James Cook
speaker
1,517 appearances
13 recordings
3 series
first heard Mar 2025
last heard 10 Sep
James Cook’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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This is Newscast North.
We were supposed to be split up, weren't we, between I was supposed to follow the yes campaign and you were supposed to follow the no campaign or the better together campaign as they style themselves.
It didn't work like that all the time at all.
No.
No, it was amazing.
Even in the context of other places you and I have reported from around the world, Lorna, it was like to see your own country where you've where you've spent most of your life, with people actually arguing on the streets about fiscal policy and currency unions and and borders and I mean, people literally were having these arguments in the street.
And
I
Remember on eve of poll, as it was, driving to Perth from Glasgow.
Um, and I had to give the then head of news, James Harding, a lift at the last minute and said, Can I come with you?
I was like, Of course you can, boss.
Um, and he spent the whole way on the phone on an extremely serious telephone call about something that I I probably shouldn't go into, but it was a very thorny editorial.
Discussion.
It was nothing to do with the independence reference.
It was a foreign affairs security-related thing.
I mean, it's not for me to really go into.
But anyway, he had this, and to be fair, it was very important and very serious.
But it was odd because I was driving there thinking I'm going to the last event for the Yes campaign, which was this very glitzy event in the concert hall in Perth.
Um, beautifully lit.
Um, it was Nicholas Stargeon.
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