Takin Action with the real David Cameron and Alex Renton, author, campaigning journalist and more

This episode is yet another trailer for a session at the "Getting to Grips with Trauma" Book Festival which will be held at Cumbernauld Theatre on Sunday 6th September from 10.00 - 5.30. You can buy tickets here https://lanternhousearts.org/events/book-festival-getting-to-grips-with-traum/. Remarkably, a £15 day pass allows you to attend 6 sessions from a choice of 24 authors. It is the biggest literary bargain ever!!.This conversation is with Alex Renton(https://www.alexrenton.com/)and, I think it is really special. We start from his book "Blood Legacy"  which was wonderfully reviewed by Margaret Smith in the Scottish ACEs Action  Community newsletter. Here are just a couple of paragraphs from that review"The book left me wondering all sorts of other things, too. I reflected on the racism that exists today and ways in which it stems from the slave trade. I found myself thinking about how it might be tackled and why our culture often seems to have difficulty in treating particular 'groups' of people with respect. I even found myself reading other books on this topic, researching slavery beyond the African continent.So yes, I think Blood Legacy is a really well written and informative book that we would all do well to read. That is not only because it is brave and informative but because people like myself will be made aware that slavery was, horrifyingly, not only an English problem. It was very much a Scottish one too. This book will cause us all to look again at our capital city with new eyes. That makes Alex Renton’s efforts very worthwhile indeed."Our conversation follows Margaret's review and ranges widely over the themes that she identifies. Alex is brave, thoughtful and challenging and I am sure you will love listening to him as much as I did