James Cook

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Newscast · Old Newscast: The Scottish Independence Referendum (Part 2) · 23 Aug 2026 podcast

Exactly, next to the Scottish Parliament, where we did newscasts a couple of years ago at the fringe.

And in that building, they were gathering its glass, they wouldn't let us we were supposed to be allowed in.

And it became clear really early on that the Best Together campaign had had had won that Scotland had voted against um leaving the UK by, for the record, 45% in favour of independence, 55% against.

And it became clear early on because a crucial swing um area, which was Clackmananshire, I think, declared first, and it was so

Oh, everyone read uh said, Well you can you can read through from that result.

So all the drama and energy of the of the of the that big election results programme you were talking about, all the sort of fizz went out of it really early 'cause it became there was no jeopardy became clear.

I I mean jeopardy in a television sense, not in a not in a whether or not it it was jeopardy um, and also clack man in being.

And also Clackman

Exactly.

So I was outside this building.

They wouldn't let us in.

We were peeling through the windows, trying to film through the windows, getting sh we're trying to get shots of people reacting.

You know, you need the shots.

You're trying to get the shots.

People were distraught.

Some people were upset.

Eventually, um, as I I I slept for about half an hour on the desk of a radio car, which was extremely unpleasant.

And then I remember Alex Salmond doing his concession speech.

The morning was it was a gray, drizzly, really dreek to use the Scottish word, morning in Edinburgh.

It was, and the people I spoke to, a couple of people outside Dynamic Earth, a couple of men, and they they were absolutely distraught.

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