Scotcast

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A poll by the BBC has suggested 50% of voters care about the NHS more than anything else in the upcoming election. That figure is higher for women than it is for men.
Women are more likely to be on multiple waiting lists than men, are more likely to live with chronic pain, and spend more years suffering from ill health.
So, does the NHS have a problem with women – and treating female-only conditions? We hear from a menopause specialist and a women’s health campaigner.
Scotcast is the BBC’s Scottish news podcast. This episode is hosted by Laura Miller.
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Scotland has become the first part of the UK to legalise water cremations, a process known as alkaline hydrolysis.
We ask funeral director Andrew Purves (pictured) why there's demand for an alternative to burial and traditional cremation.
Scotcast is the BBC's Scottish news podcast. This episode is hosted by Laura Miller and Natalie Higgins.
Get in touch: [email protected]
Picture credit: William Purves Funeral Directors

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The Green Party of England and Wales has won the Gorton and Denton by-election, with Hannah Spencer (pictured) taking the seat from Labour in the Greens' first-ever Westminster by-election victory.
Natalie and Phil meet at the Scottish Labour conference in Paisley to talk to MPs and MSPs about what their party does now. Can Keir Starmer continue as Prime Minister? Did Anas Sarwar get it right when he called for him to resign? And how do they fight an election campaign amid such division?
Scotcast is the BBC’s Scottish news podcast. This episode is hosted by Natalie Higgins and Phil Sim
Get in touch: [email protected]

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Brian Low was 65 when he was found dead on a country track near Aberfeldy. Police treated his death as non-suspicious for five days - until a pathologist found bullet wounds on his body.
Former gamekeeper David Campbell, 77, wasn’t arrested for another three months. But this week he was convicted of murder and sentenced to 19 years in prison.
Now an investigation into where the police investigation went wrong is due – two reporters who have covered the case since day one tell us which questions still need to be answered.
Scotcast is the BBC’s Scottish news podcast. This episode is hosted by Laura Miller.
Get in touch: [email protected]

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Thousands of documents from James Hamilton's investigation into former first minister Nicola Sturgeon and her predecessor Alex Salmond have been released.
Phil Sim tells us what – if anything – we have learned from this batch of the so-called ‘Salmond files’.
Scotcast is the BBC’s Scottish news podcast. This episode is hosted by Laura Miller and Natalie Higgins.
Get in touch: [email protected]