhaps ordinary natural opportunities to get involved do you think were making progress in that respect ensuring that young people to get a chance running a great game great sport i think were making a bit of progress four years ago i started a program called tennis on the road which was really just a van full of equipment and myself and another coach we work fifty days a year so yeah weve just completed our fortieth and weve basically take the van into areas where you wouldnt normally expect to find tennis so mostly rural and disadvantaged areas and we build workforce with the local community so we show people teachers students parents club members coaches of other sport specific she feels who might want to work with kids or work in sport to show them how to deliver starter tennis in whatever space they have available Community WholeSchool Playgrounds school gyms snow everything to Tennis Courts know everywhere as tennis coach is and everyone has money to pay for it so its a bit like building a volunteer workforce in the more remote deprived areas of the country and absolutely love it and yes it is having a sense that since thats a fantastic now we talked to jason corny about golf and our Christmas Show but how is your tennis alex. Well i think i could probably be. Very much if i could be. Somewhere between the two because its a toupee were you janet it was your sport favorite sport. In football fun. Fun. In the good police i dont know today saying anybody you want any relationship with people on american football as well there are a lot of people taking the knee i mean many people. Assume the work worshipping me but. The thing is once again my money i would prefer to stay on i dont know whats happening i dont know its got a bit i dont know who i am anymore theres a lot of i love golf so im going to say i love it like all great leaders were going to die in a bunker. For me personally for there is football was always my game of tennis it was a great sport for me but football but i wasnt very good and i remember being in my School Football team rite of passage in scotland you get your game for the School Football team and i was on the subs bench and we were getting five know and i actually said to bring in me on the pitch they brought on a dog. To come see the team plainly that we dog wasnt called sparky and to get above a morale boost brought sparky on for last two minutes and he always called. The the bantay golf. Ball sparkys bell and you. Technically saw as the dog was the problem you know i never played for them again so thats my memories of football going well im not really a football fan however lets move on to new specially since because we discussed earlier a number of people tweeted and said what their new years resolutions would be so lets start with you day what are your plans for it what are your plans for twenty thousand and two you havent used a solution whats on the cards for days im not sure about new years resolutions always break them in terms of plans for twenty teen years want to do more comedy more on the roads might dress up more as donald trump. And i think terms of on a solution. The obvious one is lemon dr i just think you know just maybe learn to be more modest i think. Thats a. Nice one im going to learn to cook and my mother very kindly for christmas gave me. Thanks she was trying to tell me something that is about ten years later and it wasnt im very sad about you. Learning spanish. More concrete so to do something about it my wife and i think were going to rule for the last responders class which should be an absolute nightmare of a husband and wife. Arguments and all of that stuff but so thats the plan were going to work quite hard at that this year well that sounds great janet and good luck to you all. I really create hope when the celebration with brains and family and weve got we pay for all of you alex take one impossible long jet or you have to supply the whiskey yourself. To the quick. This is going to be a. Limo youre all. For the bells. Home a happy new year happy. So have all of us here from days from two different genders from alex and myself alex we hope you enjoyed our Christmas Special and our hope and a second i think weve got time for one more guest because after all this is still the season to be jolly. Fellow. Whos going to be a hell of. The donald unimpeached puton or running again. And to lisa me still hanging out in. And the new year sales are not what they were at times like this we seek refuge in the good book or in gregs the big and for no good shots available. Over our sources are all special we can reflect on all the reasons to be cheerful. Im a sales sell a bit with gusto old deal or celtic press musts on the sixth of january. The solos me to buy presents at a fraction of the cost and to hold my party for professionals at excellent value with leftover tuckey and trimmings unfortunately the lady of the manse had forgotten secure the wife i connection and then left the bill payment had bones cutting off the cooker in the middle of heating the fish fingers so. Many were called and a few were frozen. In any case the holding of this pig in a vent has not proved universally popular with my flock or indeed the Disciplinary Committee of the General Assembly of the church of scotland. However i see my overall as bringing cheer to the masses just late the scotland felt more team of the chancellor as budget. I have been asked to give evidence to our own Scottish Parliament schematically investigating the minimum placing of alcohol i will be supporting this initiative with getting a dust storm and tremendous enthusiasm it does make the place of the good stuff. Well there were to rich people. Or my own. Form fair mentation will clean up at the chop some are fed. As we steer into a glass darkly we can only there and feel the coming of ants what a gift it would be to be able to see the future it would make the lot of the air dawdle and the Football Pools a school. But its not to be a man is destined to walk or walk on with hope in our hearts. Happy new year to you you and. Slung. Food all over duck when terms we are going on never get all the. Third order blend then we go our. Luck. Home plug in my joe home up. Short cut all cut yet all over. In some American Cities the police have built themselves cling to reputation people who walk on the streets of the United States who are at risk from the very people who are supposed to protect that poor people and no more afraid of the police than of the criminals. Who can see something happening this is like i dont want to call the cops let that happen resident call the cops in those young black men lose their lives chasing the same goes on the trigger you never know better safe than sorry i dont know that someone else is going to pull a gun so yes unfortunately around around here we end up killing our guns a lot still from such precautions to brooklyn i mean. This is the last edition of cross talk for the year and were doing Something Different questions from you our viewers. Only. When youre stupid. Into. The for. President putin confirms an explosion at a supermarket in St Petersburg was an act of terrorism the identity of the attacker is still unknown. And. Is from the families in iraq who were previously held as slaves by islamic states. Monem hope that i was pregnant but i was so terrified that i lost my child my husband and my family were captured i was left alone with my mother so i took poison i decided it was better to die. And facebook are hills it has a unit that helps politicians win campaigns claiming it played a major role in the Scottish National partys landslide to